Getting Settled in Houston

Okay, so I am already bad at this blogging thing.  I don't really have anything too exciting to say, but I figured I should post again.  Last week I was really busy going to orientation for nursing school.  I met some fun people there and got excited about starting school, so that was good.  I am a little nervous as it seems nursing school is half school, half job.  I think it is all going to come at me a little faster than I may have prepared for, mostly in terms of actually practicing on live patients.  

Last weekend was very enjoyable.  Tim and I are finally starting to feel more settled in Houston, and able to do less shopping and errand running and do more things for fun.  For example, I got a different seat for my bicycle, and it made a world of a difference on my boom-boom!  Tim and I rode around the neighborhood Saturday evening, rode to church and back on Sunday (very pretty day), and even went on a dirt trail on Sunday afternoon!  His ankle is still adjusting, but it is getting stronger with the physical therapy. Overall, we had a blast.  

This week I had hoped to be a little more productive, but I suppose the little things have added up.  It is funny how you can get to the end of a day and feel like you did nothing, when in reality you did a ton of small things that needed to be done.  The insignificant add up to significant, I suppose.  And now it is approaching a four day weekend with Tim.  He has tomorrow off, as well as Monday, so I guess some last summer fun starts tonight!  

Isn't it funny how when school starts back in the fall, it already feels like Thanksgiving and Christmas are right around the corner?  Maybe I am the only one who feels like that, or maybe 

I'm getting older and realizing that it just comes quicker and quicker each year.

I'll try and take some pics of my apartment soon, but here is a pic of Tim's living room (at the cleanest I've seen it. Ha!): 

I guess that is all for now.  Study time!

White Tiger Lily Meaning

White Tiger Lily. These three words have been with me for awhile.  To me, they seem to sum up the essence of how God created woman, or maybe just me, or maybe a few others, or maybe the core of all women of the world.  I'm not sure.  Or maybe it just represents an image of what it is like trying to be a godly woman in a messed-up world.  Or maybe it represents the internal battle going inside us that is constantly trying to keep our ferocity and fragility in some sort of love-able balance.  Or how to harness each and channel them into love.  I love the contrast in the term "tiger lily".  How is a large wild animal the descriptor of a delicate flower?  And yet both have a beauty and rarity and grace and incredible strength about them.  Strength.  The flower may seem the fragile part, but think about the immense strength it has to survive the elements of nature that it does.  Grace.  The tiger may seem the tougher part, but think about the rhythm and grace of a tiger's gait and gallop.  And not just any tiger. A WHITE tiger.  With blue eyes.  Blue mysterious eyes that mesmerize you.  beautiful...

The list of analogies is endless, but it reminds me so much of being a woman.  Or at least learning how to be one.  Learning to be more and more the way God created me and would have me fit into this world for His needs.  A journey I think takes a lifetime. So I guess this blog is an invitation of some sort to join me.

I will probably write entirely too much. Technology has opened up many new ways of communicating and expressing and questioning and learning and sharing and I've decided be a part of this whole new conversation. So please comment, because I don't want this to be a one-way conversation.  Plus, I'll probably write way too much.