I want to share a couple of stories that I think are cute. The first happened yesterday. The song “Alice” by Avril Lavigne plays during the credits for Alice in Wonderland. While Corey and I were watching the credits, there was a little girl sitting behind us, maybe six or seven years old, who was singing her heart out to this song. I thought it was so cute because she had no inhibitions; she was just enjoying herself, signing along with a song she knew.
The second happened in church today. Another little girl, maybe 10 years old, was sitting in front of us drawing. She’s a pretty good little artist. She drew a picture of a palm tree on a beach. After she had finished coloring it, she turned it around and wrote a copyright with her “signature.” It made me smile and laugh.
Some of the things kids do just make me smile and burst with joy. Like I said, they usually have no inhibitions and they find fun and happiness in everyday things. My brother-in-law Brett Raymond is a musician. A couple of his albums are remixes of primary songs jazzed up a little bit. On his first album Primarily For Grown-Ups, he wrote a song called “Through a Child’s Eyes.” I love the lyrics because they illustrate what seeing through a child’s eyes is like:
These old eyes are getting tired of losing faith in this world from day to day
Down the road, getting deeper, innocence lost along the way
Then I see you laughing and I’m reminded how the world is meant to be
See those eyes filled with wonder
And, I wonder if my heart could ever see like that again
Through a child’s eyes
Through a child’s eyes
There’s hope, there’s peace, there’s love, and I can almost see Heaven above
Through a child’s eyes
Through a child’s eyes
And, I think it will be all right
Just close our eyes and see again
Imagination, play again
See through the eyes of love again
Through a child’s eyes
Through a child’s eyes
Through a child’s eyes
Through a child’s eyes
Through a child’s eyes
I wish children didn’t have to grow up and become jaded and cynical because of the awful things in this world. I wish they could keep their innocence, but I know it’s impossible.
If only we could see through a child’s eyes again, the world would be a much better place. No wonder the Savior said, “Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 18:4).
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Corey bought me a Canon powershot. I mentioned to Corey a couple of weeks ago that a digital camera would be a nice gift since we didn’t have one anymore and since we’ve never had a nice one. Corey did some research and found out that the powershot has great reviews and really nice features. The camera comes in gray, light blue, or hot pink. He chose the hot pink and I love it! It’s so fun!
Title: Bedtime at the Swamp
Random Ramblings
I’m back on track. For the past two weeks, I’ve been eating healthy and watching my calories. I already feel so much better and I’m down another 3 pounds! I don’t know why I have such huge cravings for bad food because it just makes me feel sick after I eat them (e.g. french fries, other fried foods). I do still fight sugar cravings almost daily. But, as long as I eat sugar in moderation, then I still feel okay.
I still haven’t got back into exercising regularly. I need to because I feel better when I do and I sleep a lot better, which has a been a problem the past few weeks. Since I haven’t put a lot of effort into exercising, I’m not sure how my Skecher Shape-ups are doing. I have noticed that my walks seem more productive when I wear them. By productive, I mean I can feel more of a burn when I walk. I’ll try to be better at exercising in the name of research.
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I feel like I’m in a catch-22 situation every day when I go to school. I really enjoy walking to class because it gives me some exercise, some alone and relaxation time, I get a chance to be outdoors for a bit, and I can listen to music or an audiobook while I walk. But, I also like to have Corey drop me off because that means we get to spend a few extra minutes together.
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I finally have all my midterm scores back and I’m very pleased. As I’ve already stated, I got a 95% on my Doctrine and Covenants midterm and 90% on my Japanese written midterm. I found out that I got an 89% on my Japanese oral midterm, and after the curve was applied to both of my Japanese scores, my written score went up to 122% and my oral score went up to 108%. The score I was dreading the most was my English midterm, but I was pleasantly surprised with an A-. However, ironically, I did worse on the written essay questions than I thought I did and I did better on expressing the main idea of the essays we had read in class.
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I still miss reading for pleasure. I haven’t had much time lately to even crack open Elantris so I’m still only a third of the way through. (I don’t think I’m going to hit my 35-book goal this year.) It’s killing me not to know what’s going on in Elantris! But, I’m being responsible and doing my homework instead.
Luckily, I have had some non-thinking type projects to do at work lately so I’ve been listening to audiobooks. I finished Twilight a few weeks ago, New Moon a couple of weeks ago, and I’m listening to Eclipse right now. I’ve decided that I really enjoy listening to audiobooks because I can still satisfy my cravings to “read” my favorite books without them pushing books I haven’t read and want to read farther down my to read list. Also, the readers do such a good job at reading with emotion and animation that they bring the characters and story to life. Audiobooks are so much better than movies made from books because you still have all the elements that make you love the book.
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I joined and added Google Friend Connect to my blog. Join us or die … er … join if you want to know when I’ve made a post. It’s near the bottom of my sidebar, under my shelves.
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I’ve decided that I’m going to reply to comments via commenting rather than sending an e-mail to each individual person. My friend Brodi replies to every comment made on her blog and I really like the way she does it. It works out well. Although, she is much funnier than I am. Anyway, when you post a comment, don’t forget to click the “Subscribe to this post’s comments” link so you’re notified when I (or even someone else) replies. (Click here for instructions if you need them.) I’ll also post a reminder on my next few posts so you don’t forget until it becomes a habit.