Welcome to the new me
Sep. 22nd, 2003 02:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elenearielWell, not actually a new me. Sort of like a more determined me. I finally decided that if I don't start getting done all those Things that I have always thought I'll do Someday, then I'm never going to. If I can't make time to do them now, how in the world will I do them in a few years when I'm working full time and maybe living on my own and possibly even *gasp* married with a husband and a house and maybe a child to take care of?
Answer: If I don't do it now, I never will.
So. I'm renewing my study of Spanish. I'm actively pursuing the piano again (funny mental picture, there...). I'm reading Plato and Aristotle and the huuuge history book printed in 1876. (LOVEITLOVEITLOVEIT! What's better then a gigantic, ancient book with lots of beautiful etchings and a writer who has a flare for great phrases? For example, "The kings and heros speak to us from the walls of their palaces and tombs, in the inscriptions which have defied the defacing hand of time." *squiggles* The fact that parts of the book are literally falling apart is very depressing, but makes the book all the more of a treasure to me...)
I'm also going to try at least one new recipe a week, spend at least a few hours a week writing, and ...yes. I'm going to Read Poetry. I like Tennyson. And Poe. But I realize I need to broaden my horizens poetry-wise. So out comes the huge old poetry good inherited from grandma (much like the huge old history book inherited from grandpa). unfortunantly it starts out with Milton, who is the one poet I really, really don't like. Perhaps he'll be better this time around.
Oh. Yes, I am home. And I miss![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
savetheolives a lot. (pictures from our visit are in the process of being scanned, and may be up before too long.)
Answer: If I don't do it now, I never will.
So. I'm renewing my study of Spanish. I'm actively pursuing the piano again (funny mental picture, there...). I'm reading Plato and Aristotle and the huuuge history book printed in 1876. (LOVEITLOVEITLOVEIT! What's better then a gigantic, ancient book with lots of beautiful etchings and a writer who has a flare for great phrases? For example, "The kings and heros speak to us from the walls of their palaces and tombs, in the inscriptions which have defied the defacing hand of time." *squiggles* The fact that parts of the book are literally falling apart is very depressing, but makes the book all the more of a treasure to me...)
I'm also going to try at least one new recipe a week, spend at least a few hours a week writing, and ...yes. I'm going to Read Poetry. I like Tennyson. And Poe. But I realize I need to broaden my horizens poetry-wise. So out comes the huge old poetry good inherited from grandma (much like the huge old history book inherited from grandpa). unfortunantly it starts out with Milton, who is the one poet I really, really don't like. Perhaps he'll be better this time around.
Oh. Yes, I am home. And I miss
savetheolives a lot. (pictures from our visit are in the process of being scanned, and may be up before too long.)![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2003-09-22 07:01 pm (UTC)*sigh* I have tried, actually. Its just that there is so much I want to do and thinking about it all overwhelms me. And then of course, every time I get really motivated something like our accident happens and it throws me back months. But that, I suppose, is just a handy excuse for the fact that I don't know to organize my time. :^P