April 9: Busy, busy, busy

"Living by the hour, I stop for every flower;
Everything is soft and slow.
Now all these tastes improve
Through the view that comes with you,
Like they handed me my life
(For the first time, it felt worth it;
like I deserved it.)"
- Jets to Brazil


ossify - harden into bone
teamster - trucker
serigraph - silk-screen print

Things I was grateful for yesterday and the day before:
(The day before)
1. Getting to sleep with Ken ken.
2. Getting the film presentation over with.
3. Becoming better friends with Sara.
4. Cory being a prince and doing the newspaper nearly single-handedly.
5. Warm breezes.
(Yesterday)
1. Waking up with Ken ken. :)
2. Chelsy's freedom and plans to live together.
3. Liz Beall Gregory's family and how much I admire her.
4. The power coming back on well before four.
5. King and Nanny. :)

Things I am grateful for today:
1. How happy Phoebs was when she woke up this morning, and how cute she looked in her new outfit.
2. DeRosset not being at work today.
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Articles:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7092435.ece

"At times the world can seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe us when we say that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. And what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may, in fact, be the first steps of a journey."
- Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

trephine - noun, surgical saw

Things I'm grateful for today:
1. Getting the paper done super early.
2. Warm spring breezes.
3. Freerice.org
4. My sweet, sweet daughter.
5. Going to bed early on Tuesday nights so that I can stay up late Wednesday nights. :)

Day 5: Happiness

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
- Marianne Williamson


macropterous - large-winged

Things I'm grateful for today:
1. Lindsey and Nick moving to WV.
2. Kenny Kenny Kenny.
3. Pretty pictures courtesy of Chelsy.
4. The constant high I am experiencing.
5. How fully and peacefully I've let go of my feelings for Sean.

Day 4, oopsie :)

So I missed a day yesterday. Easter weekend is a busy time.

"I hope that I don't sound too insane
When I say there is darkness all around us
I don't feel weak but I do
Need sometimes for her to protect me
And reconnect me to the beauty that I'm missing"
- The Avett Brothers

provenance - noun - place of origin

&

misology - noun - hatred of reason

Ten things I've felt grateful for this weekend:
1. Chinese with girls I love. :)
2. Chelsy Hitt for being.
3. Jodi Picoult's The Pact
4. Phoebe and Easter egg hunting.
5. Leverage, especially Elliot, yum, and Skins.
6. Driving on beautiful days.
7. Delicious, huge family meals.
8. The over-the-top gifts I received for Easter.
9. Jade, for making her way back into my life.
10. Lindsey and Nick moving to WV. :)

Day 2: :)

"She was the still point of the turning world, man."
- The Virgin Suicides

Thus far today, I have read my three articles and learned a new word.

nasturtium (nə-stûr'shəm, nă-)
n.
Any of various New World plants of the genus Tropaeolum, having pungent juice and long-spurred, usually yellow, orange, or red irregular flowers.
A brilliant orange yellow.

The nasturtiums grew alongside of the house. That flower was a striking in its nasturtiam shade.

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/opinion/01collins.html?src=me&ref=opinion
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8601032.stm
3. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/dining/31Irish.html?pagewanted=3&ref=dining

Five things that I'm grateful for:
1. Whitney bringing me my s'more sundae.
2. Kenny coming over to my parents' and meeting Whitney.
3. Tony Minney's golden retrievers getting pregnant.
4. The music and lyrics of the Avett Brothers, especially "St. Joseph's" and "Souls Like the Wheels" today.
5. Getting to sleep in Mom and Dad's perfect bed.

Day 1: So It Begins

"It's very charming of you to be ignorant of the twisted logic of most relationships. Trust me. When we met I was wrecked, blasted, and damned, and I am slowly pulling myself together because I can see that you are a human and I would like to be one, too."
- Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

I'm feeling so optimistic about this list. I am completely committed to the carrying out of every last thing on here. I've compiled a list of things that I must do daily, and will attempt to do said thing in this daily blog or at least write about doing said thing, depending on the nature of the task at hand.

There are seven daily things on the list, including writing one hundred words a day, writing down five things that I'm grateful for, learning a new word, reading three articles, writing in the Food Journal, taking my vitamins, and reading to Phoebs.

Today I have taken my vitamins, written in the Food Journal, and read with Phoebs (she's learned to read "kiss", "hug", and "egg" thus far:)).

My new word for the day is perfidy (thank you, Freerice.org).
Perfidy, noun.
1.deliberate breach of faith or trust; faithlessness; treachery: perfidy that goes unpunished.
2.an act or instance of faithlessness or treachery.

For his terrible perfidy, he would forever be an outcast.

My three articles:
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070920/REVIEWS/70920002/1023
http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/02/09/movies/09live.html?scp=1&sq=the%20lives%20of%20others&st=cse
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/books/01lit.html?src=me&ref=homepage

And, finally, possibly the best thing, the five things that I am grateful for today:
1. Kenny, for falling in love with me and for being brave enough to say it first.
2. Weather so beautiful that even I couldn't resist spending the evening outside.
3. The film The Lives of Others for its painful, precise beauty.
4. Sweet tea. Always.
5. This blog, and the girls that are doing it with me. :)