March 25, 2006
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Saturday MiscellaneaI’m a happy pup. I got a set of AP essays graded (leaving me only one set to grade). I spend the afternoon shopping with Libby and the Wilsons (with a trip to Long John greasy Silver’s for lunch–yum! I ate almost every bite.). I got some new sneakers for all that walking and jogging I do (har har) and two skirts. I’m glad the long, tiered broomstick skirts are back in fashion. I’ve been wearing them anyhow, so at least this year I’ll be stylish. The good doctor gave me all his honorarium from his last math talk to treat myself, so I surely did! What a nice guy.
As I climbed into bed last night, I thought, “I feel like a character from The Princess and the Pea.” The new mattress is quite soft and quite high in the air. I’m sure it’s only five inches or so higher than the old one, but I felt as if we were sleeping on stilts! It’s still a great bed, though.
Tomorrow is a carry-in dinner for church. Michael whipped up some Lemon Yogurt Pound cake for me (from scratch), and I think I’ll take something like macaroni and cheese. I shan’t stress over it. But, a church meal means that my Ladies’ Sunday School class cannot meet in the tiny kitchen due to the one table being covered in crock pots. I suppose we’ll huddle in the nursery with the babies. Ah, the blessings of a church needing a larger facility!
I was sad to see that no one listed any of his/her life maxims.
I started to write a story, but it was very bad. I think I just like dialogue too much. I was always impressed by “The Petrified Man” by Eudora Welty, a short story which is almost exclusively dialogue. It’s colored my life in a scribbly, outside-the-lines sort of way. Yes, yes, all the clichés say it’s great to be the one to color outside the lines. Still, it looks sloppy in a coloring book.
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I like this background much better!!! HMMM, I love Long John Silver’s….but ever seens I almost died there I can’t eat it! Glad you had fun shopping!!!
I love your maxims! I can’t think of any at the moment, so I’ll just pass along one from my dramatic daughter: Bad dress rehearsal, great opening night.
Ok, I just thought of one:
Skirts are cooler, more comfortable, and more flattering than shorts. (Well they are on me anyway!)
Hugs!
I’m feeling the same way about our new mattress. I was used to being so close to the ground, and now I have to climb up there. Feeling like a fairy tale princess every once in a while is fun.
“As I climbed into bed last night, I thought, ’ feel like a character from The Princess and the Pea.’ “
Ah, fairy tales. Stories that are fantastical, yet oddly real. Stories that are full of wonder and full of welcome. Just the world we long for, as Chesterton writes in Orthodoxy.
Sometimes I imagine that I was really made for a fairy tale.
Hmmm, maxims. . . let’s see. I can’t think of any off the top of my head, except what goes in Brittany’s wallet must be spent. Yup. That’s about it, and I’m not even sure that qualifies as a maxim. Oh well.
I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to comment to you. I love commenting on people’s sites, but life has been very busy and out of pattern of late. My aunts are here, so I don’t think it will go back to normal for a week yet.
So, you started a story? I wish I could read it, but I’ll *try* to retrain my curiosity. Could you at least divulge what it’s about?
Since we’re on writing matters, I’m beginning to see the wisdom of having Ethan be something other than a shepherd. I still dislike the idea of him being something like a butler or a valet and such, though, so maybe I’ll have to come up with other possibilities of the kind of person to marry a servant girl, or someone they thought was a servant girl.
I thought of him working in the stables, but I’m not sure how many notches above shepherding that is. Ah well, I’ll figure this dilemma out eventually, and in the mean time I’m too busy with writing assignments and life with my relatives here to have much time to miss Jane, even though it comes to mind pretty frequently.
I almost said to have fun at yoru church dinner, but then I realized it’s already Wednesday so that’s probably over with. Was it fun?
Have a lovely rest of the week!
~Brittany