My Precious...

I feel like Gollum. My desire for this consumes me. I visit it everyday on costco.com. Everyday. I yearn to make it mine. I just wish there was some way I could own it sooner than seven months from now... $50 from each paycheck is going into my "camera account" that I opened at work this week to save for my camera. That's $100 a month, and at $699.99 it will take me seven months to get enough to buy it, and then I'll make Nick pay for the tax. The only way to get it sooner is if people (meaning my family) are nice enough to get me CostCo gift cards for my birthday and Christmas. Cross your fingers for me!!

Amazement

I just found out that my friend, Allyse Smith, made a cd with Marvin Goldstein. Anyone looking for a new church cd with beautiful arrangements and a remarkable vocalist should go buy her cd, "Come Thou Fount."

When I was in the Murrieta singles branch, I had the opportunity to hear Allyse sing many times and the beauty, majesty, and spirit of her voice always brought tears to my eyes. I also had the pleasure of having her sing in my little choir when I was the choir director. She is such an amazing person and I feel blessed to consider her my friend.

Writing

I had to do a writing autobiography for class. By writing autobiography, I mean a ten page paper on how you have developed as a writer, your writing habits/strategies, the things you like/dislike about writing, and how plan to grow as a writer. Here is an excerpt from my paper:

"Writing is something I love to do. Most people moan and groan when assigned an essay or research paper, but I see it as an excuse to shine. It is an outlet for my feelings, a release for my stress, and a soapbox for my opinions. A great deal of thought goes into every word I write and I often consult a thesaurus for exactly the right sentiment. Writing is as much a part of who I am as is my passion for shoes, my piercing blue eyes, my infectious laugh, and my love of eating. When I write for myself, I do so with everything I posses. Not all writing for assignments receive the same amount of fervor, but I still put much of myself into the words that fill the pages. I see writing as a way to leave my mark, to change someone’s views, or touch someone’s life. By putting my idiosyncrasies and pieces of myself into my writing, I can ensure that I will not be forgotten, that I will live on, if only in the minds of those who read my words."

At least on some level, I suppose that is why we are all here, why we write our blogs... to make our mark and ensure we are not forgotten.

Pinkberry and Brian Regan

Thursday was a fabulous day. I had training for the first half of the day in Temecula, so on my lunch break I stopped at Pinkberry and partook of the swirly goodness. That night, Nick and I went to see the comedian Brian Regan at Pechanga (I got Nick the tickets for our anniversary). He was hillarious and we had such a good time. I haven't laughed that hard in a while.

I actually got him the tickets because before we started dating, he asked me out to a Brian Regan show and I stood him up at the last minute (don't feel bad for him, the tickets he was getting from a friend from fell through anyway...). It was fun to go to the show we were supposed to go to almost exactly two years ago. Funny how much things can change in such a small amount of time. Then, I was dreading going with him because he was the weird red head kid that always stared at me when I was leading the music and now, I can't think of anyone else I'd rather spend all of my time with! Awwww...