Ode to Rita and Extreme Bean

I haven't blogged much this week. And, I feel as if so many potential blogs are running through my mind.

First. Let me give a shoutout to Flagstaff and my good friend Rita. Pictured here:

I possibly screwed up the dimensions in this picture - allowing all of our faces to look thinner than they actually are. But hey, it's my blog and I can do that. Anyways - Rita is the hot lady on the right. Rita - let me stay with her in her amazing apartment in Flagstaff this weekend. Adding to it's amazing-ness, this apartment had a loft:

Ok, this is a small pic - but if you can see the loft, that is what I got to sleep in. It was amazing. I always wanted a loft when I was little - I actually would have settled for bunk beds. I did not get either...nor did I ever get a Teddy Ruxpin doll or one of those Fisher Price tape players that came with a microphone - but, whatever. I am so not bitter.

Anyways, I digress. Rita - discipled me in college - mentored me, taught me how to be super spiritual...whatever you want to call it. Now that I am older, and chewing on spiritual meat if you will - Rita is my just my friend who has great thought-provoking ideas on ministry and makes her own yogurt. I just wanted to indroduce my blog readers (both of you) to her.

In other blog-worthy news I went to the Extreme Bean tonight. The Extreme Bean is the best coffee shop ever. Seriously. It has live great live music and an amazing crowd to people watch.

Tonight, I sat reading my Bible and drinking my latte listening to these old men play the piano when one of them asked me to sing. I said no - because hello, I am not the kind of girl to sing in a crowded coffee shop. But this guy was persistent. And I am a people pleaser - which is not a good combination. So, moments later there I was singing "Edelweiss" from Sound of Music for all to hear. And then he asked me to sing "Memories" from Cats. People clapped - probably pity claps. Oh well. I think Whitney Houston got her start in a coffee shop when some shady old man asked her to sing show tunes while she was reading - but, I am not sure.