just what I needed to hear

She was the unwanted one, the unattractive one, the one her father used as a trick. She was Leah. By birth, she was Rachel's older sister. And by deceit, whe was Jacob's first wife. She must have seen the dissappointment in his eyes when he discovered she wasn't the woman he had spend seven years longing and working for. And she must have known, as well as any woman today, the deep and lasting sting of rejection. But for all weakness and all his cunning, her father did provide for her. And for every woman who stands in the shadow of one who seems more beautiful or more brilliant, there is a Father, who says "This one is worthy." There is a father in whose eyes you are the loveliest of all. He is a father who delights in you so much that He sings and rejoices over you. It is time to see yourself as He sees you-apple of His eye, the joy of His heart, the masterpiece of His hand. Leah may have felt inferior to Rachel, and we know she felt unloved by Jacob. But her heavenly Father had a purpose for her life. She bore Jacob a daughter and six sons, among them Levi and Judah. From Levi, the priestly tribe arose and ministered for God to the entire nation of Israel. From Judah came King David and his royal lineage, which included Jesus Christ.
God has a destiny for you, too. Find a place to be alone with Him not simply to seek His will, but to let him show you who He created you to be and to let Him tell you how beautiful He thinks you are!

woooaaa, what a feeling!

Definitely the best part of my day was.......filing for graduation!!! Yep that's right! I turned in my paperwork so that my degree can be audited. But first, I have to contact advisers and all of that. I felt a sense of achievement. The exiting process has begun, and I am closer to the finish line, yey!!!!

laugh the stress away

Today, it was really hard to pick the best part of my day. I was not sure which of the many things to choose. This is a good thing, I guess! But the winner is a small moment spent in the admissions office. It was around 11am when Valerie walked in the back room and AnTuan, Madlen, and I started talking to her making all kinds of comical jokes. Then Madlen was telling us about one of her class projects which included the topics of race and discrimination. UUFFF, those were very critical subjects. Her comments about them brought even more laughter in the room. I cracked up laughing every time. It was just hilarious. Everything was over within 20 mins because I think our office computer has a virus, and we were trying to fix it. The End!!! :)

On this Sunday......

The highlight for the day was Sunday Mass. I really like looking forward to attending mass because it makes me come out a stronger person. Taking part in the mass recharges my spirit and hopes. So today I was having a little difficulty focusing my mind. It just ran off to who knows where, but the scripture reading that did stay with me was the one about the church being many parts of the body. Together we make up that body. Everyone has a part. Without every member the body does not function. We all have an inportant role in this life, we are a piece of the puzzle!!!!!

What is the best thing that happened to me today?

So I have decided to document the highlight of each of my days....well I will try to post it everyday if time and my memory permit. Many great things happen to us everyday, God's blessings happen to be numerous, but there is always that special moment that we remember most with great happiness. We just have to acknowledge it and categorize it as such.



January 23, 2010

Adriana, Nesia, and I were driving downtown Wichita Falls to get to the Kemp Arts Center to do a community service project around 5:45 PM, which turned out to be a really fun event. It had been raining about two hours beforehand, but as we got on the highway the rain stopped. The bright sun managed to reign over the dark clouds and illuminate the scenery with its mighty rays. It was amazing, but the best part was that the sunlight was reflected in the sky as a colorful rainbow that covered a great distance!!! It formed in front of our very own eyes!!! The red, green, blue, yellow, and orange were so clear and bright. We saw it from one end to the other. We wanted to search for the pot of gold, but the rainbow itself was a very valuable treasure pleasing to our eyesight!!! I was so fascinated by it that I did not pay attention to the directions that were given to us to arrive at the center, and I got us lost for a little while.....but no big deal. We arrived at the center and as we pulled in to the parking lot, I noticed that the magnificent sun was not done with its show. It left the phase of the earth leaving us with one more stunning display.....an incredible sunset with all kinds of colored clouds and a mighty golden light announcing that he would be back....God's work of art; it was a wonderful gift!

College 101

One of my strenghts is INPUT. This means that I like to collect wether it be information, people, anything. I have a collection of movie stubs, rocks, but the one I like the most is quotes. In some of my classes, some of the things that my professors say really draws my attention. Their words are like food for thought for my brain. I think that this is one of the things that keeps me interested during the lectures. It is like I am waiting to see what interesting frase or saying or word the professor is going to say to imediately write down. I find this very entertaining, and these are some of those thoughts, words, and frases that have caught my attention and that I want to learn from. Some of them are completely off topic with the lecture, but that is like the bonus you get for attending class. Some I will never hear anywhere else or used with the same context and/or meaning. I have enjoyed learning them and the list will accumulate!

Spanish Literature Classes-Professor Fuertes
la esperanza luenga aflige al corazon= hope deffered afflicts the heart
vanamente se dice por muchas palabras lo que por pocas se puede entender
bien se de que pie cojes
mecer el ojo= to wink
haz tu lo que bien digo y no lo que mal hago
we are the sum of our experiences
por huir de un peligro cae en otro mayor
harto mal es tener la voluntad en un solo lugar cautiva
me alegro de estas nuevas como los cirujanos de los descalabrados
prospectos=prospective
enjoy-savor, appreciate, take pleasure in
don't focus so hard you can't enjoy
para abrir boca
deleitar=delight
bolero=cancion sentimental
matiz=shade of
vamos a gozar
ir contra corriente
inimaginable
vistoso=pleasurable to the sight; llamativo
desdin=desprecio
de capital importancia
intervalo=interval
impar=uneven
pae=even
coleta=ponytail
recordar es crear
al azar=sin ningun motivo
Si hay una facultad de nuestra naturaleza que puede considerarse maravillosa, esa es la memoria-Jane Austen
Nuestra memoria es un mundo mas perfecto que en universo: le devuelve la vida a los que ya no la tienen-Guy de Mausassant
La memoria es como una red:uno la encuentra llena de peces al sacarla del arroyo, pero a traves de ella pasaron cientos de kilometros de agua sin dejar rastro-Oliver Wendell Holmes
En la memoria de una persona normal, al lansar esta red solo nos quedamos con los peces, los recuerdos, eventos, e informacion, y un proceso automatico elimina esos detalles de la vida cotidiana menos importantes

Spanish- Professor Hollabough
para que haya literatura esta tiene que destruir la verdad
formidable
freneticamente
incendiaria
agazapado
angulo recto
cerebral labor

Operations Management-Professor Patterson
employees are the resources of the employer
I enjoyed the people more than the art-Prof Ramser
jump on it like a firefighter jumps to a fire
constraints=anything that limits us from achieving objectives
we live with constraints everyday
make a stab at it
time is a precious resource
no pude cultivar de amor su corazon
you have to work the image
if it ain't broke, don't fix it
pragmative
you cannot know where you are going if you don't know where you've been
the solution to a problem will lead to another problem unless the solution keeps inproving
whats the standard deviation
whatever you have to do, you are already doing it
we have met the enemy, and the enemy is us
the most precious asset is it's people
remove obstacles, barriers
make better people
310-315 million peeps in US
1.3 billion in China
Tokyo=30 mil=size of Montana
Mexico City=20 mil population
Texas=23 mil-only state that has 3 of the largest top 10 cities in the nation, Houston #4, Dallas and San Antonio

Supervision-Proffesor Ramser
Supervisor-unique animal
students=adopted children
inexplicably
comonsensical
metamorphosized
plummits
road to recovery is never smooth
entertain those thoughts
being enslaved
orchestrate
precontrol the outcome
deceptively simple
energize people
osmosis effect
you don't see good things unless you look for them

Leadership-Professor Bultena
sanity is trying the same thing and expecting different results
i'm destined to be a leader/supervisor
go live your life, gather your daily experiences and fun activities, live and experience first and then tell someone about it
the challenge of the day comes at you 90 miles/hr
neurotic=unemotionally unstable
volunteer first so you can choose what you want to do
the sun will come out at some point
wonderwoman
by doing the action, you will began to feel it
motivation will sneak up on you
do it until it feels good
you dont have to feel it to do it (ex: working out, praying, shower)
put fuel in the fire
God gives you superhuman strength
leadership can be influenced on childhood experiences
from zero to ballistic
your home should be a restful, peaceful place
things escalate
going postal
he is colorful
walking away from a hornet's nest
give the kid a hammer and everything becomes a nail
trust bank-deposits and withdrawls
rise up during a crisis

Grammatica- Professor Garcia
they push me to be seriously, not to live in the clouds
locusiones=expressions
situarse, ubicarse, localizarse
adyacente=adjacent
osado=atrevido
arbusto=bush
desgarbado=awkward
estoy hecha una sopa=im soaking wet
voy tirando=hanging in there
lloriqueando=sobbing
escenas retrospectivas=flashback
verosimil=probable
reparto=cast
balde=bucket
no es tan bravo en leon como lo pintan
diestro=skillful
ecuacion=equation
la una y pico=one o'clock
elevada a la cuarta potencia=to the 4th power