For Good.

I've heard it said
That people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led
To those who help us most to grow
If we let them
And we help them in return
Well, I don't know if I believe that's true
But I know I'm who I am today
Because I knew you...

Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
I have been changed for good

So much of me
Is made of what I learned from you
You'll be with me
Like a handprint on my heart
And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have re-written mine
By being my friend.

-Stephen Schwartz,

Wicked the Musical

 

I <3 you Grandma

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Posted By Blogger to Clarissa (explains it all) at 3/31/2011 04:53:00 PM

dress to impress

someday i will own a dress from

shabby apple

shabbyapple.com

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Posted By Blogger to Clarissa (explains it all) at 3/31/2011 04:30:00 PM

Poppa Paul

This last week I got to see my Dad.
He was in town to visit to his mother. Grandma O isn't doing so swell.

We got to spend some good times together.
I even brought him to my singles ward to show him off :]

... it back fired a little bit when he told me he made a few comments in Priesthood about dating. I wouldnt't be surprised now if the men in my ward all think I'm a little desperate- haha oh well.

He also took an hour and half and told my apartment, over dinner, the long version of how he met and married my mother. If you ever have a chance to hear it, it's quite entertaining. And yes it includes, kidnapping.

Dad's are great.

I never got a picture.
So sorry, none to share.

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Posted By Blogger to Clarissa (explains it all) at 3/24/2011 02:24:00 PM

Happy St. Patties Day

Today luck is on my side.

And here is why:

1. I have an almost entire green wardrobe, so getting dressed this morning wasn't in the least bit hard. Hope you are wearing green today as well cause I'm one good pincher. The guy sitting next to me in Statistics may have gotten threatened.

2. Leprechauns visited our apartment! These little guys must have snuck in after Kelsea and I went to bed super late cause we were being silly all sugared up from birthday celebration. They turned the butter magically green, Stacey's adored milk green, the apple juice green, and Kelsea's birthday donuts were half green and half rainbows.

[photo was here]

After a first go, we seemed to be hit again this morning. All the milk in the fridge was dyed (Kelsea's and Mine) and Kelsea's and Mine bathroom had very green toilet bowl water. We will see if by the end of the day they return again and find something else to change color.

 3. I have the best co-workers in the world. You should be super jealous. Like today Melissa had a St.      Patties Day joke to share:

"How many beans are in Irish bean soup?"

"239, because one more would make it 'too farty!'"
(that would be 240 said in an Irish accent)

Pretty lucky day. And I'm not even Irish!

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Posted By Blogger to Clarissa (explains it all) at 3/17/2011 03:59:00 PM

what would i do without you?

friends are not family.

but in college they kind of are.

and they sure make up for family when they are not around.

thanks to everyone who has recently given me a squeeze, smile, or a shoulder when i needed one.

and i've needed one of those a lot lately.

you know who you are.

thanks.

thanks a lot.

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Posted By Blogger to Clarissa (explains it all) at 3/08/2011 03:43:00 PM

march's savvy saying

"You are good.
But it is not enough just to be good.
You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world."

-President Gordon B. Hinckley "Stand Up for Truth" Sept. 17, 1996

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Posted By Blogger to Clarissa (explains it all) at 3/01/2011 10:00:00 AM