Song I'm Digging This Week

...Chase that sunset till we're blind, then wake up to find we are only human, after all...



"Human After All" - Michael Logen feat. Sierra Noble

*sorry for the weird "Switched at Birth" YouTube video stuff...it's the only one I could find

Beauty

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The weather in Alabama this winter has been decidedly weird. As in, freezing in the morning and at night and then spring-like warmth throughout the day. Flowers are all confused and trying to bloom, and I'm trying to keep myself from getting spring fever waaaay too early.

After my weekly glorious Sunday afternoon nap yesterday, I sat down on the couch with Gilbert and looked outside to see the most gorgeous late afternoon sunlight spreading out over the yard - you know, the kind that no picture could do justice to - and decided that I couldn't stay inside anymore.

So I grabbed my Kindle and headed across the street to Starbucks, ordered a salted caramel mocha (the best coffee they've ever offered there), and took my sweater-clad self out to the tables outside to sit and read. Unfortunately, there were two little girls sharing the space with me (no idea where their parents were) who were intent on squealing and ruining my contemplative mood, but I had my iPod, so I popped my earbuds in and listened to this soundtrack while I read.

I had a hard time keeping my mind on my book. I kept looking up to see swallows playing in the tree next to me, happy couples leaving hand-in-hand with to-go coffee cups, dried leaves skittering across the concrete...

As Leonardo DiCaprio says to Kate Winslet in "Titanic," I've always been more of an "indoor girl," but sometimes - sometimes - the beauty of all of God's creation floors me, and even I want to just bask in it.

Song I'm Digging This Week

Because it's the Christmas season:




"It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" - Sara Groves

Adorkable

I am completely obsessed with Zooey Deschanel's new show "The New Girl." Who isn't? I'm pretty sure every girl in America has a little nerdy girl-crush on Zooey, and we all would love to look like her.

I look absolutely nothing like Zooey, but I'm taking the plunge this weekend and getting this haircut:



Yikes! I know. There's a whole bunch of bangs going on here, but I'm going to be brave and try it out. My hair isn't as long as hers yet, but I figure that since it's past my shoulders, it should be ok.

We'll see. Now I just have to find those cute glasses that she wears on the show, master "Eye of the Tiger" on handbells, and I can pretend I'm as cute and quirky as Jess Day.

...Hello?

Ok. So it's been so long since I've posted anything at all that I'm pretty sure that it's quite possible that absolutely no one will read this post.

But I'm back! I'm starting on my New Year's resolutions early, and one of them is to update this blog waaaay more often. As in, you know - more than once a year. Seriously, my goal is to post at least four to five times a week. Even if nobody reads it, it's good for me to keep flexing my writing muscles.

Some pretty big changes have occurred since I was last here:

1. I am 1.6 pounds away from having lost 50 pounds since June! Yes. It's a big, big deal for me.

2. For the first time, I've met my 52 books in a year goal! I'll be posting a reading recap post before New Year's.

3. I'm going to be an aunt! My amazing little sister, Holly Jo, and her husband, Alex, are expecting a baby in June. I'm super psyched.

I'm really excited about this Christmas and everything coming up in 2012. It's going to be good, friends.

It's going to be good.

Uninspired

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I know I haven’t posted anything of any substance in a really long time. I’ve done some random posts about music, design, blah blah blah, but nothing more.

The reason?

I simply can’t think of anything to write about.

That’s just the hard truth. I’ve sat in front of my computer for several nights trying to come up with something to write about that is even slightly interesting, and…nada.

It’s not that nothing exciting is going on in my life – there is.

It’s not that anything terribly awful has occurred – it hasn’t.

I’ve just got an extreme case of writer’s block.

Agggh. I need a burst of inspiration.

Song I'm Digging This Week

I make a wish on a star at night - the brightest star that's in the sky - only to have realized that it was just a satellite...


"Monte" - Zee Avi