and the list never ends..

I should be reading.
I should be studying.
I should be preparing.
I should be meeting.
I should be envisioning the future.
I should be getting ahead.
I should be taking notes.
I should have an easier time with this.

But instead, I think I should sleep.

teach me how to see you

for real.

show me how to love you

once more.

that overwhelming feeling that comes sometimes; late at night.

hear the high-pitched giggles of happy girls in the hallway.
read valentine's cards and notes from a vast spectrum of friends.
receive a message that makes your heart smile.
watch chocolat and eat so much chocolate.
learn of devastating news.
feel accomplished after hard work pays off.
papers, labs, pre-labs, chapters upon chapters.
hot tea to calm a sore throat and refresh a tired body.
live vicariously through the romances of others.
be content with who i am.
continue to dream about what love is like.
eat more chocolate.
rest in the knowledge that God holds the future.
want to drop everything and read for pleasure.
over think conversations.
try to get my heart back from different states and countries.
realize it's not going to happen anytime soon.
breathe deeply.
choose joy.

Valentine's Day 2012

My friend Whitney came from out of town to hang out with me for a few days during Jan-term break.  Whitney was my RA last year and we got pretty tight, so it was really nice to be reunited with her.  We are the kind of friends that can talk for hours and just be content hanging out.  Thursday morning we were sitting at a coffee shop and decided to be adventurous instead of chill.  So we made a list, grabbed our keys and got to it!

 this was our guide to fun.  

We didn't quite conquer everything

but had tons of fun anyway!

Take a looksie:

We made our friend in the grocery store.  She told us to keep the tags on the sunglasses we were buying and start a new fashion trend.  We really wanted to find her again, but ended up moving on to our next adventure.  Maybe she'll start a fashion trend of her own someday?

Downtown Spokane is an interesting place.  There are random pictures painted on the sides of buildings, super out-of-place thrift stores and a ton of churches.  

We made it through downtown Coeur D'alene in about 10 minutes.  Small place.

This porta=potty was a pretty spectacular blessing as to both of us needed one really badly and it showed up right when we needed it to! 

Our time was concluded with maybe not the smartest choice: the "stand outside with shoes off" goal on our list turned into "run through the icy snow and take a picture with the cool colorful things and run back" which actually turned into five seconds of fun followed by about three minutes of pure misery.   We are smiling in these pictures, but it is totally fake. We are actually saying "this was so stupid this was so dumb what where we thinking!?"

  In this final picture of our feet we are not smiling.  We are actually weeping from the pain.  

Adventures make life worth living! Thanks for coming, Whit. :)