{"id":77,"date":"2006-07-03T02:07:23","date_gmt":"2006-07-03T07:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinkhairedgirl.net\/?p=77"},"modified":"2006-07-03T02:07:23","modified_gmt":"2006-07-03T07:07:23","slug":"a-weekend-just-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"a weekend just for me&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had one of those weekends where there was very little &#8220;obligation&#8221; or &#8220;pleasing of others&#8221; &#8211; do you know what I mean? I rarely get a weekend where I get to do what I want &#8211; when I want to do it &#8211; have fun &#8211; and relax.<\/p>\n<p>As you read previously, my Saturday started out nerve-racking and uncomfortable&#8230; but that all turned out to be much better than expected. After the driving&#8230; the Renaud family had a 4th of July BBQ&#8230; I got to love on my nephews&#8230; pick on my sister-in-law&#8217;s ridiculously skinny figure&#8230; spend a little time with my brothers&#8230; help my mom&#8230; and enjoy the food my dad grilled. He always grills up a couple hotdogs just a little bit burned &#8211; just for me! My newest nephew (who is a real fatty) finally rolled over onto his stomach for the first time&#8230; and on tape (see below for video linkage)&#8230; I stayed over at the interns house on Saturday night which was fabulous. I love those girls&#8230; although it was only half of them there. We went to Sheridan&#8217;s and got ourselves some frozen custard and headed over to the &#8220;testosterhome&#8221; (a house 5 of our guy friends live in together). It is always an adventure going there.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, we went to church&#8230; sermon was about discipline in giving and prayer&#8230; good stuff&#8230; went to lunch&#8230; went swimming (got burned &#8211; word of advice &#8211; don&#8217;t go swimming a month after getting a tattoo on your back&#8230; so burned now&#8230; ouch)&#8230; and then we went to see ROB BELL at the Granada in Lawrence. This was seriously one of those talks I definitely needed to hear. Rob Bell is such a gifted speaker and minister. So real. He spoke about Genesis 1-2 and how it is truly written as a poem&#8230; and it was meticulously written in a certain form. Humans are the only thing in the entire world (including God) that is 100% physical and 100% spiritual. If someone tells you &#8211; they are not a spiritual person &#8211; that is not even possible. A big part of this message was about the Sabbath and how we are required to take that time to &#8220;party&#8221; and not work or worry. We are required to be 100% present and take time to just be. That we are human beings&#8230; not human &#8220;doings&#8221;. It was a very important message for me to hear right now.<\/p>\n<p>After Rob Bell we went to Jimmy John&#8217;s&#8230; as everyone else left&#8230; Roxanne, Jennifer and myself stayed behind and finished up eating and relaxing. As we were walking down Mass to Roxanne&#8217;s van&#8230; we see the Granada crew and Roxanne asks if Rob Bell has already left&#8230; as the Granada guys were saying, &#8220;yes&#8221; &#8211; me and Jennifer see Rob Bell turn the corner walking&#8230; WE GOT TO TALK TO ROB BELL! It was so super excellent. The rest of the Westside crew definitely missed out by eating and running so fast.<\/p>\n<p>Such a great weekend.<\/p>\n<p>new nephew pics&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pinkhairedgirl.wordpress.com\/files\/2006\/07\/s5030257.JPG\" title=\"Jakob\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pinkhairedgirl.wordpress.com\/files\/2006\/07\/s5030257.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"Jakob\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/pinkhairedgirl.wordpress.com\/files\/2006\/07\/s5030237.JPG\" title=\"Jackson\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pinkhairedgirl.wordpress.com\/files\/2006\/07\/s5030237.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"Jackson\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/pinkhairedgirl.wordpress.com\/files\/2006\/07\/s5030244.JPG\" title=\"Nephews\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pinkhairedgirl.wordpress.com\/files\/2006\/07\/s5030244.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"Nephews\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZKQ_1b2fYGM\">Click here to see Jackson rollover&#8230; and my other nephew shamelessly begging for the spotlight&#8230; <\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>(if someone has tips for embedding a video into wordpress please indulge me. I tried like 10 times and it never worked)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had one of those weekends where there was very little &#8220;obligation&#8221; or &#8220;pleasing of others&#8221; &#8211; do you know what I mean? I rarely get a weekend where I get to do what I want &#8211; when I want to do it &#8211; have fun &#8211; and relax. As you read previously, my Saturday&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=77\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">a weekend just for me&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,165,23,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-blessed-life","category-box-of-chocolates","category-crazy-weekends","category-cultural","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}