"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose wierdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."
Dr. Seuss
Monday, January 31, 2011
Sunday, January 30, 2011
in a nut shell.
"THE TRUTH IS I STILL CARE AND ALWAYS WILL. I’M NOT THE TYPE OF GIRL TO LET PEOPLE WALK OUT OF MY LIFE AND PRETEND THAT THEY DON’T MATTER ANYMORE. I MAY NOT LIKE THAT PERSON ANYMORE OR TALK TO HIM OR HER BUT, I STILL CARE. I’M ALWAYS GOING TO THINK BACK TO MY LIFE AND SAY I WONDERED WHAT HAPPENED TO SO AND SO. I HOPE THEY’RE ALL RIGHT. I WILL ACTUALLY MEAN IT. THAT IS THE TYPE OF PERSON I AM. ONCE YOU’RE IN MY HEART, YOU’RE THERE FOREVER".
wallflower.
"Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life".
-THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
-THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
Friday, January 28, 2011
corinthians.
"No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted,he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it".
1 Corinthians 10:13
boo-yah!
1 Corinthians 10:13
boo-yah!
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Friday, January 21, 2011
conan.
shaun white will be on conan this next week. could there be a better night of ginges? I think not. the thing is, I cant watch it from spain. good thing there is tivo! I love those ginges and wouldn't want to miss watching them share the stage! for all of you state side, you should check it out and let me know how great it is!
all things conan here:
http://teamcoco.com/schedule
all things conan here:
http://teamcoco.com/schedule
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
spain blog!
hola!
If you want to know about my adventures in espana, I have made a tumblr blog to document. I will still be using this blog for all things random not pertaining to spain, but if you want the spain details, go here.
http://lady-in-spain.tumblr.com/
gracias :)
If you want to know about my adventures in espana, I have made a tumblr blog to document. I will still be using this blog for all things random not pertaining to spain, but if you want the spain details, go here.
http://lady-in-spain.tumblr.com/
gracias :)
Saturday, January 15, 2011
be still.
"His solitude is with Us. When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted desires, a broken friendship, or a new friendship-when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us. Notice Jesus Christ's training of the Twelve. It was the disciples, not the crowd outside, who were confused. His disciples constantly asked Him questions, and He constantly explained things to them, but they didn't understand until after they received the Holy Spirit.
As you journey with God, the only thing He intends to be clear is the way He deals with your soul. The sorrow and difficulties in the lives of others will be absolutely confusing to you. We think we understand another person's struggle until God reveals the same shortcomings in our lives. There are vast areas of stubbornness and ignorance the Holy Spirit has to reveal in each of us, but it can only be done when Jesus gets us alone. Are we alone with Him now? Or are we more concerned with our own ideas, friendships, and cares for our bodies? Jesus cannot teach us anything until we quiet all our intellectual questions and get alone with Him."
As you journey with God, the only thing He intends to be clear is the way He deals with your soul. The sorrow and difficulties in the lives of others will be absolutely confusing to you. We think we understand another person's struggle until God reveals the same shortcomings in our lives. There are vast areas of stubbornness and ignorance the Holy Spirit has to reveal in each of us, but it can only be done when Jesus gets us alone. Are we alone with Him now? Or are we more concerned with our own ideas, friendships, and cares for our bodies? Jesus cannot teach us anything until we quiet all our intellectual questions and get alone with Him."
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
donald miller.
"And so my prayer is that your story will have involved some leaving and some coming home, some summer and some winter, some roses blooming out like children in a play. My hope is your story will be about changing, about getting something beautiful born inside of you about learning to love a woman or a man, about learning to love a child, about moving yourself around water, around mountains, around friends, about learning to love others more than we love ourselves, about learning oneness as a way of understanding God. We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and the resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?
It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.
I want to repeat one word for you:
Leave.
Roll the word around on your tongue for a bit. It is a beautiful word, isn't it? So strong and forceful, the way you have always wanted to be. And you will not be alone. You have never been alone. Don't worry. Everything will still be here when you get back. It is you who will have changed."
— Donald Miller (Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road)
It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.
I want to repeat one word for you:
Leave.
Roll the word around on your tongue for a bit. It is a beautiful word, isn't it? So strong and forceful, the way you have always wanted to be. And you will not be alone. You have never been alone. Don't worry. Everything will still be here when you get back. It is you who will have changed."
— Donald Miller (Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road)
Thursday, January 6, 2011
waiting.
so here I am, three hours early (I was panicing about being late) waiting in the terminal for my flight. I am sitting here trying to crochet a lovely scarf, and yet all I can think about is the fact that I have NO idea where I am going when I get off that plane. I tend to over analyze things and freak out at unncessary times, (but I guess its better that I know I do that, right?) and so I trying to stay calm and realize that I will find people that know where I am suppose to be. and so now, I just wait. I wait for the Jewish man next to me to stop singing. I wait for the thought of not seeing people I know for four months to sink in. I wait for my spanish podcast to load. And then I wait to see if I sit next to any hot babes on the flight. And in all this waiting, there is time for me to just sit and realize that I am so stinkin' lucky to be able to do this. So after lunch with my family, fighting back tears saying goodbye to dad, trying to explain to my brother that he could not come with me and study abroad again, and waving to my mom about five times before I made it to security and I finally here..I will keep you up dated as soon as I can.cheers!
four months of change.
today is the day.
It feels like the "first day of school" feeling or that you feeling you have when you have a fat crush on someone and they remember your name. ok, those circumstances are bit a different but I personally get butterflies in my stomach for both occasion, and that is what is happening again today.
I dont do well alone. in fact, I dont really do anything by myself, but that all changes today! I am grabbing life by the horns and living the dream. flying 10+ hours by myself (which is a feat in of itself because i HATE to fly) and I am going to Spain for 4 months. I couldnt be more excited to just be spontanius and to live a life that is totally new, but with that comes change (which is somehting I hate more than flying). but it is time that I start to embrace change and stop letting my fears control my life. Everything about this trip scares me, and that is why I am so excited to go. Get out of my comfort zone, explore somewhere so different, and not to mention have a good place to practice my spanish. I need this trip. I need this growth and I need an expereience unlike anything I've ever had, because if I dont do it now, I probably would never leave my bubble of comfort.
A lot a stressful and drama filled things have been happening in my life these past months, even this past year and so you could say I a pulling a Julia Roberts in Eat, Pray, Love and i'm leaving. Some people have said that you go to college to find yourself, but I disagree. I went to college and lost myself. I realized that life is bigger then the small town I lived in, and so my world was rocked when life started to go the ways in which I could not control. I have spent the last three semesters at college, trying to figure out what I want and who I want to be, as cliche as that sounds. But it really is true, there is so much more to life then I knew at 17 and no I am just continuing on in that search. and so I guess you could say I am going to Spain to "find myself", what ever that really means. To me it means, I am going to just GO. leave all this stress and worry here (its not like it wont be there when I get back) and go somewhere where I can just think for myself. And I know that I wont necessarily find what I am looking for there, but it can just be a time where I can reflect and just get my ideas about life together. If anything, I will have just seen a whole new culture and met some really awesome people, I hope! This whole expereicne just gives me such an appreciation for what I have and as I sit here in the terminal typing this is still doesnt even seem real.. and those butterflies come back everytime I think about what my life is going to be like this time tomorrow.
the people in my life now, are some of the best people that I have known and it is so sad to leave them, but I know that four months will go by so fast and they wont even have time to miss me. but just know that I love you and that I cant wait to hear about everyone elses' adventures. So, send your prayers my way if you could, and be on the look out for updates on how this spainsh adventure is going and where it will lead me.
It feels like the "first day of school" feeling or that you feeling you have when you have a fat crush on someone and they remember your name. ok, those circumstances are bit a different but I personally get butterflies in my stomach for both occasion, and that is what is happening again today.
I dont do well alone. in fact, I dont really do anything by myself, but that all changes today! I am grabbing life by the horns and living the dream. flying 10+ hours by myself (which is a feat in of itself because i HATE to fly) and I am going to Spain for 4 months. I couldnt be more excited to just be spontanius and to live a life that is totally new, but with that comes change (which is somehting I hate more than flying). but it is time that I start to embrace change and stop letting my fears control my life. Everything about this trip scares me, and that is why I am so excited to go. Get out of my comfort zone, explore somewhere so different, and not to mention have a good place to practice my spanish. I need this trip. I need this growth and I need an expereience unlike anything I've ever had, because if I dont do it now, I probably would never leave my bubble of comfort.
A lot a stressful and drama filled things have been happening in my life these past months, even this past year and so you could say I a pulling a Julia Roberts in Eat, Pray, Love and i'm leaving. Some people have said that you go to college to find yourself, but I disagree. I went to college and lost myself. I realized that life is bigger then the small town I lived in, and so my world was rocked when life started to go the ways in which I could not control. I have spent the last three semesters at college, trying to figure out what I want and who I want to be, as cliche as that sounds. But it really is true, there is so much more to life then I knew at 17 and no I am just continuing on in that search. and so I guess you could say I am going to Spain to "find myself", what ever that really means. To me it means, I am going to just GO. leave all this stress and worry here (its not like it wont be there when I get back) and go somewhere where I can just think for myself. And I know that I wont necessarily find what I am looking for there, but it can just be a time where I can reflect and just get my ideas about life together. If anything, I will have just seen a whole new culture and met some really awesome people, I hope! This whole expereicne just gives me such an appreciation for what I have and as I sit here in the terminal typing this is still doesnt even seem real.. and those butterflies come back everytime I think about what my life is going to be like this time tomorrow.
the people in my life now, are some of the best people that I have known and it is so sad to leave them, but I know that four months will go by so fast and they wont even have time to miss me. but just know that I love you and that I cant wait to hear about everyone elses' adventures. So, send your prayers my way if you could, and be on the look out for updates on how this spainsh adventure is going and where it will lead me.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
uneasy.
I feel like these past few weeks have been filled with uneasiness and nervousness. things are changing, wether or not I like it, and so I have been trying to stay positive and see these changes as something that will be great in the long run. I mean, life is change, right? I feel that it is time that I wrap my mind around that idea. It is not even nagtive change that has gotten me so uneasy, so it is time that I embrace all of this and be excited for things to come. I have found these to be of help with being more at peace with life these days. enjoy!
"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." John 16:33
"Dont fear change, embrace it" - Anthony J. D'Angelo
"EVery tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith"- Henry Ward Beecher
"I am leaving you with a gift-peace of mind and heart! And the peace I give isn't fragile like the peace the world gives. So don't be troubled or afraid." - John 14:27
I am a sucker for quotes and lessons about life and so these may be cliche, but they work!
"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." John 16:33
"Dont fear change, embrace it" - Anthony J. D'Angelo
"EVery tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith"- Henry Ward Beecher
"I am leaving you with a gift-peace of mind and heart! And the peace I give isn't fragile like the peace the world gives. So don't be troubled or afraid." - John 14:27
I am a sucker for quotes and lessons about life and so these may be cliche, but they work!
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