Deep Breaths

Secret Agents and Greek Goddesses

So as I mentioned yesterday, Leia and I went out for coffee last night with our friends Jimmy and Christopher. Had a great time (and some very nice beverages), and Christopher kept us all rolling with laughter as he narrated the story of how he proposed to his girlfriend. (Let's just say that it involved a Santa suit, a gypsy selling flowers, and a woman hiding in the men's bathroom for half an hour... you couldn't make this stuff up).

Today I slept reaallly late and got up just in time to have a quick bite, grab a shower, and head next door to the church, where we had another Easter drama rehearsal with the youth group. The kids are very friendly towards me, and today one of the girls pulled me aside and told me to go tell Leia, "Ise Thea." Now, having seen "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," I was understandably a bit hesitant to go and say some random thing to Leia in Greek in front of the youth for fear that I was actually saying, "Your odor is most foul" or "Your mother is quite a looker" or something. But apparently what I said was, "You're a goddess," which is appropriate enough.

After that, our day was fairly uneventful. I helped Michael figure out some minor computer problems he was having, Leia showed me a pretty hilarious comedy routine by some guy named Pablo Francisco, and then we watched a few episodes of the first season of 24 on DVD. My whole family is hooked on that show, and so is Leia's brother, and he recently converted her parents as well when they were staying in England, so she is the only one out of the loop and I'm working to remedy that. Thankfully, she seems to like it so far. Unfortunately, I left the States when the new season was only 2/3 of the way finished, so now I'm stuck wondering what happened for months until the new DVDs come out. (If you're reading this in America and you watch the show, DON'T SPOIL IT FOR ME).

Tomorrow night Leia and I are going out to dinner with a friend of hers from work and her husband, who is also an American, so that should be a lot of fun. We're hoping they'll become a couple that we can enjoy hanging out with semi-regularly. Will they make the cut? Come back tomorrow and find out!

We miss all of you guys. Starting this blog was such a great idea, and we have a lot of fun signing in a couple of times a day to see which of our friends and family members have contributed. Makes us feel a lot more connected to all of you. We hope to have some photos and links and stuff up in a couple of days. Thanks for dropping in.

–John (tomorrow it's Leia's turn to write again... don't miss it).

posted by John and Leia @ 1:39 PM