Precipitation

Last night I saw ‘The proposal’. I must say that I really enjoyed it! It had heaps of laugh out loud moments and it definitely qualified as a chick flick. I’ve been jonesing for a good chick flick for a while now. It helps that Ryan Reynolds is easy on the eyes too. I’m also a fan of Sandra Bullock and Betty White!

I went with two other girls to this movie and so we did the good old fashioned girl talk afterwards and it was good. It almost made me miss going to the girls group but not enough to start going lol.

Yesterday, I was officially old enough to have a Dad who would have retired this year.
It seems somewhat surreal the idea of it all. I didn’t picture him ever retiring when he was alive. I guess I thought things would go on as they were forever. But they don’t. Time isn’t static but ever changing.
I don’t feel really sad today. If anything, I just miss the lost moments we would have had over the last ten years. I am also thankful. Thankful that I knew my Father and that I have a loving Mother. I’m also thankful that my brother let me know he missed him too. It was enough.

A few more days and things will change forever.
There will be things that I can never say in quite the same way or feel in quite the same way.
Know that I will always love you.
It may not be in the same context but my love for you will never leave.
You taught me grown up love.
You taught me about sacrifice and putting others first when it counts (and even when it really hurts).
You taught me about trust.
You made me feel - not always the way I wanted to but I was alive.
You made me feel incredibly special in big ways and small ways.
I miss you.
All of these things I will store in my heart.
They will be my stardust melody.

Ok, I’m going to be totally girly for a moment because I just had to record this!

Tonight the most cutest guy came up to me and talked to me! It’s not even like I was wearing heels or nice clothes (because for once, I wasn’t). We talked for at least half an hour I’d imagine. He had the most beautiful accent and dimples!

Okay, three smallish problems. One is that he’s eight and half years younger than me. Secondly, he’s leaving the country in a week and thirdly, he probably doesn’t even like me.

Me however…I’m just happy to be alive . I’ll get to see him before he goes. It’s not that we are meeting up - just going to the same place at the same time. You know though, part of me is still thinking about the guy who isn’t that into me. I think I want to torture myself lol.

Clean sheets day.
Cuddly dressing gowns.
My family who is making me feel loved and wanted.
A new book.
A new pair of work shoes.
A half day on Monday.
My wonderful dog.
Me being wrong about something (long story).

I want my life to be like a good piece of classical music – Joyful and excited in the beauty of the high notes, sadly beautiful and melodic in the low notes, always changing and always growing – all for the pure and unadulterated pleasure of the one who created it.
~Copyright to me 2009~

Okay, that’s odd…! I had a post yesterday all about this new author I’d discovered and now it’s gone. The authors name was Erynn Mangum. I read two of the three books that she’s written over the weekend and I could not put them down.

My fav Christian chic-lit authors would have to be (and this is in no particular order):
Trish Perry
Erynn Mangum
Karen Kingsbury
Siri L Mitchell
Laura Jensen Walker

If you know of any more contemporary Christian chic lit books please let me know!

Yesterday I intentionally flirted with a guy. Probably wasn’t the best idea but I still really enjoyed it haha. It made me feel alive and excited! I miss not having a guy that I could imagine myself with, that feeling of possibilities and the world being your oyster. Of course, I don’t miss the emotional rollercoaster (ok, I do a wee bit haha ).

The problem with social networking is that everybody feels compelled to add everyone. That leaves me wondering about the wisdom in that. For the most part, I am happy with who I have but… like most people I’m guessing, I’m left with a few people which put me in a difficult position.

Firstly, there’s those which I have deleted and they’ve re-added me. It’s not that they are bad people, it’s just that I don’t ever speak to them so what is the point in having them there? It’s purely social networking for the sake of social networking.

Secondly, Colleagues. While I think some of them are the bees knees - the amount I have to add grows as the number of them join up grows. I can’t just add some and not others. On top of that, I really have to be careful what I say. For instance, I can’t say - I don’t feel like being at work today in case it’s read by one of my co-workers.

Lastly, we all admit that social networking is a time waster! The little games that we get caught into playing etc. Now it’s got to the point that if we got off these sites - we’d never know what is happening with others! Thus, escape is impossible hehe.