coloradoh! 8:14 PM

flight, hotel, and rental car: $335

last minute gift card and greeting card: $25

waking up at four in the morning: $a small fortune

being a 3rd wheel to Paul and Alison for a weekend,

seeing robbie,

james and malia getting married,

and packing extra slow so it seems like a longer trip...

...priceless. $ :)

so worth it.

photoshop + dry humor 5:11 PM

to see full size:

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j90/yourelame90/tag1.jpg

Do you remember these?

There have been several short-lived trends on facebook...this being one of them. It is an image meant for people to tag their friends in...i'm not exactly sure why.

But i bet we have all been tagged in at least one of them.

However, this is one that you haven't been tagged in before, nor is it one that you would want to be.

That is why i posted it on my blog and not my facebook...it's much too rude if i was being serious.

This may have been inspired by people i know... some may be even by the people i love most.

So don't feel self-conscious :)

I apologize for my strange humor.

if i had three wishes 9:49 PM

they would be:

1. to turn into a "morning person"

2. to wake up (early) with expert cello skills.

3. Whirled peas for everyone.

(i would also ask for the ability to teleport, but i'm pretty sure magical things only come in groups of three)

it's summer 9:25 AM

and i miss playing settlers with my homies.

oh lord help me, 9:22 PM

my little sister is growing up and its creeping me out.

the time is 8:17 but that is irrelevant. 12:25 PM

My Uncle Kelly says that life is all about relationships.

Relationships are intricate and fun and beautiful and not easy.

They are full of all kinds of challenges that are meant to be overcome. They go through turns and transitions because they need to. They need to teach us, define us, and refine us.

So even when separation, uncomfortable and inconvenient, is matched with endurance and devotion it becomes profitable for a relationship. Just like with God, we of course always want him to "feel" as near to us as he had once felt. But from time to time he will pull himself away so our longing and pursuit become stronger. Not so that he is absent (because he is not), but so we become achingly eager for him, in order that we hope for him more and recognize how deep our love for him is.