rambling of recent happenings

This last week has been busy but it has been so fun! Plus I got 5 hours of overtime which is always nice.......... On Monday, I enjoyed a family dinner with some cool friends. They are from different churches around here, but just generally passionate, genuine people that I really enjoy being around. They go together to talk about Jesus on the ASU campus, pray together, and stuff like that, just on their own because they want to. Every Monday they have dinner at the home of one of the guys with his parents. I joined them this week, and then also sat outside and talked while it rained a cool rain with a nice breeze-- it was glorious. Then on Tuesday I met my friend Naomi for coffee at 5:30, and ended up talking, going to get Taco Bell, and then walking to a fish pond she used to frequent as a child, and hanging out until 11 before we knew what had happened. I so enjoyed my time with her. On Thursday after small group, Bonnie and I went in pursuit of the lighting (it is "monsoon season" here... which doesn't mean we get a lot of rain, but that there are crazy weather systems involving lots of clouds, wind, lightning, and often blowing dust)... we sat in her car and watched the lightning bolts reflect off the saguaro cactus, and watched the dust blow under the street lights, and then breathed as much rain smell as possible, and she took lots of pictures. Last night I hung out with Jessica M and Kellie at the house where Jessica is house-sitting. We swam in their pool (yes!) and then planed DDR in their theater room with a wall of a television screen. NICE! And I also finished my "classroom" training this week for volunteering at the Crisis Pregnancy Center. I get to start on-the-job training this week! I'm also training to become a manager at Chipotle... who knows how long I'll be there, so I may as well start the process, right? And that is all that is happening. I'm getting really excited for my trip to Colorado in a couple weeks for Bethany's wedding...