Snapshots of an Ordinary Woman: 4thoughts on a Friday

Friday, June 20, 2008

4thoughts on a Friday

1. I am leaving for Ireland in one week. That's seven days. That's next Friday. Oh my gosh, I need to leave today. I don't think I can hang on for one more week. I still have to pack, but I'm afraid I'm going to let all of my emotions start to get to me. There's so many going on in my head right now I can't think straight.

2. Which is bad because I have another Chemistry test in 1 hour and 45 minutes. This week of learning made absolutely no sense to me. It's quite funny because we started to learn about organic chemistry and lots of different compounds, and in the process of creating compounds and writing them, you use a lot of letters. Now, as a word lover this should be right up my alley, right? WRONG. I have never seen a bunch of letters make such a jumbled mess in my life, especially when I start connecting them with little lines and they get bigger and more confusing as we go along. Wish me luck as I go study (which I WILL do more of this morning).

3. Back to Ireland (because I can't seem to get away) I definitely had a break down last night and I'm feeling the effects of this not sleeping business again. I am so excited to be leaving and for the opportunity, but I vomited up every little piece of stress possible last night. I don't understand how I have such a hard time relaxing and taking things easy. I'm a planner and I think it drives me crazy. I guess I feel like I have so much going on in the next six months that I'm trying to plan everything out (and even beyond that time frame) so I can have a nice little schedule of life and no stress...except all that stupid planning stresses me out MORE. I do mean what I said in my goodbye letter. I hope Ireland changes me and helps me embrace life for now and not six months down the road. I want to take life with the flow and stop planning and stressing. I think, I just need a forced time to do that.

4. The last episode I get to watch of Army Wives is on Sunday. I'm sad. I will miss my Sunday nights while I'm gone, BUT I'm taping while I'm away. I figure I even need to get away from that for awhile.

5. 42 days until Breaking Dawn. I'm buying it and attending a release party in Ireland if I can. :) I'll read the whole thing on the plane trip back probably.

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"My life can only ever be a lesson to me. The four key things that it has taught me thus far:
After night comes day.
After death comes life.
Even at your darkest time look around because you are never really alone.
You are loved."
-Pack up the Moon

"Forget what happened before, and DO NOT think about the past. Look at the new thing I am GOING to do. It is already happening. Don't you see it?"
-Isaiah 43:18

"I am your refuge and your strength. Even though the earth gives way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, do not fear. I am an ever present help in trouble."
Psalm 46:1-3

"But pain is hard to put into words and in life there is always pain. It's natural as birth or death. Pain makes us who we are, it teaches us and tames us, it can destroy us and it can save. We all have regrets--Some tragedies are of our doing and then sometimes things happen that are out of this world's control and when it happens, it can take our breath away.
Happiness is a gift. It washes its warmth over us and reminds us of beauty."
-Pack up the Moon

"I am dying from grief; my years are shortened by sadness. Misery has drained my strength; I am wasting away from within. But I am trusting you, O Lord, saying. 'You are my God!' My future is in your hands."
-Psalm 31:10, 14-15

"There's nothing better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve."
- Og Mandino

"I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life... to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. "
-Henry David Thoreau

"Yet I still dare to hope when I remember this: The unfailing love of the Lord never ends!"
-Lamentations 3:21

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I am a passionate about running.
It is in my soul.

"The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running."
-Nike running poster

"I ran to be free; I ran to avoid pain; I ran to feel pain; I ran our of love and hate and anger and joy."
-DAGNY SCOTT

"Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing."
-GEORGE SHEENAN

"Learn to run when feeling the pain: then push harder."
-WILLIAM SIGEI

"Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be."
-DR. GEORGE SHEEHAN

"If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don't spend the rest of your life wondering if you can do it."
-PRISCILLA WELCH

"Let me tell you something you already know. The world is a mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How muc you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. Now, if yo uknow what you're worth then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit and not pointing fingers saying you ain't wher eyo uare because of him, or her, or anybody."
-ROCKY BALBOA

"You were born to run. Maybe not that fast, maybe not that far, maybe not as efficiently as others. But to get up and move, to fire up that entire energy-producing, oxygen-delivering, bone-strengthening process we call running."
-FLORENCE GRIFFITH JOYNER and JON HANC

"Running is a thing worth doing not because of the future rewards it bestows, but because of how it feeds our bodies and minds and souls in the present."
-KEVIN NELSON

"Running is elementary. It is elegant in its simplicity."
-JOHN BINGHAM, The Courage To Start

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