big city girl

i went to go pay for my windshield, and the credit card machine wasn't working. so they gave me my keys and said can you come back tomorrow? no can i have your credit card number? no can you write a check? no nothing. it's cool that it's a small town, but man, strange, and certainly a change from boulder. monument is not that big, but it feels way bigger than here. i feel like a big city girl, maybe that's the boulder part or maybe the monument part of me.

yesterday we went out to lunch, me and the guys, to this meat market thing. you order your lunch by telling them how many slices of each kind of meat you want. then you get potato salad and either crackers or bread. there were parts of a cow just hanging out on the butcher block. definitely wouldn't find that in boulder! it was good meat though, and i don't know meat.

then we went to the second hand store, second chance. it's only open on friday and saturday from 9-3. another interesting place to be.

this weekend we have our first retreat. we were supposed to have 3 groups and now we're down to one group of 16 people. pretty easy! my job consists of showing up to meals to make sure everything goes right, and setting up the chapel so the ac is turned on and the lights are on. it's strange to work weekends, but really not that bad. i have a cell phone for "emergencies" although i'm not sure what that exactly means.

speaking of work, i should get to it. breakfast is waffles and omlets already made for me or made to order...i could get used to this!