A Day of Many Hurdles

This was my Thursday:

Go to work. Shadow the other advisors and learn that I might just remember how to be an awesome advisor. Prepare for meeting tomorrow.

Brave the new student crowds and hit up the campus post office. I nearly got ran into about five times by students looking at their phones while walking. If this were a Looney Tunes cartoon, there would have been at least one uncovered manhole and an anvil to take out the extra slow ones.

Leaving work, I notice the sky has turned a deep, evil gray color. Chaos ensues while the rain comes pouring down, hailing for a few moments, and then continues pouring creating rivers and puddles. I have now learned after being in Columbia for almost two months that it is easier to take my shoes off and walk than tread in any sort of footwear.

Almost get run over by a taxi and slightly slice a toe but eventually make it to my car. I drive home slowly, barefoot, and even manage to make it through Piggly Wiggly despite the fact that the entire left side of my body is soaked through.

Get my Piggly Wiggly card, make a killing on sales for date night dinner ingredients, and make it home in record time to shower and clean the apartment. Clean meaning hide large amount of recycling and do dishes.

Make Monica's bomb tofu taco "meat" recipe and watch "Arthur" with friend. Hilarious 80's movie and I now have a new appreciation for Liza Minnelli. Eat awesome chocolate chip cookies. Have awkward conversation.

Fight with my Roku (which I am convinced is evil and has PMS) and eventually give up on watching another movie and instead listen to the Spa channel on Pandora to calm me down.

End scene. (I actually had to look this up to see if it was "and scene" or "end scene")

Happy Friday!

Free Will Astrology: Controlled Burn.

Aries Horoscope for week of August 23, 2012

 

Do you know what a controlled burn is? Firefighters start small, manageable fires on purpose so as to eradicate brush that has accumulated too close to wooded areas. With less fuel around, bigger fires are not as likely to ignite accidentally and turn into conflagrations. I encourage you to use this as a metaphor for your own life, Aries. How? First, identify a big potential problem that may be looming on the horizon. Then, in the coming weeks, get rid of all the small messes that might tend to feed that big problem. Make sure it'll never happen.




Not sure what to make of this one considering all the issues floating around in my head. It feels a little more like the rinse cycle than a forest fire but I'll take it into consideration.

Quotes of the Day: Kindler, Gentler

Haven't had a little quotes posting in a while! This particular post is inspired by the Positivity Blog's recent post: "Self-Love: 9 Ways to Be Kind to Yourself."

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
― Desmond Tutu

 “People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.”
― Mother Teresa

“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help