It Begins

Lent begins in a few days and I just started reading in this lenten prayer book. It's nice to have things like this to remind yourself what Lent is all about. For those of you who don't know, or have forgotten, the three pillars of lent are prayer, almsgiving, and fasting. So I'm trying to incorporate all three of these things into my lenten plan. Here it is so far:

~Friday Fasting
~Set aside time for prayer everyday (and use my lent prayer book!)
~Read Bible everyday (I think I'm going to go back to the new testament this year)
~Volunteer (I already e-mailed Father Pat about this already and he gave me a few ideas. He really wants me to sing in the choir...)
~Rosary on Sundays (Goes along with the prayer part)
~Love more, show love, be supportive of those around me, make someone smile everyday
~Spend time listening everyday (we all know my mouth gets away from me on a daily basis. But how can I hear God if I never shut up?!)

So that's the plan. It's a bit ambitious but I think I can do it. And I think I'm going to start now as a sort of warm-up for lent! Wish me luck!

:)

Yeah, so I just finished Q2Q and it was waaaaaaaaay shorter than you'd expect. (Q2Q for you non-theatre folk is when you go through the show and just run every light cue, sound cue, etc. and it takes forever!!!) The longer we went the sillier I got which was a bit problematic but it happens. Yesterday was a fun day. I played hookey from work (although technically I still had strep throat...) and went to Bio. Then I found Rachael and dragged her downtown with me. We went to the bank and then Argo Cafe (They have the most amazing tea!!). Then we walked around a little, and went to target. Nothing really special but it was fun hanging out with Rachael. I haven't seen her much cuz I've been so busy lately. Then we goofed off and went to dinner and then went and saw R&G which was amazing by the way. I hope our show is that good. Yeah, so now I'm just killing time because I thought Q2Q would take longer and I don't know what time I should get on the bus to meet Josh... I'll just have to play it by ear me thinks! Vale!

I was one busy little bird today!

So much stuff to do! Anywho, I went to ren. humanism, then went over blocking with cassie, got food (cuz classics was closed cuz there's mold or something), ran into a protest being led by a bunch of my naked theater friends, went to french class and almost fell asleep a bajillion times, then I went to the co-op book store to buy a book i need for a paper because the copy i have from the reg. has been recalled, then i went and PTed with lindsey and gabe, then i got dinner, and now i'm here killing time before the colman run :( I don't quite understand why the hell she has to see the show or what this is for but whatever. I'm gonna be a birdie and it's gonna be fun! Although the latter half of the play isn't as much fun. Oh and I have a sore throat! I'm so sick of chicago, literally! I've been sick at least 4 times this quarter and it's getting kinda rediculous! Blah! Sorry, I just really needed to rant lol. Now I'm better! OMG!! Google's picture today has people curling!!! That's pretty awesome. I have to say I found curling pretty funny and a lot more intense than you'd think. I especially liked this asian team because they sounded so funny when they were yelling to each other. I think I could be a broom person. I've got plenty of sweeping experience from working in restaurants, etc! Maybe one day... Well I'm gonna go do some reading or something.

I'm a dork!

Yeah so when I got into the cage for work I took of my coat and realized that I got chocolate all over my shirt from the chocolate chip muffin I ate for breakfast. How I managed this is a mistery! Ahhhhh Pride and Prejudice soundtrack! Anyways, still killing time at work. I just remembered that UT comittee elections are at six today and three people in my show are running so I have to go vote! Vale!

#243

Can you believe I have almost 250 blog posts?! Lots of wasting time in the library I guess... lol. Yeah, so I don't have rehearsal tonight!!! Wahoo!! I'm gonna sleep! That's the plan anyways and read some Praise of Folly. So my play opens next week! I have an appointment to meet with Cassie to really cement my blocking. I think the problem is that I get so into Violet that I just forget about everything else. That and I have the most blocking for the entire show although I might be tied with Fuscia. I've never had such blocking problems though which is annoying. Anywho, two hours of work and then nap!! Oh, and rasberry tea is awesome. Oh yeah, Rachael and my tea party study break last night was fun and a sucess. They ate everything! And we had a lot of food! I forgot to take a picture of my petits fours. Oh well... Yeah but what did I learn from the adventure that was petits fours? I learned that fondant is a pain to work with and messy as hell! lol. I gave up with it less than half way through and just put butter cream on the rest. Oh and I accedentally put almond extract in half of them instead of lemon and then i spilled the ENTIRE bottle of lemon extract which made Rachael sad so I have to buy her more. Well off to work!

P.S. Petits Fours means little ovens in case you were wondering!

We all knew it!

Awesome

You Are 86% Awesome!

Obviously you have a sense of humour and are capable of being awesome the majority of the time. Now you can brag to your friends...

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 80% on Awesomeness

Link: The Holy Crapmonkeys, Awesome! Test written by lizzyfizzy on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

lerrrrrrrrrrrrr

Yeah, so I'm at the library killing time like usual. It's so bright out today! I want to go outside now. I'm actually going to go to Bio. today!!! I haven't been in a week which i guess isn't so great but I always fall asleep in that class when I do go and he always lets us out late! My room is still clean which is kinda crazy... Yesterday, we got to spend some time with Cassie talking to her about what sorts of things we want to do for the next few weeks. I can't believe this show goes up in a few weeks. Tonight I'm meeting Harriet to run lines and catching up on a bunch of reading and sleeping!! Oh sleep! What an idea? I went to bed relatively early last night, round 12:30. I don't know why I'm talking about this. My mind has been spinning about all sorts of things lately and yet I never seem to get any of that out here. Eh, oh well. Vale.

Rachael is a silly person!

She sent me a singing valentine!? She kept talking about how I should be around the dorm thursday evening but she couldn't remember why. I remember being suspicious of this request the first time I heard it but Rachael can be silly and forget things so I laughed it off and of course forget all about it. Once, I remember her mentioning it and I told her it was probably going to be an alien abduction and the aliens were telling her to tell me and weren't allowing her to remember lol. So when she told me to come because maybe the aliens would show up today I ignored her because I was hungry and went to dinner instead and refused to wait until 6:30 like she wanted. not only that, I took my time at dinner! I spent forever at dinner lol and then I come back and a few minutes later all of "Unaccompanied Women" shows up to sing me a valentine! lol. There were like 10 of them or something! It made me laugh though. So thank you Rachael! lol. (I can be really stubborn sometimes lol even when someone is doing something sweet for me! Sorry bout that!)

Blah I've been tagged! I'm not doing this on my silly LJ cuz blogs are soooooo much better!

Ground Rules: The 1st player of this "game" starts with the topic "5 weird habits of yourself" and people who get tagged need to write an LJ entry about their 5 weird habits as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next 5 people to be tagged.

1. When i'm sitting anywhere with socks on I rub my feet together. It has nothing to do with being cold or anything and it used to drive my sister crazy!!

2. I have to set at least two alarms and it can't be an even number sorta. Well it can be even but it can't end in a 0 or 5 and it can't have any kind of balance! For example 5:27 works, 7:02 works, 4:13 works, but 3:23 doesn't, 4:04 doesn't, you get the idea. Oh and I've been shying away from 01 times too lately. So 4:01 hasn't worked lately. Why? I have no clue!

3. I clean my ears often. I can't stand for there to be water in my ears if it didn't come from the ocean or something natural. So after I take a shower I have to get the water out of my ears cuz it bothers me!

4. I take flinstones vitamins because I wasn't taking my vitamins before because I don't wake up early enough to remember to go get water to take a vitamin. This is funny because I used to make fun of Jackie for taking Flinstones but they have almost all the same stuff as my other multi-vitamin.

5. I can't sleep unless it's absolutely dark. And I have to remind myself of this, because I'll sit there staring at the little bit of light that comes in from the window for over an hour before I'll realize that I'm not sleeping.

6. Because Bridgette almost had the same number five! I like to touch trees. I'll be walking along and go out of my way to touch a tree just because. Or I'll spin around trees. Why? They're trees... This makes me want to climb a tree. I've been wanting to do this for a few weeks lol.

Blah, that was hard!! So I'm tagging Brian Hinkle, PJ, Seth, Jason Goodson (I'm not sure if you read this but I can't think of anyone else who has an online journaly thing), and whoever else reads this thing that I don't know about lol (Damn you I don't write notes on blogs people! and I know you're out there!! Rachael and Jackie!! You can do yours in a note on my Blog or on the facebook!)

grrrrrr!!!

I've had the hic-ups (Sp?!) all day and it's starting to really drive me crazy!!!

@ work

It's been a good music day at the library. Lots of swing and soft things with just a dash of silliness here and there. Yesterday was quite the busy day. I had class all day and it was beautiful out! I just sat there in french class staring at the midway out the window. Oh, I cleaned my room yesterday!!! Vacuumed, swept, the whole nine yards! Then I went to rehearsal and screwed up a bit of my blocking, but I'm getting there. We invaded R&G's rehearsal as ninjas and it was amazingly fun. I'm sure they're going to try and retaliate but they're never going to be as cool as us ninjas! I climbed into the theater through the window (I hurt my shin in the process but it's all good). Lets see... Then I hung out with Josh for the rest of the evening. We got hot chocolate and wondered around Hyde Park au pied. It was a lot of fun and we got to visit the Vicking and M. Linné. Then, I bothered Rachael for a few hours (We watched my taped episod of Gilmore Girls lol) and went to bed really late. I then proceeded to wake up super early to PT with lindsey at 7am. Afterwards, I took a long nap lol and came to work at one. Well gtg. Vale!

This is random! (I think i fixed it!)

Celtic Mandolinhead
You scored 37 classicness, 17 rageful, 43 hyperness, and 17 sadness!

You're intelligent and have alot of energy. You're proud of your heritage. Probably more than half the people who will get this, drink ALOT- but mostly for fun or boredom. You enjoy tradition as long as it's energetic. You like nature similar to that of the land of your heritage. You have a few hobbies that are intellectually obscure to your other pals.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
You scored higher than 62% on classicness
You scored higher than 25% on rageful
You scored higher than 87% on hyperness
You scored higher than 0% on sadness

Link: The What's Your Rock Personality Test written by willuknowmyname on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

Let's go fly a kite!

I want to go fly a kite now! This song just came on my shuffle! Gotta love Mary Poppins lol.

With tuppence for paper and strings
You can have your own set of wings
With your feet on the ground
You're a bird in a flight
With your fist holding tight
To the string of your kite

Oh, oh, oh!
Let's go fly a kite
Up to the highest height!
Let's go fly a kite and send it soaring
Up through the atmosphere
Up where the air is clear
Oh, let's go fly a kite!

When you send it flyin' up there
All at once you're lighter than air
You can dance on the breeze
Over 'ouses and trees
With your first 'olding tight
To the string of your kite

Oh, oh, oh!
Let's go fly a kite
Up to the highest height!
Let's go fly a kite and send it soaring
Up through the atmosphere
Up where the air is clear
Let's go fly a kite!

La de da!

So I noticed yesterday that I haven't really written anything on here in a while. I just finished my cart at the library more than an hour early. I have no idea how that happened but now I have time to kill. Lets start with today. I slept in this morning because I stayed up really late last night. I was talking to Rachael and Brian and then when I got to my own room I just wasn't tired so I cleaned off my desk a bit. I think I might clean my room all the way when I get home and wash my sheets. Oh I re-filled my shuffle because the music on it was driving me absolutely crazy. Every now and then autofill just doesn't do a good job of finding what I want to listen to. Yeah, so it's been a preey uneventful day so far. I've got lots of reading to do tonight. And I still don't have a paper topic!! Eeekk~~!! It'll happen. Blah, I'm even boring myself now! I'll write more later when I have something to say. Vale!

I had a really wonderful day today (well i guess it was yesterday now). I should to go to sleep now...

It's 9 something and all I have to do is edit!!

Paper=Done!! Must edit. It's light outside?! Haven't seen morning light in long time... ate breakfast! Wahoo!

I DON'T WANT TO WRITE THIS PAPER!!!! BIO. SHOULD DIE!!!!

Finally feeling better, sort of...

So I woke up feeling better. I started to get out my stuff for ironing for ROTC and I decided to go to the dining hall for breakfast instead of waiting to eat after I had my uniform on. So I went into the dining hall and all the smells hit me like a ton of bricks. I managed to eat some hash browns and a little apple sauce. I was feeling so bad afterwards I ended up not going to ROTC and sleeping all day. I was up all last night finishing my personal statement for my study abroad app. Rachael helped me edit it and it was a bit of a disaster lol. She added like a million commas. But it's finished now! So all I have to do is my resume and I'm finished!!! Vale!

I've passed the throwing up phase!

Yeah, so I didn't go to class or work today. I woke up at like 1:30. I was up all night with a splitting head ache. I still haven't eaten anything. I'm supposed to wait until I'm hungry. So we've been sipping water and flat watered down ginger ale. Blah. I'm writing my study abroad application right now. It's going... Blah! Well gotta migrate!