January 2010
24 posts
I've become one of those people.
You know, the obsessive cleaners. I am quite tired and am all ready for bed, but I just spent the last 20 minutes straightening up my room, putting clothes away, grabbing my school books from downstairs, folding blankets, and neatly folding down the sheets to get all snuggled up for slumber.
Thats it. I have become the person that can’t have a restful sleep unless I know that everything is...
I went to class with my shirt on inside out.
fantastic.
Yes but no.
Today just has a big cloud over it. Well, literally because of the weather, but figuratively just….because. I am so sad today, and I know there are so many reasons I should be joyous but I am being so selfish and focusing on my own problems that I am missing the big picture.
Reason to be happy
#1—All my loans from last semester ($13,000 worth) magically found themselves paid. IN...
My little victory
Imagine:
It is 45 degrees outside and pouring rain as I stare out the window in my shorts and running shoes. The gym is on the opposite end of campus and closes in 50 minutes. I know that the key to successfully working out is consistency and the only way to be consistent is to go even when you don’t want to. Well, I don’t think anyone has ever NOT wanted to work out so badly, and my...
My thoughts this morning:
“Oh its not raining. But it is overcast. But that could be just because it is morning. But I did rain yesterday. But that was yesterday. So no umbrella? Na, you don’t want to drag that wet thing around all day.”
Truly, my intellect is dizzying.
I’m sitting here in class drenched and smelling like a wet dog. Go me.
Afternoonie
Munching on animal crackers in my bed next to an open window that yields the pitter patter of those long awaited raindrops. Frank Sinatra on in the background while designing tickets for a 1930’s boxing match.
Mmmm.
“Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until...”
– Mike Myers
“Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s...”
– Susan Sontag (via kari-shma) (via quote-book) (via daniellebauerlein)
Things I am loving [lately]
-Wearing my hair natural/ my natural hair color
-Consistent workouts
-Drinking tons of water
-My classes
-My beautiful/ crazy roommates
-Blueberry muffins
-My new water bottle
-My 4 hour a week job (such a blessing!)
-Watching Kylie learn on my guitar
-Jack’s Mannequin and Fun.
-Ink stamps
-My planner
-The Great Divorce (C.S. Lewis)
-Waking up at the same time as Ashie (always...
A Christian man who takes the lead in sexual purity, and who tells the woman that her heart means more to him than her body, and her purity is more valuable to him than his own pleasure, liberates her from a cruel bondage and gives her a blessing that words can hardly describe. Richard D. Phillips
US
They made a statue of us, and put it on a mountain top. The tourists come and stare at us. Blow bubbles with their gum. Take photographs for fun.
Have fun.
