good morning and thoughts on bathrooms

currently listening to: Andrew Bird
currently consuming: Becky's coffee and Nature Valley
goal for today: finish paper.
currently contemplating: editorial internship with the IMB

miscellaneous thoughts:

nancy's bridesmaids shoes are beautiful! 99 days to go until the wedding, right nancy?

two days of work down, one day to go. this has been a very successful spring break!

i was kind of freaking out last week trying to find somewhere to work for this week - spring break. the Lord knew i was willing and needed to work this week to be able to have food money for the NYC trip. nothing at the union, nothing at belk, nothing even at Lydia's (i know, i was really desperate!), and i remember how humiliating it was to pray for God to provide for something as silly as money for expensive new york city food, but the need was there. i'm leaving friday morning and i need to eat.

on wednesday of last week, Ms. Betty from upstairs in Student Programs at the union asked if i wanted to work this wednesday, thursday, and friday - the other worker backed out at the last minute. it wasn't my first choice - 8 hours each day, minimum wage - still not enough to make the budget but so much better than no work at all!

i drove to raleigh on friday afternoon, after running a few errands, and stayed with my sister and her husband in their town home until tuesday. best guest bed ever award goes to them, but i think i turned into a popsicle from their arctic blast preferences! i got to see plenty of wonderful friends that i don't get to see enough, got to see the sun rise over the ocean at wilmington, got to eat oodles of Cookout Trays, AND...

my polish friend Marlena needed someone to clean her house and commissioned ME to do it for pay! the Lord is so good. i have made my food budget and have a little extra to buy a little something from Chinatown. pashmina? or something from H&M? or maybe lots of goodies from a bakery?? either way. i never seem to learn that He does care about stuff like that, and delights when his children just ask when they have a need.

so, yesh, i've been thoroughly enjoying my time in boone since tuesday night. i usually don't like staying here alone too long, cabin fever and what not, but work has made the alone time at the apartment so refreshing. i've been able to do some laundry, make pasta salad, take naps, and get ready for the rest of the semester that is coming at me like a freight train and is not going to slow down. i only have 3 more pages to go on my Hebrew Lit paper, which i have plans to finish today before i leave work, and i will commence SPRING CLEANING on the apartment this weekend. oooor maybe i'll just watch some movies, catch up on my couch potato-ing?



which leads me to tell you about the best feeling ever.
the feeling i get when i enter the best place, my favorite place to all other places-

my bathroom.

i've recently discovered how much i LOVE bathrooms. stay with me here. i have discussed this with my roommates and we all agree - having a private bathroom is probably one of the best luxuries of.... ever. now, public restrooms are nice, but not nearly as relaxing as knowing that no one else is going to come in and spoil it all.

private bathrooms are AMAZING!

after a long day at work or school, after i've taken the bus back to the apartment, i throw my stuff down and head straight for the little haven that is my bathroom. total privacy which allows for total, euphoric relief and relaxation. i can take my hair down and brush it out, and put on my pj's. or i can take a shower! now showers... showers. i take forever in the shower. why? not because i'm rinsing and repeating. but because, lets face it ... hot water = steam. steam = relaxation. it's like a private sauna where you can ALSO get so fresh and so clean clean! and it smells good! it's a sauna that smells good and you get clean!

it's so simple. bathrooms are great. fresh linens, perfumes and lotions, soap, your own private toilet to take as much time reading the latest issue of Real Simple as you need. it's just the best. i don't need a nice bedroom. just give me a private get-away bathroom! if i ever become stupidly rich, after buying my parents and sisters big beautiful houses, after giving enough money to find a cure for AIDS and setting up my children's and grandchildren's college funds, i'm buying THE BEST BATHROOM EVER!

mariah carey has the best one ever in her NYC loft. thanks Cribs.