Hydrangeas

Hydrangeas: these are pretty flowers. They make for excellent centerpieces. 

I slept till 12:00 pm

Today I woke up at 12 and was extremely confused at the myriad of emails left for me. I was disoriented and unusually still felt like it was 10?

Plans for tomorrow:

-wake up early

-visit ENT

-Clean and redecorate room (shabby chic style)

-hang out 

-get things accomplished

-change the world ( I mean since I am making plans =) )

Sometimes I feel .....

Awkward Moments

In any awkward moment, face the situation head on. Its always more awkward when both parties know what the other party is thinking or that there is something going on. Rather then sidestep the issue just confront it. Once its been confronted people can move past it. =)

been awhile

Alright its been awhile. Sue me. =) 

-Registration packets for conference

-choir practices

-being driver to younger siblings

List of things that have taken precedence.

Sometimes I wonder whether doing all of these things, whether well meaning or all for God's kingdom, overwhelms me to the point that I don't get to spend time with God? Wouldn't it be completely awful to do all of these things that take up our time, thinking God wants that, but really be kept away from him because of the sheer busy-ness. I want to manage my time more wisely. I want to be able to update the blogs, and to keep busy, and to talk with God (maintaining a sucessful relationship). Is that asking for too much?

Fearmongering

Fearmonger: Scaremonger : one inclined to raise or excite alarms especially needlessly.

The latest target of the news is the H1N1 influenza also known as swine flu. The media had a field day, trying to convince the world one by one that they were going to die. Schools panicked and shutdown, people shied away from travel and personal contact and started using excessive amounts of anti-bacterial. This is a sidenote to all: antibacterial doesn't work on viruses cause they are not bacteria and antibiotics cant cure the flu. News headlines jumped on the story about the first american to die from swine flu. Is this much priority given to regular influenza? People, the swine flu is just like every other flu, there are probably more casualties from the average yearly flu then there are from "swine flu" or "bird flu". The point is the media loves to kick up a frenzy about the latest killer and make the public freak out for no reason. If you practice good hygiene regularly you should be fine. Stop paying so much attention to what the media tells and start paying attention to the facts.

Saying Goodbye

I am moving out of my apartment. So in the process of cleaning I came across my journal and started to read a few entries. This is one that I thought was kinda appropriate for today.

"Saying Goodbye" dated 2-21-08.

"You know, they say the two hardest things in life are saying hello for the first time and saying goodbye for the last. I don't think I have quite mastered either. I have never properly said goodbye to a person for the last time. I always hang on to hope. Hope that "maybe in five or ten, yours and mine will meet again and straighten this whole thing out." Hope that everything will eventually be alright. All the goodbyes I have said up until this point have been a facade, I have never actually said goodbye in my heart. I have held on. this is both physically and mentally debilitating. But today and maybe for a little while I think I am having a breakthrough. Who knows maybe one of these days there will be an entry titled "saying hello."