The last few weekends I've been beaching it up!! You can now look directly at my legs without hurting your eyes or wearing sunglasses! :) A few weeks ago, Kevin and I went to Destin with 5 couples. You would think people would know that when they're going to be sharing a house with 11 other people, you won't always get your way, and we won't always put up with your crap. There was only one isolated event the first night. The rest of the weekend was fantastic with an amazing shrimp boil thanks to Travis. Yay!!! Last weekend we went back to the beach with K's family and stayed in a condo in seagrove. We also saw the site where The Truman Show was taped. On the way home, I begged Kevin to stop at Priester's Pecans somewhere off 65N. It was like the Cracker Barrel store on steroids and I was like a kid in a candy store!! Weeeeeeeeee
I about ate the bowl of cheese straw samples up!!
I have begun reading The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman for a few reasons. I heard it was written similar to C.S. Lewis and Tolkien stuff which I love, the movie came out last year, I have some summer reading time!, kids at my school were reading it, and I was interested in the supposed anti-religious themes. So far, the story is quite captivating and mysterious with each character accompanied by a daemon, an animal representative of each character's soul. Then there's this mysterious Dust that we know very little about but it seems the main character is searching for an explanation of it. And last, the golden compass, also called an alethiometer that Lyra, he main character inherits. The compass supposedly seeks out the truth.
Oh, also the title of the trilogy, His Dark Materials, is from a line in Milton's Paradise Lost
Into this wilde Abyss,
The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave,
Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire,
But all these in their pregnant causes mixt
Confus'dly, and which thus must ever ight,
Unless th' Almighty Maker them ordain
His dark materials to create more Worlds,
Into this wilde Abyss the warie fiend
Stood on the brink of Hell and look'd a while,
Pondering his Voyage; for no narrow frith
He had to cross.- Book 2, lines 910 - 920
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Dark_Materials
I would love to go to culinary school!! Watching Hell's Kitchen, Iron Chef, and Rachel Ray makes me think "Hmmm I bet I could do that!!"
Funny story... Yesterday, when I arrived at school to work on my classroom I casually glanced in my backseat as I was getting out of the car. To my surprise, I found a very unusual combination of things: mardi gras beads, a strapless bra, a Bryan Adams CD. WOW, what a message that must send to passersby! :O
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2 comments:
Thank you for the update...and why was a bra in your backseat? Inquring minds want to know.
Hmmm I guess I should clarify that was not how I got those mardi gras beads!! haha I happened to be driving a 4 hr trip in the car and the darn bra got so uncomfortable in the summer heat so I took if off and threw it in the back. Doesn't everyone do things like that?!? ;)
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