blog challenge, catching up

I've been waiting to be challenged because I've been very bad about blogging. Life just seems to happen at breakneck speed. But bring on a challenge to keep me going! Yay! Something that happened to me today. Only I have to start with last Saturday and catch up.

Saturday morning, November 19th, 2011, started out much like most every other Saturday. Husband and I are habitual people when it comes to Saturday mornings. We go to a coffee shop--these days it is Stonecutter's Coffee--and have coffee and delicious baked goods. Stonecutters has excellent coffee and superb baked goods. Then we go to the farmer's market. We've gone to the farmer's market nearly every Saturday for years and years now. There are only a few weeks of the year when they don't have a market now, and those Saturdays we are practically bereft.

Sunday morning, 11-20-2011 (please notice the very nice symmetry to this date), husband and I lounged in bed over coffee and homemade apple crisp with vanilla yogurt, a favorite breakfast of ours. I make the crisp with all kinds of good stuff like oatmeal and wheat germ and walnuts. After lounging a decent amount of time, we went to church to see what was cooking with the UU's. We were standing in the community room, having coffee, and looking over the Giving Tree which has tags on it with kids' ages and something they want or need for Christmas. This is always both a joyous and a sad thing for me. I feel so much gratitude for all I have, and so hurt that some do not have enough of anything. We each picked a couple of kids and signed up on the sheet. Then husband started crying. "A lot of those kids just need shoes," he said, "just shoes." He was quite emotional and went back to the tree and picked up three more kids. Sometimes I think he's a curmudgeonly, penny-pinching old dude, and other times his beautiful soul comes shining through and I love him all the more.

November 21st, Monday, again. I worked. I worked and worked and worked. I wrote several hundred lines of workable code in order to answer questions posed by other people who need to know things. Things like, "What is the break down of undergraduate, degree-seeking, non-resident students by ethnicity and major?" I like doing this kind of stuff. It's sort of a long logic problem, and then I look up and the day has slipped by.