24

travis and i are currently in the middle of watching the first season of 24 on dvd. we are on hour 7 and the tention is killing me! i love the show. in phoenix a group of us...kati, israel, errol, travis, and i...and sometimes seth, who just made fun of the show, would gather every monday night together. we would get so into it. i miss my friends in phoenix.

images of the lakes

thought i would show some images of the area i live in. the first two images are of lake of the isles, just west of our place. the next two are of lake calhoun southwest of us....both within walking distance. i love having these great lakes in the middle of the city. (sorry, this is boring for the solomon porchers!)

the uncertainty principle

I just read an article in my real simple magazine that really resonated with me called "a (not so) sure thing". with the subtitle being " Can any of us be certain we are 100 percent right about anything? Life is less stressful, one writer has found, when we admit we actually just might be wrong about everything."

now, i don't usually go to real simple for my answers to life's deep questions. i was reading on how to declutter and i stumble on this cool article.

the author talked about Werner Heisenberg and his Uncertainty Principle..."which is the idea that you can determine the position of an object or the object's momentum with 99 percent accuracy, but you can't measure both without losing a degree of precision. In other words, even science can't always prove everything with 100 percent accuracy."

i am the most indecisive person. i agonize over every decision i make, taking every precaution to make the "right" decision. and then after making the decision, i constantly question whether i really made the best one...pretty stressful. and i'm not sure my worry and fret really does me much good. maybe i should make a decision/form an opinion knowing it is very possible that i might be wrong and i'll just have to deal with it. i think life would be much more enjoyable that way. i need to leave my perfectionistic tendencies to the side and just enjoy the things around me, mistake or not. (ha! much harder for this girl to do, but i think i'll try)

a hate technology

it's days like today that i just want to throw my computer out the window and go back to the drafting table. I have been messing with font issues all day and even had to reboot my entire operating system because of the font issues...and particularly the font helvetica condensed bol. yep, evidently the version i had corrupted everything. (well, and maybe a little user error, too.)

I missed two deadlines today, didn't get to go to the art discussion group tonight...all because i added a font to my computer...and now i'm trying to catch up.

okay, i guess i'll get back to work.

i hope tonight things get better...

personalities

so, i love personality tests. (and sometimes i hate them because i don't want to be put in a box.) but they really intrigue me...so, i took the test that is on doug's blog...

http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/

and i'm freaking tied on 1, 2, 4, & 6...3 & 5 are close. the one thing i know is that i'm definitely not 7, 8, or 9...how can this be? and i can't really figure out which one i am. i'm a little confused. i thought these things were suppose to bring clarity? maybe i'll have to read the book...

it's raining outside and i love it. i missed the rain when i lived in phoenix. i know a lot of people don't like rainy days, but i love them. they are better than sunny days in my book! : )

enjoy being

i stumbled across this picture not too long ago. this was on the sidewalk right outside the art building where i went to school. i passed by it often and it always made me smile...

always learning...

i'm sick of people thinking they have everything figured out. i feel like every year i know less and less. i love learning new things, but it seems like the more i learn, the more i realize that i really know nothing. i didn't really like school all that much. i wasn't the sit in your seat and take good tests type of student. i needed to experience things, move around...and well, my teachers were pretty frustrated with students like me. i had a geography teacher who really got frustrated with me...gave me afterschool study a lot...and so i didn't like him very much. in fact, i refused to enjoy or learn anything in his class...and this day i still am not very good on my geography & i blame him!! but something happened my senior year in high school. i realized that i hated school, but i didn't hate learning. one of my teachers opened up the world of learning to me and i am very grateful. i loved college so much better...man, i miss college. but now i just learn things by reading good books. i love to check out a bunch of interesting books from the library...then i don't have to feel guilty i don't finish them all. but it doesn't seem like mlps library gets in as many new books as my beloved library in phoenix.

friends from college

I’m on my way back from a trip with 6 of my college friends. We stayed in a lake house in Oklahoma and it was a great weekend. I have to admit I was kinda’ reluctant about the trip with all the traveling I was doing. But it was so great. It has been a while since we were all together at once and I just love the way we all interact….our personalities shine through and we laugh…a lot. Deep conversations and laughter are probably my two favorite things in the world…and there was a lot of both this weekend (and a lot of sarcasm, which you can never have too much of) In our circle of friends, I’m known for wanting deep conversations…especially late at night. I wish I was better at initiating them, allowing them to just “happen”, like Christi seems to be so good at…But I don’t seem to have mastered the art of asking good questions in groups. So, instead, we play a game called “fish bowl” where I write a bunch of questions on little pieces of paper and throw them into a bowl. We go around and you draw one out and you ask someone the question and you answer it yourself. I try to have some deep questions and some simple ones, for those that just can’t take all the deepness at once….people groan about the game, but I know they really like it…especially when they are the ones that bring it up at the lake and they want to finish up the leftover questions the next night! What I loved about it this weekend is that we didn’t just answer the question and move on, we would answer the questions, tell stories, go on tangents, make a bunch of jokes, and then get back to the questions. It was great.

Another great thing about the weekend is that two of my friends were pregnant. I didn’t realize how much I love pregnant women until recently, especially with people I’m so close to. It is just so exciting to hear what they are experiencing, although I found out this weekend that pregnancy is just a hassle and the only good thing about it is that you get a baby at the end. : ) But it just seems to have so many spiritual metaphors. They idea of expecting, waiting and preparing....and so many things that I can’t even begin to understand…pregnancy is not something I’m use to. (I've never been pregnant or around people that were pregnant) Rachelle brought her 4 month old, Jackson this weekend, it was so fun to see this cute little boy and listen to the baby talked! I guess I have gone through life being oblivious to women having babies and to babies. I’ve never really even liked babies….but I have to say things have drastically changed a year ago when our friends from phoenix had Dylan…and then I lost my desire for wanting our children to pop out of the womb at age 4!

traveling again

I had such a fun time on the camping trip this past weekend. it was so good to see our friends in phoenix. i miss them. it felt so comfortable and it really was like i never left. but i have to admit it feels good to be back in minneapolis. but my month of traveling isn't over. nope. i am going to the lake this weekend with my some of my close college friends...it's kinda' funny we are going to the lake, because two of the girls are pregnant and one will have her newborn baby with her. but i could just hang out in the lake house all weekend and be perfectly content.

this month has been good, taking a break from the adjustments of minneapolis....and remembering how blessed i am to have friends and family all over the place.