Pensive Procrastination

This morning in the car my parent's friend, let's call her Diane, put a wonderful proposition out for a new show. Conversations that people have in their cars. She laughed and said, "I think this has been a pretty hilarious car ride..." The car rides down to school two mornings a week with my parents and their friend are really wonderful moments. But it's interesting how much can be talked about in a 45 minute ride...and how many hilarious moments can happen. Take this morning for example. I had a song stuck in my head this morning from Some Like it Hot with Marilyn Monroe, my uncle would be proud of me. The unfortunate thing for those around me when I have songs stuck in my head and talk about that song is that all sorts of other songs from various movies pop into my head. So I went from that song to a song at the beginning of Sing in the Rain to "Make 'em Laugh" from Singing in the Rain. This was stuck in my head for the rest of the ride, and

The other day I was trying to think of something that I could write about for a blog post. Lately I've been thinking a lot about marriage, about marriage preparation, what leads people into marriage and about how to make marriage work. Sometimes I'll happen upon marriage advice that I read and think, "I really hope no one follows these tips..." I stumbled across a list the other day that I was dumbfounded by, I ended up laughing at a few of them and reading them to Rob. At the same time I know that I don't know everything and I'm speaking from only a year and a half of experience. I also know that Rob and I have learned a lot though this first year of marriage and I think we've learned a lot of things that other people could find helpful. We don't have it all figured out either! I don't think we ever will. One thing about life is that it changes and as we experience things we are changed and as we are changed we respond differently to situati

This one took longer to write than I thought because after I started to write it I realized that I picked the animal that I would want to be based on my desire to have said super power. Let's face it guys, I really just want to be able to fly. So, I didn't really want to write a whole post again about how I love flying and wish I could just soar over the tree tops and visit friends and family all over the world. Though, if you guys really, really want it I'd be glad to do it. So, instead I've decide to write about what's been on my mind lately. 1. I watched this move by Tyler Perry called Why Did I get Married Too? In classic Tyler Perry fashion he went from wonderfully hilarious to awfully sad in the span of 2 hours. Like, I bawled my little eyes out after laughing my little heart out. Rob looked over at me in the midst my my cry fest and said, "What's wrong?" (To clarify I was watching it with headphones on and he was watching Stargate) I couldn&

I'm  trying to determine what memories of mine are "significant" and which are just really vivid memories for me. Do you guys care? Great! I didn't think so. The One with the Bouncy Ball OK, some of you are gonna follow me on this one and some of you aren't. There was this toy when I was around 8 or so that was a huge bouncy ball that had a handle on it and you would sit and bounce around on it. You could bounce forwards and backwards or just up and down while you watched TV. This is similar to what some people call an exercise ball, that's for working out...though not specifically designed to bounce around on. SIDE STORY: I had a friend in university who used to come to my room to talk to me and the whole time she would talk to me she would bounce up and down on my roommates exercise ball. You try holding a conversation sometime with someone while they bounce non-stop. It's difficult to concentrate. I think sometimes the only reason she visited

If I could live anywhere... I find this to be a hard question to answer because I'd love for my dream spot to also be close to where those I love are. So I will just put a disclaimer on this, I would only want to live in the following place if my family was there as well. There are a few real places that I would want to live but let me first lay out some of my conditions. I want to be somewhere that I can swim, in an ocean or lake, all year around. That way I won't have to pay for a silly gym membership just so I can get some exercise. Second, I want to live near mountains. I love mountains. People always say that I would stop appreciating it once it became common place but I don't know if that's true. If there is lots to explore I know Rob and I would be out hiking every single week, and then going for a swim after. Ahhh, beachy salt water curls. Third, I want to be close enough to the city that I'm not going poor paying for gas, but far enough away from th

So, I have this friend who is really dear to me. He's done a lot for me in my life, one might say he's done everything for me in my life. I've known this friend for almost my whole life, I heard about him before I really met him. One day I just knew that I had to meet him, that I wanted to be his friend and that I didn't just want to hear about him, I wanted to know him. Our relationship has been full of a lot of ups and downs. You see, I can be a fickle person... surprising right? Often, I take more than I give and in this relationship it was, and is, a lot more take than it is give. Yet he stood by me. This, to me, is his most confusing but amazing attribute. There have often been times when I know I would have left my side. There have been many times that I would have quit the relationship had I been him. I would have told me to find another steady friend. If I were him there were definitely times I would have said "Forget this! You don't listen to my advi