beautiful things

in no particular order.

• untouched, unblemished snow. . . even if it is 7-10 inches deep : (((
• an autumn run in the arb
• love.
• good music.
• friendship.
• Belle, the Disney Princess.
• . . . all of the Disney princesses. . .
• the Caribbeannnnnn
• family

randoms, round 2

a) isn't it funny how sometimes in church, you feel like God has just looked into your heart and is talking specifically to you in the message being delivered? It happens too many times to count. It's like he knows exactly what's going in my head, and knows exactly how to deal with it. . . oh wait, He does know : )

b) I just made this EXCELLENT toffee with my roommate [bonding time : P ] and it really is quite delicious.
http://majorknitter.typepad.com/major_knitter/2007/12/chocolate-toffe.html

c) It is absolutely gorgeous out today! I am hoping to get in a run outside again! : D

d) one week until the cruise! at this time in seven days, I will be in FLORIDA getting ready to board a cruise ship bound for the Caribbean . . . beeee jealous!!

e) less than 3 weeks until a certain boy returns home from silly VA

f) only 2 midterms this week.

and they're all on one day! [hah, hardly something to get excited about]

g) I am just now figuring out that starting this September, I have to begin becoming domesticated, as in fixing my own meal. Yikes! I better start browsing recipe pages!

h) I love Jesus songs : D

i) in less than a week, I'l be returning to a half blonde-ish. just highlights : )

j) I can't believe the semester is halfway over already!! : DDD yesssss!!!

k) I have yet to venture to Canada . . . after spring break, maybe? : \\

l) I NEED A JOB!!!

outdoor vs indoor running

I have definitely realized over the past month just how much I l o a t h e indoor running.

The weather has caused a significant dip in my training. I have been quite good about it lately, though. I have ran almost daily for the past month [with a few breaks, but "cross-trained" . . . ], but that training has all been done on an indoor track.

Allow me to explain.

Sweaty runners, running on a 3-lane "track" that is the second "story" to the basketball courts in the CCRB (central campus rec building). Therefore, I am sharing oxygen with all of the runners, as well as all of the basketball ballas, the volleyball courts, and occasional intense game of badminton going on [which occurs more often than volleyball . . . ]. aka: I can hardly breathe. I notice such a huge difference in my running in comparison to outside. My form is different, my breathing is faster, and I am way less relaxed.

I guess I am just used to running outdoors. I feel so much more, occupied, focused, and just in sync with my body. I can pick up my pace, decrease my pace, look at what's going on around me, and still manage to stay relaxed. Plus, there's fresh air.

I'm kind of nervous that I ran outside today, though. From what I hear, we are supposed to get more snow : (( aka: it might be the last time I run outside until after spring break : (

WHICH PS-> IS NEXT FRIDAY!!! : DDDD'

Oh, and one more thing. Starting Monday, I am going to start my training for my half this summer. I'm going to document all of my time on here to keep myself accountable. : ) wish me luck!

randoms. . .

a famous post.

a typical post.

a "me" post.

• I want a puppy. NOW.
• I cannot sleep in pants anymore, only shorts.
• organic chemistry doesn't bother me that bad, sometimes. . .
• I love Faygo Grape Soda.
• I don't love bologna.
• I want to live in NYC for two years. somehow, I don't think that will be happening. . .
• I really feel like dancing. In a pair of heels. and a dress. hmm. . .
• I will be running a half marathon this summer.
• I will be running a full marathon in the next year-ish.
• I took the Princess quiz. and I am Belle. [yesssss]
• I really want another tattoo.
• but if I get one, I cannot donate plasma. and I am considering that an income for next year . . . do I have to claim that for taxes, I wonder? It is charity . . . basically.
• The only reason I would ever return to high school was for the simple-ness. and all of my friends : (( . . . otherwise. never. ever. ever. ever. ever.
• my BFF BRANDI RUTAN IS GETTING MARRIED!!!!!!
• I want to write a book someday. idk what it would be about . . . but something. Fictional, naturally.
• I need another job this summer. or some way to score some biiiiig cash quick!

I've got it!!

As I sit here, studying psych and reminding myself of the mile-long list of things I have to do in the next few weeks, I have had a sudden epiphany thanks to the lovely passage I just read.

"Common sense and everyday experience tell us that even the most health-conscious college students are less likely to exercise and more likely to eat junk food during final exams than they are at the start of the semester. Research evidence shows that psychological stress decreases health-promoting behaviors, such as exercising and getting enough sleep, and increases unhealthy behaviors such as consumption of caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, and foods high in fat, salt, and sugar."

and America wonders why it is obese,

and why its college students all blossom into raging alcoholics,

and why suicide is the second leading cause of death among college students.

College is supposed to prepare us for the real world, but is the real world really going to stress us out so much that we want to kill ourselves or it? or drink until we pass out? or eat our feelings? Notice, suicide is not the leading cause of death of those who are NOT in college (the 11th leading cause for all Americans).

I just find it sad that at such a young and prospering age, college students are exposed to some of the highest stressful environments and expected to charge through it with flying colors. Sure there are ways to alleviate that stress, but at the expense of your grades. And in college, that is all that is preached about.

Perhaps I'm being overly dramatic since yes, it is midterm exam time for me. And yes, I am stressed to the max. and yes, I go to a school where they could really care less if I'm doing well mentally, as long as I'm doing well in classes and paying the tuition . . .

why did I go here again?

and why am I being a doctor again?

hah.

Nothing will stop me from either of those though : )

i wanted you to know. . .

I wanted you to know

that I love the way you laugh. I wanna hold you high

& steal your pain away. I keep your photograph and I

know it serves me well. I wanna hold you high and

steal your pain 'cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome and I

don't feel right when you're

gone away.

the worst is over now and we can breathe

again. I wanna hold you high, you steal my

pain away. There's so much left to learn and no one left

to fight. I wanna hold you high and steal

your pain. 'cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome and I

don't feel like I am strong enough.

'cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome and I

don't feel right when you're

gone away.

. . . 'cause I'm broken when I'm open

and I don't feel like I am strong enough.

'cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome

and I don't feel right when you're

gone away.

I see your picture, I smell your skin on

the empty pillow next to mine.

you have only been gone ten days but already

I'm wasting away.

I know I'll see you again, whether far or soon but

I need you to know that I care

and I miss you.

I'll never know how much it costs

to see my sin upon that cross.

ps- I've gotten 15 hours of sleep

in the past 72 hours.

maybe 18-20 with naps included.

almost t o m o r r o w .

heyyyyy soul sista'

"Hey, Soul Sister"

Heeey heeeey heeeeey

Your lipstick stains on the front lobe of my left side brains
I knew I wouldn't forget you
And so I went and let you blow my mind
Your sweet moving
The smell of you in every single dream I dream
I knew when we collided you're the one I have decided
Who's one of my kind

Hey soul sister, ain't that mister mister on the radio, stereo
The way you move ain't fair you know
Hey soul sister, I don't wanna miss a single thing you do tonight

Heeey heeeey heeeey

Just in time, I'm so glad you have a one track mind le me
You gave my life direction
A game show love connection, we can't deny
I'm so obsessed
My heart is bound to beat right out my untrimmed chest
I believe in you, like a virgin, you're Madonna
And I'm always gonna wanna blow your mind

Hey soul sister, ain't that mister mister on the radio, stereo
The way you move ain't fair you know
Hey soul sister, I don't wanna miss a single thing you do tonight

Well you can cut a rug
Watching you is the only drug I need
So gangster, I'm so thug
You're the only one I'm dreaming of
You see I can be myself now finally
In fact there's nothing I cant be
I want the world to see you'll be with me

Hey soul sister, ain't that mister mister on the radio, stereo
The way you move ain't fair you know
Hey soul sister, I don't wanna miss a single thing you do tonight
Hey soul sister, I don't wanna miss a single thing you do tonight
Heeey heeeey heeeeey (tonight)
Heeey heeeey heeeeey (tonight)

	Train - Hey, Soul Sister .mp3
	Found at bee mp3 search engine

. . .

maybe I think you're cute and funny

. . .

if you know what I mean : )

I'll see you in my dreams

hold you in my dreams

someone took you out of my arms

still I feel the thrill of your charms

lips that once were mine

tender eyes that shine

they will light our way tonight

I'll see you in my dreams.

In the dreary gray of another day

you are far away and I am blue

still I hope and I pray

through each weary day

for it brings the night

and dreams of you

*3*

lead me to the cross

where your love poured out

bring me to my knees

Lord I lay me down

rid of me of myself

I belong to You

oh lead me

lead me to the cross

to Your heart

heal my heart and make it clean

open up my eyes to the things unseen

show me how to love like You have loved me

break my heart for what breaks Yours

everything I am for Your kingdom's cause

as I walk from nothing

to eternity

the most beautiful thing in the world. . .

. . . is watching someone teach a child

about Jesus Christ.

how brilliant you are : )

"Undeniable"

It's undeniable how brilliant you are
In an unreliable world you shine like a star
It's unforgettable now that we've come this far
It's unmistakable that you're undeniable

February 5th, Friday morning, purple dawn
Broke a yawn, as a I stepped through the fog, like I stepped to a song
A moment like a poem, you wish you could hold it
I shut my eyes like it's frozen, it's gone when I open
It slipped passed the clouds right there where it lingered
Like your band and a girl could slip through your fingers
My feet hit the ground like a beat for the lonely
ON a path beaten down by the crowds in the morning
If only I could touch past the phony
If only they were there now to hold me
As the questions keep droning

You're the only one who stuck it out last night
The only other one who caught the other line
You're the only one when this world collides
The one that I can't deny

It's my last year here
My first class moved to portable 'a'
Under construction since summer
And it's cold today
I can see my breath, and what's left of the west parking lot
And all the spaces that we fought
And it all seems forgotten, left in the bottom
In past piles of rubble, in puddles of rain water
That hurt last night when I left like that
When I won't come back
Speaking my peace to the past
I can't help but wonder, who is this wind at my back
A whisper to walk on, come on from all that

How am I gonna take it away in this winter wind
You found me on a summer breeze
How am I gonna run away when the autom breaks
Now that you found me in the spring
Come on and sing it out

	Mat Kearney - Undeniable .mp3
	Found at bee mp3 search engine

untitled. . .

My brain hurts.