Thursday, November 23, 2006

My Favorite Paris...

Check out this website...
parisdailyphoto.blogspot.com...
The pictures are amazing and make me miss Paris, my favorite though is November 24th's picture of Alexandre III Bridge. One of my favorite parts of Paris is this bridge, from 4 pm on people just sit in these huge groups on this bridge and eat massive feasts with chicken, steak, wine - you name it! And they sit there all night playing music, eating and talking. It's like the world stops on this bridge and people actually fellowship! The feeling on the bridge is so relaxed and sometimes there's kids there but everyone is just at rest and enjoying each other's company. It gives you warm fuzzies as you walk across and it's GREAT!

"Easy Silence"

When the calls and conversations
Accidents and accusations
Messages and misperceptions
Paralyze my mind
Busses, cars, and airplanes leaving
Buring fumes of gasoline
And everyone is running
And I come to find a refuge in the
Easy silence that you make for me
It's okay when there's nothing more to say to me
And the peaceful quiet you create for me
And the way you keep the world at bay for me
The way you keep the world at bay
Monkeys on the barricades
Are warning us to back away
They form commissions trying to find
The next one they can crucify
And anger plays on every station
Answers only make more questions
I need something to believe in
Breathe in sanctuary in the
Easy silence that you make for me
It's okay when there's nothing more to say to me
And the peaceful quiet you create for me
And the way you keep the world at bay for me
The way you keep the world at bay
Children lose their youth too soon
Watching war made us immune
And I've got all the world to lose
But I just want to hold on to the
Easy silence that you make for me
It's okay when there's nothing more to say to me
And the peaceful quiet you create for me
And the way you keep the world at bay for me...
I remember when Matt and I were getting serious, along with all my other insecurities, I kinda wondered how we would not get bored of each other by the time we wanted to get married. Wouldn't we run out of things to talk about? When you first start dating you have so much to talk about while you're getting to know each other and I really thought that it would be so scary once you got past that point... Now I know that getting past that point is amazing.
I really like this song because the chorus reflects just how I feel. It's typical Dixie Chicks to put politics in a love song but for the most part, the song is pretty bang on!

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

My Girls...

The last 2 months have been jam packed with wedding showers, dress fittings and a billion lists of wedding errands. Through it all my bridesmaids have been more than amazing. My sister has made way too many trips to the post office for me, threw me the best stagette a bride has ever had, made all of my favors and puts up with my huge 'gift room' that enroaches on our living space after every shower. My future sisters-in-law have been great, they are encouraging, they play candle-lit Mexican-train with me and give me hot lengerie. Danielle takes me out for dinner after horrible days at work, always has great and wise advice, regifts me beautiful, hawaiian mugs to me and is so supportive to me! Sarah has been to every possible wedding shower, does an amazing job of leading bible study with me and keeps me laughing at, I mean WITH her all night long when she does her noise! Carley is my long, not so lost, cousin, she came back to the mainland and stayed with Noni and I for a night making me realize how much I really miss her and her making me laugh... My girls are great, they keep me going and keep me laughing. I am so thankful for their support and love!

Thursday, November 16, 2006

Some days...

... I know that I chose to do what I am doing now. I made the choice to take the year off and not head back to school right away, I made the choice to do a one year program, I made the choice to work this year... I made those choices. But there are some days when I wish I had taken the school route. Days like yesterday, when classes were cancelled at Trinity, but I was at work. And some days work is... work.
Someone told me recently that I have to take joy in the small victories in my job, I haven't seen many small victories lately and it's starting to rub. Every other day I get to teach last block and usually I love it! I love my classroom and I love the kids in it, they are all 'gentle giants' and have such a collective, wicked, sense of humor. But today I got to my class and I was so tired and frusterated from everything else that had come down the pipe that 10 minutes into my class I totally snapped at a poor unsuspecting student who really, was doing nothing wrong. He's such a sweetheart and I yelled... I never yell at students. I hated myself for it and pulled him out 10 minutes later to apologize. Of course he was great, told me not to worry about it and 30 seconds later he was making me laugh again. But it made me wonder, why am I not doing more of what I love and less of what makes me so quickly irritated with those I love???
Hmmm, I bought multi-vitamins today, Danielle said it would help! For those who are interest; tennis racket -2, me - 0!