"...life that sizzles and pops..."

"I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud.

And I don’t want to get to the end, or to tomorrow, even, and realize that my life is a collection of meetings and pop cans and errands and receipts and dirty dishes.

I want to eat cold tangerines and sing out loud in the car with the windows open and wear pink shoes and stay up all night laughing and paint my walls the exact color of the sky right now. I want to sleep hard on clean white sheets and throw parties and eat ripe tomatoes and read books so good they make me jump up and down,

and I want every day to make God belly laugh, glad that he gave life to someone who loves the gift."

— Shauna Niequist

wonder.

joyful

Tuesday Tunes: Dreamer

This is different from the kind of music I normally listen to, but I think I like it. It was on iTunes as a free single a while back. The video is kinda weird. But whatevs. Elizaveta was trained as an opera singer, or something, but then decided to make pop music. Dreamer is a pretty, upbeat, random and happy song. ^_^

Leave  your fear of love behind

Let your dreaming be your guide

If you seek then you shall find

I believe in fairy tales and serendipitous encounters

bread, and debate, and squirrels -- oh my!

Today, we made bread. (Note: That's the royal "we", as I basically sat around and did debate and studied economics.) I'm allergic to wheat, so nice bread is rare. Spelt flour bread doesn't always turn out very well, but this is an amazing recipe. Look how pretty it is! ^_^

As I was dancing around the kitchen, being excited over the prospect of warm bread dipped in garlic and olive oil, I noticed a squirrel in the yard.

While I recognize that a squirrel is basically an oversized rat (read: pointy teeth and a carrier of disease), it's a really stinking cute oversized rat. Also it has bright eyes and a bushy tail. And when it's noshing on a piece of bread right outside my window, I just have to "aaaaawwww!" (and take a picture.)

In other news, I adore my new camera. =P

Pretty weather.

In order to make up for the lack of weekend posting, here are some pictures of the snow, and my personal adventures in it. ^_^

Once a year, I wish I knew how to walk in a handstand. =P

How cool would it be to go find a park somewhere, and just handstand-walk all over a clean white patch of unblemished snow? I think that would be so amazing.

We made a giant cat sculpture.

I like snow. This was a tunnel of bent over bamboo and white fluffy happiness. ^_^

It rained, and so the snow is gone now, but it was hecka fun while it lasted. =P

Quotes - "a person fully alive"

 “The glory of God is a person fully alive.” – Irenaeus, 2^nd century theologian

Tuesday Tunes: Catch All the Fish

I was going to write a nice long contemplative post, and then give you a thoughtful song to go along with it. However, in my excitement over this last weekend, I decided not to. Instead, I give you my and my partner's "theme song" from the recent tournament, which apparently propelled us to victory. ^_^ I love country music.

"We drank all the fish/we caught all the beer..."

("X all the Y" credit to hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com, "This is why I'll never be an adult" -- content warning.)

...life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud.

I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud.

And I don’t want to get to the end, or to tomorrow, even, and realize that my life is a collection of meetings and pop cans and errands and receipts and dirty dishes.

I want to eat cold tangerines and sing out loud in the car with the windows open and wear pink shoes and stay up all night laughing and paint my walls the exact color of the sky right now. I want to sleep hard on clean white sheets and throw parties and eat ripe tomatoes and read books so good they make me jump up and down,

and I want every day to make God belly laugh, glad that he gave life to someone who loves the gift.

— Shauna Niequist

Thanks to Hannah, for finding an awesome quote. :)

I tend to obsess over quotes to the point of keeping a notebook filled with them. I'm thinking about a series of  my favorites. Stay posted (haha, aren't I funny?) for the announcement!