An adventurous Saturday!

So two of my New Year's resolutions this year that I am actually trying to keep are 1) cook once a week (or maybe just more often than I have in the past) and 2) be more adventurous.  Those two resolutions definitely came head to head yesterday and made for a fantastic Saturday!  Yesterday's adventures included
        
          - a crazy cross training class with Kurt at American Power Yoga followed by a power yoga class: if you like to work out to the point where you almost throw up, this cross training class is definitely the class for you!  It is awesome.
          - letting my boyfriend be in charge of changing the gears as I got to chauffeur him around for once in my sporty little loaner car while my car gets maintenance: I know, I like to live on the wild side.  No, more like he was willing to put his life on the line so I could drive for one day.  Yeah, so what, so we had some near accidents, no big deal.
          - taking a trip to Sunflower Farmers Market: it may be in a questionable area but it's certainly not a question as to whether you should go or not.  This place is one of Dallas's best kept secrets!
          - trying a new fro yo combination at Yogurtland: cheesecake fro yo topped with blueberries, strawberries, cheesecake bits, and yes, sprinkles! I dare you to try it!
          - and lastly, making this extremely delicious and divine   Thai Green Curry Chicken dish.

I have never made Thai food and really haven't tried much in the way of Thai cuisine either, but my this was mmm mmm good!  SOMEONE doesn't like mushrooms, so we made the dish sans mushrooms.  We also used red curry paste instead of green and it was quite tasty.  I recommend red cabbage for a pop of color.  And lastly we gave ourselves an A for effort but could not find the coconut amino so obviously that was not part of our Thai Green (or I guess red in our case) Curry Chicken creation.  This dish comes highly recommended by yours truly; so all you amateur cooks out there, yes, if I can make this dish, YOU can make this dish.  I definitely can't take all the credit though; if you're squirmy about touching raw meat like I am, well hopefully you have a very nice, funny, and good-looking gentleman who will carefully prepare the meat ;-)  ENJOY!

Word Vomit

Do you ever feel completely overwhelmed and unable to process all the things that are happening to you and all the new things you are learning?  And you feel like if you try to verbalize any of your thoughts and feelings it will just come out as word vomit?  Yup.  That's how I feel right now.  And that's how I've felt for the past several days.  And it may sound like I'm frustrated or mad because of this, but I have actually never been happier. 

Some of you followers may have noticed I have been referencing God a lot lately, something I never did prior to January 2011.  Let's get the big elephant out of the room: one of the first few days of the this year, I accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior.  Yes, it's true: one night I went to bed as a non-believer and then woke up the next morning as a believer.  To some of you this may sound crazy.  And let me go right ahead and say that had it not happened to me, and if I were still a non-believer, it would sound absolutely insane to me.  If you think I'm nuts and want to tell me, I will not offended.  But I can tell you, it really is true, it really did happen, and no, I haven't been brainwashed. 

I wish I could express to you just how indescribablely amazing life is when walking with the Lord.  Oh believe you me, it has not been all stars and rainbows, but regardless of how good or bad things are, I am oh so happy because I have His love.  He is so so so so so good and everything He does is out of goodness.  He has thrown some things/revelations to me that are pretty difficult to swallow, but because of these things/revelations (word vomit at it's best), I feel much more free and at peace than I did as a non-believer. 

Yes, so this entire post reads like word vomit, and I apologize.  I could go on and on forever about the beauty of all the amazing things God is doing and all of the unbelievably supportive and encouraging people God is placing in my life.  Yes, I'm wrestling with a lot of things right now, but I could not imagine a better fight :-)    Everyone is wrestling with issues in life, it's just a matter of how gracefully we wrestle and who is on our team. 

I am ever so grateful for all of you in my life.  Yes, this post is probably throwing some of you for a loop, but I appreciate you loving me anyway :-)