mr. magorium's wonder emporium.

what a delightful movie. dustin hoffman and natalie portman were such charming character's. i want to own this movie.

i wish my hair was like natalie portman's.

movie quotes to take home with you:

mr. magorium: 37 seconds.
molly: Great. Well done. Now we wait.
mr. magorium: No. We breathe. We pulse. We regenerate. Our hearts beat. Our minds create. Our souls ingest. 37 seconds, well used, is a lifetime.

molly: come on, you can do better than that. move! all right. dont worry. if you fall, i'll just pick you back up. move!


if 37 seconds is a lifetime, then the 45 days left until graduation is nothing to worry about yet, so i'm not gonna. just like tonight after epic we went to on the side (for the $.50 per hot wing deal) afterward for food and fellowship. even though i really shouldn't have bc i really needed to do some reading and get to sleep before my long day tomorrow. but i didnt even think abt that until after i got home @1030p and watched mr. magorium w/ alona instead. and hanging out with epic was pretty great. i'm glad i went and i got to hang out with jenn more. she's great and i hope i get to know her better this next month because i would like to keep in touch with her.

p.s.- i just checked my email and my professor, prof. monahan, really is great with answering emails. she was so nice about answering my questions on the reading. wow, i really like her.

p.p.s.- game 5 of the laker-thunder nba playoffs was such a morale booster. i just want that to go down in the record. we played like champs!

passion & purity.

[by elisabeth elliot]

i am loving this book. it's exactly what i've been needing w nba playoffs and disneyland and all. i'm a little obsessed with elisabeth elliot right now. she's awesome.


"discipleship usually brings us into the necessity of choice between duty and desire. they are not always mutually exclusive, however. when our hearts are set on obedience, we can be sure of the needed wisdom to tell the difference between a conflict and a harmony. it may be a slow and painful process."

"rainbows are made of sunlight and rain."

"the Holy Spirit was given to guide us into all truth, but He doesn't do it all at once."


psalm 73:25
whom have i in heaven but you?
and there is nothing on earth that i desire besides you.

sisterly bonding.

gaby and i went to woodstocks, shared a pepperoni pizza, and watched game 2. it was GREAT. woodstocks was also doing trivia at the same time so we attempted to answer random trivia questions on nicholas cage and white nba players. and of course, we justified doing all this because we brought some materials to study during commercials and half time. lol

then shea met us at woodstocks and i made her read this wonderful statement in our art history reader regarding 16th century reproductive myths/practices:

"Consequently, the physicians concluded, the woman wishing to conceive a male child should turn to her right side during or immediately after intercourse. The future father, similarly, should provide seed from his right testicle, although this is admittedly harder to control."

...i should think so. haha we had such a good laugh before heading over to iv theater to watch sherlock holmes. gaby and i were disappointed bc the game still had 8 minutes left. but i was recording it so we decided we'd watch the movie and then go back to my apt and watch the last 8 minutes.

the movie was quite entertaining and we've decided that we want to talk like watson and holmes all the time. gaby liked it so much she said she'd buy the movie! and at full price, too!

well, after the movie ended, gaby and i went to watch the end of the game, but the recording stopped at the last 30 seconds. the longest game ever. so we looked to see if the game was replaying on fox sports and it was! ...but it was at the last 7.5 minutes of the 4th quarter! so we watched it again just to see the laaaast play. and we were so relived to finally know how the game ended @ 1 in the morning after dodging texts during the movie. but seriously. the never ending game.

and gaby just txtd me saying the game is on tv again. what a frustrating game.


i love gaby.

speak to me.

[by evan wickham]

You spoke a word the universe awoke in brilliant light
And gracefully galaxies adorned the ancient night
You speak Your heart reveal Your thoughts for every fallen tear
The power of perfect love has overcome all fear

Speak to me, Father I am listening
I’m confident Your promises are all I need
Speak to me, Heaven’s perfect mysteries
Oh Comforter, Your healing Word is all I need so speak to me

You spoke a word Your voice was heard beyond the holy veil
That One would come Your only Son whose blood would never fail
And now I see the mystery Your purpose I have learned
My sacrifice is Jesus Christ the very Living Word


amen.

gilmore girls induced anxiety.

today i watched a gilmore girl marathon and finished season 7. man i forgot how much i love that show. i totally made myself a cup of coffee and cried at the end. and txtd my mom. but i wish i called her. i want my mommy. to give me a motivating speech and tell me im going to be alright after college. just like when she flew to st. louis and we sat in the car -i think it was raining, too- and i just cried and cried in the rental car with that new-ish car smell having a breakdown because i wanted to transfer but i wasnt sure if i could. and she said that i'd have regrets either way, but i could do whatever i wanted.

i totally feel like rory right now. turned away my boyfriend -and it really does come in waves, "big waves and really close together"- and sending out lots of letters (hers were resumes, mine are support lol) and being frustrated because everything i've really strived for, i've gotten. until now.

just like rory, i was accepted to but turned down my "dream college." went to a washington university in st. louis, ranked 12th in the nation (better than usc actually, tied with northwestern this year). and whose architecture program was one of the top 10 in the nation. when i wanted to transfer, i got in here at ucsb with a major that i love and professors i've really gotten to know and who like me.

but now i'm completely feeling like rory who's freaking out because suddenly i dont know what my next goal is or even if i'm smart enough or friendly enough (bc i suck at interviews -like chandler) to get into another school or get a job. i'm sure i sound whiny and bratty and slightly arrogant right now but im thinking i shouldnt censor this because when i go through these archives, i want to remember how stressed i was and unsure. and i'll look back and go, "why was i worried at all. of course God used it for His glory. silly me...how naive." because that's exactly what i said when i was a freshman in college and again as a junior transfer. and yet, i'm still anxious.


you of little faith, why are you so afraid? -Jesus [matthew 8:26]
you of little faith, why did you doubt? -Jesus [matthew 14:31]

4.13.

(backwards pi day!)

i wrote this down in my moleskine, but didn't blog it...it said the following:

tonight was blogworthy. not that anything else hasn't been, but i've been very VERY lazy/busy. lol
-rory's vball game
-teacup chihuahua puppy!
-walking tour of DPHS courtesy of jake + stephen
-singing at the outdoor bleachers
-jake+stephen climbing the tree
-seeing the classrooms where jake learned physics and where kim johnson (jack johnson's wife) taught stephen something
-pretending to be in buffy/prison
-stephen running away bc jake set off the prison "alarm" ...then doubling back and running the other way. priceless.
-then scaring us when we followed him.
-looking at the stars, singing to evangeline, and trying to find the big dipper & north star.
-ending the night with a silly photoshoot. also priceless.
-being sad htat we only have 60 days left of hanging out together. not much time at all...

things i was looking forward to...
-lost with carissa and rachel that night.
-sum letting me borrow buffy season 2!
-our weekend plans (which included cats dont dance, rachel's fantasia wine, and cheesecake)
-making gumbo (which became jambalaya, really)


and i should mention that yesterday was super great too:
-slept over @ sums
-rachel & i had breakfast burritos at super cucas
-jesus loves iv! (cleaned 3 houses w our bstudy girls!)
-sushi @ goleta sushi house (mmm!)
-going to the drive-in w rach, sum, and carissa to see ferris beuller :]

so satisfying.


p.s.- today rachel and i tried out on the side and it is my new favorite restaurant! :]
1. black straws.
2. friendly service.
3. good fries.
4. reeeaaally good bbq sauce.
5. they serve coca cola.
6. you can always see the score on tv no matter where you're sitting. :D

man, i'm a booooring blogger right now.

the office.

for some reason, my mind keeps going back to this scene when i'm walking along on campus and i want it on the record. bc this is what i was thinking around this time, almost 3 months of being a single lady.


Pam:
Jim, I called off my wedding because of you. And now we're not even friends. And things are just like weird between us, and that sucks. And I miss you. You were my best friend before you went to Stamford. And I really miss you.


...and bc that was a bit of a downer, the single ladies vid. juuuust kidding lol. its a parody of a parody. [w one of summer's leading men.]

o what a beautiful morning!

i will blog again later, but i just had to mention this great morning.

woke up earlyyy and had some good Jesus time.
then had a good coffee, gilmore, nail-painting breakfast time. :]

its like a sunday morning.

gifts.

last night, gaby, ashley, rachel and i watched sleeping beauty, cinderella, and beauty and the beast to celebrate "tomb day" (in that order). ending with my favorite disney classic was pretty great but my favorite part is definitely when the beast gives belle the library. i'm a big fan of libraries and those gliding ladders and this just hits the spot. i love when he gets so excited and upon seeing how happy she is, says, "then it's yours!" i'm pretty sure i'm never going to get over my library love.



...and today we celebrate the best. gift. ever.

luke 24:1-6

On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. ²They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, ³but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. ⁴While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. ⁵In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look for the living among the dead? ⁶He is not here; he has risen!