After reading my last post, I realized once again how selfish I am. I used this blog as an outlet where I could complain and feel sorry for myself. I am sorry to all of you who read it. The post was not necessary and has been deleted...
From now on, I make it a point to slap myself upside the head and not come near a computer when I am in such a state of mind as I was that night. There are so much bigger things in life.
4.04.2006
3.17.2006
Kiss me, I'm not Irish
I have a habit of being very quick to make judgements and form negative opinions of things, people, and situations. Several things of the past week have brought this to my attention.
Everything will change. My mind is bending to match.
Children need friends. I need friends. An essay on the subject is in the works. Research supporting this topic has been rather interesting to read, but not so intersting to write about.
Today is St. Patrick's Day and I am not wearing green. This morning I realized that I do not own many articles of green clothing...I have about two...and I didn't feel like wearing either of them.
It's friday, I'm in love.
What I like about Fridays: whatever I was about to say has been discarded, because I admit, I like the same things about Fridays that every other person probably likes about Fridays, and you really don't need to hear about that for the 1 millionth time of your life.
Currently listening to:
The Life Pursuit (its the new Belle and Sebastian!)
Strangers, Ed Harcourt
Everything will change. My mind is bending to match.
Children need friends. I need friends. An essay on the subject is in the works. Research supporting this topic has been rather interesting to read, but not so intersting to write about.
Today is St. Patrick's Day and I am not wearing green. This morning I realized that I do not own many articles of green clothing...I have about two...and I didn't feel like wearing either of them.
It's friday, I'm in love.
What I like about Fridays: whatever I was about to say has been discarded, because I admit, I like the same things about Fridays that every other person probably likes about Fridays, and you really don't need to hear about that for the 1 millionth time of your life.
Currently listening to:
The Life Pursuit (its the new Belle and Sebastian!)
Strangers, Ed Harcourt
2.16.2006
How much I like the Internet
This whole week at work I have been researching stuff related to science and homeschooling. Although my research findings have not been very fruitful, I did find some quotes I liked, from sources who are worthy of being quoted...
"To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labor and holidays; to be Whitely within a certain area, providing toys, boots, sheets, cakes and books; to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching morals, manners, theology and hygiene: I can understand why this might exhaust the mind, but I cannot understand how it could narrow it. How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three (R's) and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute."
G. K. Chesterton
"If I had to live my life over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing."
Albert Einstein
PS. I love the internet...and I can't really imagine life without Google. Latest found feature: Google Calculator. Calculate anything. 658,255.48 divided by 82
"To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labor and holidays; to be Whitely within a certain area, providing toys, boots, sheets, cakes and books; to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching morals, manners, theology and hygiene: I can understand why this might exhaust the mind, but I cannot understand how it could narrow it. How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three (R's) and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute."
G. K. Chesterton
"If I had to live my life over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing."
Albert Einstein
PS. I love the internet...and I can't really imagine life without Google. Latest found feature: Google Calculator. Calculate anything. 658,255.48 divided by 82
2.14.2006
My addiction...
My worst fear has become a reality. I am addicted to a TV show...
I go to sleep thinking about Lost, I have dreams about Lost, and I wake up thinking about Lost. I have over 12 chapters of homework to read, a reaction paper to write, work to do, people to see, and all I actually care about is watching another episode. This is pathetic. But it's so good!
That's really all I have to say...
I go to sleep thinking about Lost, I have dreams about Lost, and I wake up thinking about Lost. I have over 12 chapters of homework to read, a reaction paper to write, work to do, people to see, and all I actually care about is watching another episode. This is pathetic. But it's so good!
That's really all I have to say...
1.24.2006
The Birthday Post!
Today is Brian's birthday. Now he is old like me. Now he can legally go and get wasted with his friends, not like me. Sweet. (this is a joke..you can laugh)
Happy Birthday, love. Have fun. I will miss you.
Lovingly,
Anna
Happy Birthday, love. Have fun. I will miss you.
Lovingly,
Anna
1.19.2006
Speak for Yourself
It has been a few weeks now since I first heard Imogen Heap's album "Speak for Yourself," but I just started actually listening to this album a few nights ago. While I was shopping with my sister at the Gap, we heard Imogen's voice over the speakers. I don't even know which song was playing, but on the trip home we listened to the album, and I haven't really stopped since. You can read a rather long conversation with her here.
1.14.2006
Yesterday while I was attempting to work hard in front of my desk with a glaring computer screen in my face, the idea of making top ten lists sounded extremely appealing. I started these right then and there and have just completed them today. In reading these, you may find out things you about me that you do not really wish to know....don't say I didn't warn you.
top ten songs of the week:
1. The Frankston Line, Youth Group
2. Extraordinary Machine, Fiona Apple
3. Lua, Bright Eyes
4. Misunderstood, Wilco
5. Champagne from a Paper Cup, Death Cab for Cutie
6. Born, Over the Rhine
7. Ripchord, Rilo Kiley
8. This Charming Man, The Smiths
9. In The Cold, Cold Night, The White Stripes
10. Ten, Jimmy Eat World
top ten movies I've seen over the past months:
1. Magnolia
2. The Big Sleep
3. Toy Story 2
4. The Producers
5. King Kong
6. Kill Bill, Vol 2
7. For A Few Dollars More
8. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
9. Casablanca
10. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
ten strange and/or annyoing habits I posess:
1. cutting up fruit before eating it
2. checking myself out in a mirror/window as I walk by ("to see what my hair is doing, it is kinda skywalker, or is it kinda stupid?" Yes, I am vain.)
3. eating the same kind of sandwich for lunch every day of the week
4. making my bed before climbing into it at night
5. rubbing baby lotion on my stomach before I am able to sleep (hey, it's calming)
6. poking people to show that I love them
7. using a lot more chap-stick every day than my lips really need
8. asking "why?" too much
9. pressing the snooze button too many times, which causes me to get up late
10. working out at 11pm
highlights of the last ten days:
today. so far, taking pictures of anything and really nothing
yesterday. watching "The Big Sleep" for the first time
day before. kids at Head Start arguing about what foods contain water
wednesday. shopping with my mom and my sister
tuesday. finding out I have enough vacation time to get paid during my trip to Europe
monday. getting up early enough to work out before work
sunday. making muffins
saturday. driving the back roads to Big Timber and back with friends
friday. nothing I did has stuck in my memory
thursday. being with Brian
These lits are multiples of five, only because five is the most I could think of...
five things that are really nice to drink:
1. water
2. chai tea vanilla silk latte
3. black coffee
4. cloudy apple juice
5. herbal tea
five of the most annoying books I've read:
1. Preparing for Marriage God's Way, Dr. Wayne A. Mack
2. Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman
3. The Excellent Wife: A Biblical Perspective, Martha Peace
4. How to Read a Book, Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
5. Caddie Woodlawn, Carol Ryrie Brink
top five favorite colors to wear:
1. brown
2. pink
3. black
4. white
5. blue
my five favorite things to take pictures of:
1. feet
2. shadows
3. close ups of faces
4. the sky
5. random corners and meaningless things
five places I visit most frequently:
1. Target
2. Gap
3. Hastings
4. jcrew.com
5. Old Navy
top ten songs of the week:
1. The Frankston Line, Youth Group
2. Extraordinary Machine, Fiona Apple
3. Lua, Bright Eyes
4. Misunderstood, Wilco
5. Champagne from a Paper Cup, Death Cab for Cutie
6. Born, Over the Rhine
7. Ripchord, Rilo Kiley
8. This Charming Man, The Smiths
9. In The Cold, Cold Night, The White Stripes
10. Ten, Jimmy Eat World
top ten movies I've seen over the past months:
1. Magnolia
2. The Big Sleep
3. Toy Story 2
4. The Producers
5. King Kong
6. Kill Bill, Vol 2
7. For A Few Dollars More
8. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
9. Casablanca
10. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
ten strange and/or annyoing habits I posess:
1. cutting up fruit before eating it
2. checking myself out in a mirror/window as I walk by ("to see what my hair is doing, it is kinda skywalker, or is it kinda stupid?" Yes, I am vain.)
3. eating the same kind of sandwich for lunch every day of the week
4. making my bed before climbing into it at night
5. rubbing baby lotion on my stomach before I am able to sleep (hey, it's calming)
6. poking people to show that I love them
7. using a lot more chap-stick every day than my lips really need
8. asking "why?" too much
9. pressing the snooze button too many times, which causes me to get up late
10. working out at 11pm
highlights of the last ten days:
today. so far, taking pictures of anything and really nothing
yesterday. watching "The Big Sleep" for the first time
day before. kids at Head Start arguing about what foods contain water
wednesday. shopping with my mom and my sister
tuesday. finding out I have enough vacation time to get paid during my trip to Europe
monday. getting up early enough to work out before work
sunday. making muffins
saturday. driving the back roads to Big Timber and back with friends
friday. nothing I did has stuck in my memory
thursday. being with Brian
These lits are multiples of five, only because five is the most I could think of...
five things that are really nice to drink:
1. water
2. chai tea vanilla silk latte
3. black coffee
4. cloudy apple juice
5. herbal tea
five of the most annoying books I've read:
1. Preparing for Marriage God's Way, Dr. Wayne A. Mack
2. Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman
3. The Excellent Wife: A Biblical Perspective, Martha Peace
4. How to Read a Book, Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
5. Caddie Woodlawn, Carol Ryrie Brink
top five favorite colors to wear:
1. brown
2. pink
3. black
4. white
5. blue
my five favorite things to take pictures of:
1. feet
2. shadows
3. close ups of faces
4. the sky
5. random corners and meaningless things
five places I visit most frequently:
1. Target
2. Gap
3. Hastings
4. jcrew.com
5. Old Navy
1.13.2006
tastes like summer
I ate strawberries for lunch today, which I purchased from Wal-Mart (seriously my least favorite store on the planet) a few days ago. They were amazingly good, and to think, I almost passed them up because they didn't look ripe enough. All this to say, strawberries in January...mmmm yeah. I'm happy about this.
1.05.2006
The weight is a gift or, this life is a gift, or, thoughts about things I do not deserve...
This past week has been one never to be forgotten. It sends me into a fury of thoughts at the amazingness of God's goodness. I can spend an entire week not really doing anything in particular and love it so much and know that it was a week well spent. Brian has documented things beautifully, so go read about it while I save my breath.
So friends, I have decided it is time to become a more faithful blogger. A post every month (or less) doesn't cut it. (Especially when my posts are really not about anything.) I am not promising my future posts will be about "anything" more than my previous ones have been, but they will be more frequent, and hopefully more worth-reading.
Album of the week:
"The Weight is A Gift" by Nada Surf
(especially "Always Love" and "In the Mirror")
So friends, I have decided it is time to become a more faithful blogger. A post every month (or less) doesn't cut it. (Especially when my posts are really not about anything.) I am not promising my future posts will be about "anything" more than my previous ones have been, but they will be more frequent, and hopefully more worth-reading.
Album of the week:
"The Weight is A Gift" by Nada Surf
(especially "Always Love" and "In the Mirror")
12.21.2005
You can't find nothing at all, if there was nothing there all along.
Youth Group is good, their songs get stuck in my head, lines repeating themseleves over and over. My thoughts are like a broken record player and as scattered as rainshowers. It blocks out the sounds of people, work, thoughts, myself, etc. I'm not too sure what's left actually.
"I'm drowned and I don't know why"
Ooo, so I can't miss my countdown since this is all I ever post about: Christmas is in 4 days and Brian will be with me in 7 days.
"I'm drowned and I don't know why"
Ooo, so I can't miss my countdown since this is all I ever post about: Christmas is in 4 days and Brian will be with me in 7 days.
12.17.2005
boredom
it lurks in every corner, until you change your perspective. but that does not happen by changing your window's view.
(I am about to discover how it is really done, I hope)
(I am about to discover how it is really done, I hope)
12.16.2005
the month-long break has come to a close
Had I waited until tomorrow to post this, it would have been exactly one month since the last time I posted anything on this very neglected blog.
Growing on me: her and them.
Anticipations got me glued:
Lady in the Water
Nico
Growing on me: her and them.
Anticipations got me glued:
Lady in the Water
Nico
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