So your house in on fire…you have 30 seconds to grab what you can before you have to run outside. What do you grab??? Do you grab useful things, valuable things, or keepsakes? Well I found this website and it is interesting to see what an individual would grab with limited time…What would you save?
I will compose my picture of things soon :)
New goal:
Blog at least for 5 minutes everyday...
I want to have something to share/look back upon/keep good ideas in one spot and since it is easier to put pictures on a blog rather than in a journal...a new blog promise has been born :)
Also, now that I am an official teacher with a classroom, key, teaching partner, and teacher dreams, I want to put cool ideas :)
Well Gretchen,
I have decided that I am 1/4 8 years old, 1/2 21 years old, and 1/4 89 years old.
It is important to enjoy the moment in your life that you are in. This is something that I will never master, just continue to work on for my life! Being content is so hard, we are constantly being told by that if you just get that promotion, that car, that job, that amount of money, you will be happy. But that is not true, not in the least. Being content is about being happy with what you have, where you are at, and who you are with. It doesn't mean you have to be set with what have, you can still work hard and want to do better in your life.
I hope I never forget to drop what I do and do something fun. To think of something that would be "yumbo in my tumbo" (credit to Amanda Lacey Bates' French Teacher :)and to run across town and get it (aka Greek Fries...if you haven't had any, get some ASAP!!! :) Even after getting those delicious fries, to drive aimlessly to find The Castle (Stadium High School) and look at the beauty of a building, out of place in Downtown Tacoma, yet seamlessly still fitting for the area. Even though I have work to do, lessons to plan, papers to correct, papers to write, laundry to do, or whatever else this life demands of me, I pray that no matter how old I get, no matter how busy I am, no matter how 'grown up' I am, I will every once-in-a-while (hopefully more often than not) drop it all and be spontaneous, adventurous, or whatever the heck I want to be other than a robot to a demanding culture.
Snow...
Just the word makes me happy. Say 'snow' to me on a sad day and my first thought will be, 'Where! Here?! is snow coming, are we going to the mountains?!" I mean think about it, snow sounds like a lot of other good words
Snuggle
Snuffleupagus
hmmm, okay so I can only think of two words that snow sounds like but it makes all these happy feelings inside of me :)
And it isn't just how snow looks, how it drapes the entire world in a beautiful, pure, innocent frosting of white, it isn't how though it looks perfect untouched, it is still amazing seeing scattered footprints from kids playing with their parents, to animals running through it, to college students making snow angels, it isn't that is creates a silent beauty that mutes the sound of the world, it is the fact that weather you like it or not, you are forced to slow down. It becomes accetable to go outside and play, no matter how old you are. People do not speed to work, they take their time, being safe and cautious. The world understands if you are late or cannot come to work, it is rather, 'take your time, get here when you can safely'. Yes it does cause hiccups in traffic, in your so busy, overscheduled, hectic, well thought out plans but you know what, for one day or two or even three, take the time to enjoy the simple gift that you were given. Yes it is cold, and wet and can get dirty, but hey snow doesn't come that often, enjoy it while it is here.
Go ahead, I dare you...
There once was a girl named Katie,
Slacklining....an amazing activity where an individual walks across an inch wide piece of webbing that is strung between two trees. Of course this may sound simple but they you can add in jumping, turning, bending, and all sorts of other tricks. This photo was on Hannah's 18th Birthday where we braved the weather and setup the slackline in the park in-between rain showers. We had an awesome time of slacklining, playing frisbee and of course, jumping pictures :) If only everyday could be filled with such fun! But alas, back to the real world of to-do lists and un-fun stuff. But I am working on at least once everyday, to do something that I truly enjoy, even for a few minutes, because life is to short to be full of dumb stuff...you must someday just jump around, even if it is just on a little piece of rope between two trees :)
Thankfully I have friends looking out for me to let me know that today, February 5th, is World Nutella Day! I didn't know such a glorious day existed! Well considering the time of the day, I just wanted to quickly blog on the actual day but will be able to pull together a better post for tomorrow! My favorite way to eat nutella...would have to be from a jar, with a spoon, and a baguette. I survived on just this on my study abroad in Italy. Also crepes with banana and nutella are also quite wonderful. :) And just so everyone knows, unlike Europe where nutella is everywhere, Argentina has a no nutella!!! Even though Nutella.com says there is some there was only a few small jars in a single store in what seemed like all of Buenos Aires!
So as you can tell it is DEAD WEEK!!! Which in reality means nothing and it is just a lie that schools tell us to try and keep us calm so that we do not pull our hair out :) So I really should be finishing a paper and I will but I need a moment of random typing that is not academic, not graded, and just for fun! So it is wednesday and in less than a week I will be home with my family with a great deal less to do and what I do have to do will be fun such as packing for my amazing trip to ANTARCTICA!!! Yeah it will be pretty sweet. So I am working on being positive, productive, and prayerful and hopefully the combination of these things with a boatload of God I will make it through this semester!
Where to begin...School is crazy busy and it seems that when one thing get crossed off my mental and actual to do list, at least two more are added on! But that is life isn't it? Well as for my title, I will be running (hopefully :) ) a 5k with my friend Kellianne. We have both be trying to train in some sense, but it is harding than you think to find 30 minutes to go to the gym, workout with so much on your mind, then go home and shower and begin to climb Mt. Homework. And I really only like to workout in the evening because attempting to redo my hair halfway through the day seems like a waste. But evenings are when all the fun activities are! But life is life and I am trying my hardest to enjoy every minute of it because I will only have that day once. Today I was happy to see Canada Geese flying and honking! It amazes me how they know the formation to fly in, even though the ones I saw were slightly off. :) And yes, I learned today that they are not Canadian Geese but Canada Geese, not sure why but my friends were very insistent of this in our chemistry lab so I will accept it. I need sleep so toodaloo!
So a month has gone by of school already and I can't believe how much stuff I have to do! Things just keep adding on to my list and I have tried to promise myself that I wouldn't say yes to anything anybody wanted me to do....but, that hasn't been going to well :) But anyway, I am way excited for tomorrow because at 2pm, I am going to Empty Bowls! If you don't know what that is, basically artists from all over donate bowls they made and people can go in, pick out a sweet homemade bowl for only $10 and then you get a bowl of soup! The money goes to support food banks and food assistance.
Okay, so it has been so long since I have blogged but I have some new info to share with the few who read my blog. I get to go to Argentina and Antarctica next January for a study abroad! I get to tango and see penguins! I am also looking at new cameras, an canon slr to capturer my wild adventures :) Oh and since it is Father's Day I will shout out to my dad!
Well, I have now been a Lute for about a week so far! I moved in last thursday with my roommate Kelsey and our room is pretty much the best on the hall even though we got jipped with one of the smallest rooms in Harstad! Here are a few pictures of my dorm room! I love it, it is awesome just chilling in the room, put-zing on homework and watching tv. 