a random and awkward tuesday update...

for those of you who still haven't seen the fun video katie made(summer '05)

Katies Video

Katies Wedding Stuff

Ericas Wedding Stuff



not too much else to report. the weather is absolutely terrifying here. (i've been tornado paranoid ever since i lived with erin for those 3 years.) just got back from a fantastic dinner with melanie. i'm kind of devastated because i've been trying to write a poem to go along with wheatons easter basket for the past hour and cannot come up with one couplet. i seem to be losing all creativity. i feel like everyone is always in need of some uplifting words of wisdom-so i'm gonna just post some random little quotes i like...sorry i couldn't be more entertaining. like scarlett says, "tomorrow is another day."

"For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin-real life. but there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. at last it dawned on me that these obstacles WERE my life. this perspective has helped me to see there is no way to happiness. happiness is the way. so treasure every moment you have and remember that time waits for no one." -souza


"Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to to greater achievements of the future. Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. Live in the faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you." -Christian Larson

"i beg you...to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. and the point is, to live everything. live the questions now. perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer..."-rainer maria rilke

amen to that.

and a final favorite little tidbit from O magazine...

"We want the spring to come and the winter to pass. We want whoever to call or not call, a letter, a kiss- we want more and more and then more of it. But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass, say, the window of the corner video store, and I'm gripped by a cherishing so deep for my own blowing hair, chapped face, and unbuttoned coat that I'm speechless: I am living..."


double amen to that.

and one other thing...specifically for my bubs- but for everyone who enjoys a good cookie now and again...Borders(i know that i am a complete borders nerd) has the most especially delicious snickerdoodles EVER. oh my gosh. you just have to go and try one to fully understand the amazingness of them. and make sure they heat if up for you. i feel like it's the perfect remedy for a bad day.