haphazard musings

Merry Christmas!

Well, here is our Christmas card - no idea why the red tones turned so pink... :)

Ryan and I hope you remember and that we remember on this special day that we celebrate Christmas because of the resurrection at Easter.

Happy Christmas to you.

 

 

Things making me happy today...

1.  fountains.  i love taking pictures of moving water and fountains provide the chance locally...especially when the light is shining like this.

2.  the fish eye setting on my new camera...hilarious!

3.  the stink eye.

4. The Sing-Off on NBC. 

Here's a great example of one of the songs I loved.  

5. We left for Colorado Tuesday night.  So many things are happening there...skiing, family dinners, fondue party, chili night with pals, the big city, oh and Christmas!!!

oh the mountains...

Hope you are having a great day too!

 

 

avoiding the inevitable...

takes shocking little effort.

did you know that?

well, it's true.

on the upside, i think i have now learned the proper use of it's and its...yea!  mom will be so proud.

the inevitable for me, today is my ginormous paper that is lingering over my head.  it is unavoidable.  inevitably it will get done.

but man it is so easy right now to avoid at all costs.  so far tonight, i have

• texted a ton
• talked to my mom
• talked to my friend anne
• made some dinner
• played fetch with Finley
• convenientlly left my computer charger at work
• went to get my computer charger
• stopped at the bookstore Pages downtown - i should add, i was wearing my zebra print shoes, black socks, Texas A&M sweat pants, a red KU t-shirt, and a purple and pink plaid scarf - luckily i didn't recognize anyone and luckily i had the brains to take a coat....if i didn't have the brains to change into appropriate attire...
  
• bought a new book - I love Fancy Nancy!
• listed to a friend play some pretty sweet jams
• got a milkshake at Sonic
• looked at christmas lights

i am quite sure the list could go on...but i am also quite sure you don't really need me to list everything that i have done this evening.

so i am willing to receive suggestions on how to either

A. quit avoiding the inevitable

or

B. begin embracing the inevitable

thanks.

and to you i wish a happy friday full of avoidance of necessary tasks and to all a good night.

Love it...Hate it...vol. 4

Hate it.

I hate two phrases that I feel like people use wrong most of the time. 

Confession: I could be totally wrong here, but it's how I feel about it.

Phrase One: "Irregardless."  Well really, its just a word. 

But, it is a contradiction in itself. 

Someone says, "Irregardless, of that, I feel like we should..." 

So basically, they just made no sense.  They should have said, "Regardless, of that, I feel like we should..."

Right?

Phrase Two: "I could care less." 

This is usually used to describe a situation in which the user is saying how little they care about a specific thing. 

The correct phrase should be "I couldn't care less."  This way you are stating that nothing is of less importance to you.

It drives me nuts.

If this is you who does this, so sorry for my grumpiness towards a phrase you use.  : ) I will love you anyway and in spite of it.

Thanks for reading the latest version of Love it...Hate it.

Awesome remix.

Seriously check this out!

  

And you should check out the show The Sing Off on NBC.

writer's block...

it's bad.

real bad.

extraordinarily bad.

for real.

sometimes i find myself thinking in blog posts.  but not so much right now.  

it's weird.  it is a rare occurrence that i have run out of things to say.  

saddly, the writer's block not only hinders my desire/ability to blog, it is keeping me from writing my final project paper for my seminar in american lit class.  

it has to be 15 pages by monday...i have two...and no real topic or destination in mind.

oh well, just thought i should keep you in the loop. : )

Love it...Hate it...vol. 3

Lately, well really the last year or so, I feel like I have really been noticing the things around me so much more.

I don't really know what brought on this heightened sense of awareness, but it is there nonetheless.  And I am loving it!

I have taken so many pictures of the little things or really big beautiful things like this.

That was the view from my deck.  I wish I had been somewhere out where there weren't buildings and stuff, but it was still pretty awesome.  (click on it for the huge view)

It has been amazing noticing new and beautiful things.  Each time it just reminds me of the greatness of God and His creation.  Sometimes it feels like he made that sunset just for me so I would be reminded to think of Him in all things.  It's pretty cool when that happens.

So, I love it!