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passionate about:.
1. writing
2. my faith
3. telling stories
4. love
5. finding my place in world
6. good music
7. creating an atmosphere
8. my right to change my mind

want to:.
1. write something beautiful
2. finish at least one art project
3. get organized
4. remember the good stuff
5. find a little place all my own
6. meet some new and fantastic people
7. be inspired
8. get bangs?

have recently read:.
1. Scriptures (awesome, read them)
2. The Wind Up Bird Chronicles (a trip)
3. How Green Was My Valley (my favorite book of all, so beautiful)
4. Left to Tell (heartbreaking and hopeful)
5. the manual for my new camera(had to do it)
6. Copper: A Dog’s Life (enjoyed it)
7. Letters to a Young Poet (again) (always inspiring)
8. Edie: American Girl (fascinating and depressing)

say:.
1. lovely
2. ridiculous
3. loves it
4. I die!
5. I feel like…
6. remember when/how… (stolen from Billie!)
7. sweet
8. hate early. must kill early (I say this every morning)

attracted to friends by:.
1. whether they can be brutally honest (easy on the brutal, heavy on the honest)
2. whether they remember things i tell them
3. their sense of humor
4. their tone of voice (softish)
5. their energy level (highish)
6. they inspire me to be better
7. they can be serious and silly in equal measure
8. they don’t always have to be doing something “fun”

could listen to over and over:.
1. then slowly grows – bethany joy galeotti
2. the rowing song- patty griffin
3. i turn my camera on – rock kills kid
4. calender girl – stars
5. in your atmosphere – john mayer
6. secret heart – feist
7. box of rain – grateful dead
8. concrete bed – nada surf

learned last year:.
1. i can constantly get up at 4:30 am and not die
2. i’m more fickle than i knew
3. i don’t really miss snow
4. sometimes seeing someone or not seeing someone doesn’t change a darn thing
5. i seek favor with people more often than is probably healthy
6. that i have wonderful friends
7. that even if the truth is awful, it is still better than lies
8. dusting is an ongoing battle

and I:.
1. am pretty happy, if not a little impatient
2. do worry about a lot of things
3. like to drink water
4. am only mildly obsessed with my dog
5. will probably move again this year
6. should follow Bob Dylan’s advice and trust myself
7. would like to learn French (and Portuguese, and Welsh)
8. am definitely an idealist

i tag … um, whoever wants to do it. :D

Sometimes I feel a little sad that I don’t have kids yet. I like kids and feel like I’m really good with them.

… and then I go teach primary and I’m okay with the fact that I don’t.

Don’t get me wrong. I love my class. They each have such distinctive personalities and are mostly well behaved if not a little overly enthusiastic. But I try to remind myself that if sometimes 3 hours of church seems long to me then it must seem like eternity to a 5 year old.

Right now we are practicing for the Primary program, which as I mentioned before is a selection of scriptures, songs, musical numbers and speaking parts that the kids will perform in the first hour of church 2 weeks from now. I also mentioned my class has 9 kids and 2 teachers. So we split the kids up to try and keep them focused and reverent while we ran through the program. I have Isaac, Kiara, Tessa, and Maclaine. (I swore that was her name but now I’m not so sure… I’ll have to go look again. I’m still new. eh. I checked that IS her name!) For two hours Tessa was trying to crawl into my lap and get me to scratch her back (“like my mom does”); Kiara was sitting with her legs propped up in front of her in a not-so-lady like way while wrapping her gum around her fingers over and over and eventually getting it stuck in her hair; Maclaine was incapable of facing forwards and every time I asked her to turn around would reply sweetly, “Oh sorry I forgot”… how to sit in a chair?; and Isaac could not for the life of him stay awake or keep his clothes on. Oh and 437 trips to the bathroom.

But I’ll admit I have had worse. Maybe I won’t swear off kids forever. At least I can be pretty certain I won’t give birth to 9 five year olds.

I’m going to take Harlow for a walk. Lately we’ve been walking in the cemetary which is not nearly as creepy as it sounds.

Is anyone really able to “aggressively acknowledge” their own charms? If you are then well done. Will you teach me?

Something that most people probably don’t know about me is that I read my horoscope weekly. I don’t know how much I “believe” it but it’s sometimes accurate and something fun to think about throughout the week. I think so anyway. So awhile ago I was talking with a friend about the fact that we were both Taureans (or is it Tauruses? Tauries?) and whether or not we had the traits that are associated with that sign. My response was, “Oh yeah, I do for sure. I can be way stubborn. And sometimes I’m selfish and possesive. And I can defintely be lazy and sometimes I feel really greedy with my time, money, and/or possessions.” To which my friend laughed and said, “You know there are positive traits for Taureans also.”

Whoops.

Why is it so easy to find fault with yourself and yet be so willing to overlook others weaknesses? Why do we compare ourselves at our worst with others at their best? Why do we even listen to our own inner-terrorist?

It’s not that I don’t think I have any good traits. Sometimes I think I’m a pretty neat person. But it’s the traits that I want to change that I think about, fight againt, worry, pray and even blog about. But it’s probably okay to be “blind to our own beauty” some of the time.

And sea slugs are pretty cute.

Is anyone really able to “aggressively acknowledge” their own charms? If you are then well done. Will you teach me?

Something that most people probably don’t know about me is that I read my horoscope weekly. I don’t know how much I “believe” it but it’s sometimes accurate and something fun to think about throughout the week. I think so anyway. So awhile ago I was talking with a friend about the fact that we were both Taureans (or is it Tauruses? Tauries?) and whether or not we had the traits that are associated with that sign. My response was, “Oh yeah, I do for sure. I can be way stubborn. And sometimes I’m selfish and possesive. And I can defintely be lazy and sometimes I feel really greedy with my time, money, and/or possessions.” To which my friend laughed and said, “You know there are positive traits for Taureans also.”

Whoops.

Why is it so easy to find fault with yourself and yet be so willing to overlook others weaknesses? Why do we compare ourselves at our worst with others at their best? Why do we even listen to our own inner-terrorist?

It’s not that I don’t think I have any good traits. Sometimes I think I’m a pretty neat person. But it’s the traits that I want to change that I think about, fight againt, worry, pray and even blog about. But it’s probably okay to be “blind to our own beauty” some of the time.

And sea slugs are pretty cute.

Cupcakes + blogging = heaven.

edit:. I guess it’s a cupcake kind of day. Three boxes of Crushcakes just showed up!

Today was going just fine… until my first call. She wants to go over her contract. Fine. Easy… until I asked her to spell her last name for me. Well with her accent and a bad phone connection it was no easy task to understand her. So after having her repeat herself twice I asked if she could repeat the first letter because I could not for the life of me figure out if she was saying “F” or “S”. So I asked her if it was “F” like Father or “S” like Samuel to which she screams into the phone:

“It’s F like dollar bill!!!”

Um. Right.

And it’s only 7:27 am.