Day {Eight}

{Day 8 A song to match your mood}


We had a horrible weekend at the Sekscinski house this weekend. For “date night” on Friday night, we had a ferocious craving for some hibachi & sushi (well, Sean had the craving for sushi). There is a little place that we had been wanting to try for months because according to the menu posted online it was cheaper than other Japanese restaurants in the area and because it didn’t appear to have the huge hibachi grills with the big show you have to watch with 8 of your nearest and dearest strangers. Perfect, right? Wrong! I was up from 1 AM until noon and he was up from 8 AM until 8 PM. We’re about 99.999% sure it was food poisoning and about 99.9999999999% sure it was from that restaurant. Suck. We both called in to work on Saturday and suffered through Sunday. He seems to be fine now but my stomach is still a little shy…

Not an awesome way to spend the weekend we were supposed to put the Christmas tree up. In fact, the only decorating I got done was to cut the tags off of a little snowman I purchased from TJ Maxx and put on one of our end tables. However, I don’t work at all this week at my after school job so I should have plenty of time to work on it. Before I can put anything up, though we have to figure out how to get my grandmother’s sewing table from our living room to my parent’s house. It’s a heavy piece of furniture! We have a few projects lined up over the next year that will involve moving furniture around and that desk is so precious to me that I would rather move it back to Mom & Dad’s house once as opposed to moving it around several times at my house and risk damaging it in any way.

I searched my iPod for the perfect sickly song because that would match my mood, but couldn’t find anything. I have been listening to Casting Crowns “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” a lot already this season. I love this version – it’s very somber but ends in faithful anticipation. The song conveys the feeling of doubt and then reaffirms the need for hope, particularly when all conditions aren’t necessarily ideal.