October 2010
42 posts
Movies I've seen by myself:
The Pursuit of Happyness - December 2006
In the Land of Women - April 2007
Juno - May 2007
Marley & Me - March 2009
The Kids Are All Right - October 2010
…at least that’s all that I can remember. They may have been more.
salted carmel hot chocolate recipe →
I’m not quite sure how I got stuck handing out all the candy on trick-or-treat night…
“Whenever I spell banana, it makes me feel stupid. Because I don’t know...”
– Demetri Martin
World Without Laughter
dearoldlove:
Ok, so she’s smart, beautiful, and saving the world one starving child at a time, but she doesn’t make you laugh the way I did. And can you really change the world without laughter?
“People we love come, and they frequently go. What matters is staying open: to...”
– Leah Hanes
How to be Photgenic.
I only skimmed this, but it made me lol.
Why is it always so hard for me to sleep the night before a travel day? UGH.
Special things I'm going to miss out on while I'm...
Ingrid Michaelson concert
Benji Billman’s annual birthday trip to Cedar Point
The Circleville Pumpkin Show (I’ve still never been)
…and there are a lot of other things, but I can’t remember them right now.
“If I could give my children’s generation a gift, I’d get them out of...”
– Seth Barnes. Oh man, preach it!!
mom: hope, tonight you need to file your 2009 income taxes.
me: mom, i don't know what that means!
mom: well, it's time to learn. the time has come.
me: nooooooooo!
LOVE this lyric:
Of all the bells rung from a thousand steeples, none rings truer than this:
All God’s children singing, “Glory, glory, hallelujah, He reigns. He reigns, He reigns.”
dinner talk.
me (to my parents): don't you think you should educate paul in the other major religions so he doesn't grow up ignorant of them?
mom: nah. and besides, he studied them in school.
me (to paul): do you know what islam is?
paul: a country?
me: ...my point exactly.
Umm…my head has been REALLY itchy the last few days - I fear I have lice. I volunteered/interviewed at a daycare a couple of weeks ago, so lice is possible. GACK!
“Only you would focus on correcting my grammar during an argument rather than...”
– dear old love.
oh man - isn’t that the worst?
“We grapple with what it means to be a woman without being trapped in a...”
– Tzivia Gover
I’m soooo excited that a new month has started, so I can start listening to pandora again. (I used up my free 40 hours last month.)
knock knock.
A Jehovah’s Witness just came to the door, and I found myself saying, “Sorry, I don’t have time for this.” I smiled, shut the door and walked away wondering if that is what Jesus would have done. I did have the time to listen and talk with them, it just didn’t seem worth it to me. You know, the whole don’t throw pearls before swine kind of thing. The two JW were...
the story of my life:
girl i just met: it's weird, you look really familiar.
me: yeah, i have one of those faces.
girl: but, it's more than that.
me: oh, maybe do i remind you of that girl from the progressive commericals?
girl: OH MY GOSH YES THAT'S IT!
me: ....ha, lucky guess.
Loved this week’s modern love column. Read for yourself.
“I will never forget the time I had dinner with the Mendolas.”
– My friend Allie. lol.
“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via aprillynne)
Today I love...
Jesus and great weather and listening to Christmas music on my drive down to Kentucky and I’m having a pretty great hair day, if I’m honest.
