A Day of Love

As promised, I will post about my wonderful Valentine's Day! Matt had to work on Saturday so we did our thing Friday night. First he met me in my lobby with a giant balloon and a bouquet of flowers. We have this thing that's becoming tradition... we get each other 2 cards b/c we can never decide on which one to get. So I got a funny one and a sentimental one and both of them were so sweet! And inside the card was a gift certificate for a 30 min massage! (Dang, he did good this year!) We went out for a tasty dinner at Doc's and then went and hung out in Little Rock. We took pictures at the Capitol Building and then walked and talked along the river. It was a wonderful evening and I've included some pics to explain further. Enjoy!

He knows I love balloons!

Top view of my beautiful bouquet... lilies and roses... my faves!

The State Capitol Building at night

(Trying out the panorama feature on my camera)

Shadows holding hands :)

I love you Matt!

Shouldn't Have Had Coffee...

...which is why I'm still up at almost 3 am even though I have to be up for church in 6 hours.

Matt had to work (as he does every Saturday) so we did our Valentine's thing Friday night. It was quite wonderful but to discuss it tonight would not do the event justice so I shall leave that for another day. Spending V-day alone today had the potential to be awful but I ended up getting to watch some good basketball games and see an old friend so not all was lost. However, I am extremely disappointed in the actions of a good friend tonight and I'm rather upset about it. I can't go into detail but let's just say I thought she knew better. *Sigh*

The coffee is slowly wearing off and my eyes are getting heavy...Perhaps I will go get some sleep now. I don't think there was a point to this post. Oh well...

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Alright, so it's been awhile since I posted again... it seems blogging has fallen by the wayside when it comes to my schedule. It honestly makes it on my to-do lists but in the name of prioritizing, always gets left undone. So here, I am updating in case anyone cares to read about the craziness that is life as a college senior in her last semester...

To describe my life as of late I shall use probably one of the most overused words on my blog: busy. Last week involved some group meetings about upcoming projects, a test in IT, some little assignments in various classes and probably the best part: enjoying the glorious weather we had last weekend. Wearing flip-flops in February? Woohoo! This week has been not too bad as of yet on the homework front although we did have a meeting about our business plan. I finally got to see a girls basketball game Monday night and I had the opportunity to hear the famous Ben Stein speak last night. Tomorrow is the Senior Ethics Seminar and I'm actually kinda looking forward to it. Saturday is Valentine's Day... but because Matt has to work Saturdays, we're celebrating Friday night. Not sure what we're doing but I'm sure it'll be nice :-)

I am dreading next week however... I have an IT quiz due, 2 SP cases due, FOUR tests and of course the ongoing research for SAM case team. Oh and the final copy of our business plan is due for the competition by 9:00 sharp Friday morning! Could be a rough week...

I leave you with the following quote from a book I am reading for 3rd hour credit in Fortner's Prophets: Jeremiah-Malachi class. I thought I would have to drag myself through this reading since I am not one to enjoy heavily theological books since they are usually over my head. However I'm actually kind of enjoying this one. Too bad I won't enjoy writing the paper over it quite as much. I really liked this quote though:

"The prophet does not ask if the vision can be implemented, for questions of implementation are of no consequence until the vision can be imagined. The imagination must come before the implementation. Our culture is competent to implement almost anything and to imagine almost nothing. The same royal consciousness that makes it possible to implement anything and everything is the one that shrinks imagination because imagination is a danger. Thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination, to keep on conjuring and proposing alternative futures to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one".

(The Prophetic Imagination by Walter Brueggeman, Copyright 1978)

As a sidenote, I'd like to extend my congratulations to Allison and Grady on the birth of their son, Connor! I love you guys! :-)