The Big Chill

A Night of Food and Fun

2007-01-08T21:07:00.000-08:00

Our First of the year get-together

Hello, all! I hope your holidays were delightful and full of love and joy! (Hopefully you even got some rest and relaxation in there somewhere.)

Our next meeting will be:

February 3rd, 2007
6pm until ???
@ St. Alban's

Activities:
Potluck dinner
Games (of the board variety)
A Blogger tutorial :-) ha!

Please either comment on this blog with an RSVP and what you plan on bringing to the potluck OR e-mail me with your RSVP and what you plan on bringing to the potluck and I will post it on the blog for you. :-) Be sure to look at what others are bringing. We don't want 10 salads and no main courses. :-) If you don't know exactly what you want to bring yet, just say "vegetable" or "salad". You don't have to say exactly. We just need a general idea. Also, we'll need one or two people to be in charge of bringing drinks. If everyone can respond (either on the blog or to me in e-mail) before January 26th, I will put up a post with the number of people coming (so you'll know how BIG of a dish to make) and what everyone is bringing so everyone can plan.

Take care!
Leslie

A Christmas Gift to you all

2006-12-23T21:08:00.000-08:00

I decided that our blog needed a Christmas gift to us all -- a gift to bring joy to our lives! Since we are all from at least the same generation (or near it), I hope that this will bring back as many memories for all of you as it does for me! (Be sure you watch the acting out -- it helps you remember the song.)

Have a wonderful Christmas all! Be Blessed!
Leslie

Kudos to the choir

2006-11-19T11:29:00.000-08:00

Just wanted to say what an awesome sound the choir produced this morning at church! Ya'll are wonderful. It must be amazing to have the ability and gift to be able to sing like that. Wonderful service this morn.

Prayer Request

2006-11-14T18:55:00.000-08:00

I'd like to request that anyone reading this will say a prayer for my dad, Steven Fitzgerald, as he'll be having ankle surgery tomorrow (Wed) at 11:30am. Thank you so much. I hope you all don't mind me posting this request!

Love,
Kristin

December meeting Revised!!!

2006-11-14T09:34:00.001-08:00

Okay, so I got enough feedback about the Sunday after church idea to post a blog on it so that everyone can ready everyone else's responses rather than me having to juggle 25 e-mail responses.

It seems that a Sunday after church seems to be the best way to get us all together during the crazy month that is December. Heather suggested December 17th since the semester will be over. How does that look for everyone? When Natalie suggested this and I passed it on, I was thinking after morning service (so going to lunch), but Heather brings up a good point that we could go after evening church.

So here's what your reply should include:

1.) Does the 17th work for you?
2.) Would you prefer after 10:30am service or 6pm service?

Thanks, guys!
Leslie

Ideas to Revisit and Discuss

2006-11-14T09:34:00.000-08:00

To revisit a few things previously mentioned + encourage discussions to flow...

Varied Fellowship
During our initial meeting, some ideas tossed about included having a game night one month and an ice cream (or frozen yogurt) outing another. If each person contributes 1 fun, different idea, we could have something novel to look forward to each month. That said, would it be helpful to pass around an "idea sheet" at our January gathering?

Organic Fellowship
We all agree that we want to keep things "low key" and "laid back" but we are young, fabulous, and energetic...how can we pull it all off, i.e., cook, eat, visit, maybe go out and have evening prayer, and wind down considerably from our busy weeks?

Well, let's say, for instance, we center our gathering upon our coming together for evening prayer once a month. Then after evening prayer, we can vary our fellowship according to a rotation that includes ideas from everyone to keep it new and novel.

Here are some ideas of what we could do after evening prayer:

Play a round of interactive board games while eating some take-out (we pot luck it or BYOTO - bring your own take out!).
Walk down to the Chimes for a burger and fries (whatever), and then to Highland Coffees for dessert.
Bicycle [Critical Mass, St. Alban's Style!] from LSU to downtown via the new lighted levee path and grab a bite and peruse the downtown venues - theatre, art gallery, etc.
Go out for ice cream and chat.

What's your favorite outing or pastime?

What do you think?
Just think. Its Friday night, the week was full, and you just wanna grab some grub, drink a glass of wine, maybe have a coffee, or a treat afterwards, and just hang out.

What about food? Simple, low key?

Pot luck doesn't have to mean work. Somebody picks up a French bread...another, a bottle of wine ...she brings an apple pie and a quart of ice cream...he brings a rotisserie chicken...I'll thaw a bag of french cut green beans and toss with balsalmic vinaigrette and top with roasted almonds...you assemble a salad.

BYOTO...might be take out from DeAngelo's, or, maybe its a good excuse for you to indulge your secret, guilty pleasure, you know 'Canes'.

Dates for January

2006-11-09T07:54:00.000-08:00

Hello all,

Laurie Morris, our chapel administrator, sends me calendar events on a regular basis. So far, the following Fridays in January are available for us to meet:

Fri 5
Fri 12
Fri 19 - Not Available: Wedding Rehearsal for Erica Swensen
Fri 26

Please send your availability ASAP so that I can let Laurie know in advance, so to avoid scheduling conflicts. Thanks.

Idea for January

2006-11-09T07:19:00.000-08:00

Would others enjoy including Evening Prayer and/or Compline (Night Prayer) as part of our monthly gatherings? I do not mind leading prayer for our first meeting. We can alternate monthly.

Our Next Meeting

2006-11-08T09:54:00.000-08:00

Hello again, all! Due to all of the holiday madness in November and December, we thought maybe we would meet one time in early December to count for both months and then pick back up on a monthly basis in January.

Remy thought maybe we could get together and she could teach us how to roll sushi (including vegetarian for those of us that don't like the fish).

Please chime-in on this idea AND consider the following dates:

December 2
December 9
December 15
December 16

Do any of these work for everyone (or the majority)? Let me know what you absolutely CAN'T do and which would be BEST for you. (All you have to do is leavea comment.)

Take care!
Leslie

Here's the test!!

2006-10-21T20:09:00.000-07:00

Okay, folks!!! We made a deal Friday night -- you start checking the blog and I'll stop inundating you with e-mails (and stop losing my mind trying to keep-up with everyone through 3 different types of communication). :-)

Here's the test! Please comment in reply to THIS blog simply saying that you have read it and know how to comment. If you have a problem commenting, you can e-mail me at my yahoo address (lesbowers1221@yahoo.com) and I will try to walk you through it!

Friday night was SO MUCH FUN!!! It was so exciting to have such a great turn-out and hear so much chatter and laughter!

Glad to see you all!
Leslie

il menu

2006-10-17T16:47:00.000-07:00

Good evening, tutti (everyone)!

Scott and I agreed to get the wine last time, and we have, but I doubt extra wine would be a bad thing.

As for the menu, I am keeping it simple, which is true Italian form. I will get handle the dough, but I will allow each and every person to pick up their own toppings. Get creative! We can share when we are there. I challenge you to get ingredients for pizza types as these:
capricciosa
verdure
quattro formaggio
quattro stagione
marinara
bianca
fresca

These are typical names that you will see on the flying disks that make the big boot so yummy. But bring what you desire to the dough, and let's go! (love how I can rhyme or what?!)

I am taking care of side dishes that I will have you all help with. Ryan, you made a lovely antipasta at the ministry fair. Do you think you and some volunteers would like to provide that to munch on while we cook? Just a thought.

Hopefully someone else is taking care of the movie.

Ciao!
Remy and Scott

Our November event

2006-10-14T21:00:00.000-07:00

Hi, guys! Our next "Big Chill" event will be on October 20th at 7pm. This will be an "Italian night" with a "family" made dinner (meaning Remy invited us to all help her fix dinner so we spend cooking time together) and a viewing of "The Godfather". It looks to be another FABULOUS time!

Hope to see you there! Feel free to invite a friend if you have one you think would enjoy our group of "misfits".

Leslie