Posted by: Becca on: July 28, 2008
So far this summer:
Took Natalie to Movies in the Park in Locust twice and saw the Bee Movie and Shrek 3 and bought and consumed between 3 adults and 1 two year old approximately 4 bags of popcorn, 3 bags of cotton candy, 2 snow cones, 2 bags of M&M’s, sweetarts, a nerds rope, and [...]
Posted by: Becca on: July 27, 2008
If Natalie had an iPod, her playlist would look something like this:
*’s indicate she knows the whole song by heart
Disclaimer: I am not the only person she listens to music with, so this does not necessarily directly or accurately portray my personal tastes, although it is varied in genre, which is actually very similar to [...]
Posted by: Becca on: July 15, 2008
It takes an intense amount of humility and courage to look at yourself in the mirror and acknowledge you need help and then turn around and look at someone else and ask for it.
So often, people view strength as someone who doesn’t need help. But that’s such a false concept, because we all need [...]
Posted by: Becca on: July 13, 2008
When there’s a split, what’s better, to be the one staying or the one leaving?
If you stay you have to sit with the ghosts that wander the halls and seats. But you get to keep some familiarity of place. And maybe, with time those ghosts will be replaced and the sadness will be [...]
Posted by: Becca on: July 11, 2008
Sometimes, I look at Natalie and I start to think about all the things I hope to teach her and I’ll start freaking out because I’ll realize there are so many things I want to teach her that I don’t know or know how to do and then I just start to think that [...]
Posted by: Becca on: July 9, 2008
Music I write to/with/because of: Athenaeum, Lifehouse, The Fray, Creed, Our Lady Peace, Evan’s Blue, The Verdict, In Sepia, Harvard, Seahorses, Matt Browning, Parallel, Mat Kearney, Jason Isbell, Jack’s Mannequin, Citizen Cope, Dashboard Confessional, Jimmy Eat World, Oasis, Rascal Flatts, Skillet, Jars of Clay, Jeremy Camp, Fuel, Goo Goo Dolls, Angels and Airwaves, Silversun Pickups, [...]
Posted by: Becca on: July 9, 2008
Do we really need to hear 15 times a day about how high gas prices are? This is not news…I mean are they going to start reporting about the color of the damn sky? “Yes Mike, I’m out here on highway 74 and the sky is blue, it looks like it’s just going [...]
Posted by: Becca on: July 9, 2008
In the movie Alice in Wonderland, Alice states that it is so easy to give advice, but she never seems to be able to take her own. I do that all the time. Like with this:
So it only took me 4 days to realize how what I wrote about in the playing games-little revolutions blog [...]
Posted by: Becca on: July 4, 2008
it always comes back to balance and maintaining perspective when you want to get the most out of life that you can.
understanding that life is precious and unpredictable, many aspects of it out of our control, and our time with it is without guarantee ,we decide – live in the now, take a chance, have [...]
Posted by: Becca on: July 4, 2008
Lots of times on people’s profiles there’s an exhaustive list of things they like/dislike. It’s actually an exercise that can be used therapeutically. Of course it doesn’t usually produce much at first because you can bet if you ask someone sitting at the rock bottom of their own personal darkness they will tell [...]
