Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
A Year and A Day
I looked at an almanac today and I realized how much changes in a year.
November 23rd 2009 I was coming home from GIS waiting for tuesday to end so I could go home on Wednesday for Thanksgiving.
Novemeber 23rd 2010 I am waiting to go to work at one of two part time jobs, engaged and not doing what I thought or dreamed I would be doing as a twenty four year old woman. I am living down the street from the hospital that I was born in.
November 23rd 2011I will be a quarter of a century old and married.
November 23rd 1986 I came home from the hostipal for the first time having been born two months early.
In a year life will change and it is amazing to think of what you accomplish in a year and all the times with friends and family. I was told today by an seamstress that times like Thanksgiving or Christmas, whether you think the holiday is commercial, overrated or not of your religion, those days when all your friends and family come together are the days that break up life and make life worth living for, worth remembering.
It is is a little early, but Give Thanks to all who are in your life.
November 23rd 2009 I was coming home from GIS waiting for tuesday to end so I could go home on Wednesday for Thanksgiving.
Novemeber 23rd 2010 I am waiting to go to work at one of two part time jobs, engaged and not doing what I thought or dreamed I would be doing as a twenty four year old woman. I am living down the street from the hospital that I was born in.
November 23rd 2011I will be a quarter of a century old and married.
November 23rd 1986 I came home from the hostipal for the first time having been born two months early.
In a year life will change and it is amazing to think of what you accomplish in a year and all the times with friends and family. I was told today by an seamstress that times like Thanksgiving or Christmas, whether you think the holiday is commercial, overrated or not of your religion, those days when all your friends and family come together are the days that break up life and make life worth living for, worth remembering.
It is is a little early, but Give Thanks to all who are in your life.
Monday, November 22, 2010
In a funk.
I have felt like I have been in a funk for a while. I cannot seem to know why or what is causing the rut which I find myself in. I sit to write, and get a page written before I am zapped creatively or I feel that if I write anything it will be changed the next time I sit down. Or if I go for a run, I feel good but the next day there is no drive to get out and repeat. I sat and read but after about half an hour, I feel sleepy and decide to get up and do something else so I do not fall asleep early again. I sat in the circle today. While in the circle, I decided that I wasn't focused enough to talk but I reverted to the beginning exercises. Then I fell off the wagon and my mental strength failed. I wish I could stand out side and let the wind blow away the cloud which surrounds me...deep breath...I will turn on some Harry Potter book on CD and crochet the blanket I am making for Katie.
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Turning to better subjects then my complaining about my mental attitude, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 was very good. I saw the movie with my fiancee's friend and wow...what a great movie. Sad, but now we are at the point where ground is gained and the stand off is close at hand. Evil will be defeated but at a cost...I cannot way for July.
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Turning to better subjects then my complaining about my mental attitude, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 was very good. I saw the movie with my fiancee's friend and wow...what a great movie. Sad, but now we are at the point where ground is gained and the stand off is close at hand. Evil will be defeated but at a cost...I cannot way for July.
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Saturday, November 20, 2010
Days to Remember
Dedicated to the University of Wisconsin-Platteville Cross Country Runners.
Congratulations to the fourth place finish at Nationals! Congrats PK and Garvens on the All-American status!!
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There are days as you are puking at the side of the M after running up the steps twice because Coach thought it was a good idea. That is a day to remember to tell freshman at Pigeon Lake.
There are days when you are running around the indoor track thinking that after a 100m, 200m, 300m, 400m, 800m that you are halfway done. That is a day to remember to when you ran your PR in the race of your choice (MDs all the way!!).
There are days when you step up to the line with the best runners in the Nation and look out over the first three hundred meters, feeling the adrenaline pumping through your veins as you watch the race official race the run. That is a day to remember when you cross the line and start to plan for the next season.
There are days when you step over the finish line for the last time. That is the day to remember all the great times you had as a distance runner.
There are days when you pull out your awards and dust them off. Place them on the shelf and you stand back and admire with a smile. Then all the good times and accomplishments are not tarnished by time or pettiness. That is the day you pass one more person and push a little harder on your run.
There are days when you pull down your All-American Trophy, Participation medal, and Conference medal to show your grand kids that at one point in your life you were one of the fastest runners in the nation. That is the day when you remember every single moment of your running career and relive it though the eyes of the young runner in front of you.
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Congratulations to the fourth place finish at Nationals! Congrats PK and Garvens on the All-American status!!
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There are days as you are puking at the side of the M after running up the steps twice because Coach thought it was a good idea. That is a day to remember to tell freshman at Pigeon Lake.
There are days when you are running around the indoor track thinking that after a 100m, 200m, 300m, 400m, 800m that you are halfway done. That is a day to remember to when you ran your PR in the race of your choice (MDs all the way!!).
There are days when you step up to the line with the best runners in the Nation and look out over the first three hundred meters, feeling the adrenaline pumping through your veins as you watch the race official race the run. That is a day to remember when you cross the line and start to plan for the next season.
There are days when you step over the finish line for the last time. That is the day to remember all the great times you had as a distance runner.
There are days when you pull out your awards and dust them off. Place them on the shelf and you stand back and admire with a smile. Then all the good times and accomplishments are not tarnished by time or pettiness. That is the day you pass one more person and push a little harder on your run.
There are days when you pull down your All-American Trophy, Participation medal, and Conference medal to show your grand kids that at one point in your life you were one of the fastest runners in the nation. That is the day when you remember every single moment of your running career and relive it though the eyes of the young runner in front of you.
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Friday, November 19, 2010
Whoooosh...
I feel like I cannot wait for the weekend. Even though I work both days of the weekend but the fact that it is Friday nearing lunch, I just cannot wait for everyone to be doing something so they are not posting dumb things on facebook. Then I just realized as I went to go and state in a rather irritable state that if someone doesn't want to know about a movie, or a game or what ever you are not up to date on then do not read it...but then I realized I needed to take my own advice. So that blew all the steam out of my slight rant.
But back to my normal self, I love The Mists of Avalon. I did not find a lot of time to read this weekend and I am still on book one but it's great. Vivianne and Morgaine are great. I am interested in the younger life of Arthur and the little glimpses of Galahad are great! Maybe tonight I will brew a pot of coffee and read all night. :)
I love gray, cold November days. I just wish I could stay inside and read and write about Alistair. Instead I get to make people happy by selling them pretty things. But Alistair's Story is going well. I'm still running into difficulty with making him a bumbling, awkward young man, but I think I am getting there. I hope. :)
But back to my normal self, I love The Mists of Avalon. I did not find a lot of time to read this weekend and I am still on book one but it's great. Vivianne and Morgaine are great. I am interested in the younger life of Arthur and the little glimpses of Galahad are great! Maybe tonight I will brew a pot of coffee and read all night. :)
I love gray, cold November days. I just wish I could stay inside and read and write about Alistair. Instead I get to make people happy by selling them pretty things. But Alistair's Story is going well. I'm still running into difficulty with making him a bumbling, awkward young man, but I think I am getting there. I hope. :)
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Gray Novemeber Days
Days such as these, gray, rainy, and cold are meant for wrapping up in a warm blanket with tea and/or coffee and escaping from reality into the realms of the imagination. Whether the realm is already written for you or of your own creation, it does not matter. I have let myself go and have written a couple more pages of a new story which I have thought of. But now I am realizing I need to think of how to make my main character more down trodden and hopelessly low on self esteem. Poor Alistair. Oh well, he'll soon meet Liam and be off to the land of Tserof. I hope at least.
I finished the amazing book Rebecca last week. Oh my, I love that book. I cannot believe I have not read it before now. It is amazing. Maxim is great. I really enjoyed his character and once he has told the second Mrs. de Winter about Rebecca how different a person he is to his wife. Also the critical 24 hours in which the second Mrs. de Winter grows up. Her thought process and devotion is mesmerizing. I want my fiancee to read this book to get a better hold of how women tend to take the littlest things out of proportion and blow them up and get themselves into a tisy. This would be the best book for that! ha!
I have moved on and found my next book I having been tempted to read. The Mists of Avalon. I'm on page 60 something and I really love Igraine. I do feel bad for Glorios but you cannot defeat or trick fate can you? So far I like the real person feel to the characters. These characters which at times can be so oversized based on the years and the deeds which they have done are very real life. I think they are at least. I enjoy the pagan/woman views of the events. I cannot wait to get farther into the story.
I will take a 7 hour break for work and then get to work on the book!
I finished the amazing book Rebecca last week. Oh my, I love that book. I cannot believe I have not read it before now. It is amazing. Maxim is great. I really enjoyed his character and once he has told the second Mrs. de Winter about Rebecca how different a person he is to his wife. Also the critical 24 hours in which the second Mrs. de Winter grows up. Her thought process and devotion is mesmerizing. I want my fiancee to read this book to get a better hold of how women tend to take the littlest things out of proportion and blow them up and get themselves into a tisy. This would be the best book for that! ha!
I have moved on and found my next book I having been tempted to read. The Mists of Avalon. I'm on page 60 something and I really love Igraine. I do feel bad for Glorios but you cannot defeat or trick fate can you? So far I like the real person feel to the characters. These characters which at times can be so oversized based on the years and the deeds which they have done are very real life. I think they are at least. I enjoy the pagan/woman views of the events. I cannot wait to get farther into the story.
I will take a 7 hour break for work and then get to work on the book!
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