For my last blog, I have decided to honor ABC Family's 25 Days of Christmas with ending with a list of 25 things I love about Christmas:
1. Christmas movies
2. Starbucks Peppermint White Hot Chocolate
3. No school
4. Flannel Pj's with reindeer all over them
5. Going to look at Christmas Lights with my friends
6. Seeing the Nutcracker
7. My parents playing Christmas music 24/7
8. Putting ornaments on the tree - all 400 + of them
9. Sugar cookies with Santa's face on them
10. Live nativity scenes
11. Shaking presents under the tree to figure out what is in them
12. Receiving all the holiday cards from old friends
13. Shopping with my dad
14. Making Fudge... it is finally cold enough!
15. Reading The Night before Christmas
16. Waking up super early to open presents
17. Getting to see Family
18. Everyone is friendlier
19. Making gingerbread houses
20. Standing under mistletoe
21. The smell of cinnamon rolls Christmas morning
22. The smell of pine everywhere
23. Christmas sales
24. Turning on the tree for the first time
25. The sound of sleigh bells
SMU Apronista
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
The true meaning of thanksgiving...
It's not the Food or the Family it is... Football.
If your family is anything like mine, Thanksgiving revolves around football. We decide what time to eat based off of what time the game starts. And everything is set up so we don't miss one minute of the game. Although I completely go along with this tradition, because well I love football too, I sometimes wonder about it. Thanksgiving is supposed to be about family, right? getting together and enjoying each others company... but then I realize what a better way to enjoy each others company than doing something we all love to do... watch football. Every family has their own tradition - whether it is playing flag football in the yard, intense family games of pictionary, or sitting around watching football - every family has their own dynamic and that is what is so great about thanksgiving. It is a time to be with family and do what you all love to do.
Now I just can't wait for half time to get a second helping of the Thanksgiving feast.
If your family is anything like mine, Thanksgiving revolves around football. We decide what time to eat based off of what time the game starts. And everything is set up so we don't miss one minute of the game. Although I completely go along with this tradition, because well I love football too, I sometimes wonder about it. Thanksgiving is supposed to be about family, right? getting together and enjoying each others company... but then I realize what a better way to enjoy each others company than doing something we all love to do... watch football. Every family has their own tradition - whether it is playing flag football in the yard, intense family games of pictionary, or sitting around watching football - every family has their own dynamic and that is what is so great about thanksgiving. It is a time to be with family and do what you all love to do.
Now I just can't wait for half time to get a second helping of the Thanksgiving feast.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Lost Arts
Our Generation is Lazy - including myself. We are too happy with having things pre-made that no one takes the time to learn how to make things ourselves. People of the past took joy in creating things from their own two hands, which people today take joy in never having to do. It is quite sad.
When I was young, my mother taught me to sew - something that I have learned comes rather in handy now days - but as simple as it was to learn I am one of a few girls my age who can do this. It is quite pathetic. We are so trained to rely on things being made for us that we cannot actually appreciate when things are well made or detailed.
I am fortunate enough to have had a least a few glimpses of these trades in my life - but still there are a lot of things that I feel are being lost forever. It is up to my generation to learn these techniques before there is no one left to teach us. It is something to bond us to our past - something mothers teach daughters who turn into mothers who teach their daughters etc etc etc.
But still many of these arts will be lost. I hope to learn some of them - but I cannot be held accountable for everything. Maybe if we sat down and learned how to do these calmer activities the hustle and bustle of the rest of our lives wouldn't make us so stressed out...
Crochet
When I was young, my mother taught me to sew - something that I have learned comes rather in handy now days - but as simple as it was to learn I am one of a few girls my age who can do this. It is quite pathetic. We are so trained to rely on things being made for us that we cannot actually appreciate when things are well made or detailed.
I am fortunate enough to have had a least a few glimpses of these trades in my life - but still there are a lot of things that I feel are being lost forever. It is up to my generation to learn these techniques before there is no one left to teach us. It is something to bond us to our past - something mothers teach daughters who turn into mothers who teach their daughters etc etc etc.
But still many of these arts will be lost. I hope to learn some of them - but I cannot be held accountable for everything. Maybe if we sat down and learned how to do these calmer activities the hustle and bustle of the rest of our lives wouldn't make us so stressed out...
Crochet
Needlepoint
Calligraphy
Thursday, November 18, 2010
A progression of thoughts
Toy
Train
Smoke
Cigarettes
Cancer
Astrology
Psychics
Magic
School Bus
Children
Play grounds
Swing
Dancing
Shoes
Lace
White
Snow
Bunny
Easter
Sunday
Morning
Sickness
Medicine
Doctor
Needles
Shot
Gun
Safe
House
Party
Game
Cube
Block
Toy
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Poetry
It's something I have never been good at. Something about having to rhyme my words and make a beat using syllables has never come naturally. I love to write, but prose is where my words flow from. But despite my lacking skills there is something in me that is drawn to poetry. I think that most things people cannot do they are drawn to. Like a straight haired girl curling her hair while a brunette turns blonde I love poetry. The emotion that can be found, the honesty, the sorrow, the laughter, the joy - it all is beautiful in its own right.
In grade school you are required to read famous poets - from everything that speaks to your soul directly to poems that make no sense at all. But all of it beautiful.
Later in life I was shown slam poetry. Live readings, where you see the poets emotion on their faces, you hear it in their voice and I was mesmorized.
The skills I was lacking portrayed so eloquently in front of me. Yet I am not sad. I enjoy the gifts of others, and i hope you can too.
Here are two of my favorites:
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Stop Regretting
New Random fact about me: I took tae Kwon Do for 12 years and am a black belt. Now do not worry, I'm about as passive as they come - yet I still get so much joy from kicking and punching in a controlled environment.
Its been about a year and a half since I have taken my last martial arts class, and that saddens me. I honestly wish I had the time to continue, but thinking about how much I miss it reminds me on how much it has meant to my life.
Out of everything I have done, it has been the most life changing. As strange as that might sound it is very true. Everyone goes through things in their life that make them stronger and shape them to be the person they are now.
Before I took Tae Kwon Do, I was shy, timid and clumsy - but through the journey of getting my black belt I found myself. I became a young woman through Tae Kwon Do, which is why I still hold it so dear to my heart.
Now looking back on my life, I love looking at all the steps that got me to where I am. People often say they would take things back if they could, but I disagree. Sure I regret some of the decisions I made, but still those mistakes along with the triumphs made me who I am - why would I want to change that?
So next time you are regretting the past, think of the present and be happy in where you are now and what is to come in the future. Every day molds you.
Its been about a year and a half since I have taken my last martial arts class, and that saddens me. I honestly wish I had the time to continue, but thinking about how much I miss it reminds me on how much it has meant to my life.
Out of everything I have done, it has been the most life changing. As strange as that might sound it is very true. Everyone goes through things in their life that make them stronger and shape them to be the person they are now.
Before I took Tae Kwon Do, I was shy, timid and clumsy - but through the journey of getting my black belt I found myself. I became a young woman through Tae Kwon Do, which is why I still hold it so dear to my heart.
Now looking back on my life, I love looking at all the steps that got me to where I am. People often say they would take things back if they could, but I disagree. Sure I regret some of the decisions I made, but still those mistakes along with the triumphs made me who I am - why would I want to change that?
So next time you are regretting the past, think of the present and be happy in where you are now and what is to come in the future. Every day molds you.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Wow
When Emptying out my purse today, all I could say is wow. How in the world do i fit all these things in here? So for your entertainment I will list everything I found...
my wallet
sunglasses
greeting card
two sticks of gum
tom thumb directory
granola bar
empty orange
tic tac box
alpha chi pin
sonic mint
6 pens
8 lipsticks
3 movie tickets
bottle of Tylenol
$4.28 in change
three journals
one philosophy book
3 articles
5 graded homeworks folded
2 headbands
2 brochures
various feminine products
8 recipts
coin purse
3 pencils
4 highlighters
and a lot of wrappers
maybe I should clean my purse out more often...
but then again contained clutter is sometimes better.
my wallet
sunglasses
greeting card
two sticks of gum
tom thumb directory
granola bar
empty orange
tic tac box
alpha chi pin
sonic mint
6 pens
8 lipsticks
3 movie tickets
bottle of Tylenol
$4.28 in change
three journals
one philosophy book
3 articles
5 graded homeworks folded
2 headbands
2 brochures
various feminine products
8 recipts
coin purse
3 pencils
4 highlighters
and a lot of wrappers
maybe I should clean my purse out more often...
but then again contained clutter is sometimes better.
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