a little piece of me: October 2010

Friday, October 29, 2010

Thursday, October 28, 2010

From inside the stadium this time! Thanks to AJ's brother, we managed to get tickets for the Clemson/Ga Tech game last weekend in advance. Sadly, though, Lauren wasn't available to come this time :-( I guess we'll have to make it up to her next season... AJ and I had tons of fun cheering on the Tigers to a victory!

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Wordless Wednesday: Fall Fun

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Good Words

I was reading in 1 Peter 1 this morning, and was using a commentary by Jon Courson for some extra insight. I usually find that Courson has lots of good nuggets of truth, like these for example:

"You cannot change your heart, but you can change your mind. God can change your heart. He won't change your mind, but if you choose to change your mind, God will change your heart."

"It's not how we're doing or how we're feeling that matters. Whether we feel high or dry is irrelevant. It's the power of the Word that works."

I have been in a "dry" season for a while now, and I know that I need more of the Word in my life. I was encouraged in 1 Peter this morning through the basic truths in the passage:

* We have a living hope - Jesus (v3)

* We have a promised inheritance (v4)

* Trials may come to test the genuineness of our faith (v6-7)

* Set your hope on the coming of Christ (v13)

* Be obedient (v14)

* Live lives of holiness (v15)

* Jesus made the way for us to God (v19-21)

* Love one another well (v22)

* The Word of the Lord is forever (v25)

My Newest Craft Obsession

Coasters!

I totally stole this idea from a boutique in Athens. I saw some coasters there and thought they were really cute until I turned them over and saw the $39 price tag. That's when I decided that I could definitely make those for myself at home. Watch out family and friends - you may just find some in a Christmas package near you...

Monday, October 25, 2010

Furman Fall

This past week, I headed out of the city to spend some time in the mountains. While I was driving through Greenville, I decided to make a visit to Furman. I walked around the campus for a while and enjoyed the beauty of the fall colors. I also stopped in the coffee shop to get a Tower Freeze before I headed out. I was pleasantly surprised to find the same lady still working there that used to make my drinks 8 years ago! She said that she recognized me, too, which is probably a statement about how much time I used to spend in there filling myself with caffeine...

While I was there, I also stopped into to the bookstore, where they were having a big 75% off sale. I decided to bring something home for my adopted puppy, Cali. She's really a Clemson girl, but she looks good in purple, too!

A Fall Recipe

Picking some of these:

Playing in a patch of these:

A great fall Saturday!!

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Just because...

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Go Clemson!! (Well, almost...)

This past weekend, I headed up to South Carolina with two of my favorite people, AJ and Lauren. We were doing a belated birthday celebration for Lauren, since she was out of town being a 72-mile-bike-riding-rockstar on her actual birthday. The plan was to head up to Greenville, spend the night, and then go to the Clemson game on Saturday afternoon. The plan hit a slight detour, though, when we weren't able to get tickets to the game. Turns out that a lot of people shared our plan to just buy tickets outside the stadium. Oops. A lesson learned. But that didn't stop us from having a fun day. Instead of heading into the stadium, we headed downtown to do a little shopping, then listened to the game on the radio while eating ice cream and driving with the windows down on a perfect fall day. When the game was over, we did a little bit of hiking to Issaqueena Falls, and finished the day with a quick stop at the outlet mall on our way back to Atlanta. Not what we had planned, but a fun trip nonetheless!