Add this to my list...

 I played the piano from about 6 yrs old all the way through high school. I hated to practice music that my teacher gave me and always wanted to play love songs. Days that I was very frustrated, angry or upset; I would sit down at the piano and just play what I wanted to play and it was such a release for me. Listening to piano music while I'm studying is very calming for me and I am sure this is why. When I play, I have a sense of just me and the music and when I play it while I am studying, it's just me and the book. The more I have been listening to it, the more I really miss playing and remember what a great feeling it gave me. God has given me this wonderful gift and I want to start playing again. So we can add this to my list of to do's for the next year and of wants after I graduate :)


A WHITE BABY GRAND PIANO



This is actually John Lennon's white baby grand.


Here is The Legend playing...



Listening to: "Imagine" - John Lennon - great live performance!


Quote of the day: “Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Saturday Night Movie

ok so if I was going to watch a movie tonight, this is what I would want to watch but instead I am going to catch up on some beauty sleep. It's going to be a loooong weekend of studying and I was about non functional today. If you haven't seen this movie, I strongly urge you to. It is a classic romance of two friends that fall in love. This is one of my favorite scenes from When Harry Met Sally:





Goodnight~

You have made me glad

well it is another late night and I figured I would type for a bit before I sleep. It's kind of crazy; just evaluating myself and things that people say to me and about me. I have had a lot of things going on the past year (actually couple of years) that have really been testing of my character, faith, personality and what makes me, me. I have to say through it all; I am still me. and it is so nice to know that and say that. I have seen so many people become hard, hostile, unfriendly and down right negative about everything because of things they have been through. I have people ask me "How do you do it?" "How are you not 'freaking out' or 'going off'?" or "How are you still so nice?" haha and it kind of caught me off guard that people would ask because I'm thinking "Why wouldn't I be nice?" "Why should I freak out? or go off on someone?"
Then I started to think about what really makes me that way opposed to others around me. For me it comes naturally because that is the way I have always been. Yes. I do get frustrated. Yes. I do get mad. and I am pessimistic at times but maybe its seeing the people who are like that all the time that makes me want to be different. I am sure partly it was the way I was raised and I believe that with a smile and soft voice you can calm down just about anyone. Why make matters worse when you can be the one to make it better? One concept that I learned a looong time ago that I never understood how people could not grasp is: "Treat others as you would want to be treated." and honestly I think this is what I think about every time I think bad things on someone or about to do or say something to someone that is not nice and I just bite my tongue. I have my faults, definitely. But, I do know that the Lord forgives me hourly, daily; so why should I not forgive someone else? Every person you meet is for a reason and think of it (as Plato says) that everyone is fighting a battle. If every person you come in contact with, you thought about maybe they are fighting a battle that I, you and maybe no one knows about, you will have a heart of compassion for that person and will have a smile and a soft voice in hopes to brighten their day. So if you are one of those people who wonder where my joy comes from; I have one answer to sum up this post: the Lord - my Shield, my Strength, my Portion, Deliverer, my Shelter, Strong Tower, my very Present Help in time of need. *Goodnight*

Listening to: When God Ran - Phillips, Craig and Dean ~ I can never get tired of this song about forgiveness

Quote of the night: "Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it." - Proverbs 4

RIP E.R.T.

Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011)
One of my favorite actresses passed away today and I must pay tribute to her. Yes, I am pretty much an old soul because I love everything about old movies, old music, old hollywood etc...
Here are some pictures of her in some of my favorite movies:

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

 Cleopatra

 Father of the Bride

And well, these just show what a *beautiful* woman she was:

                      
 




Quote of the Night: "Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells." ~ the One and Only Elizabeth Taylor


Listening to: To Where You Are - Josh Groban

Monday

    Monday has been a great start of the week! I got some of my furniture in for my new place and I am duper excited! I got my new desk and my two kitchen chairs. The two biggest pieces I am having a hard time finding are the couches and a kitchen table. I know exactly what I am looking for and can't find it anywhere... I may not have to be so picky. I have a couple more months to keep looking before I compromise for something different. 
    I took Coco to the park again today and went for a run. I think this is going to become a weekly event. I am enjoying running more and more; it could be partly because I am a healthier person. I have given up the soft drinks and most sweets. If I can start fitting exercising into my schedule a little bit right now then I'll be good once I move and have more time on my hands. 
    I received a letter in the mail offering me to be apart of the National Honor Society because of my "academic achievement" but I do not think I am going to be initiated since I am transferring. It was very rewarding to receive the letter and I will just have to keep it going for AU. It makes all the sleepless nights worth it!
    I did not realize that fellow bloggers had given a day of silence for Japan on March 18th and so I have decided to do it myself tomorrow. I have been reading about everything that is going on over there and it is absolutely heart breaking. *They could not have enough prayers* Continue to pray for them and help out in any way you can.




Quote of the Night: "Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable." The Wizard of Oz


Listening to: Yesterday - The Beatles

UP and DOWN

I have been absolutely exhausted the past 2 days! I go go go all week and when Saturday comes and I get off work, it's hard for me to do ANYTHING.... I completely crash and can't seem to get it together until Monday comes back around again. I did, however, make it to church this morning and taught the toddlers class. They were absolutely adorable and I only had 5 today which was good to start out with but I will be doing it more often and they said there is usually a lot more than that. It was so much fun being able to read a lesson to them and teach them their Bible Verse for the week. Here are some pics of the cuties:





Went shopping for some furniture and did not find a thing... upside: I still have 2 months!
Ended the day with CPK and DQ - can't get much better than that! 


Oh yeah, and I got a picture of the moon although it doesn't look so "super" in the picture, it definitely was. Hope you got to check it out!


Quote of the night: “Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.” Oscar Wilde

Listening to: Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations

Wish List...

Oh just a few things on my (and Coco's)  wish list for after I finish school....


MINE:
 
 






COCO:

 

 

Nah.... we're not spoiled. :)
P.S. - Don't forget to check out the Perigee (super) Moon tonight! It was 18 years ago the last time we had one!

Listening to: Don't Worry Baby - Beach Boys

Quote of the day: “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” - Albert Einstein
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