Purses and Handbags

Alright, so, I'm still kind of trying to figure out what the purpose of this blog is, but, I love beautiful and unique things. I guess I'll just share my findings.

The last three are from Anthropologie. Enjoy!

Spring?

I have been a happy person of late, and that's a good thing. It means I'm feeling normal. Seriously, it's not too often that I am an unhappy person, but I had been the past couple of weeks. It's stupid. In addition to sadness, I have been working like crazy on this college economics course I'm taking online. It's not necessarily hard it's just consuming, and I sometimes procrastinate. (Sometimes, not always). The hardest part of the course is now over, so "Smooth sailing ahead!" thinks me.

Sunday was a fabulous day. It really was. After church, I took BunnyLady, MissAwesome, BeatlesMan, and Tea to Subway. (We usually go to there every Sunday, for the record). We picked up some subs and then headed back to the church. We sat in the parking lot for almost two hours just talking. It was pretty great, thinks me. I enjoy sitting in a good parking lot with friends.

Next we went to the guys' production of Grease. It was pretty good. I don't like the whole Grease musical very much, though, so, I mean, the pretty goodness was because of the excellence that made this production unique. I was pretty happy, though, to be with my friends. In the end, it was good.

Also, another form of happiness is the warming up weather. It was in the 50s yesterday. Yeah, it's still not warm, but-man!-am I ready for spring!

OH! Also, I'm playing Clair de Lune by Debussy on the piano. It's crazy. Really it is. 9/8 time should be illegal, I think. Oh well, I'm getting it. It sounds awesome. So, yeah. That's good.

Weddings are pretty.

So, I have this strange obsession with weddings. Yep. Here are some pretty pictures I've found:

Spelling and a Song

So, my little sister, Ophelia (that's not her real name, but hey, it's Shakespeare, so it works) and I are working on spelling. I have to give example sentences for each word. Here's how it's going:

Goes: There she goes. There she goes again.
Toe: Toe jam football...
Home: Get on home, Loretta.
Going: I think we're going somewhere, we're on to something good here.
So: (It's not a song, but:) I just want to know your name, so, yeah.
Oh: Sadie Hawkins dance in my khaki pants. Nothing better. Oh oh Oh!
Told: (Again, not a song) I told you so, Ophelia.
Old: When I get old and losing my hair...
Most: Most people are ugly, actually.
Boat: Boat? I've seen a boat! It passed by here not to long ago!
Gold: Silver and gold...silver and gold.
Snow: Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!
Cold: But, baby it's cold outside...

Yeah, so this is what my little sister gets to experience every day.

A Letter to Girls...including myself.

So, I wrote this "letter" back in November. It comes from my heart.

Hello, dearies! I have been thinking about you all and have been pondering our discussions over the past couple of weeks. I have discovered quite an interesting thing about us girls and our relationships with our guy friends. It is something that I wish I would have realized earlier, because I would have suffered a lot less disappointment.

You see, over the years, I noticed that I got along better with guys sometimes more than the girls I usually hung out with. I am sure you can relate. The thing was, though, that, as a girl, I was attracted to guys romantically, too. It’s not bad to like a guy, but sometimes those thoughts of Oh, he’s cute! or Do you think he really likes me? get in the way of my friendship. It changed how I viewed a guy and thus how I acted around him.

I’m not saying that it’s wrong to have a crush on a guy; I just think that we girls have a tendency to handle it wrongly. You see, when we like a guy romantically, we want him to like us back. We might dress nicer, hang out with him more, or even do things that he likes so that we seem more attractive to him. What’s wrong with that? Well, it’s a type of deception. We turn that friendship into something completely different than what it originally was. Not only that, but when our main aim for friendship is simply to get the guy to like us, we don’t focus on actually having fun, getting to know the guy, or just being a friendly support.

I guess, basically what I am trying to say is this: if we can only function in a relationship with a guy if he likes us romantically, then we’re probably doing something wrong.

There is such a thing as being “just friends”. It is hard, I know. But, sometimes treating a guy as a friend instead of a crush can become something so much better. We never have to go through the feeling of Oh, I guess he doesn’t like me as much as I thought he did. Living a friendship for simply the purpose of friendship typically doesn’t result in heart break. Sure we get hurt a lot, but pretty often, that hurt stems from failed expectations, which could easily have been avoided.

I think doing this is extremely hard for all of us because we want so dearly to be loved and appreciated for who we are. It makes us feel good inside. But, let’s break this habit of making friendships with guys just so that we feel loved. Instead, let’s actually just be friends, not only in our actions, but also in our hearts.

Let’s be careful with whom we share such a special part of our hearts. Let’s keep our friendships pure. It is going to be hard, but I think all of us, supporting each other, could do it.

Fashion

So, typically I'm not a huge fashion freak, but two of my dear friends have a blog about fashion, and it is pretty super duper. http://fashion-or-die.blogspot.com/

I already learned some pretty awesome stuff. So, yeah. To the non-existent readers of this blog: look at it!

The Hallelujah Chorus

It is super duper. So, enjoy this humorous video clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCFCeJTEzNU