Just a little memory

I was thinking of high school today, although that is not something I would suggest for most, and I remembered a song.  A dear friend of mine sang this to me when I was having a hard time and today I listened to it again and it brought a tear to my eye.  I hope that when you listen to this song it gives you a little bit of hope and brightens your day.  Please take a listen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t9u-LOa3OI

Have a glorious moment on me,
Maria

Success through Osmosis

I am procrastinating.  I have a few finals I should be studying for and instead I am writing a blog post.  Not the worst thing I could be doing by far, but still, how can I expect to get anywhere in my life if I'm not studying or at least picking up the books I need to read in order to succeed?

My goal is to find myself right?  But I haven't done anything new or different.  I haven't tried to change my habits or redo my schedule.  I have been sitting here day after day, trying to figure out what to do with myself when really what I need to be doing is trying harder in school.  I need to suck it up and turn my internet off for a few hours and just do it.  So if I know what I need to do, why is it so hard?  Once I sit down and start reading my assignments it will be easy to do.  Well, relatively.  Compared to just staring at the books and hoping my studying occurs through osmosis, starting my assignments should be a piece of cake.  And my roommate is great at studying.  That is all she has been doing for the past two weeks or more.  And her stuff really is hard.  She is a psychology major and every thing she does goes right over my head.

So I have decided.  What I am going to do starting tomorrow after class is not check my Facebook, but get my homework done.  I will study.  That is all.  And when I am done studying I will allow myself thirty minutes to bum around on the computer.  After that, its back to the books.

For anyone who doesn't know and is curious, college is hard.  A lot harder than what the high school guidance counselors let on to when they say it is your only hope to survival.

Anyway, that is my rant for the evening.  Someday I will get this student thing right.  Wish me luck readers!

Live gloriously,

Maria

Snow and Angels

Angels may not come when you call them, but they'll always  be there when you need them.

-Unknown

I want to thank the kind man who pulled me out of the ditch today when I got stuck in the snow.  I was planning on sitting for 5 hours for the tow truck to get there, but a man who did not give his name, came and pulled me out when everyone else left me to myself.  I thank God and my guardian angel for everything today.  My angel has come to me in many forms over the years and tonight it was as a man who happened to be on his way to the gas station.  Some would say that trusting a stranger to pull me out of the snow and not kidnap me or what ever may be foolish and naive, but I believe that there are angels, and mine was watching over me.  To everyone else who is suffering or scared, I send my prayers to your angel.  But honestly, they don't need my prayers.  They are watching over you and they know if you need help.

God bless you and yours,

Enjoy this glorious life,

Maria

Snowmen and Flakes

Good Morning Readers!
I had a bad night last night, so let's try to keep this upbeat.  It snowed yesterday!  Now normally I don't like the cold.  In fact, most of this December has been down right horrible.  But the thing about cold is I hate it more when there is no snow to show for it.  It is has been chilly and windy the past few days, but yesterday afternoon it wasn't too horrible.  And then around 5:00, it started snowing.  And not just a little either. These snow flakes were huge and some of them were clumping together.  Not only that, the snow wasn't melting immediately when it hit the ground.  It was sticking.  So my roommate and I walked back to our dorm after dinner and got to enjoy the snow.  As my roommate said, "Despite the cold, its actually kinda pretty."  I had to agree.  This morning the snow wasn't as thick as I would like it, but it is there.  I'm sure it will melt in the next few days, but that is okay.  It is supposed to snow again tomorrow.  I don't entirely believe that since last year the weather forecasters were constantly saying it was going to snow and I think we got a total of 2 inches all winter.  Now living in Wisconsin (and not in the south most regions either) and being in a very small college town where the professors teach students how to milk cows and we have a pasture on campus, it is weird to be in the dead of winter and not see any snow.  Sometimes, the grass is still green in places.  I hope that my kids get real snow.  The stuff that comes up to your waist and is sticky so snowmen stick together.  But with the world the way it is, that may be dreaming.  Oh well.
Until next time friends!  Have a glorious day!
Maria

The ground outside my dorm this morning.

Penguins and Pop Rocks

Because I have been having not such a great time lately, and because I am lacking sleep I am going to do something that makes me smile.  I'm going to make a list of things that start with the letter "P".  You may be asking, "Why the letter P, Maria?  What a strange letter to want to make a list about.  You are odd aren't you, Maria?"  Why yes.  Yes I am odd.  But I am tired and I like the letter P.  The puh sound feels good in my mouth (don't you start thinking dirty now).  Seriously try it. puh puh puh.  Its just a good sound and a good feeling.  Don't judge.  Actually I don't care if you judge.  That's why I made a blog.  HA!  Anyway... The letter P.

Post

Pizza

Pepperoni

Penguin

Pelican

Pop rocks

Piano

Pizzazz

Pillow

Pear

Peach

Pilgrim
Pots

Parachute

Precalculus (actually I hate this word.  I failed precalc in high school.)

Pony

Pasta

Pastrami

Pistachio

Potato

Piccolo

Panda

Princess (I don't really like them either.  They are stuck up and helpless.  I mean please.  What did  
              Cinderella really do.  Really.  Now that I've just lost half my readers, back to the letter P!)

Pig
Platypus

Papua New Guinea

Posh

Punctuation

Okay, I think that is quite enough.  For my Sesame Street lovers out there:

Today's post was brought to you by the letter P, and the number.... 4 (this is my fourth post).

As I have not been sleeping well lately I don't feel even remotely embarrassed and someday when I am sleeping again I will happily look back on this and laugh.  I hope the very best to you and yours!

Live today gloriously friends!

Maria

A Beautiful December Day

Good afternoon friends!

So today I am supposed to be working on some projects for school, but instead I have been playing Tetris for the past hour.  Cannot possibly be more procrastinating.  But that is not why I wanted to jump in and post on this glorious afternoon.  I realized that it is December 2nd and it is supposedly 36 degrees outside.  That should be kind of cold, but I have the window open and a fan blowing fresh air into my room so it can't be that cold (I absolutely hate the cold).  So this is a bit of an ode to this beautiful, though unexpected, December day.

A glance outside says that it is sweatshirt weather

The warmth is bringing fog from the ground 

though the clouds look ready to spew frozen lace

The squirrels are much more spirited today than last week

The cold had started to set into their tiny bones

and they were beginning to hide away for the winter

But today, the squirrels hop gleefully between the trees

A good sign that it must be warm

The sun is poking out from a hole in the clouds

just to remind us that it isn't going away

Even the lifeless trees with their bare branches look lively

Their bark is not as gray as it was a day ago

Yes, this is the warmth that was needed

to thaw out a bit before the real freeze sets in

Just a small amount of warmth to remind us that winter is not the end

Only a small moment in time in which the world naps

and we pause to watch our breath bubble to the sky

with our wishes and hopes to always be remembered

It is this day of warmth that says 

"Be calm.  All will be well in due time."

Alright, well that was a bit unexpected.  As was this day so I suppose it fits well.  To all of you in a warm climate today, get off of your computers and go outside.  Trust me, it is worth it.

Keep on living gloriously friends,

Maria

Ferbys and Guardian Angels

So this week sucked. Majorly. I thought that perhaps it was just a thing I was going through.  On Monday when I woke up and wanted to set someone on fire (no body in particular, just someone) I thought that some ice cream and putting a smile on would make it fade, but now it is Saturday night and I have gone from furious and raving to just down right sad.

But this is supposed to be about make me a better... me! So let's do this right.  Today I emailed a bunch of people trying to fix a big screw up on my end.  I am really hoping that when life resumes on Monday things are a bit better.  I was so grateful for today.  I slept in until 12:45 and then stayed in my pjs until 5:30.  I took the day just to myself.  I didn't think of anyone else or worry about anything.  I watch an old tv show (family favorite) the A-Team.  If you have never seen it watch the 3rd episode on Netflix.  It isn't until the third one before it starts really getting good.

After I got dressed I went to dinner with a pretty down to earth friend.  He never pushes for info and is just kind of laid back.  Really what I needed today.  Really what I have needed all week actually.  So we went to dinner and then I went to a birthday party.  90's themed!  Really brought back my childhood.  Somebody must know what I need right now who knows more than me because even an hour of just chilling playing with old McDonald's style Ferbys was calming.  And the root beer floats that went with it really hit the spot.

I also need to say a thank you really quick.  I sincerely thank my guardian angel today.  You didn't let me get a stomach ache after eating a tube of cookie dough last night and you made sure that I got home safely after work even though I had a horrible headache and couldn't see very well through my tears.

To all of my readers (I'm sure you are out there somewhere), I hope you have a wonderful guardian angel as I do.  Sorry this was a bit of a lame post.  I'm still getting used to this blogging thing.  I promise it will get better.  Just hang in there.  This really is a better diary than I ever wrote in as a child.

Keep living gloriously friends!

Maria

Greetings!

Hello world,

I'm not sure who is reading, and to be completely and totally honest, I don't care.  If you are reading, thank you.  I am grateful.  If you see this and bolt that is okay.  I won't be hurt.  I've been hurt a lot in my life and I am quite adapt to the pain.  It is okay.  Honestly.  Ha!  Probably just freaked a lot of you out.  Sorry about that.

Well I suppose I should tell you a little about myself.  I am going to school to become a teacher and right now I am having a hard time discovering who I really am.  I thought I knew but... well I didn't.  That is okay though.  I am blogging now to help myself learn.  This is a learning experience for all of us.  So, here is the deal.  I will try to post once a week, but like most bloggers out there I do have other things on my plate.  Finals are coming up in a few weeks and I am a little behind on some assignments so that is a big focus right now.  But all in all, I will try to post once a week when time allows for it.

This blog is all about me and trying to figure out my life.  It is for me as well.  So I will write what I want, when I need to.  However!  I say that I love music, poetry, reading, children, the outdoors, animals, flowers, and well, life in general.  So because I love all of these things, and this blog is about me, this blog will definitely be about all of these other things as well.

Soooo, without farther to do, thank you for reading this far.  I promise my next post will be more interesting. And I cannot wait to learn about me with you by my side.

Live live gloriously friends!
Maria