Cymbalta dosage: you know what I love about both Fall AND Spring semesters? We get a long weekend on our very first week back to school! Isn’t it wonderful?

I spent my long weekend at a Christian young adults conference. Cymbalta dosage: last year, the conference started the day after I arrived back from Australia, and I somehow managed to survive AND enjoy it! This year I actually had some responsibilities at the conference, namely preparing food for two breakfasts and one dinner.

The day before the conference started, my roomie, Kathryn, and my sister, Maria, and I went on a huge grocery shopping trip for the food for the conference.We began our food-scouring adventure in Sam’s Club, where everything is bigger* and better.Unfortunately, some of the items we needed were sold in just a little bit TOO large of quantities, so we decided to make a second trip to Wal-Mart – cymbalta dosage.The bananas at Sam’s Club hadn’t looked very good cymbalta dosage, so we purchased them at Wal-Mart.We had to pick out 100 ripe, appetizing bananas, and that in itself was quite a task; cymbalta dosage. Cymbalta dosage: we ended up with 101 bananas, 300 bowls, and 300 spoons.When we got to the register to buy everything, the cashier gave us a rather puzzled look and asked, “Are you having…banana splits or something?” We laughed and explained that we were preparing food for the conference, and she laughed, too, telling us that was the only logical explanation she could come up with.We still needed a few more things, so we decided to look for them at Aldi.After picking out 12 gallons of milk and 288 hot dogs, we went to gather a sufficient amount of hot dog buns.After pulling out our phone calculators and exercising our slighty-rusty math skills cymbalta dosage, we discovered that we would need 36 bags of the 8-pack hot dog buns.As we started to pile them into our cart, an Aldi Worker Lady questioned us about how many we were taking and the pointed out a sign above the hot dog bun stash – Limit: 6 per customer; cymbalta dosage.Oops; cymbalta dosage.We decided to get the rest of the buns later and went to buy everything else. Cymbalta dosage: after calculating our total, another Aldi Worker Lady explained to us that they don’t take credit cards.Or checks; cymbalta dosage.Only debit and cash; cymbalta dosage.Thankfully, Maria had enough cash to cover it, but not after a little bit of frantic brainstorming about how exactly we were going to pay for everything!

The conference was absolutely wonderful! We had a speaker who challenged us on “Forsaking the Sins of Our Youth”, using Psalm 25:7-8 which says,

Do not remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions;
According to Your mercy remember me,
For Your goodness’ sake, O LORD.
Good and upright is the LORD;
Therefore He teaches sinners in the way.

Though hugely challenging and convicting, the talks were very helpful – cymbalta dosage.I took a total of zero pictures because I was too busy making new friends and catching up with old ones.One afternoon, we played a very intense 2-hour game of ultimate frisbee in the snow – cymbalta dosage.There were also some mad games of four-square, which most of us hadn’t played since about the 4th grade; cymbalta dosage.Many D&M’s** were had in the hallway with good friends, very little sleep was gotten, and it was overall a wonderfully encouraging time.

The only problem with conferences like this is that they have to end and real life has to begin again.

But, by God’s grace, that can in many ways be just as wonderful.

*When I say bigger, I mean the hugest quantities of packaged food you ever did see!
**Deep & Meaningful conversations – cymbalta dosage.It’s an Aussie thing – cymbalta dosage.; cymbalta dosage