Shorts Randoms

* Listening to Relient K puts me in a good mood

*By the end of the week I’ll have worked 35.5 hours! Yay!

* I feel good about myself when my clients have a hard time walking when they leave the studio. I love my job so much, but I’m ready for Sunday off. Btw, one of my new clients has lost 3 pounds in the one week we’ve been training together–that made my day!

* I’ve been trying to keep myself busy since Reid’s been gone–meaning watching movies, eating, working, reading, and thats about it. Life’s been a little dull, honestly. I pick Reid up from the airport at 5:45 Saturday. I’ll probably be there at like 2 just in case he gets there early, ok, not really.

* I have a love-hate relationship with Colorado. Yes, the state. Two (almost three) friends are now living there and I miss them like crazy. One of them, Theresa, will be flying in late Saturday night for a week! Another, Joy, is coming back in June for a visit! The bad news: Deena will be leaving for Colorado for good with Theresa. Ouch! My heart hurts thinking about it.

* How cute is this boy!?!?!

Lauren’s First Starbucks Experience

Lauren had Starbucks for the first time tonight! I’m so proud!
PS: Many thanks to Deena for the great coffee!


Ok, here’s my nose ring, but this isn’t a good pic of it b/c it looks purpley…oh well…

Sidenote: Here’s our garden so far!! We can grow stuff!

Let’s hope for this week to go by fast so Reid can come home soon.

The end.

PS: Don’t do this

Don’t watch PS:I Love You while you’re husband’s out of the country and you won’t see him for another week. It’ll just made you sadder. Yes, I’m using sadder as a word.

PS: Click here for Reid’s picture from Germany so far.

Happy Mother’s Day!

As I mentioned before, my Mom and Lauren are headed their way as we speak for the weekend. I can now announce what I did earlier this week– I got my nose pierced!!

I’ve been waiting til I felt a little settled in my job before I did anything. I decided it was a good time to do it so my Mom could be surprised. And this won’t be a good thing– she HATES them! Haha!

Sheena went with me Wednesday night to get it done. It seriously hurt like hell. Sorry for the language, but thats what it felt like. Sheena got a couple pictures, I’ll have to get them from her.

The ring is so tiny that my Mom may not even notice at first….we shall see…

I need to run errands, but its crazy raining outside…so I’m doing this:

5 things on my to-do list:
1. Pay my school loan bill online
2. Deep clean the house before Mom and Lauren get here
3. Watch The Office, by myself thankyouverymuch
4. Buy new shoes for work
5. Go to gym tonight

5 snack I love:
1. Moose Tracks frozen yogurt
2. Bananas
3. Is coffee a snack?
4. BBQ Baked Lays
5. Cereal

5 things I would do if I were a billionaire:
1. Install a mackdaddy bathroom with a huge bathtub in our bedroom, or maybe just buy a mackdaddy house that already has one
2. Buy lots of shoes and purses
3. Travel all over the world, maybe I’d take Reid, too
4. Sponsor a ton of kids through Compassion or Children’s HopeChest
5. Get a pedicure once a week for the rest of my life

5 bad habits:
1. Eating junk food, especially cake
2. Worrying about everything
3. Stressed out easily
4. Biting my nails
5. Wasting time

5 places I have lived:
1. Nashville, TN
2.Daphne, AL
3.Montgomery, AL
4. Mansfield, LA
5. Southeastern Dorms

5 jobs I’ve had or have:
1.Maintenance Asst at a church, booooo for that
2.Dental Assistant
3.Director of Financial Aid
4. Receptionist
5. Youth Intern

I tag….hmm…
Lori, Tracie, Sheena, Amy, Sam, Stacie, Katy

Sad Eyes

Geez, I’m already sad about Reid leaving. I’ve been fine all day. After I left work and I realized Reid’s flight had left Atlanta already and he wasn’t going to be home tonight, I freaked out. It’s just now hitting me that I won’t see him for a while. Not fun.

Ok…I promise this will be the last of the whining on the blog about this.

PS: If you care, I’m tracking his flight, he’s over NY right now….6 hours left til he lands in Germany.

Dear filmmakers, stop doing this!

No Country For Old Men

Stop wasting brilliant character development if you are going to take it nowhere. Stop asking us to care for characters only to pull out the rug from under us and tell us that we should have been caring about someone else. Stop firing your script writers before they finish the script. (Yes, I know this was based on a novel, but still.) And please, stop trying so hard to be philosophical and oh, so smarter than everyone else.

Maybe that’s a bit harsh but I’ve never watched such a good film for an hour and a half, only to be completely bored and memorized at the stupidity of the last 30 minutes. This isn’t even worth a thoughtful review. Unlike There Will Be Blood, I doubt there will be a second viewing for me. I wasn’t thrilled about any of the Best Picture nominees this year, but out of all of them, this was by far the worst.

So now that I’ve finally seen them all, here is my Best Picture order:

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Juno (distant 2nd)
3. Atonement (close 3rd)
4. No Country For Old Men (way, way distant 4th)

On a positive note, I do recommend Munich which gets better every time I watch it.

-Reid

These are my confessions

Confession #1: I can’t believe that this week is here already! Reid leaves for Germany for 10 days on Wednesday! TEN DAYS! That’s a long time, people! I get really scared being at the house by myself at night. I’m not kidding at all. I sleep with atleast one light on when Reid’s not here, but I don’t know what the light does for me, it just makes me feel better.

Confession #2: I’m excited about my Mom and Sister coming up next weekend to hang out with me! Girls Weekend 2008, just kidding.

Confession #3: I cannot wait for Sex and the City movie to come out May 30th! I’ll be there opening night, no doubt. That is, if I can find another fan to go with me. Now that I think about it, I wouldn’t be upset about going by myself.

Confession #4: Last weekend when I mentioned to an old friend that I was a personal trainer they were very impressed and said that “it sounds so glamorous.” Glamorous is the last word I’d use to describe my job. I do love my job very much, but I’m nervous about being full-time this week. I’ll get through it with lots of coffee and lots of naps.

The end.

-ash

Sleep Required

I haven’t been this thankful for a weekend in a very long time. I’ve started working more consistently, ie: everyday at 5:30 am. This has worn me out more than I anticipated. I thrive on a good ten hours sleep, I’m not kidding, but this is tricky to pull off so naps have become my lifeline.

I’m interested to see how my body handles the coming week when I’ll be going to work at 5 am and full-time training. I’m very excited about being full-time, but its all an adjustment.

The first of the week was emotional for me in coming off the weekend and other personal matters, but then I learned news in the middle of the week that I didn’t see coming.

I just read Jessica’s blog where she mentioned people have been looking for encouragement or people’s thoughts on the situation in blogs. I don’t know that I’m quite ready to post my feelings/thoughts online, and not sure I ever will. My mind has been a whirlwind of thoughts and emotions that I don’t quite know how to express. I will say that this week was a reminder that our sins don’t just affect us, but they also affect those around us more than we realize. I’ve also thought a lot about the verse in Proverbs that states, “A friend loves at all times, but a brother is born of adversity.” I’ll leave it at that for now.

If you are looking for encouragement regarding the situation, I do recommend Jessica’s blog. I completely agree with her. I’ll gladly discuss things with you in person, just not here.

Honestly, my brain and body are exhausted and almost numb at this point.

I’m looking forward to going swimming with Sheena today! Yay for pools!

Re-review

Last night I watched There Will Be Blood for the second time. After my first viewing months ago I was not sure how I felt about it. I think the ending left me with a very sour taste for the film but as time went by, I kept thinking about the rest of the story and realized how much I liked it. Well, after the second viewing, here are some thoughts:

If you leave out the last 10 minutes of the film (from when Eli visits Daniel), then this is a great movie. I absolutely love the story of greed and the deceitfulness that inevitably goes with it. I think I saw more of that aspect last night than I did the first time. The only problem I still have with the story is that there is no redeeming value to Daniel Plainview, despite evidence here and there to the contrary.

Now I know that there are supposed to be all these analogies and allegories about Plainview representing capitalism and Eli representing religion and how the two are opposed to one another and blah blah blah. But I don’t watch movies, nor do I read books in this way. For me, that’s a quick way to ruin a great story. For me, Daniel Plainview simply represents himself, and I felt great sympathy for him. He is indeed capable of love. But he too often he pushes those he loves away. We see that when he finds the picture of his real brother, and of course in the great “I’ve abandoned my boy!” scene in the church.

So, I guess I really do love this movie but perhaps not in the ways I’m “supposed” to. Maybe that’s why the ending, with his son leaving him, left me so empty. I had built up so much sympathy for Daniel only to hate him for what he said. (By the way, I think he was lying. Of course he loved H.W.) But life isn’t about happy endings. And greed, power, hate, and even religion too often get in the way of love.

Now, the last 10 minutes were so stupid and pointless that I don’t even want to write about it here. But I will if anyone wants to discuss.

-Reid