Saturday, August 18, 2007
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
ch-ch-change...
Friday, November 24, 2006
this is your favorite marine animal on steroids....
seriously. so prednisone and i...an interesting mix if ever there was one. i went to bed last night around 11, fell asleep around 12, woke up a couple of times and then at 6:30 i woke up and was wide awake. read a little of this book. it's interesting. the emergent church is kind of a dangerous idea if not approached with caution. God's truth cannot have changed over the years just because our worldviews have...Truth is Truth. end of story. i guess you really shouldn't get me started.
alright. i'm calmed down enough to sleep again. so tired, this one.
alright. i'm calmed down enough to sleep again. so tired, this one.
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
leave your fear in the fray...
so this is a new experience in pain. not so much in the pain sense, so much as the fact that i no longer have a neck. my face descends straight into my torso. straight. no tapering allowed. this two-for-one thanksgiving disease thing is pretty cool. "what's that? her immune system is down? strep, you say? why not invite mono too, just to keep it company." my body is trying to kill me.
so sleep, you say. why yes, what a charming idea, except that this danged throat keeps waking me up with this elusive pain.....actually not elusive. i can pretty much pin it right to my neck. and that actually might hurt less. did you know that women actually are supposed to feel more pain than men? ("One of the many defects of their kind. Also, weak arms." - Dwight, The Office) rambly rambly rambly. my family is ordering pizza, a special form of torture when you can't swallow anything....blah.
so sleep, you say. why yes, what a charming idea, except that this danged throat keeps waking me up with this elusive pain.....actually not elusive. i can pretty much pin it right to my neck. and that actually might hurt less. did you know that women actually are supposed to feel more pain than men? ("One of the many defects of their kind. Also, weak arms." - Dwight, The Office) rambly rambly rambly. my family is ordering pizza, a special form of torture when you can't swallow anything....blah.
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
I got a peaceful, easy feeling.
As well as two (count them) rather contagious germs, each of different sorts. What are those, you ask? Well, I went back to the doctor today, because my throat is attempting to swell itself shut and the misery is reminiscent of that week back at Bobby and Alisa's...yup, I have strep. Woot. So on the drive home, phone rings again and the doctor says, oh, by the by, your other tests came back, and you have mono.
So I am currently trying to stay awake long enough to pack up some stuff so that I can go home to my parents tonight and sleep the day away tomorrow. Blah. I have a real knack for sickness at holidays...and mono? Really. Sometimes I really wonder about my life. I mean, there's been a lot of stuff going on the last month or so, but this seems a little overboard. Anyway. All my loves to all my peoples.
So I am currently trying to stay awake long enough to pack up some stuff so that I can go home to my parents tonight and sleep the day away tomorrow. Blah. I have a real knack for sickness at holidays...and mono? Really. Sometimes I really wonder about my life. I mean, there's been a lot of stuff going on the last month or so, but this seems a little overboard. Anyway. All my loves to all my peoples.
Saturday, November 18, 2006
float into the mystic
it's the weekend.
i am sitting on my bed, eating sourpatch kids and snack mix. woot. i'm so tired, and i will sleep as soon as i can. nothing better than sleeping. i really really like sleeping in cold weather, when you can wear a hoodie to bed. :-D alright. i'm going to sleep. i know that this is short, but i am tired. maybe i will sleep. or maybe i will just sit here and write a quiz for my kiddos.
i am sitting on my bed, eating sourpatch kids and snack mix. woot. i'm so tired, and i will sleep as soon as i can. nothing better than sleeping. i really really like sleeping in cold weather, when you can wear a hoodie to bed. :-D alright. i'm going to sleep. i know that this is short, but i am tired. maybe i will sleep. or maybe i will just sit here and write a quiz for my kiddos.
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
and breathe....just breathe.
today is two years. i love you, tonkins. i pray for you each every day. it's amazing, but it doesn't really feel like two years in some ways...in others, it really does. it's amazing how far we can come. and in so little time, we too will be home. the mind reels, cori. (this is the part where you say, "the mind does reel, coral.")*****on a different note*****
rachel and i have decided that we could totally be the "what-not-to-wear" for homeschooled girls who need to buy bras with more support. seriously. there are some things that don'tneed to be accentuated that much. (and no, you beautiful lovelies we danced the night away with at the bowling alley, we are not talking about you. we are discussing someone we have known for a long time.) speaking of bowling alleys...so subtle when you send one of your number over for a dollar...we could never have guessed that you were fishing for digits. after all, we are Christians, not stupid. my sister and i have some interesting dance moves for dutch girls though, so that might have been part of it....:-p thanks melly, you really are the bomb. next time maybe i'll come early enough to make it to cru. loves to you alls.
missing you, second glide.
Sunday, November 12, 2006
learning, growing.
doing my homework. i have a lot of it. i'm giving an exam tomorrow morning...lucky little chilluns. i'm sure they really can't wait. i caught up on my latin homework, but now i still need to do tomorrow's. then i'm going to start in on the greek, although the assignment doesn't look too bad. i think i have a presentation the week before thanksgiving too. so much to do, so little time....
my laundry is all over my floor. wow. i used to be such a neat person. one of the guys in my dept. told me that you should never do your homework in bed, because your body gets confused about where rest is vs. where work is. guess i'll go confuse my body, then.
my laundry is all over my floor. wow. i used to be such a neat person. one of the guys in my dept. told me that you should never do your homework in bed, because your body gets confused about where rest is vs. where work is. guess i'll go confuse my body, then.
Saturday, November 11, 2006
only give you everything i've got
there are times when you are so tired that you can feel all of the surface area of your eyes. funny part is that i got probably nine hours of sleep last night. tomorrow....homework and work all day!! woot!! today it snowed. or rather, sleewer stormed. there was lightning and thunder while snow was falling from the sky....thunder and snow. it was like the real perfect storm. hehehehe. crazy coral laughter. people at work are starting to do the whole crazy christmas thing. everything is red and gold and sparkly. i found my christmas cards today, and they have a photo of a happy penguin dancing on them...yay!!! i have to start out with some envelope addressing. yup. woot for that. my house is semi-clean. um...wish i had something deep or profound to say...guess you'll have to read my sister's blog for that. i want to go camping. sound a little weird? yup, to me too. i don't normally think, ooh, days in the middle of nowhere. but it sounds nice to be out in the cold and have a fire and have everything smell like smoke and dirt and falling leaves. so crazy. think i'm losing what little mind i've got.
pray for rueben. pray for everyone over there. pray that God's hand in that is as evident as His hand in the rest of my life these days. He is so good to us.
pray for rueben. pray for everyone over there. pray that God's hand in that is as evident as His hand in the rest of my life these days. He is so good to us.
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
when she lays in your warm arms...
...at the way you pulled me out of time
So I know that I'm supposed to be writing this outline. I'm in the library. Isn't that half the battle? I thought so. Of course, the only real reason I made it this far is that I was walking my friend Emily from lunch towards her class...and the library was in between, and the guilt caught me and sucked me in (it's kind of like that green smoke stuff that the Joker uses to poison people in Batman...you see it coming, and then next thing you're in the North stacks in a little metal cage with a metal desk, clunky desk chair and cliched round metal garbage can.)
Anyway. Here I am. I'm sitting on the desk. (I never was much good at doing things the way I should...chair, desk, floor...so confused.) I have my back to a little window, from which can be seen both Kollege Klub and a little dentist's office. Yay for Lake Street. (That is Lake, isn't it?) It's pretending to be sunny out, but it's not. Alright. This is ridiculous. I really need to figure out what I'm going to say in this dratted paper. It's only one page, Coral. And only a 10 page paper. You have done six times worse in rougher life circumstances...
Do you think I could hide in here and stay all night? That would be creepy and weird....although, if the truth be told, I find the stacks kind of sexy. Hehe. That was a weird Coral-esque thing to say. I was just thinking though about how much I would like to have so many books that I had to have a North stacks....the day is indeed coming. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Loves to all.
Anyway. Here I am. I'm sitting on the desk. (I never was much good at doing things the way I should...chair, desk, floor...so confused.) I have my back to a little window, from which can be seen both Kollege Klub and a little dentist's office. Yay for Lake Street. (That is Lake, isn't it?) It's pretending to be sunny out, but it's not. Alright. This is ridiculous. I really need to figure out what I'm going to say in this dratted paper. It's only one page, Coral. And only a 10 page paper. You have done six times worse in rougher life circumstances...
Do you think I could hide in here and stay all night? That would be creepy and weird....although, if the truth be told, I find the stacks kind of sexy. Hehe. That was a weird Coral-esque thing to say. I was just thinking though about how much I would like to have so many books that I had to have a North stacks....the day is indeed coming. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Loves to all.
Sunday, November 05, 2006
tired with joy
My brother is back on the field. Or really, as of now, he's in Kuwait, but it won't be long now. It was certainly wonderful to have him for a little while. We are certainly a blessed family. Really blessed. See picture to the right, wherein we are totally embarrassing my brother in Farm and Fleet. (Yeah, the coveralls are kind of a long story, as is the case with most K. family secrets.) Note the I'm not sure I want people to know that these are mine look on the oldest K. fledglings face. But no, seriously. My parents have been married for 26 years, they have raised 4 children to adulthood, 4 children who love the Lord. What more can a family ask? May I never forget what is really important here in this world is the hope we have for the next.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
long time, no....
Coral Rose!!!
did you miss me?
sorry, there has been very very much going on.
Rueben is home!!! has been since last thursday. we picked him up from the airport and are soaking up every minute of our two weeks with him ever since. mostly we just laugh a lot and eat and us girls do mad crazy homework in between games of blokus. yay!!
Buffy came up last weekend, briefly, and we spent a few mad crazy hours talking our hearts out (well, i talked anyway...buffy seemed pretty content to listen, poor soul.) we got one night together and i got a 6-pack...of ale8. :-D
other than that...i had strep over the weekend, consumed more cough drops than rhode island, gave a midterm, took a midterm, took another midterm, am prepping for another midterm...have normal course load, am working the normal amount at work, not sleeping at all, enjoying fall, driving a lot, driving a little more...but it's worth it when Rueben is at one end.
so much joyness.....
loves to you all.
did you miss me?
sorry, there has been very very much going on.
Rueben is home!!! has been since last thursday. we picked him up from the airport and are soaking up every minute of our two weeks with him ever since. mostly we just laugh a lot and eat and us girls do mad crazy homework in between games of blokus. yay!!
Buffy came up last weekend, briefly, and we spent a few mad crazy hours talking our hearts out (well, i talked anyway...buffy seemed pretty content to listen, poor soul.) we got one night together and i got a 6-pack...of ale8. :-D
other than that...i had strep over the weekend, consumed more cough drops than rhode island, gave a midterm, took a midterm, took another midterm, am prepping for another midterm...have normal course load, am working the normal amount at work, not sleeping at all, enjoying fall, driving a lot, driving a little more...but it's worth it when Rueben is at one end.
so much joyness.....
loves to you all.
Sunday, October 15, 2006
everybody, everybody!
our very own Setho, on life, the universe and God's plan for us miserables.
so very true. how often don't i look at my life and think "why isn't this easier? why are there so many roadblocks? why am i where i am?" and i forget that this isn't about me. that's why it's not easy. i'm not here to muddle through life in peace, i'm here to follow the footsteps of my Saviour, who chose to walk a path i can't imagine, simply so that my soul can have eternal peace.
and out of gratefulness, i will "walk through the valley, if You want me to."
loves.
so very true. how often don't i look at my life and think "why isn't this easier? why are there so many roadblocks? why am i where i am?" and i forget that this isn't about me. that's why it's not easy. i'm not here to muddle through life in peace, i'm here to follow the footsteps of my Saviour, who chose to walk a path i can't imagine, simply so that my soul can have eternal peace.
and out of gratefulness, i will "walk through the valley, if You want me to."
loves.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
"this is new and different."
to quote myself from christmas. hey y'all...
so today is a first...on a few levels (it's snowing!!!! and i have to work with the new kid tonight.) but here's a strange first. i'm looking forward to going to work. i'm anxious, even. like I really can't wait to get out of my apartment and out into the wild cafe world. i'm exhausted, don't get me wrong, but i'm so hyperactive that i can't sit still.
what have i done in the last hour since i got up from my nap? um...i looked at my homework...looked, not touched...checked my multiple emails...
today, i taught my latin class (and colleen's, too) how to say "No two people are not on fire," in Latin...Nulli dui non ardentur. hehehehe.
so today is a first...on a few levels (it's snowing!!!! and i have to work with the new kid tonight.) but here's a strange first. i'm looking forward to going to work. i'm anxious, even. like I really can't wait to get out of my apartment and out into the wild cafe world. i'm exhausted, don't get me wrong, but i'm so hyperactive that i can't sit still.
what have i done in the last hour since i got up from my nap? um...i looked at my homework...looked, not touched...checked my multiple emails...
today, i taught my latin class (and colleen's, too) how to say "No two people are not on fire," in Latin...Nulli dui non ardentur. hehehehe.
