disco, and why i dont' like it

so it's tuesday night. jump around my friends, jump around. but here's the deal. i have 2 finals due tomorrow and one major paper that i've put off till .....drum roll.....tonight. [for all you mbti fans out there, that's because i'm a p.] anyway....i also did not go to our final evening with jay, gary, and the rest of the mighty mighty tens. so i'm not feeling nearly as self righteous as i usually do on my beloved tuesday nights. in fact, i'm sitting here watching the biggest loser and eating peanut butter chocolate eggs. awesome.

{my grandpa asked me the other day when i'm going to "ramp up the training" for the mini marathon. and then expressed his concern that i "might not be able to finish." to quote john q murphy and joe"i've been to space" jewel, and matt "were you just wearing a helmet, cause i couldnt' tell" pagel......thanks bud}

also, it's disco night on american idol. which i loathe. and also...adam lambert looks like one slick vampire. he can sing, btu he's so waily-screamy-self-indulgent that i can barely watch him (paula just had "visceral" response eeewwww) i was more into scott macintrye. the poor guy could barely sing, but he had heart i tell you. heart.
know why else i don't like disco? because on the crunch fat burning dance party workout, the disco segment [[eeeeww, i don't like that word]] was the worst one.

in other news, i am nearly 2/5 done with my graduate program. i cannot tell you how quickly this year of my life has gone. i am looking forward to some down time later this week--hopefully will get away for a day to think and pray and process this past year. it has been quite a ride.

psalm 90:12

it's been a hard week. like a rollercoaster. up and down. joy, belonging, sadness, aloneness. actually, it's been more than a week, which maybe explains why i've not been in the blogging spirit.

the upshot of everything lately has brought me to pray this prayer daily, sometimes hourly:

teach me to live well. teach me to live wisely and well.

in saying that prayer, i am admitting that i have lived neither wisely nor well. i have spent many days, weeks, etc.... pursing things that are fleeting and eventually meaningless. recognizing your own shortcomings is always a growing process, especially when you're someone who prides herself on having it all together. so admitting brokenness is painful, but it paves the way for growing. and that is exciting. i struggle daily to be content and not complacent. fine line to walk. it is a process, my friends. exactly what i needed, and god is good

"this is good," she answered. "the broken places tell me i am alive, and now i feel. some growth has been pruned, but new growth is coming"

a brief history of time

goooooood morning! i just realized that i have been totally lax in updating. not that there aren't good things to write about, it's just that nothing in my day is begging to be blogged about.

so i came home a few days early for easter weekend for a little quality time with jeff and sue. however, they just got back from israel and are a little jet lagged, so they're both passed out on the couch by 8:40 pm. thus, i've mostly played free cell and watched trash tv. you know how it goes.

i bet you're all dying to hear the latest installment of "conversations with my brother." this was a pretty good one. ok, first of all, he and i are both known to our family and respective friends for never answering our phones. i feel like i have a good excuse--i usually have it on silent so it doesn't bug others. jeff never answers and then lets his inbox get full so even if one wanted to contact him, he/she wouldn't be able to leave a message. all part of the grand design, i suppose. ANYWAY, i finally did get ahold of him the other day. and the conversation went something like this. {background....jeff is dedicated to his workout routine, which consists of doing a flavor of the month workout video in his living room. in spandex...}

Lib: Hey bro, long time no talk. what do you have a phone for if you never answer it??

JT: Look who's talking.

Lib: so what's new?

JT: aaaah, not much. i'm still working out to P90X {editor's note: p90X is some workout system he ordered off an infomercial}

Lib: nice.

JT: yeah, i've been at it for about 4 weeks

Lib: congratulations. um, question....what exactly would one wear when doing p90X?

JT: i'll give you three guesses

Lib: I think i only need one. spandex pants?

JT. well yeah {as if this is simply a GIVEN} but which ones?

Lib: uh.... {furiously and actively blocking the mental images}

JT: under armor, or the ones that feel like a little girl's leotard?



....and that, my friends, was the last conversation i had with my one and only brother. rather sweet and tender, dont' you think?

in other news, i got a pedicure and i have the most hot pink toes i've ever seen. did not realize my toes would look like fluorescent dinosaur claws when i made that move.

speaking of....do you remember neon colored crayons in elementary school? they saw their hayday in the early nineties? well, one year i refused to let my mom buy me any non-neon colored school supplies. so i went all of 4th grade with neon crayons and colored pencils. made for some interesting art projects. i distinctly remember coloring an octopus with hot pink and neon yellow. class act.

OH MY GOODNESS!!!! HOW COULD I FORGET?!?!?

{this is for my calvin friends.}

you will NEVER guess what i saw at the mall...




a DVD...

for kids...

about a boy....

who's 8 years old....

named....



CEDRIC!!!!





can you believe it?!?!?!?!?!

proofread.

so i broke down and went tanning this week. which could be a post in and of itself. it's a waste of money and bad for my skin. i know this. however, i need color STAT. and this is the longest i've held off before giving in since about 2003. so--progress.
however, there are these signs all over the tanning place that say "use lotion...it attracks light to your skin." ...."attracks"? seriously? did the red squiggle line not show up under that one before they printed it off? here's the sad part...i was reading the sign over and over, thinking "something's not right." it took me a full minute to figure out what it was.

why that's important enough to write on here you ask? i have no idea. i have been really annoyed with grammar and spelling errors lately. for instance...
friends are not "apart" of your family. they are "a part" of your family.

whatever.

i will update you on how my weekend went. friday night i went to a comedy club with friends from school. have not laughed that hard in a loooooong time. i think we all left with sore face muscles having laughed so much. greg morton. google him. he spent the first full 5 minutes talking about underwear, which makes everyone giggle. don't deny it. one of these days i'll figure out how to post audio files and you can listen to the song my brother wrote for me. it was an honor. but i digress.
saturday i had class most of the day--came home, talked to my bff beth for a while and worked out. went for a walk and went to the mall. spent too much money but got my dad a birthday gift. this morning, went to church and then out to lunch with my grandparents. i have to do a cultural narrative project for one of my classes, and my grandparents and uncle have been extremely helpful with giving me family trees, family pictures, and stories about when the templetons crossed the pond. but the BIG news is that i'm related to king charlemagne. so you may call me princess. [i thought this was pretty cool. and it still is, but i bet about 1/2 of the world is related to a king somewhere down the line]. i also satrted the daunting task of cleaning out my closet and starting a goodwill box. too much junk!!! anyway, i'm at home now, lounging around, feeling pretty good about myself for eating an egg-white spinach omelet and blueberry lowfat yogurt for dinner. which balances out the dozens of cookies i've consumed in the past week. need to hit the treadmill hard tonight if i'm going to make a respectable showing in the mini marathon.

first step would be to get off the couch.

ok so i've blasted indy enough on here (even though i LOVE living here)--i will now give the city a collective compliment. while you have short memories and don't know how to deal with, or drive in, snow, i will say that you're all pretty brave when it comes to other forms of severe weather such as tornados. tornado warnings are waaaaay more common here than i'm comfortable with, but everyone here is so brave about it. i am impressed. i will be spending half the spring in the bathtub [safest place in absence of a basement]. kind of like stephanie in full house when she moves of the room she shares with dj.

anyone? anyone?

have a great week. i for one, will be skipping town in 3 short days! really glad to be going home for a looooong weekend!

dollar says we hear the bird in the grill story today

soo i'm sitting in class, listening to danny p/prof poff tell the same stories that we heard LAST CLASS (allison, you're not missing much). i will LOSE IT if we do in fact hear the bird in the grill story again today, as kristina has already predicted.

write THAT down, my friends.

i'll update in a few hours



UPDATE

first of all, we did NOT hear the bird in the grill story (prof poff has told this story just about every other class--every time like it's the first.)

but i did get my emotional intelligence test back today, and i am not emotionally unintelligent. so that was good news, because i would feel ridiculous if i had scored badly. given my future career and all.

alive and well

i know, you were wondering, right? i apologize for keeping you all on the edge of your seat, wondering--how is lib's week going? (not bad) has she seen any more strange things on wheels? (YES! the smart car.), did she FINALLY learn her neighbor's name? (Teresa) Is she just a little bit sad that ER is over as of tonight even though she hasn't watched it since her college days (absolutely she is) Did she see some lady at Target with springs built into the heels of her shoes (YES! wasn't that Ca-razy??) Did she skip out on running club just because of the rain (not proud of it, but yes)

And THAT about sums up my week. i am alive and doing well, but i've been terrible at updating this.

um, your thoughts on black nail polish? i am kind of a fan, i must admit.




.....the half marathon is exactly one month away. INTENSE. and i'm not talking about my camping trip
[ (c) JP. ]