June 2012
2 posts
May 2012
30 posts
Dear future husband:
Also -
the marriage is more important. So don’t let me get sucked into the “big day”. I’d rather work on the “ever after”.
Love again
- P.
Dear future husband:
Wedding planning is stressful. After going through the weddings of so many friends and relatives (and now my sister), I would know. Please be the kind of guy who won’t mind if I say let’s keep it small or even let’s run away to Vegas.
But please be the kind of guy who’ll hear everything I say but know how to listen for the truth. I will probably not...
How I hear Sofia Vergara's Covergirl commercial:
Sofia Vergara: BOARD WIDTH CHORE JUAN TRIC LIPSTIC? DEN LID A DUBBLE LIVE! WIDTH NU BLASS FLIPSTIC FROM CUPBOARDGERL. CREAMY COLLAR ON JUAN END, CHIMMERY COLLAR ON THE UTTER. SO YOU CAN FLEP CHORE LOOK FROM DA MANURE TO DAIRY. NU BLASS FLIPSTIC FROM CUPBOARDGERL.
Dead End
I can’t teach people to do hard things if I wasn’t able to do them myself. So last night, I did the hardest thing I could do at the moment.. and even hours later today, it hurts.
I read and re-read that last text exchange and wonder if I did the wrong thing.. and compose a message of apologies and forget what I said in my head. But there is grace here to stick to the right thing.. and...
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Bed Potato
Thanks to my TBJ and Backyardigan-going friends, I’ve rediscovered the lovely world of television. I lived in a TV-less world for a while.. and quite enjoyed it, to be honest. I had so much time to read and exercise and do gardening. Hahaha. NO. Not really but it’s nice to dream.
So here’s the shows that have been keeping me up late:
REVENGE
Think Maria la del Barrio but set...
Naturalmente
I never realized how much I enjoyed being alone until a few days ago. I had been living in my new house for a little under a month, cleaning and scrubbing the tile floors. Halfway through, I took an iced tea break and picked up a book (chick lit, Candace Bushnell, borrowed) and sat to read it on my terrace (I have a terrace). When I lost interest in that, picked up another book (non-fiction, A...
Bertrand Russell on the Ten Commandments of... →
nevver:
Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.
Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children,
endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon
...
April 2012
14 posts
Northern Exposure
You know if you live in a bubble, it’s only inevitable you’ll be filled with nothing but air.
Nothing
You live without something long enough, you forget you need it.
Like a fridge.
It’s been a little under a month since I moved in and my fridge is only going to be delivered tomorrow. Along with the A/C and the bed frame.
All I can think about is ice cream. And how much the freezer can hold of it.
In other news, I am really, really heartbroken over a recent work-related kerfuffle. I think...
Apologies
People don’t know how to apologize. Thing is, if you’ve decided in your head to say sorry, just say it. No need for excuses—excuses just hollow out apologies. They make them empty and meaningless and stupid.
The 44 Master Moves of Remarkable Entrepreneurs
By Robin Sharma
1. They get that the #1 way to build a global brand is one customer at a time.
2. They obsess around having an impact vs. growing their income (and so their income soars).
3. They listen more than they speak. And they deliver more than they promise.
4. They use their most valuable hours to do their most valuable work (don’t check email first thing in the morning).
5. They get...
People are never who we think they are. They’re selfish. They lie. They change their mind. They will not pull through when you need them.
But guess what, you’re no better. I’m just as bad, too. So do we stop caring? Write them off? Burn bridges?
That’s one way to live. And the way of love is infinitely harder. But we do it anyway despite the disappointments, the hurts,...
March 2012
22 posts
Today
I sang again for the first time in a long time. I resigned from a job I knew I wasn’t any good at to begin with. And I didn’t spend a single cent from the time I left the house to the time I came home.
What a strange, strange day.
The Sky is Telling the Glory of God
Full post from John Piper’s blog here. But here are 10 resolutions that would make any life wonderful to live:
1. At least once every day I shall look steadily up at the sky and remember that I, a consciousness with a conscience, am on a planet traveling in space with wonderfully mysterious things above and about me.
2. Instead of the accustomed idea of a mindless and endless evolutionary...