Lent and cooking

So my good friend Lisa came over to my house for a visit and she inspired me to start writing on my blogs again. Nothing big. I just haven’t written in a while and lost motivation.

I think initially I started this blog because I wanted to express my opinions on different things that are happening in my life. However, that really hasn’t been the case lately and I think this just ended up being what I’ve been doing with my life recently. Like my old xanga account. Anyone else still use xanga?

In any case, oh well.. whatever. I guess it’s ok. And though my blogs have no kind of pattern, this is my lame way of telling friends what I’ve been up to lately (because I am really bad at keeping in touch through email, phone, mail, etc.).

So things that have been happening in my life lately… lent started. Wikipedia defines lent as the period of time for Christians to prepare – “through prayer, repentance, alms giving, and self-denial” – for holy week (which is the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ).  I grew up learning that lent is a time for us to sacrifice something we love to get a taste of what Jesus had to go through to save us. Also, it’s a time to pray and reflect on God’s glory and grace.

This year I gave up junk food – something I love love love, and youtube – something that takes up so much of my time that I literally can come home from work, sit at my computer watching youtube and then have it be so late that I just go straight to bed after my hours on youtube.

So far it’s going ok. I also somehow picked up that Sundays are ok to “break” lent during the week… so I’ve been indulging on Sundays… hmm.. maybe I’m going about it the wrong way =(.. oops. But what I’m learning so far is that I have so much time to waste on everything other than spending time praying or reading the bible. Man… I don’t know how many excuses i’ve come up with before actually sitting down and reading my daily devotions. I mostly end up just reading my devotions really fast before going to bed instead of really trying to meditate on the Word. Sad… Definitely something I need to keep working on.

I’ve also learned that prayer is a powerful thing. This is something that I seem to keep learning over and over. But every time I get tempted to break my lent (except for Sundays.. hehe), I’m learning to pray for a little help and I seem to get a lot of help =P. Starting with self control. Which evidently speaking, I don’t have much of! eep! Again, something to keep working on.

That’s it so far for lent. I still got a couple more weeks to go. Wish my luck on that! =P

Another thing going on in my life is trying to cook =P I made jambalaya yesterday when Lisa came over, but we didn’t get to take a pic of it =(… But she says it was delicious! Today, I made dessert for Andrew. Banana pudding! Here’s a pic:

Pretty easy to make: mix vanilla pudding, water and condensed milk together and refrigerate; then whip heavy whipping cream to stiff peaks; then fold the pudding mixture into the whipped cream; then layer vanilla wafers, banana and combined cream over and over and viola! Banana pudding!

Since I can’t eat it, he promises to bring it to work and share with his coworkers =P. How nice.. hehehe…

Oh and as proof I’ve been trying to cook more. My friend Susan came over a couple of weeks ago and we decided to make pinakbet and ginataan. Seeeee?

Ok this post is way long now… I’ll leave this with a picture of our most recent family gathering =). Oh how I love time with the fam =)

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