I've always been the type of person that believed that if you wrote down your thoughts and desires then there was live documentation (in black and white) for you to refer to if you needed it. The live documentation was there to hold me accountable, to remind me, to help me track my progress or lack there of. As a result, I have To Do Lists, Affirmation Sticky Notes, Blogs, Journals, and the various random doodling.
Usually when I write it down, I actually realize what is written there. No matter the task or dream, if I write it down, then I do it. My written words come to fruition. I've written down financial goals, written down my educational goals, I write down my running goals. Guess what? I realize those too. This week, for the first time, I kept a food journal. I've been writting down my goals this week. I've been writting down what I plan to eat (and what I want to avoid). Yup, so far so good.
So tonight, it has occurred to me that I should address the relationship area of my life. And no, I am not being ridiculous. It stands to reason, I write everything else down. So here goes:
I want a real man. I want a man that is emotionally available. One that loves music. One that loves art. He must love God and respect nature and the gifts it has to offer. He should speak with his heart. He should love me, respect me, challenge and interest me. He must be a man of integrity and honor.
It is now time for me to get to work.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
25 More Random Things
On my first day of Spring Break, I find myself sick as a dog. Since I am bed ridden anyway, I've decided to share some random thoughts. These are not in any particular order.
1. Technology scares me. It really does, seriously. Take this Facebook account for instance….I only have it because of a class requirement.
2. I believe that ALL things have a season. Life, friends, jobs, relationships, clothes, etc.…enjoy what you can, learn what you are supposed to learn, and move on when it is done.
3. Even though she died back in 1999, it is still sometimes incomprehensible to me that my cousin Lisa is dead. I hope that she is proud of all me.
4. I am a gypsy at my core. I am at home anywhere on this planet.
5. Teaching was the absolute last thing I thought I would be doing for a career. I only began teaching while waiting for the Foreign Service to place me.
6. Monday, January 6, 2006 and running have saved my life. Literally.
7. I don’t believe in Political Correctness. I think it has abused Truth. However, I still hold out hope that Truth will prevail.
8. The first book I ever read from cover to cover was Gone With the Wind. I read the sequel Scarlet…what a let down.
9. I do own an IPOD (someone had to set it up for me though) and I have everyone from Conway Twitty to TPain loaded in it.
10. I have friends that have interesting careers. I know an ice trucker, a CEO of a bank, fitness trainers, foreign service workers, writers, archivists, reporters, pilots, a taste tester, exotic dancers, bartenders, fashion designers, professional athletes, private investigators, personal assistants to famous/wealthy people, numerous chefs, Peace Corps workers, actor, recording artists, ministers, a jeweler, a hand and foot model (not the same people, btw), a few regular models. I could go on, but I’ve made my point.
11. Closed Mind People (People that “Don’t like this/that/him/her/them/it” for no other reason other than mere existence), really, really tick me off.
12. I believe that people have the time to do what they desire to do. Period.
13. I am a principled person.
14. I despise winter, but understand its necessity in the cycle of things.
15. I am jealous of artistic people in general. I wish that I could express myself in the ways that they do.
16. I once spent an entire paycheck on a purse and a pair of shoes.
17. I get a kick out of seeing my students having an “Aha! Moment”. It never ever gets old.
18. The concept of rewarding people for doing things that they are supposed to do is the saddest practice I have ever seen.
19. I am most at peace when I am near water. I sometimes turn on the faucet and watch the water run. Lately, since I have been trying to be less wasteful of the world’s resources, I have started the practice of filling a large bucket with water and then using it to clean things. Yeah, you got it…the dipping my hands in water thingy.
20. I am an English teacher that happens to be the worst speller known to man.
21. I cried when I left Brazil at the end of last summer. I really, really considered not boarding my flight back to the US.
22. If one got a passport stamped for travel within the US, my passport would be stamped the most for Las Vegas, Nevada. Yeah, I don’t get this one either. I’ve been to Las Vegas so many times now that visits have begun to blend together.
23. Sometimes people don’t get what they deserve.
24. It is in part of because of charity that I am where I am today. I am charitable one, to remind myself of it and two, to hopefully bless someone else.
25. My mom and my aunt are my heroes.
1. Technology scares me. It really does, seriously. Take this Facebook account for instance….I only have it because of a class requirement.
2. I believe that ALL things have a season. Life, friends, jobs, relationships, clothes, etc.…enjoy what you can, learn what you are supposed to learn, and move on when it is done.
3. Even though she died back in 1999, it is still sometimes incomprehensible to me that my cousin Lisa is dead. I hope that she is proud of all me.
4. I am a gypsy at my core. I am at home anywhere on this planet.
5. Teaching was the absolute last thing I thought I would be doing for a career. I only began teaching while waiting for the Foreign Service to place me.
6. Monday, January 6, 2006 and running have saved my life. Literally.
7. I don’t believe in Political Correctness. I think it has abused Truth. However, I still hold out hope that Truth will prevail.
8. The first book I ever read from cover to cover was Gone With the Wind. I read the sequel Scarlet…what a let down.
9. I do own an IPOD (someone had to set it up for me though) and I have everyone from Conway Twitty to TPain loaded in it.
10. I have friends that have interesting careers. I know an ice trucker, a CEO of a bank, fitness trainers, foreign service workers, writers, archivists, reporters, pilots, a taste tester, exotic dancers, bartenders, fashion designers, professional athletes, private investigators, personal assistants to famous/wealthy people, numerous chefs, Peace Corps workers, actor, recording artists, ministers, a jeweler, a hand and foot model (not the same people, btw), a few regular models. I could go on, but I’ve made my point.
11. Closed Mind People (People that “Don’t like this/that/him/her/them/it” for no other reason other than mere existence), really, really tick me off.
12. I believe that people have the time to do what they desire to do. Period.
13. I am a principled person.
14. I despise winter, but understand its necessity in the cycle of things.
15. I am jealous of artistic people in general. I wish that I could express myself in the ways that they do.
16. I once spent an entire paycheck on a purse and a pair of shoes.
17. I get a kick out of seeing my students having an “Aha! Moment”. It never ever gets old.
18. The concept of rewarding people for doing things that they are supposed to do is the saddest practice I have ever seen.
19. I am most at peace when I am near water. I sometimes turn on the faucet and watch the water run. Lately, since I have been trying to be less wasteful of the world’s resources, I have started the practice of filling a large bucket with water and then using it to clean things. Yeah, you got it…the dipping my hands in water thingy.
20. I am an English teacher that happens to be the worst speller known to man.
21. I cried when I left Brazil at the end of last summer. I really, really considered not boarding my flight back to the US.
22. If one got a passport stamped for travel within the US, my passport would be stamped the most for Las Vegas, Nevada. Yeah, I don’t get this one either. I’ve been to Las Vegas so many times now that visits have begun to blend together.
23. Sometimes people don’t get what they deserve.
24. It is in part of because of charity that I am where I am today. I am charitable one, to remind myself of it and two, to hopefully bless someone else.
25. My mom and my aunt are my heroes.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Live & Learn, Learn & Live.
I promised myself that if and when I ever went back to school that it would be for myself and it would be for topics that I cared about. Tonight I am sitting in a course called Flash CS3. Tonight (at 9:40 pm mind you and the class began at 6 pm) I am wondering if I really care about this topic. I really am trying not to second guess my decision.
Aye yie, yie!
That is all.
Aye yie, yie!
That is all.
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