A good day

Today was a good day. This is not to imply that most days are bad, because they are not, but today was just a good one and I felt like blogging about it. As is typical for a Sunday, I got up and went to church (can you see the halo over my head?). Our regular pastor was not preaching today, instead, my friend Trina was giving the sermon as one of her steps towards ordination in the United Methodist Church. I've known Trina since college, where she was my Kappa Phi little sister and fellow Religion major. She is a gifted preacher and it was great to hear her today. As an added surprise, several of our college friends were at church to hear and support her as well. Mandy was here from Kansas City, Kristin dropped by, and a few others were around. It was like homecoming or something!

So, after church was our 2nd Annual Chili Cook-Off in which I swept 2nd place. I am quite proud of myself. Of course, it's not really based on who's chili is the best, it's how much $$ is put in their basket. But hey, I'll take 2nd place! :-)

Then, this evening I went out to eat with Mandy and her partner Angela (they were really in town because Angela had guard duty), Kristin, Rachael, Malea, Rana & Kenny....all college folks. We talked, laughed, talked about other college friends, and generally just enjoyed catching up with one another. It was kind of amusing how the talk turned to finding out who's pregnant, who has kids, who wants kids, and who needs to NOT have children. I probably fall under that last category but they were too polite to tell me. Ha.

It was just a good day, spent with dear friends. I'm kind of a sap when it comes to things like this. What's that old Girl Scout song we used to sing? Make new friends but keep the old, one is silver and the other gold. Yeah, that's it.

peace.