I missed some old friends tonight. It's funny how many of them I have.
:-/
I'm also getting in the swing of things with some running. This week will be much more consistent.
Now if I can only get into a habit of writing/blogging. I remember how much I used to enjoy it, I just haven't made the time to sit down and do it again.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Saturday, April 5, 2008
I'm so ashamed..
I haven't been keeping up with my blog like I said I would.
That is going to change, I promise. I've made a deal with myself to write more, and this is part of that deal.
So consider this a heads up. Also, keep reminding me to post. It may take a bit to get into enough of a habit with it.
That is going to change, I promise. I've made a deal with myself to write more, and this is part of that deal.
So consider this a heads up. Also, keep reminding me to post. It may take a bit to get into enough of a habit with it.
Friday, February 22, 2008
In Honor of Ice Storms
It's beautiful out today, even if it is cold and bad driving weather. The ice storm from yesterday afternoon and evening coated all the trees with ice and icicles, and everything looks like it's been frosted over. I hate cold, but the way it looks outside right now almost makes me change my mind.
At any rate, I was reading in my devotions this morning, and came across this Psalm, and I thought it particularly appropriate, and therefore I am posting it here.
How great is our God!
Psalm 147:12-20 (also, the whole rest of the Psalm is amazing.. :))
Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion!
For He has strengthened the bars of your gates; He has blessed your sons within you.
He makes peace in your borders; He satisfies you with the finest of the wheat.
He sends forth His command to the earth; His word runs very swiftly.
He gives snow like wool; He scatters frost like ashes.
He casts forth His ice as fragments; Who can stand before His cold?
He sends forth His word and melts them; He causes His winds to blow and the waters to flow.
He declares His words to Jacob, His statutes and ordinances to Israel.
He has not dealt thus with any nation; And as for His ordinances, they have not known them.
Praise the Lord!
At any rate, I was reading in my devotions this morning, and came across this Psalm, and I thought it particularly appropriate, and therefore I am posting it here.
How great is our God!
Psalm 147:12-20 (also, the whole rest of the Psalm is amazing.. :))
Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion!
For He has strengthened the bars of your gates; He has blessed your sons within you.
He makes peace in your borders; He satisfies you with the finest of the wheat.
He sends forth His command to the earth; His word runs very swiftly.
He gives snow like wool; He scatters frost like ashes.
He casts forth His ice as fragments; Who can stand before His cold?
He sends forth His word and melts them; He causes His winds to blow and the waters to flow.
He declares His words to Jacob, His statutes and ordinances to Israel.
He has not dealt thus with any nation; And as for His ordinances, they have not known them.
Praise the Lord!
Friday, February 15, 2008
Valentime's day
Adam's parents are in town for the weekend, they got in last night.
Adam and I did a bit of V-day celebrating early, this past Monday; we got take out from Panera, bought a season of The Office, and stayed in. It snowed quite a bit that night, and it was Adam's first "real" snow. We had lots of slush the next morning... whee!
Jack (my boston terrier) loved the snow. When we let our dogs out Tuesday morning, he went crazy. Sally, being a priss, didn't want to play, but Jack ran around and around anyway, and then started eating snow.
The snow is mostly melted, but the temperature's warmed and then dropped, so the snow melted and then froze over, so it was mostly ice. Which is not good, for a person of my precarious balancing capability. However, now it's mostly melted into slush, which is better.
At any rate, I'm signing off.
Adam and I did a bit of V-day celebrating early, this past Monday; we got take out from Panera, bought a season of The Office, and stayed in. It snowed quite a bit that night, and it was Adam's first "real" snow. We had lots of slush the next morning... whee!
Jack (my boston terrier) loved the snow. When we let our dogs out Tuesday morning, he went crazy. Sally, being a priss, didn't want to play, but Jack ran around and around anyway, and then started eating snow.
The snow is mostly melted, but the temperature's warmed and then dropped, so the snow melted and then froze over, so it was mostly ice. Which is not good, for a person of my precarious balancing capability. However, now it's mostly melted into slush, which is better.
At any rate, I'm signing off.
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Oh Eight, What Beauty In Thy Number
Time flies so quickly.
It's 4 days into 2008, and I can hardly believe everything that's happened since January 4th of last year.
I moved into my own apartment a few days after Christmas of '06.
I met Adam, my husband to be, on the 15th of January, '07.
February 28th, I was officially titled "girlfriend".
April 20th, I got engaged.
August 18th, I got married.
October 18th, we bought a house.
On the 15th of this month, I will have known Adam for a year, and on the 18th, we will have been married for 5 months.
This has been a year of unexpecteds.
Not only did I move out of my parents' house, I got married and bought a house. Straaaannnnge. :)
I didn't expect to meet, much less marry, my husband for a few years yet. I also didn't expect that we'd buy a house within three months of getting married.
I also got back in touch with some old friends that I surely didn't expect to be talking to for a long while. This makes me excited. There are a few people that I have missed terribly, and have wished at least to part on good terms with, and my expectations have been exceeded far beyond what I thought could happen. It's good to rediscover friends, especially as you grow up and mature and get over yourself.
There are other friends that I hope someday to talk to again, even just once, in the interest of leaving things at a good place, instead of either party having bitter memories of past events.
Some things haven't changed, and others have, and it's nice to come back around and leave the bad and keep the good. That's true for just about everything, I've begun to notice.
As far as this new year is concerned, here are some of my goals:
- To get healthy and in shape again. I have running shoes and a track suit, and I'm going to be getting out and running.. I want to be healthy and vigorous and energetic again.
- To write at least one song a week. I need to be polishing my craft, and growing in skill.
- To play piano more. I don't have any excuses, I've got a piano in my living room, a keyboard, a computer and some recording equipment...
- To get up and go to bed earlier, as a general rule, with a few exceptions here and there..
- To post on my blog more, as I seem to be terrible at keeping it current. :)
There are more, but I can't seem to think of any at the moment. I'm sick, and have strep throat, and so it's doubtful that I'll be able to come up with much more right now. I'll post again soon, promise. :)
Beck
It's 4 days into 2008, and I can hardly believe everything that's happened since January 4th of last year.
I moved into my own apartment a few days after Christmas of '06.
I met Adam, my husband to be, on the 15th of January, '07.
February 28th, I was officially titled "girlfriend".
April 20th, I got engaged.
August 18th, I got married.
October 18th, we bought a house.
On the 15th of this month, I will have known Adam for a year, and on the 18th, we will have been married for 5 months.
This has been a year of unexpecteds.
Not only did I move out of my parents' house, I got married and bought a house. Straaaannnnge. :)
I didn't expect to meet, much less marry, my husband for a few years yet. I also didn't expect that we'd buy a house within three months of getting married.
I also got back in touch with some old friends that I surely didn't expect to be talking to for a long while. This makes me excited. There are a few people that I have missed terribly, and have wished at least to part on good terms with, and my expectations have been exceeded far beyond what I thought could happen. It's good to rediscover friends, especially as you grow up and mature and get over yourself.
There are other friends that I hope someday to talk to again, even just once, in the interest of leaving things at a good place, instead of either party having bitter memories of past events.
Some things haven't changed, and others have, and it's nice to come back around and leave the bad and keep the good. That's true for just about everything, I've begun to notice.
As far as this new year is concerned, here are some of my goals:
- To get healthy and in shape again. I have running shoes and a track suit, and I'm going to be getting out and running.. I want to be healthy and vigorous and energetic again.
- To write at least one song a week. I need to be polishing my craft, and growing in skill.
- To play piano more. I don't have any excuses, I've got a piano in my living room, a keyboard, a computer and some recording equipment...
- To get up and go to bed earlier, as a general rule, with a few exceptions here and there..
- To post on my blog more, as I seem to be terrible at keeping it current. :)
There are more, but I can't seem to think of any at the moment. I'm sick, and have strep throat, and so it's doubtful that I'll be able to come up with much more right now. I'll post again soon, promise. :)
Beck
Friday, November 30, 2007
YouTube-in' it
I've created a Youtube channel, and have posted one video. I'm working on a couple more, they should be up soon.
http://www.youtube.com/beckelliott
http://www.youtube.com/beckelliott
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Various and Sundry Things
The holidays are here, and it's been a lot more than a month since I posted. I do apologize.
Life has been full, but it's starting to settle down.
We're mostly moved into our house, but we still haven't hung up pictures, or curtains, or things like that. There are a few books that still need to be unpacked, and a few things that still need a place, but for the most part, we've got things fairly well put together.
Our furnace hasn't been working for the last few weeks. It's been in the low 20s here, and I couldn't even take a bath, because the tub was so cold, it pretty much immediately cooled off the water to a lukewarm temperature. Sunday night we finally caved and got a little space heater that's worked nicely so far. Yay for Bed Bath and Beyond gift certificates! So it's kept the house pretty warm for the last few days, and now we finally have a furnace guy out here to fix it. Yay for warm houses!
We had some friends over last night for dinner, and I made broccoli soup and banana bread, and we played Apples to Apples and Speed Scrabble, and then watched random strange youtube videos. Among my favorites are the Gaki No Tsukai "Silent Library" videos, the laughing babies, the children dancing to Britney Spears who get scared by their mothers, and strange Indian (not Native American) music videos, with subtitles of what it sounds like if they were speaking English (not what the actual translation is). For instance, "My loony bun is fine Benny Lava".
I have piano students today, and then we don't have community group tonight, so I think we will stay in and watch a movie and relax or some such thing. It's been awhile since we've had a night at home together, and we will probably go to bed early. We're both pretty tired from the last week.
Hopefully the next time I blog won't be a month or two from now.
Life has been full, but it's starting to settle down.
We're mostly moved into our house, but we still haven't hung up pictures, or curtains, or things like that. There are a few books that still need to be unpacked, and a few things that still need a place, but for the most part, we've got things fairly well put together.
Our furnace hasn't been working for the last few weeks. It's been in the low 20s here, and I couldn't even take a bath, because the tub was so cold, it pretty much immediately cooled off the water to a lukewarm temperature. Sunday night we finally caved and got a little space heater that's worked nicely so far. Yay for Bed Bath and Beyond gift certificates! So it's kept the house pretty warm for the last few days, and now we finally have a furnace guy out here to fix it. Yay for warm houses!
We had some friends over last night for dinner, and I made broccoli soup and banana bread, and we played Apples to Apples and Speed Scrabble, and then watched random strange youtube videos. Among my favorites are the Gaki No Tsukai "Silent Library" videos, the laughing babies, the children dancing to Britney Spears who get scared by their mothers, and strange Indian (not Native American) music videos, with subtitles of what it sounds like if they were speaking English (not what the actual translation is). For instance, "My loony bun is fine Benny Lava".
I have piano students today, and then we don't have community group tonight, so I think we will stay in and watch a movie and relax or some such thing. It's been awhile since we've had a night at home together, and we will probably go to bed early. We're both pretty tired from the last week.
Hopefully the next time I blog won't be a month or two from now.
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