I have 10 Followers

This just blows me away. I started this blog as a way for me to journal my thoughts, to grow internally, and to really start opening up (even if its with the WorldWideWeb alone and never read). So when I got 5 followers...well, you should have seen me. I was freiking out. Boyfriend can attest to this. I was super excited, amazed, and panicked. It was hilarious, looking back. I got over that in about a day and just kept blogging, trying not to think of the fact that someone out there might actually read what I write.

Took a wee holiday break, and by holiday break I mean I had the holiday/winter blues and didn't feel like doing anything. Last week I logged onto Blogger again and saw that I now have TEN followers. TEN! It makes me giggle. I love it. Ten chicks, all to myself haha. Know that you will always be My First Ten and this means more to me than I can express. Thank you.

• ALu
• FemmeFlaca
• MegsCamaren
• j_alaina
• RedMissMitchell
• KariElizabethPrincess
• Kerry
• Ondine
• Wendy
• Rogue

xoxoxo

French 101

I've been talking about finishing my Bachelors Degree for a few years now, but just recently my friend Julie lit a fire under my butt. I'm doing it! I'm applying for Fall 2010 admission to finish that darn thing, if it kills me. To gear up for starting school again I've signed up for a class at one of our junior colleges.

I'm going to learn French!!

This is something I've always wanted to do, since at least 4th grade, so I'm pretty excited, but also nervous at the same time. I'm decent at languages but if I suck it'll really bring down my GPA. Oh well, I've put my ankles in the cement, there's no going back now. I start January 25th. Fingers crossed. And wish me luck.

Look what I found!!!

Ahhhh I can't wait!!!! I'm excited already and its 6 months away.

Ketchup

This week I'm going to:

• catch up on all my blog reading (I really miss those girls)
• catch up on my list of things to post
• catch up on some rest and time with boyfriend

All in preparation for my new 2010 goal, thanks to my friend ALu - to make a blog post EVERY single day starting January 1st! We're going to do it together and it'll probably end up in a challenge because one of us is bound to skip here and there. And by 'one of us' I mean that it'll most likely be me.

Miss you blogerettes.

Daisy Let it Go

Daisy by Switchfoot

Daisy, give yourself away
Lookup at the rain
The beautiful display
Of power and surrender
Giving us today
And she gives herself away

Rain, another rainy day
Comes up from the ocean
Give herself away
She comes down easy
On rich and debt the same
And she gives herself away


Let it go
Daisy, Let it go
Open up your fist
This fallen world
Doesn't hold your interest
It doesn't hold your soul
Daisy, let it go

Pain, give yourself a name
Call yourself contrition
Avarice of blame
Giving isn't easy
Neither is the rain
When she gives herself away


Daisy, why another day?
Why another sunrise
Who will take the blame
For all redemptive motion
And every rainy day
When he gives himself away

Let it go
Daisy, let it go
Open up your fist
This fallen world
It doesn't hold your interest
It doesn't hold your soul
Daisy, let it go

Let it go
Let it go
Let it go
And you let it go, go
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go, go
Let it go
Let it go

Some days I feel like Daisy and they’re speaking to me, urging me to just let it go. Let go of all the stress, the worry, the tiny things I agonize over. I need to learn to just let some things go. I know its woman-nature to add extra worry to things, but I really wish it wasn't. Does anyone else have these problems?

You Never Know

Some mornings you just need a good song to be there for you. This is one of my favorites, I just love her voice! I’ve listened to it 3 times already on my iPod mini I bring to work with me.


Here are the lyrics, but you really should hear it – try googling it (I can’t do it for you b/c I’m at work right now, sorry).

You Never Know
Rachael Lampa

I'm following the lines looking for the answers to a prayer
I'm looking for the signs waiting for the signal that ur there
If you ask why I believe - the only thing that I could ever say

You never know when life will turn around
One day your faith's strong the next it can't be found
And you're not looking
And all I know it's outta my control
And you never know

I try to figure in the time
When miracles should happen to appear
And when it comes down to it
There's nothing more that I can do down here
I wanna place it in your hands
Even though I wanna understand


You never know when life will turn around
One day your faith's strong the next it can't be found
And you're not looking
And all I know it's outta my control
And you never know

If you wanna spend your life
In your design, you're only wasting time

You never know when life will turn around
One day your faith's strong the next it can't be found
And you're not looking
And all I know it's outta my control
And you never know


PS "I Like Big Butts" came on after and totally popped my zen bubble LOL

Thanksgiving Day 2009

I completely failed to take pictures of the food we cooked (like I meant to) but I'm not too sad about it (my mac n cheese recipe was a super fail). I did remember to get some pix of my little table setting.

 

We played 3 rounds of Trivial Pursuit and had a fabulous day. I hope everyone else had a great holiday too!