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Lydia's weekend (and monday) of fun.

after a week of studying...lydia temporarily stopped being a "proverbial stick in the mud" and had a ton of fun on the weekend. but now...its back to the grindstone...with only snapshots to remember the non-stick-in-the-mud days.

FRIDAY:

• hung out with frankencense in the early afternoon-- fun times at pac mall, covert operations to UTScarborough's timmy ho's...and vegetable shopping.
• met up with Louis for a Worship Ministry Leaders' meeting
• hung out with Warren, Arthur and Frank...where they proceeded to violate my cucumber. good times.
• Went to Ryan Lawrence's FANTASTIC cooking party. i wish i took more pictures there.

(L-R:Joshua Robinson, err..some girl with really rad shoes, Lydia and Ryan)

On the TTC ride home from Ryan Lawrence's FANTABULOUS cooking kitchen party.

SATURDAY

• On Saturday, Joshua and i were supposed to go biking..but it rained. Instead, we hit up kensington market and had a HUGE brunch, which i took an age and a half to eat. mm. yay for grilled veggies!

SUNDAY

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  Sunday morning, i went to church and was greeted by MANY people...the vast majority actually...with "so...i heard about your cucumber." i go to a great church. too bad i have no pictures. Actually...here's one from a couple of years ago. Frank and Francis decided to dress like nerds one sunday morning. i think this was my second or third time at NCAC. it was also the day i decided that i wanted to keep on attending NCAC permanently.

• Sunday afternoon, pri came over and we partied like hardy boys. We went swimming and hot-tubbing and sauna-ing in my apartment. REALLY. i need to get better at taking pictures!!! Above is a pic of us with chlorine laden hair--post swimming.
• Pri slept over sunday night..and we chatted for a long while about this and that. The funnest part was grumbling about things that guys do that make us go stir-crazy...and then realizing that wow...we have AMAZING guy friends and that being a guy must be hard work. it was a bit humbling, realizing that sometimes, as girls, we have selfish expectations when it comes to how guys treat us! thank you for striving to be godly men, guys! we love you muchly. serious. except maybe warren...who told me today that he wants to punch my nose.

MONDAY

• Speaking of godly people, today pri and i had the chance to meet up with miss. amanda wong, who is a completely lovely girl. We had fun times going to McDo for breakfast..arriving in time to find out that breakfast ends at 10:30...not 11!! pfft. It was great meeting up with Amanda and chatting it up. She is definitely a sweetie and a half.

• After meeting up with Amanda Wong, Pri and i met up with a very godly guy! We love vince!! It was just SO refreshing to hear about his relationship with His girlfriend, and see how much he desires to serve her! Fantastic times.
  

MONDAY EVENING:

• got one of my midterm marks back today...i pretty much bombed it and ended up with a 75%, despite getting a 90% on the multiple choice. now, usually, this would have devastated me...but today, i am actually praising God! the reason? well.. because of my mark, i was able to solidify a friendship with one of the girls in my class that i've been trying to befriend. We were able to grumble together (there's something about grumbling that seems to aid in the bonding process that girls go through) and just talk! i know that i would not have been able to identify with her and had i not done poorly on the exam. So....for the first time, i am praising God for the 75% i received!! When i wrote the exam, i prayed that He would use it to glorify Himself...and i think that's what my mark on this exam has done; He has provided me with another friend to share the gospel with. All because of a crappy mark on an exam. Cha-ching.
• now i'm feeling a bit stressed out. i have a huge paper due Thursday, a girls' bible study to prep for tomorrow, and rowing to figure out. BUT, i refuse to feel guilty for taking a break this weekend. it was a much needed rest and i had a great deal of fun. i feel that i learned a great deal more about who Jesus is and His love for us by spending time with His children--and that's FAR better than being antisocial and having a relationship only with my textbooks.
• too bad i have to become a proverbial stick in the mud again. oh well, what can you do.