celebrate

inspired by maganda.org

this weekend i will celebrate:
beautiful scenery
fantastic friends
magnificent creatures
talking deeply
french toast at lynn's paradise cafe
the family i will always come home to

food for the soul...

sometimes chips & salsa can feed much more than a hungry stomach.

the quiet...

this past week has been filled with much. much excitement, much courage, much prayer, much hope.

tonight i feel quiet. i feel thoughtful. i feel cautious.

not wanting to make a wrong move, i often remain stationary. confined to my here and now, for fear of not knowing what may be.

and her words resound in my mind... get out of your own way, girl, and see where things can go.

photos coming...

i spent this past weekend with wonderful friends in louisville. saturday was the big "thunder of louisville" kick-off to the kentucky derby. thunder consists of a 6 hour air/water show, followed by a half hour of the most spectacular fireworks ever seen. it's the largest fireworks display in the country, and this year they estimated 700,000 people showed up to watch the show. amazing. i took something like (honestly) 200-250 photos of the fireworks. i know firework photos usually don't come out, so i just kept shooting in hopes that something would be worth keeping. i think i succeeded. those photos should be posted by the end of the week.

just a week & a half to the derby! this saturday i plan to work on my derby bag. :)

thunder

  

who said i'm not a team player?

the telephone...

in general, i don't like telephones. i don't like answering my phone at work. i don't like calling clients. i don't like leaving voice mail, although i'd rather do that than talk to the person. i just don't like phones. i'd much rather send an e-mail.

however...

today, the phone was such a blessing. i got to talk with malissa for some time, and it simply felt spectacular. and next weekend i shall bask in two days filled with face-to-face conversations with two people who are very, very dear to me.

good day

rainbow brite socks... out of eden's new cd... one full day of not breathing stale office air. i feel a million times better. today was good.

frustration

something interesting i noticed tonight... the things that frustrate me most about working with the youth group are the same things that frustrated me when i was part of the youth group in high school.

am i too close to their age for them to respect me? is it because they haven't known me for forever? is it because i'm a female?

i'm not convinced i'm doing the right thing by being there every wednesday night. i'm not convinced that it isn't hurting my relationship with God. i'm not convinced that quitting wouldn't hurt it even more.

i am convinced that mostly people wouldn't notice if i did quit.

and i know i'm tired of leaving there every wednesday night feeling like i've been hitting my head against a brick wall.

patience and wisdom. oh God, grant me patience and wisdom.

updates

well, i finally got another "photo lunch" up on the site. i've got one more to add... soon. i've got new photos for the photography page, too, i think. i went to a monastary down the street & shot photos with several friends. some of 'em are pretty neat, so i'll put those up.

and i think i'm going to start a plog. like blog with a p. the p is for pizza! mmmmmm

work, work, work

more changes at the ol' sweat shop. losing a sales rep, gaining a sales rep. new manager. i've decided that if you hate your job, you hate your job. and every little change, every little new procedure is just going to make you hate it more. life in general, i think, is hard to enjoy if you can't embrace change.

and would you really want everything to stay the same anyways?