i love thursdays.
this is because 1. friday is tomorrow and 2. because my kids go home at 12:20 and i get my afternoon to myself.
yay!
i've been discouraged about my job but had a good talk with my dad the other night, who gave me encouragement and ideas for future endeavors. it's so good to have a father on earth who knows me, i mean really knows me, and my strengths and weaknesses and interests and giftings; so that when he gives me advice, it is actually helpful and i know i can trust it because he knows me. thanks dad! i love you!
today i went to lunch with the resource specialist from my school. we picked up sandwiches and then ate them on sunset cliffs as we enjoyed the 74 degree day and the beautiful blue ocean. we ended up staying for over an hour because we didn't have kids to get back to, and we deserved it, gosh darn it! it was so refreshing and wonderful and an answer to prayers, really. it was windy and warm and perfect!
if you have read matt's blog, you know that we scored tickets to the U2 concert, (after our own unsuccessful hours of trying) through one matt's coworkers! yay!!! U2 is one of three bands on my list of things to do/see in my lifetime (the other 2 concerts are beastie boys and travoltas, in case you were wondering). but U2 is the very first album i ever got (mare-insert cheesy sigh) so i've loved them since 5th grade and can NOT wait to see them live!!!!! and the show is on april 2, a saturday, so that makes it even better--we can totally enjoy it and not stress out about having to work the next day!
some other good shows coming up here soon:
mates of state
pinback
ambulance ltd/autolux (with mare and justin)
decemberists OR ash-they're playing the same night at different venues (it's a toss up, i've seen ash and they give such an excellent show, but i'd like to see the decemberists, because i hear their influence in justin's music) either way, these shows are also going on when mare and justin are here as well!
i made 3 cute bowls in pottery class this week. all i have to do now is glaze and fire them--hopefully they come out okay---and then i'll be giving some fun gifts that i can actually be sort of proud of and that you don't have to pretend aren't ugly. i've been on the potter's wheel and it is so relaxing, yet concentration-requiring--i am actually getting the hang of it, but there really is a science to it! one false move and the whole thing can collapse (which happened to me twice on tuesday-ha! so funny to see a big misshapen blobby spinning around in circles!).
i need to get started on my adventure scrapbook! so many things to record and remember. thank goodness i've had some good travel journaling! EXAMPLE: as some of you know, mary and i are doing a 100k bike ride in santa cruz this may. and i remembered that matt and i camped at a great campground (with an ocean view) near santa cruz a couple of summers ago on our vacation up the coast. it turns out that the campground is only 4 miles away from where the race starts! so mare and i decided to do that, since it will be our last event for awhile. so i looked up in my travel journal to see what i had written about it and it turns out i actually recorded the exact campsite (#27-ha!) where we stayed, just in case we would ever stay there again. so it pays to be specific in the journaling is all i'm trying to say...
stay where you are
i'm right behind you
i'm always looking
i may not be the one, that's true
but i'm trying, dontcha know?
-ambulance ltd