A Charla Life- It is what it is

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I found this article on marriage insightful. Click here to read!

Basically it traces success in one's life and in one's relationships back to obtaining and maintaining a healthy and fulfilling marriage. Makes sense to me. :)

It's finally here! I'm in my last quarter of my second school year, and can hardly believe it. All I can see behind me are several lessons learned both good and bad. And all I can see ahead of me are exciting and new adventures. Many exciting and new adventures. :)

When I talk about you, I can't help but smile. My family and friends can even hear the smile through the phone, so they tell me. Today someone told me I was glowing... I was talking about you at the time.

I think we can both agree that it's healthy to have it. How often do you take yours, and how much do you need?

I usually like at least an hour a day. If I get more, I don't mind unless it's too much or unless I'm needing a day for thinking.

But if I don't get my hour, I usually feel a little stressed out and emotionally scattered.

You make my heart go pitter patter.

Well, perhaps I shouldn't say what I'm thinking.

But, I'd be ok if you turned out to be the guy I kissed tonight.

Billy La Bufanda.


Some things are just too incredible not to share with the entire world. Ever since I first heard this song, I cannot shake it from my head. Ha ha!

So, my co-worker, Melody, discovered this here video, and my Spanish classes are now filled with silly kiddos scream-singing the lyrics to this song at the beginning of class everyday. May we spread the contagion to you. Enjoy:

Do you prefer to read them or listen to them?

Personally, I prefer to read them. I want a hard copy I can annotate all over. But, sometimes I wonder how many more books I would experience were I to listen to them.

Looking at myself, I am the type of person who makes herself incredibly vulnerable in relationships. I see this as a strength. But I'll tell you, it really leaves me crazy at times. You put yourself out there hoping the other person will respond well.

I'm convinced that making yourself vulnerable and letting others in is an act of faith.

It's not an easy or comfortable thing to do. And it can be pretty scary at times. 

I'm in favor.

I taught my students today about the siesta in Spain and in South America. We nearly unanimously agreed together that this is a cultural practice we'd like to begin here in the US... or rather continue from kindergarten up. Either a siesta block in the middle of the day, or I vote that school begin at 10:00 am. Your thoughts?

It's a lovely thing to find oneself in a continual state of happiness. For me this is not always the case. In fact the past two years of my life have been filled with much sadness and pain. However, from it I have learned that life will not always present you with everything you want it to. So, why not just choose to be happy despite your circumstances? Why not choose to be happy despite everything?

The reason I am happy is simple: I choose to be.

Try it out sometime. You'll be amazed how contagious it becomes to yourself and to those you associate with.

I love to laugh. If you can't make me laugh, I will be entirely turned-off by you. And you've also got to appreciate my humor. I'm kind of a silly crack-up of a girl.

Some people find this incredibly annoying. But, I am the kind of person who when she finds a song that resonates with her, she listens to it on repeat for an entire week. No worries, I am aware of the great blessing it is to have earbuds for such moments of insanity.

Current repeat song: "To Build A Home" by: The Cinematic Orchestra

Yes, this is my 100th blog post, and it is about bathrooms.

So, I have recently taken notice of a rare idiosyncracy of mine.

When I use a public restroom, I nearly always use the same exact stall each time I revisit. At first I wondered if I did this because of some need for ownership, but then I discovered that the stall I generally use usually meets certain criteria making it the optimal stall in each bathroom I visit. It needs to be:

1. The closest stall to the bathroom entry.
2. The cleanest stall.
3. One with toilet paper.

If the stall consistently meets these three requirements, I will always use it. However, I realized I don't necessarily discriminate according to the size of the stall. (I sometimes find myself crammed into that tiny stall where you hardly have room to enter AND shut the door.) And once one of these three criteria is no longer being met, I easily move on to the next stall. In which case, size might play a role in my choice, but cleanliness always takes priority.