Today, a kid in my class and I enjoyed this entertaining exchange:
Kid: Do you like to talk about global warming?
Me: Why…do you want to talk about global warming?
Kid: Nah, you just look like someone who would like to talk about it.
Ha!
Ryan and I took off for Wichita on Thursday evening to help present some Lovewell workshops at the Kansas State Thespian Conference. The toll road that runs southwest through Kansas is one that neither of us had ever travelled and wow! It may be the most desolate stretch of road that I have ever seen. Really, if I needed to dispose of a body and couldn’t make it out to the desert, I would head just west of Emporia and no one would be any the wiser.
Anyway, we made it to our hotel and met Carrie and John Henningsen and headed off to have the first of several suprisingly sucky meals in the fine city of Wichita. However, things improved quickly when we found Chisholm’s Bar & Grill on the first floor of our hotel. $3.50 pitchers all weekend? Yeah, we took advantage of that. Being able to order a Papa John’s pizza to be delivered INTO the bar? We took advantage of that, too.
In non-beer related news, the conference itself was great, we did two really successful workshops and spoke to many interested students and teachers. Things are falling into place for Lovewell in the Midwest, and it’s feeling pretty good. Enjoy some sweet Wichita pics.
Who made this? Clearly someone who does not own a calendar or is not familiar with the seasons.
John, pointing out the grizzly bear behind me (thanks John!)
Carrie, making a Serious Point (possibly having to do with $3.50 pitchers.)
Ryan in happier times (before Carrie spilled her beer on him.)
Chisholm’s delicious cajun popcorn.
Whoa…I have increased my fruit consumption these last two weeks and all I can say is I am going to have to get up earlier to pencil more bathroom time into my day.
(And if you know me, you know that there is already a fairly significant amount of time already scheduled.)
I am in love with walnuts. I read a bunch of pro-walnut literature over Christmas and now I am convinced they are a miracle food. They:
Give you buttloads of Omega 3’s
Lower your cholesterol
Make you feel full
Taste really good
Fit nicely in a mini tupperware container
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Also, I am reading an amazing book called “A Return to Love” by Marianne Williamson. No, it is not a romance novel (darn), it’s actually her analysis of a book called “A Course in Miracles” which is a spiritual text. You know how sometimes you read something and it almost feels like the author is reading your mind? That’s how this book makes me feel when I read it. It has resonated with me so much, so much more than anything spiritual I have ever read. It’s hard to explain, google it if you are interested, I think anyone who is kinda into spirituality would find it interesting.
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Ryan and I saw Juno on Saturday, and it was great! I really loved it. The music was awesome, too. I was kinda worried because I had read so much about it that I was scared it was over-hyped in my mind, but it really lived up to what people have been saying about it. After the movie, Ryan and I ate at Ted’s Montana Grill (Grill? Steakhouse? I can’t remember.) That’s the restaurant owned by Ted Turner. Everything was all lodge-like inside and really warm and cozy. When you sit down, you get a bowl of “half-sours” which are pickles halfway throught he curing process (so said Jill, our waitress). They were…okay. Too pickle-y to be cucumbers and too cucumber-y to be pickles. Verdict…weird. I had a buffalo burger and Ryan had buffalo meatloaf (yes, he’s weird and orders things like meatloaf when we dine out.)
All in all, that was some tasty, tasty buffalo.
Things That I Am Not Enjoying:
Christmas is over. The friends I got to see this holiday have mostly all gone home or are on their way to being gone. My joyous 11 days off from work have come to a close as of tonight. Ryan starts his new job in February, thus leaving me kinda lonely on the weekends again. At some point, we will have to take the Christmas tree down. I still have whatever viral chest-cold funk I picked up last week. It is supposed to be 60 degrees on Sunday.
Normally, all of this overwhelms me with depression (and to be honest, I am fighting my own brain on this one) but I have decided to adjust my attitude and Be Happy and not Wish For Something That Is Not/That I Have No Control Over. I have decided to:
-Accept the fact that if Christmas was all year long it would not be as special (and I would be morbidly obese.)
-Make plans to visit friends more often and realize that if they lived here I would probably not appreciate them as much as I do when I get to see them less often.
-Start becoming a machine at work and spend less time daydreaming; also work on making my daydreams My Realities.
-As for Ryan’s job, let’s see…Ryan is very excited, the venue is going to be non-smoking, we will be avoiding the tragic pitfalls we dealt with last time Ryan had this job, I like having money and…uhh…seeing movies by yourself builds character, right? Right!
-We will plan something very fun to do after we take the tree down so I don’t cry and become angry (like last year!)
-I am hitting the CVS clinic if I am not better by tomorrow. Yeah!
-I will stay inside all day Sunday and pretend global warming is not real.
As for 2008, I have no resolutions. Instead, I have just decided to work on listening to myself this year. It has become more and more clear to me that know what is best for me in all aspects of my life, I just need to shut up and get out my own way. Stop being so knee-jerk with my reactions and decisions and just…breathe. When I don’t listen to myself, I do dumb things that make me unhappy, especially in regards to my thinking. So, I am going to try to talk less and listen more.
Happy New Year, Happy New Thinking.
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