Month: April 2013

  • Rainy Mood

    I love rain so very much…it helps me sleep.  I have been using this site since it was Baby To Sleep, made by some parents of a fussy infant to help him sleep at night.  Eventually it became this. If you love rain like me, give it a try. 

      

  • Sore muscles (I joked on twitter that I’m more sore than a liberal who can’t take my guns).  That combined with a weird heat wave (last week I wore a coat), and when I realized my A/C was set on 84…not in a good mood today.  I’m not sure what it is about being sore that makes me so miserable!  I’m a pretty spry, energetic person, but when I’m sore I try to be spry and I feel like ever way I turn I’m moving through pudding.  I’m slow.  I waddle.  I hurt.  I complain.  There ya go.

    So I went to the gym, anyway.  I only did 10 minutes on the ellitpical and some crunches, Russian twists with a weight, and some legups.  Not much…but my muscles need a break, right?  Last night I did power yoga class for an hour, then 30 minutes of elliptical. This is my 4th day straight working out.  I think I have my own permission to take an easy day.
    (Can you tell I’m drive by guilt sometimes?)
    I’m going to try to relax right now.  Still need some lavender essential oils. 

  • What’s your type?

    I was just admiring the strikingly handsome, intelligent, and well-dressed (and single!) @GreekPhysique . We got into a conversation about the type of girl he likes, as far as physicality goes.  He said he was afraid of posting about the body type he’s most attracted to, but was worried it would offend someone.  

    Which got me thinking…why is preference offensive to people?  Why is saying that you like a girl who is thin considered snobbish, but saying you like a girl who is plump considered…well, “out there”.  Some consider it racist to state that you prefer to date one race over another.  Some are worried that their preference to date someone with no kids and hasn’t been married is “shallow”.  
    Certainly we can see that all preferences for the opposite sex are affected by many things.  Upbringing is certainly one of them.  There is a sphere of acceptable preference, then there are deviant desires which go outside the sphere of what is okay to chase after.  Certainly it’s okay to want someone with blue eyes, and its fine to go after that.  It’s not okay to want someone under age 15 if you are 34.  You might want it, and you can’t help desiring that, but indulging those desires is wrong.  We CAN help our minds and what we think about and long after.  We are not captive to our thoughts.  
    So this brings me to the point, and a few questions:
    1. What is your type?  
    2. Why do you think this is?
    3. If you are too embarrassed to admit some of the things you are attracted to, why do you think that is?
    I think we can learn much about ourselves from looking at our desires.  
    Discuss :)  

  • Here’s a bedtime question:  Do romantics experience faith differently than scientific/practical minds?  Is one more correct and trustworthy?

  • Plus size dating

    Never say that Facebook isn’t helpful. I’ll update more, after I finish this gallon of ice cream an get off the phone with Jenny Craig and Eharmony.

    :-/

  • Video: Virginity

    I can’t believe how I put myself out there.  Seriously.  Here’s to being brave. 

    Have at it.  

  • A pretty good day in the neighborhood

    Who wouldn’t want an exciting weekend filled with sitting beside my beautiful momma, turning her pages while she plays piano for kids at NATS?  Seriously…while it might not be my choice of ways to spend the weekend, it’s great to have such a great mom.  I wuv her.  

    I taught most of these high school kids either at the middle school level for voice lessons, or have choreographed them in show choir.  It’s amazing to see youth come to blossom; to see these children grow and form into young adults.  Think of how Our Father feels watching us when we respond to His shaping.  Lovely thought.
    So it’s almost 1 am, and I have to drive to Denton again at 7:30.  Woohoo!  
    Here I come, sleep.

  • Patty Griffin – Rain

  • I shall spill slivers of my heart into your ear,

    my dear,
    and you shall see then it’s not life, 
    but poetry.

  • Great Movies from the 90s (for this romantic girl)

    1. Ten Things I Hate About You

    2. Braveheart
    3. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
    4. The Matrix
    5. Silence of the Lambs
    6. Titanic
    7. The Sixth Sense
    8. Shakespeare in Love
    9. Beauty and the Beast (Disney)
    10. Babe
    11. Apollo 13
    12. Jerry Maguire
    13. Sense and Sensibility
    14. Emma
    15. Independence Day
    16. Center Stage
    17. Men in Black
    18. The Wild Wild West
    19. The Patriot 
    20. Mission: Impossible
    21. Romeo + Juliet
    *I cannot endorse all language or scenes in these films.  These are just ones I’m remember liking, even many aren’t friendly for kids.  Not that I have kids.  But you might.