My Favorite Christmas Song

Do you remember me?
I sat upon your knee.
I wrote to you with childhood fantasies.
Well, I'm all grown up now,
But still need help somehow.
I'm not a child but my heart still can dream.

So here's my lifelong wish,
my grown-up Christmas list,
not for myself, but for a world in need:

No more lives torn apart,
and wars would never start,
and time would heal all hearts.
Every one would have a friend,
that right would always win,
and love would never end:
This is my grown-up Christmas list.

As children we believed
the grandest sight to see
was something lovely wrapped beneath the tree.
Well, heaven surely knows
that packages and bows
can never heal a hurting human soul.

No more lives torn apart,
and wars would never start,
and time would heal all hearts.
Every one would have a friend,
that right would always win,
and love would never end:
This is my grown-up Christmas list.

What is this illusion called the innocence of youth?
Maybe only in our blind belief can we ever find the truth!

There'd be...
No more lives torn apart,
and wars would never start,
and time would heal all hearts.
Every one would have a friend,
that right would always win,
and love would never end:
This is my grown-up Christmas list,
this is my only lifelong wish,

This is my Grown-up Christmas List

I know that this isn't a "traditional" Christmas song, but I love it anyways. It speaks to my soul. Ha, really though. I also love The Christmas Song as far as the oldies go, in case you were wondering :)

Aroha

Learning About Myself

We decorated for Christmas last night and I made a self discovery:

When I'm given free reign to decorate however I want, I like it to feel like a Christmas Tree threw up all over my house. I truly cannot get enough of garland!! Call this my hippie roots coming out and my love of nature shining through-whatever it is, I don't care, all I know is that I'm in heaven.
There's garland over every doorway, around every window and across multiple framed pictures and it's FANTASTIC!!
My sister it seems has an obsession as well, it's called lights and sparkly tinsel.

Oh yeah, our house is ready for Christmas.
Bring it on.

Big Decisions...

As much as I love the holidays no matter what the conditions, when finals are coming up, it kind of throws a kink in my holiday spirit. When you take into consideration the fact that I have fallen dangerously behind in my classes on top of the fact that I've lost any and all motivation that I had for school....
...let's just say it's shaping up to be an interesting end of semester.


Which leads me to question what the hell I'm doing going to college. My track record has shown that I obviously don't enjoy it; I'm not getting towards anywhere I want to be any faster by being there. So what's a girl to do?


I'm not going back to SLCC next semester. I don't love what I'm doing, so why keep doing it, right?
I'm looking into the possibilities of trade schools or just packing up and moving. I'm beginning to get a bit stir crazy anyways....


Who knows?

Good deed saves a fellow motorist's life | ksl.com

Good deed saves a fellow motorist's life ksl.com

Coincidence that this shows up the day after my commitment?
I think not.

My Personal Commitment

Yesterday I discovered the most amazing blog in the whole wide world.

http://the-abandoned-dog.blogspot.com

It's a tragedy turned miracle for a little dog that they call Tad. It comes down to the fact that a vet tech found him on a stretch of country road, abandoned and in a horrible state covered in sores and infections and inflicted with all sorts of parasites. She picked him up and with love and the help of the vet staff, nursed him back to health. Not going to lie, I was sort of a mess when I was watching the videos on the site. (I made Nitro and Daisy sit with me so I could have my puppies with me just so I knew that they were alright.) It started me thinking...

I was driving home from school tonight singing as loud as possible in my car with my heater blasting, thoroughly enjoying my evening. Then I noticed orange traffic cones in the far right lane and saw (as I hurtled past) a trucker standing in the freezing cold with a truck that obviously was out of commission for the moment. In that instant, I didn't feel anything but a snotty sense of superiority because my vehicle was still working. Then I realized that this trucker could easily be my own Dad on any given day. As my heart was sinking upon this realization, I knew that I had gone too far to pull over and help this gentleman, however my brain doesn't stop at times like these and I had already figured out that although you hear horror stories all of the time, this was a major interstate where I was unlikely to get abducted or attacked and I could send a mass text to people I'm close to just in case AND I always carry pepper spray with me. I had run out of excuses to not help based on "safety concerns."

As if I wasn't already feeling bad enough about not pulling over to help someone in need, I was thinking back on my day; I visited two very important people in my life, both of whom have gone on to the other side and both of whom wouldn't have even thought twice about turning themselves around and going back to help. Awesome. I'm an awesome person.

So here it is, my personal commitment; not only to myself, but to everyone and everything around me.

For the rest of this year (approximately 53 days) if I see someone on the side of the road for any legitimate reason, I will pull over and offer my assistance. I will also aide any animal that I see that is in need. No questions asked.

Don't worry, I will be smart and safe about it. I'm not going to go getting kidnapped. However, for how much preaching I did last post about the holidays and the great feeling that comes with them, I realized tonight that I sure don't help spread the joy much. Although pulling over to offer assistance may seem a bit strange coming from a blond girl who very obviously doesn't know a thing about cars and will probably make me insanely uncomfortable, I'm confident that this will make me a better person in the long run and that it will make my holiday season more merry :)

AROHA
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IT'S THE HOLIDAYS!!!!

Guys, I haven't blogged in a while, sorry about that, but on to bigger things...

IT'S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR!!!!

Yeah, I'm totally one of those people who starts the holiday season at the beginning of November. I don't forget about Thanksgiving, believe me it's one of my favorite holidays; I just love the big 4 (Thanksgiving, Christmas, Boxing Day and New Years) so much that I roll them all into one all encompassing party time!! Two whole months of happiness and joy. That's how I roll.

To celebrate today, we started a simmer pot that was composed of cinnamon sticks, orange peels, clove and maple. It turns out that maple isn't my favorite combo in this situation, but of course, it turned out wonderfully anyways! I bought some apple and cinnamon candles and lit them all over. (It was at this point that Kyle informed me that I had too many good smells going on all at once. Ugh. Holiday buzz kill.) We bought the Michael Buble Christmas CD that just came out, best money I've spent all year. Janae and I currently have a holiday-colored-homemade funfetti cake in the oven which we created to Michael's beautiful voice. On the down side, we attempted to make apple chips covered in cinnamon last night...they didn't so much turn out. (Props to Zach W. here for eating not one but two of them...what a good guy.) 

It's been a fantastic kick off to the holidays!!! Not to mention that our house smells like like candies all of the time thanks to my mothers yummy chocolates!! (This weeks treat straight from Ascot Royale's kitchen were caramel and chocolate dipped apples. Soo delicious!) So from here on out it's all holiday spirit all of the time from me. Prepare yourself world!!!

Aroha