I was so excited for Leap Day! 

It only comes around once every four years people, four years! 

We get a whole extra day in our lives this year, what did you do with it?!

 Personally I left class early because that was the last place I wanted to spend my Leap Day, and had a lovely two-hour chat with my fellow class-ditcher Rachel. And then I went and fulfilled my TAing duties (a little responsibility was probably a good idea) Then tonight I had a waffle party. And watched 'Modern Family'

 

Homework? That can wait til tomorrow. Today is Leap Day!

[When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.]
 

- Cynthia Heimel-

Want to know my current favorite thing about Mr JP?  

(I do try to refrain from these kind of posts... but this is just too good)

Whenever I ask him to do something particularly un-fun or time-consuming or inconvenient (you know, like load the dishwasher or go outside in the freezing cold to get my schoolbooks out of my car) 

he pauses for a second, gets this look on his face, kisses me on the forehead, and says: 

"you know the motto, anything for the wifey."

Haha! That's me. I'm the wifey. 

And just like that, I realize I don't have any reason to complain about anything, ever.

Happy Weekend!

We'll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang syne,

Here's to 2012:

A chance to become better. 

An opportunity to fix mistakes and move forward.

A clean slate.

 

A new year means another chance to recommit yourself to becoming who you want to be.

And perhaps this will be the year you decide what kind of person you want to be.

We'll be given more opportunities, be placed in new situations, and be faced with harder decisions.

And we will get to prove to ourselves that we can do hard things. 

 This year is bound to contain happiness & heartbreak, goodbyes & reunions, inspiration & discouragement,

but we get to decide how we let it affect us.

 

 

 

[Life can be magnificent and overwhelming —that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost beeasy to live.]

Albert Camus 

"This Christmas, mend aquarrel. Seek out a forgotten

friend. Dismiss suspicion andreplace it with trust. Write

a letter. Give a soft answer.Encourage youth. Manifest

your loyalty in word and deed. Keepa promise. Forgo a

grudge. Forgive an enemy. Apologize.Try to understand.

Examine your demands on others.Think first of someone

else. Be kind. Be gentle. Laugh alittle more. Express your

gratitude. Welcome a stranger.Gladden the heart of a child.

Take pleasure in the beauty andwonder of the earth.

Speak your love and then speak itagain. Christmas is a

celebration, and there is nocelebration that compares

with the realization of its truemeaning-with the

sudden stirring of the heart thathas extended itself

unselfishly in the things thatmatter most."

-Howard W. Hunter-