love, like, loathe and kiss, date, dump.

I like this show: LEVERAGE

I loathe this sport: Volleyball

And I LOVE this book (and despise the movie): The Count of Monte Cristo

Out of Mr. Darcy, Mr. Thornton, & Mr. Rochester, I would....

Kiss Mr. Rochester

"What do you think of the Master?" - Ms. Fairfax

"He seems very changeable, Ma'am." - Jane Eyre

Dump Mr. Darcy

"I could more easily forgive his pride if he had not wounded mine." - Elizabeth Bennett

And I would marry Mr. Thornton.

"I don't want to possess you! I want to marry you because I love you!" -Mr. Thornton

"Well you shouldn't! Because I don't like you...and I never have." - Margaret Hale

should, ought, and won't.

10 things i feel slightly guilty about not liking:

1. seafood.

2. politics

3. The Work and the Glory series.

4. physical exercise

5. math

6. people that let their emotions take over their lives.

7. modern fiction

8. crowds

9. pictures of people's vacations

10. facebook status abusers.

10 things i feel no shame whatsoever about:

1. ridiculous amounts of cheese on spaghetti or lasagna.

2. making obscure references that i know no one understands

3. driving fast.

4. the fact that all i think comes out my eyes. (it's true, i can never hide how i really feel)

5. the whole debacle with the jerk.

6. i can be unrepentantly ambitious.

7. my scrooge-iness.

8. how much i like reading. i will almost always choose to read and not play.

9. my need to make food look pretty... more than it should taste good.

10. the fact that i posted something as narcissistic as this.

it's a good day. :)

The Very Thought of You

"There's no such thing as a difficult decision... the truth is decisions are easy. You know why? Because every time, every time, you already know the answers... You see, You didn't come to see me to make a decision. You came to me because you didn't like the decision you'd already made." - Pederson

I love the recklessness of faith. First you leap, and then you grow wings.
William Sloane Coffin

"People need to be reminded more than they need to be instructed."

-CS Lewis

1. I wonder sometimes how often I've gone to my mom, not to make a decision but to feel justified in the decision I already knew I was going to make. I don't think people struggle with deciding. I think they struggle with the consequences they knew they won't escape.

2. HA! I love faith too. But man, sometimes it's hard to jump.

3. Galileo once said "you cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself." How true, how true. And dear CS sums it up very well too. We already know how and why we should do things. I think this is where the importance of example comes into play.

4. I love America. Happy Birthday Homeland.

Hamlet, Act 5 Scene 2

"Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting,
That would not let me sleep: methought I lay
Worse than the mutines in the bilboes. Rashly,
And praised be rashness for it, let us know,
Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well,
When our deep plots do pall: and that should teach us
There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will,--"

-Hamlet, Act 5 Scene 2.

The lenses through which we view life affect how we interpret new experiences. This is not new information.

I find myself thankful for the rashness in me that often saves me from myself.

spot-on

"Inability to Disengage Personal Worth from Ideas. Now this is a kicker. I think some people are so invested in their ideas, in what they have learned, that they view any sort of disagreement as a personal attack. This is the worst way to live. They seem to take arguments as an opportunity to get angry and hurt and, consequentially, retreat further away from any possible risk of having their faulty sense of self shaken."

-Clancy

A few of my favorite things...

i am extraordinarily happy today.

I'm listening to "Hey Soul Sister" by Train, and thinking of warm beaches, wind in my hair, and the way boys smell.

I love that smell.

Soon I will be in the arms of angels. I will see my family.

I have chips and salsa,

I hear a lovely desert rain,

I have a that smile I can't erase,

I have chocolate in my tummy, and

a loving Heavenly Father who told me yesterday that He loves me, is proud of me, and to hang in there...it's gonna be more awesome than even I can imagine (and I can imagine a lot...).

ALSO, I got my Take That cd. FInallY.

Many things make me happy. I love happy.

I reached a conclusion about art and music. Maybe it's too fluid. I'm working on it. Essentially, I think that if it speaks to you, then sure... it's art. It's hard to define something that is an emotional connection. That's what makes art interesting. I am actually fond of Jackson Pollacks. Even though he just threw paint at a canvas.

I've seen reproductions, and I've seen other people do what he did. Very few of them speak to me.

I like dandelions, country music, and the golden mean. I like talks by Holland, polka dots, and a thick sauce.

just sayin'.

Don't you worry 'bout a thing

Today my best friend told me that she's worried she might marry someone she doesn't love.

I nearly choked on the irony.

She's worried she'll settle out of desperation. I've accepted it as His plan for me.

But don't worry. I don't believe in being condemned to live a loveless life.

"Have I not commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest."

-Joshua 1:9