The First Post!

She says:
So back in September I tried to rally several of my friends to join me in starting blogs so we could keep up with each other's lives.  I am pretty much the only one who never actually got around to starting one...until now!  Jason and I like to pretend that we do lots of neat and exciting things, and we thought it would be nice to actually share those things with other people.  So hopefully we'll keep updating this, and hopefully you'll want to keep reading it. :)

Let it be known that even though we're starting this blog at the beginning of 2012, it is not a New Year's resolution.  Most resolutions end in failure, and we don't want to associate failure with our blog.  Not on "The First Post!" anyway.  However, we both made some resolutions.  Jason has a goal of reading a book each week, which he also set as a goal (and more than accomplished!) last year.  I'm super excited about getting into pinhole photography and setting up my own darkroom.  Also, I really want (need) to stop picking my lips.  I specifically worded it as "by the end of the year" so I could put it off until about 5 days before next January (kind of like when it was my goal before the wedding).  But I made it through today, so that's a start.

Here are the "neat and exciting" things we've been up to this weekend:

On Friday, we hosted an impromptu dinner party at our house.  Erin and Mike were both in town, so we had them over, plus Jami, for tostadas.  It was the meal we had already planned for ourselves for the evening, and super easy to make enough for more people.  We were also lucky enough to have a whole half gallon of Lemon Crumb Cake ice cream to share for dessert.  Delicious.  We then went downtown for First Fridays at the local art galleries.  (There was an exciting installation with clay pots that had been formed around balloons and were suspended from the ceiling, so that when the balloons deflated, the pots fell to the floor and shattered!)

On Saturday, Jason and I went downtown again to check out Urban Mining Homewares, which is an antique/vintage/re-fabbed little store of all sorts of things.  We happened upon it when I first moved to Kansas City, while we were waiting for a Pizza Hut order.  It is only open the weekends of First Fridays, which definitely helps me not got there and buy things all the time!  I would put up a link to the website, but their website is lame, and would probably make us look lame for going there.  While we were downtown we also stopped by Gomer's Midtown, looking for some La Folie sour beer.  No luck.  But we did snag some Scrumpy's Apple Cider.  Later, while powering through Bowser's castle in Paper Mario we tried the cider, and it is delicious!  Best hard cider I have ever had, and organic!  Here's a link to the website, because it is super adorable: http://organicscrumpy.com/index.html I love the letter on the homepage!

On Sunday we went to church and then had a lunch/meeting with our awkwardly-aged-not-really-sure-where-we-fit-in-to-the-church Young Adult Group.  We got to know each other a little bit better and talk about what we wanted to get out of the group.  Mostly just some friends in the church, an excuse to get together to eat delicious food, and some service opportunities.  It seems like a pretty neat group of people.  Plus, we're already friends with half of the group, because we have a huge faction of Truman friends that we attend church with.  After church we did a bit of reading (Jason has already read 8 books, though it's only the second week of the year) and then we beat Paper Mario.  Hooray!