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(funny and sad. I have written about this before.)

It really is amazing how music is linked to memory. I just stumbled upon a song which brings back the sweetest, sweetest, time of my life, a time when my life was a fairy tale, when nothing could bring me down. My first time falling in love. I can feel it, I can smell it, I can remember how everything was beautiful, how I walked around with a constant grin plastered to my face because I was just so dang happy. I truly believed that I was the luckiest, happiest girl in the world. I knew it was happening when it was happening, and for that I am thankful.

The song is, incidentally, is "Love Changes Everything," an orchestral arrangement by the Boston Pops. My very first encounter with musical bliss.

I can't believe it has been ten years.

(Sometimes I work as hard as I say I do. But most of the time, not really).

Confession: Someone in the Biggest Loser this week ate 18 peanut butter cups. Despite everyone say that that was disgusting, it made me jealous. They looked so good...

Confession: I wrote an anger email today :(

Confession: I don't work as hard as I say I do.

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Here's a song that I used to sing in RUF while at Florida State. It's still one of my favorites:
O Love That Will Not Let Me Go

There's nothing like a good peanut butter cup.

Period weeks are stupid.

February in Phoenix is awesome! Beautiful day after beautiful day... makes me wish I had an outdoor job! At least my hobby is outdoors.

Also, the day has come. There is a girl on The Bachelor who is my age. :(

Intoducing the FABULOUS spring league 2012 team... HAMMER OF DOOM!

Guys:
Dan Alexander
Peter Anderegg
Darren Bateman
Kyle Cotner
Adam Eklund
Shawn Fink
Sam Levenberg
Stan Marks
Paul Otto
John Peterson
Jeff Shelton
Nick Simonelli
 
Girls:
Tina Byun
Kim Hamm
Michelle Kauffman
Ashley Stahl
Cassie Waz

I can't guarantee a championship, BUT... I have a really good feeling about this one! Plus we managed to get Sam, who has a magical ability to WIN.

Looking through my planner, I see something odd. A blank week. Nothing at all planned from Monday Feb. 6th through Sunday Feb. 12. How can this be? I'm sure it will not be for long... but it sure is welcome at the moment!

Yes, I'm still alive.

Yes. C#5 is sharp and C#6 is flat. WHUT.

Also, I love cats.

One of my students sold me girl scout cookies. I don't know why, but there is something very sweet about that.

I have lived too long following the path expected of me. Done what other people want, what they think is best for me. And I have ignored what actually makes me happy. What do I want out of life? What I want does not always correspond with what my parents want, or what my teachers want, or what is generally expected of me. Too long I have followed the beaten path, just moseyed along doing what "they" expect, because it is the easy choice which pleases everyone. No more.

My New Years resolution this year is to live my life by my own rules. It's time to tighten the reins and take charge of the life which is my own.

Days like this make me regret that flute is an indoor animal!

It's another year of change for me. 2000: I quit gymnastics, receive confirmation, and have back surgery. 2005: I graduate high school, get my first job, and move away to college. 2009: I play in my first ultimate league, move to Arizona, and meet my boyfriend of two years. And 2012...

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind,
For those that here we see no more,
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.

Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.

Ring out the want, the care the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes,
But ring the fuller minstrel in.

Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease,
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.  


-Alfred Lord Tennyson