Well, I'm sitting here in the Vine Centre, and Lily has been nagging me about updating my blog for the past few weeks, so I thought I might as well write something. She claimed that she would add commentary to make it funnier, but we shall see...
It is a very typical January day...cold, grey, depressing...the news is typical, too, a primary school in West Belfast was evacuated as were its immediate neighbors because the Police Service found a bomb that they had to desensitize...Apparently two men, one 20 year-old and one 21 year-old, came forward to acknowledge that they were responsible, if I heard the news correctly.
I'm sick, again, something chesty, its really lovely coupled with asthma. I get sick like every two weeks, you'd think I would either be used to being sick or that my body would've adapted by now... I also managed to spill my soup all over myself as I was trying to carry a tray and open the office door simultaneously -- then I went down to the local bakery and picked up some lentil soup and a raspberry muffin, about which I was teased relentlessly during lunch hour, because apparently large, fruity muffins are to be eaten with custard or cream after a meal, rather than with soup (I was NOT dipping my raspberry muffin into my lentil soup...gross).
I'm going to start doing a little bit of pastoral visiting through the church, so I hope that I can be of service to the people I visit, otherwise not much has changed there. I wrote an article for the winter news letter, helped coordinate various holiday parties around Christmastime, and spent Christmas Day with a family from the church. They are very sweet, and we had a nice day - a traditional Irish Christmas dinner- ham, turkey, stuffing, brussel sprouts, potatoes...prawn cocktail...annnd pavlova for dessert, I believe. I was also able to do some traveling over the holidays - we went to Cork before Christmas and Dublin after. New Years was low key, which was kind of nice.
That's all from Belfast -
