Sometimes Poems Don't Have Words

Sometimes poems don't have words,
and a phrase can be understood in a beautiful landscape.
Maybe it's a wave in an ocean,
or Perhaps the song of a bird.

Sometimes the swelling of a song,
That gentle and sweet breeze of sound
Can tell you more in a moment without words
Than a thousand dictionaries in the world ever could.

Sometimes a simple smile. A friendly hug.
A touch, a wave, a moment of laughter.
All exchanges. All magical. All poems in their own.
None requiring words.

Sometimes poems are recognized for their length,
Or perhaps the Honor of those who write them.
Some are known for their rhythm or rhyme,
Or the intricate stories the author weaves in them.

Sometimes a poem is as simple as a person
Pleading for someone to stay, to live,
And to hear that tender reply,
"I have."

Sometimes poems don't have words.
This one does,
So you can hear what you may not see.

"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it."

Love, Me.

And..then..there was..a title...!!!

You know when you kinda-sorta want to blog, and things have been happening since the last time you did (and even before that), but you don't really know what to talk about, so you just get on here and type whatever typical nonesense you want to?

Yeah, that'd be about now.

Mmm. Roses are blooming, there's some on my desk in a vase. :) My older sister is in Ireland and will tour Europe ("Ear-up" as my little sister would say) for the next six weeks. Lucky. ;) The Gospel is True, the sun still shines, the wind still blows, and somehow we manage to move happily on with each day of our lives.  Well, I try to be happy, anyway. I suggest you try it- it's more fun that way. ;)

Oh!!! I remembered!!! I had a wonderfully happy email this week...three scholarships to BYU!!! 1/2, 1/2 and a grant. THAT made my day. :) Many happy dances and thank-you prayers going around and around here.

I'm going to start painting my room this week, I hope. I'm thinking a mural...I'll post pictures if it works. :)

So yeah, that's life. Basically. Teaching lots...smiling lots...going to the Temple lots...yeah. :)

Oh, yeah. Happy first day of Summer.

Love, Me.

Hey it's June.

I got my tonsils out last week.  And my turbinates trimmed.  And so guess what?? I CAN NOW BREATHE THROUGH MY NOSE!!!!! :) It's been about 5 years since I've been able to do that, and it's amazing! I love it!!

It's now day 9, and my pain has gone down quite a bit, thankfully.  I'm still on pain meds every four hours, but the dose is lower, thankfully.  So, I'm still sleepy and dizzy a lot, but at least I can do things.  Like eat real food.  I've had more mid-night snacks in this past week than I have in a long time, haha.  My left side of my throat is more open than my right side, I'm not sure if I'm having an OCD moment over that or not. But oh well.  Ps. I'm "doing better", not "all the way better".  So my comments here may be a little out of order.

But anyways, life for the past week has been mostly eat, sleep, medicine, watch movies, repeat.  Not a bad life. I think I've seen half of Disney/Pixar's animated movies, again. Those ones are cute, but don't make you laugh too hard, usually.  Laughing still hurts. :P  But I'm waaaay super excited that I'm finally doing something for summer vacation- Zoe Taylor and I are hanging out tonight!!  It's the BYU Spring Chorale's concert in the HFAC...good luck, John!!  I was in University Chorale last Fall.  It was fun.  I sang.

(But what else would you expect?) ;)

Anyhow.  It's June, everyone!! My birthday is in a month and a day.  What should I get for my birthday?  Maybe I'll paint my walls, that would be fun.  It sounds fun to me.  After spending so much time in my room, looking at my blank walls, I think it's time for something in there.

Have you ever seen Kid History?? Look it up on youtube!! Here, I'll post the first one.  They're hilarious, I love them. :)  Watch them. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80entLldZOg

Anyhow, have a good day. :)

Love, Me.

Living the Lord's Will.

So, an update on my life.          Sort of.

Summer vacation is going well.  Except for, it's not actually summer yet.  It's still spring, and rainy.  I like the rain.  I like the sound and smell of it, and the fact that if it rains, I don't have to worry about watering the lawn that day. ;)  Sunday I ran in the rain with some good friends.  (Still in my church clothes.)  My hair frizzed after that, but it was still fun.  Next time, I'm using my ninja skills to dodge all the raindrops.  Hahahaha. :)

Speaking of which, it was my Best Friend's Mission Farewell on Sunday. :-/ He's entering the MTC this Wednesday...(tomorrow)...to prepare to serve the Lord and His people in Bogota, Colombia.  Isn't that neat??? :)  It sounds so exciting, to be in an exotic place for two years, devoting all your energy into serving and teaching others.  It makes me so happy that he's doing it.


Me and Keys. :)

 Happy enough to almost forget to be sad.  Heh, man.  I was doing so well, too.  I know it's the right thing, and am so thrilled that he's doing this.  It'll be a good learning experience for both of us, I know.  And we've had lots of time to play beforehand.  If I didn't have the confirmation that this is the Lord's Will, I would be having a harder time, I think.  Anyway.  Preparing myself for this, I promised myself that I would be strong, happy and supportive, so that "goodbye" wouldn't be so hard.  I did quite well, I think.  I didn't feel overly "sad and melloncally", which I took to be a good sign.  I got thinking to myself, "this is gonna be alright", and you know, it pretty much was.  I was good until the hug goodbye.  Then suddenly I realized what was happening, and I let go of all the strong and happy feelings in that one moment, and cried.  Out of sadness? I suppose. But I think it was more of fondly reflecting over one page in a book, and flipping to the next one. 

[I'm taking a moment and stepping away from my life's story here, and contemplating for a bit.  This doesn't particularly sound like a "blog post".  But, is there a certain Code of Conduct on how you're supposed to sound like on your blog?  Or is it just guidelines of what I've read in others? :j (shrug).  Back to the story, anyhow...]

There comes a moment in your life when you know that no matter how hard you may want it, or want to want something, you can't get it back.  And it's honestly the biggest relief to let it go.  The best way for this to happen is when your heart is full, and even though you may still be crying, you feel at peace because of the Spirit that is in your life, comforting you because that is His job.  I've looked back and observed myself and others change, and sometimes even get a glimpse of it in action.  As he walked back to his house, I realized at that moment that a page had been turned in both of our lives; he looked like an Elder, and I am a woman and Daughter of God with things to do in the meantime.  I'm doing fine, because I know that the future will be even more exit (short for exciting) and fun-filled, and (pause for 11:11) I have the knowledge and comfort that I am trying my best to live the Lord's Will, and no matter what everything will turn out all right. All Right.

Heh. Well, now that I've been telling you a bit of my life, I might as well tell the rest.  I'm having surgery Thursday.  Surprise!! (To you, not to me. I already know about it.) ;)  For at least 5 years I haven't been able to breathe through my nose properly, and never seem to fully recover from colds.  So, sometime on Thursday (don't know when yet, I'll find out tomorrow) I'll go and get my Turbinates trimmed and Tonsils/Adenoids removed.  Then the doctor said I'll hate him for about two weeks.  I sure hope not. :P  But just in case, I'm not starting Summer Lessons til midway through June.  It's kind of hard to do my job as a piano/voice teacher when I won't be able to talk and sing, don't you think? :P  I love my kids, though.  We had our End of Shule (School) recital last Friday; I'm so proud of them all.  We've all come a long way in a year.  :j  I'm excited for another one.

Oh, and.......I changed my major. Surprise #2!!!  Months of deliberating and careful prayers have brought me to feel confident in my decision that though it would be fun and rewarding, Music Ed is not for me.  This has been a hard decision.  But, I did teach for three years in High School, I'm still teaching now, and I don't have to have a degree for what I'm doing.  So what am I changing my major to?? Well, dear School of Family Life, please accept another student.  Family Life is the one I've chosen.  I actually don't know what I can do with this degree, I'm going to have to research it more.  But it's not difficult for me to happily admit that Someone Else is directing me right now.  If it turns out that this changes again, so be it.  But, honestly, I'm grateful for a change...Family life will take me about 2.5-3 years to do, I'm thinking, as opposed to the 4.5-5 years for Music Ed.

I can assure you that this past month/week has been interesting.  Only a little more than a month out of shule, and look where I am!!  Crazy!!  There have been ups, downs, and in-betweens, and I'm trying my best to keep things up.  There's a better view from there.  Schedule for the summer: get better, work/teach, smile, laugh, play, love, learn, paint my room/mural, grow, go to the Temple, etc.  As long as I'm living the way I'm supposed to, I'm okay with that. :)

I love you all, thanks for letting me ramble again. :) I'd apologize for getting so personal, but it is my blog. ;)Til the next time,

Love, Me.

If I had a frying pan...

Teacher?

Learner?

Student?

Which one?

All three?

Ps. I think I'm gonna have a major change here......

.....but that's what life's about, right??

That and....eating...tacos.  I like tacos.  I should go to bed.  Cause it's late. 

And Saturday.  (It's tomorrow today, this morning tonight; I just want to say that curls are all right.  And that I love Tangled.)  That's it.

"This is either brilliance, or madness."

"Amazing how often those two co-incide."

Goodnight,

Jennenenenenenenenenenenenenenenna :)

Love, Me.

May the forth be with you...

Ha. Hahahaha. Lisp. Happy Star Wars day...

I haven't really been so much into blogging this year, I think.  Things have happened.  I just...haven't been blogging.

Is that a bad thing?  I don't think so....

But, just letting you know, I'm alive.  :) Very happily out of shule (school) for the next four months.  Still teaching piano and voice, and cleaning/spending time with my mom.  Enjoying the warmer weather.  Ahh, this is what Spring's about, eh?  It's good. :)

Have a good day,

Love, Me.

Dear World, take two...

So, I'm done with finals. Actually, my Freshman year of college is done. Heh, wow. Isn't that crazy? I think it's a little crazy. I even said "far out" yesterday, NO idea where that came from. ;)

I liked this last semester better than the first one, probably a few reasons for that, but I won't bore you with those.  But I really think NOT taking 16 credits is better.  I still had seven classes, but only 14.5 this semester...Physical Science, :) Family Finance, New Testament, :) Social (ballroom) Dance 180, :) Human Development, :D Book of Mormon, :D and Music 176. That equalled to 7.5ish finals... Music 176's final was in February and was my audition, Dance was the Swing, all the other tests...I say .5 because there was a take-home portion of Book of Mormon, but it was like another final. So. yeah.  Big year, good year, tough year, lots-of-learning year, happy year, sad year, and I can't believe it's all fit into one year.  Less than a year, I guess, but hey.

But I'm done. :)

I partied (par-tay) yesterday, which was so much fun.  I actually didn't know what day of the week it is was most of the week, just that the next day would be such and such a final, and they all need to be done soon.  So, I couldn't remember if it was Friday or Saturday, but was just glad for the break. :)  Had delish food, rested a bit, and went to the Provo Temple with some good friends, and even made a new one! :)

Turns out the Creamery is really busy right after BYU's Graduation. Go figure.  So we went down to Maceys where they have lactose-free cones for cheaper anyways.  That's the first time in a long time that I've had ice cream. It was alright. ;)

I don't know where this idea came from exactly, but suddenly we were looking for chalk, and found some for $1.06.  Then we were on our way to the round-about on 820 North (still in our skirts/suit, mind you) and set about to have some fun.  There was some crazy good talent that occured with those five colors of chalk.  I was amazed. :)  And really, really loved it. :) Favorite quotes from the day:
"It fits perfectly!", "Kami, pull over!!", "Chalkin' up a round-about, that is what I'm talkin' about",
"Gas Station" "What? I don't get it" "Hey, yellow car!" "What, where!?" "I Still don't get it!!"

Okay, I loved yesterday. Thanks to everyone who came, it was a real pleasure to be with each of you.  To anyone who didn't get to come, I'm sure there'll be more escapades in the future.  I've looked back over this and am kind of considering just deleting it...it sounds a little less ordered than normal, but hey.  That's life, right?

Ps. go to http://www.mylifeisaverage.com/ it's hilarious. I'm thinking we should put at least some of yesterday's events on there. ;)

Anyhow, this is me blogging. Because it's something I do. Occasionally.

Have a great day!! :)

Love, Me.