Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Honk Honk!!

Christmas was FANTASTIC!!  I had a lot of fun with my family this year.  I don't like to travel for Christmas, but it was really nice to have all my family together in Grand Junction.  We ate, played lots of Guitar Hero, ate, enjoyed awesome presents, ate, learned Mom's secret recipes, ate, played card games, ate, watched movies, ate, and goofed off.  Did I mention we ate a lot?  Holy COW.  I can't remember ever eating so much food.  I take it as a sign that we are truly blessed and able to amply provide for our needs. 

I really love my family.  :)

Got a bite on a job in the DC area...  I decided to expand my search more north of Richmond.  I've been told there are more things to do, more singles wards, and all around much more interesting things closer to DC.  I still don't really know if moving (and so drastically) is the right decision...  I've been told to follow my heart, so that's what I'm trying to do.  Kinda hard sometimes to know exactly what the heart wants.  While I'm completely bored with life here, I do have wonderful friends, family, an amazing ward, and a job I love here.  Those are all things stowed carefully away in my heart.  So I could easily argue that my heart wants to stay here.  But on the flip side, I love adventure, exploring a new place, meeting new people, and having new opportunities.  So I could also argue that my heart longs for a new location.  I figure I'll keep making an effort at finding something worthwhile on the East Coast, and if the Lord wants to veto that decision, He'll stop me at some point along the way.  In the meantime... PATIENCE.  The one thing I'm best at. HA!!  (You may snort with derision now.  No really, go ahead.  I am.)

On a much less serious note, I have a joke that makes me giggle incessantly.  I apologize in advance for my potty humor:  "Do you know what the definition of a fart is?  It's poo honking for the right of way!"  hehehehehehehe!  Oh c'mon, you can't tell me you didn't giggle at least a little bit. 

;)

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Where Do the Ducks Go in the Winter?

Okay, so I had this random long stream of thoughts this afternoon while taking a quick little snooze on my lunch break.  For some reason it all cracks me up.

So I was trying to drown out my caffeinated brain and tried some meditation.  (Ready for the longest sentence ever?  A prize to whoever can read it all in one breath!)  All I could think of was a low drone, which got me thinking about 6th century Europe and the ancient Druids and Stonehenge, which made me think of that Ducktails movie about the Druids, which led to an instant replay of the vid on youtube of the little duckies being blown away in the wind, which made me think about the secret pond I found behind our house a couple days ago that seems to be a Four Seasons Hotel for the thousands of geese and ducks flying north in the winter, which then led me to think about the book "The Catcher in the Rye" and how Holden Caulfield frequently passes a pond and always says to himself, "Where do the ducks go in the winter?".  Aaaaaand then I fell asleep.

NOT related to ducks or ancient Druids in ANY way, last night was such a blast!!  Michelle's bachelorette party was wild and crazy and fun as hell.  My feet are still suffering for it though - note to all females: don't wear four inch stilettos to traverse all of downtown Denver and four different dance clubs.

So excited for the wedding on Sunday!  :)


Today I am thankful to have been treated like a lady by a very kind-hearted man.  It's nice to be reminded that chivalry is not, in fact, extinct...

xoxo

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Julia is Waxing Poetic - Beware!

Tiny ballerinas sculpted of ice
Twirl gracefully on the breeze of night,
Their shimmering glass slippers etching fine engravings
of unparalleled beauty
upon fragile spheres of crystal,
Never ceasing till each faceted flake
Glitters brilliantly in the frosty moonlight
As Mother Nature drapes her
Iridescent chandelier of diamond
upon the still and peaceful world.
Each minuscule flake of snow is
perfect
and beautiful
and unique;
An emissary sent to the earth

of Love
joyfully frolicking,
With its sugar-spun dancer to accompany the journey.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Brain Cramps

I keep meaning to write something here.  Before I started up this little dealio I would think of all these things I wanted to write about.  I composed so many blogs in my head.  And now... nada.  'Tis the season for a bad virus of... writer's block?

I ran into some old friends tonight at a Christmas performance.  I was a little sad to have nothing of consequence to report.  I work.  And I'm busy.  But it's all the same ol' stuff.  Don't get me wrong, it's not bad stuff, and I'm happy to have stuff in general to do.  But it'll be nice when there's different stuff to talk about.

Today I'm grateful for wonderful Christmas music.  Nothing like a few carols and hymns to put some Christmas spirit in yer britches!  We've been listening to tons of it at home while my sister works on a project she's doing with her students.  It looks like Christmas threw up in the house, with all the wrapping everywhere!  The only sanity is graciously provided by Pandora.  Oh, pandora.com, how I love thee!  Your endless selection of music based solely on what preferences I type into your system is a wonderful thing.

I'm obviously obnoxious at this hour of the morning.  I bid you adieu, with a hearty Ho Ho! (and not the chocolately, creme-filled kind, though I could go for one of those right about now...)

Tchao.