Babies and movies
Another week in the life of Sara.....
Today was a little out of the ordinary for me. I took care of my friend Lori's baby for the day. She brought him over around 11:00 this morning and picked him up this evening. He slept most of the time since he is still quite young--about 4 to 6 weeks. Babies are such innocent creatures--it's quite humbling to care for them. I never fail to wonder what they will be like as an adult when I hold them.
Yesterday I made some cream pies, but they just never turn out like Carol's do. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. The flavor is still good, but the texture just isn't as creamy as my mind thinks it should be. I also made some chicken breasts marinated in Italian dressing for lunch. I guess I was having a domestic weekend--cooking, laundry, and babies.
I watched a very thought-provoking movie this afternoon. Have any of you seen Bowling for Columbine? I didn't realize that there was such a huge difference in the statistics of murder by gunshot of the United States compared to all other countries in the world. According to that movie, the U.S.A. had over 11,000 deaths by gunshot the year of the Columbine massacre and the closest country to that was only several hundred deaths. So the big question is--why are things so different in our country? Any ideas out there?
Another movie I watched gave me one of those very quotable quotes on the topic of feeling like your life needs to have made an impact on the world to have been significant. Don't we all feel that way at times? Anyway, the quote is as follows: "Breathing is all it takes to be a miracle." Isn't that just the coolest thing?
A friend from work has a birthday very close to mine and wants to do something to celebrate. We've come up with this brain storm of visiting Savannah, GA. I've always wanted to go, so we're going to go down on my spring break. It turns out that they have this really big St Patrick's Day celebration where they try to turn the river green. It's supposed to be secondary only to New York City and Chicago in celebrating. This celebration begins on the 12th of March and we're going to be down there until the 13th. So that should be interesting.
I was really tickled for my college buddy--Nicole--who entered the beauty pageant for Miss UTC. She won 1st runner up which means she won 2 cash prizes. She doesn't know how much yet, but she was really stressed that she was in danger of losing her scholarship because of her GPA. She came over last Monday and I altered her dress for her. I was a bit intimidated because it was only a borrowed dress and worth $300. She was supposed to return it to the store sponsoring her in the same condition she took it in. I had to work around all these hand-sewn sequins that covered the dress. That was quite a challenge, and she hadn't yet taken out my stitches the last I talked to her. I also made her a sarong cover-up for the bathing suit competition which she said was a big hit with her competitors.
I've got a lab test coming up this week that I need to study for tomorrow since I didn't touch my books today. I also have a quiz in the other lab tomorrow morning that I still need to study for.
Today was a little out of the ordinary for me. I took care of my friend Lori's baby for the day. She brought him over around 11:00 this morning and picked him up this evening. He slept most of the time since he is still quite young--about 4 to 6 weeks. Babies are such innocent creatures--it's quite humbling to care for them. I never fail to wonder what they will be like as an adult when I hold them.
Yesterday I made some cream pies, but they just never turn out like Carol's do. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. The flavor is still good, but the texture just isn't as creamy as my mind thinks it should be. I also made some chicken breasts marinated in Italian dressing for lunch. I guess I was having a domestic weekend--cooking, laundry, and babies.
I watched a very thought-provoking movie this afternoon. Have any of you seen Bowling for Columbine? I didn't realize that there was such a huge difference in the statistics of murder by gunshot of the United States compared to all other countries in the world. According to that movie, the U.S.A. had over 11,000 deaths by gunshot the year of the Columbine massacre and the closest country to that was only several hundred deaths. So the big question is--why are things so different in our country? Any ideas out there?
Another movie I watched gave me one of those very quotable quotes on the topic of feeling like your life needs to have made an impact on the world to have been significant. Don't we all feel that way at times? Anyway, the quote is as follows: "Breathing is all it takes to be a miracle." Isn't that just the coolest thing?
A friend from work has a birthday very close to mine and wants to do something to celebrate. We've come up with this brain storm of visiting Savannah, GA. I've always wanted to go, so we're going to go down on my spring break. It turns out that they have this really big St Patrick's Day celebration where they try to turn the river green. It's supposed to be secondary only to New York City and Chicago in celebrating. This celebration begins on the 12th of March and we're going to be down there until the 13th. So that should be interesting.
I was really tickled for my college buddy--Nicole--who entered the beauty pageant for Miss UTC. She won 1st runner up which means she won 2 cash prizes. She doesn't know how much yet, but she was really stressed that she was in danger of losing her scholarship because of her GPA. She came over last Monday and I altered her dress for her. I was a bit intimidated because it was only a borrowed dress and worth $300. She was supposed to return it to the store sponsoring her in the same condition she took it in. I had to work around all these hand-sewn sequins that covered the dress. That was quite a challenge, and she hadn't yet taken out my stitches the last I talked to her. I also made her a sarong cover-up for the bathing suit competition which she said was a big hit with her competitors.
I've got a lab test coming up this week that I need to study for tomorrow since I didn't touch my books today. I also have a quiz in the other lab tomorrow morning that I still need to study for.
posted by Sara | 12:15 AM
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