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Friday, 15 February 2008

This is my new beautiful bike... I haven't gotten to ride it yet because of the stupid ice/snow/cold. I'm putting it up on my blog because I need to consistently remind myself that I need to live a healthy life. That's the original reason why I bought this bike. I am currently having some weird health issues and need to change my lazy lifestyle to fix it.

Luckily, I also have puppies to walk and kids to chase! Here's to a healthy life!

Sunday, 10 February 2008

Super Therapy Dog

This is Hermy the super therapy dog. I bring Hermy (full name: Hermione) to work with me in a group home for adolescent criminals. These boys have had difficult lives and often have no one to show them care or concern. We have a kid right now, "K," who has been severely physically abused. His biological father did terrible things to him rivaling that of Dave Peltzer's mom. He has a very difficult time being in a setting where the focus is talking about those things that bother you the most. So the usual behavior is that he acts out right before bedtime and gets in trouble so he doesn't have to go to sleep thinking about all the messed up stuff that's happened to him. When he first arrived, he'd wet the bed dreaming about his dad's "punishments."

So, last night he's popping off trying to get in trouble. As I'm not in middle school anymore, I let him call me names and ramble on without a response. Eventually he quieted long enough for Hermy to find him "worthy" to cuddle with. She has this way of getting as close as humanly possible to her chosen victim and plops heavily down on them often knocking the wind out of her prey. He sat there petting her and telling her how nice, cute, and soft she was. 20-30 minutes later, "K" is SOUND asleep before 11 p.m. which to my knowledge has NEVER happened since his 3 months in the group home.

That's the power of a puppy!

Friday, 01 February 2008

What happened?!

Got an email from xanga saying that they've changed a few things...

Whoa... I think I like this better than most of the other places I blog! I think I'll be writing more frequently!

Friday, 09 February 2007

Currently Reading
It Takes A Village
By Hillary Rodham Clinton
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So, this is from my myspace blog. I haven't updated this in awhile and just need to. Will try to write more this year as well... that wasn't included in the resolution part. To my Korean Cutie- please expect a package to arrive next week. I'm sending it out on Monday/Tuesday. I missed the opportunity to drop off to your parents. Sorry!

New Year's Resolution:
Some are old, some are new- some are simply copy/pasted. They're all very basic though.
1. Be consciously more patient. Over the last year, I have consciously made myself aware anytime I felt annoyed with anyone. I have figured out that it is not snobbery that is my problem but a lack of patience for illogically stupid things. For instance: there is no reason why someone who is not cool to talk about themselves as if they were. OR how stupid is it for someone to be a jerk, take it out on others, and then blame it on their life experiences?
2. Budget money BETTER: Not only were Ben and I able to budget last year, we paid lots of stuff. However, just because we weren't in the hole only meant that we ended up with nothing to show for our work. More saving for big budget items (drums anyone?)
3. Being more social: I was more social this year. Especially from like September on. Hoping this will continue in 2007. Need work on balancing marriage and friendships- this ended up pretty hard to do at the end of the year. AND I still don't have a random middle of theafternoon/day movie partner!
4. Being more active. I can definitely say I was more active this last year. However, I wasn't active consistently. Lost motivation- and will try to do better. Have lots of motivation this year- 2 weddings, time floating on a river, some 5K runs, and wanting to not feel blah.
5. Read more: I will be going back to school and graduating in 2008. Unfortunately my brain is like mush and will needs lots of exercise to return to a 15 hr course schedule. So, I will need to do more than just re-read all the Harry Potter books... the new one IS coming out this year...
6. Prioritize: Self explanatory. Just need to do what I need to do and then do what I want to do. Like I need to straighten up my mess before I sit down to watch TV. I need to pay my video late fees before just buying anything (even if it is the newest season of Gilmore Girls). I could go on.

Friday, 03 November 2006

It's very interesting to look at my life and see how differently things turned out from what I had imagined 5 years ago. Recently, I've been doing a lot of soul searching and being introspective while outwardly exploring other avenues that I've been neglecting the last 3-4 years. This has been a difficult and painful process as layers have been pulled away and left me raw and broken. It's one of those weird turning points that older people have always talked to me about- choose what you think will make you happy or choose to trust God's plan for your life. It's one of those strange "Aha" moments that Oprah is always talking about where you see clearly the reason for all the advice and worldly experiences you've had in your life. It's one of those times when the decision you choose to make will seriously effect more than just you.

And I almost didn't care...

I am currently living an unconventional "Christian" life style where my own husband doubts my faithfulness/spritual well-being. I don't go to church. I say "ass" a LOT. My prayer times are in the car while driving by myself. I read the Bible at work. I don't share my spiritual growth with anyone except my best buddy. I only really talk about God at work. And I could care less about fitting into the conventional Christian model... and since a couple months ago, I have been consciously allowing God to be the center of my life. The funny part is that my change manifested itself in the most unusual way- I began being unhappy about my life. Of course this made me feel INSANE.

BUT Everything happens for a reason because God made it that way. I can't tell you the number of times that has come out of my mouth when giving advice or just chatting it up. What surprises me the most is that these choose your own adventure scenarios that God keeps throwing at me seemed so easy to manuever until now. So, I've chosen an adventure and hope that I don't end up in the crocodile pit.

Sorry this is so cryptic for some of you but this is more for me than it is for you- will update regularly on the process of my new adventure and wtf I'm talking about.