Enlightenment

Buddha told his disciples: whoever makes an effort can attain enlightenment in seven days. If he can’t manage it, certainly he will attain it in seven months, or in seven years. The young man decided that he would attain it in one week, and he wanted to know what he should do: “concentration” was the reply.
The young man began to practice, but in ten minutes he was already distracted. Little by little, he began paying attention to everything that distracted him, and thought that he was not wasting time, but was getting used to himself.

One fine day he decided it was not necessary to arrive at his goal so fast, because the path was teaching him many things.

It was at that moment that he became an Enlightened one.

Source: Warrior of the Light

Paolo Coelho is pretty inspiring. On to more homework.

Closer ...

Spring break is coming to an end, and it feels as if it wasn't much of a break at all. I went to Sea World, yeah, that was very fun. And I have Saturday & today off which is excellent! But working everyday was pretty tiring. It was fun though! I enjoyed everyday at work. I'm just glad that I get to relax a little bit.

Robert invited me to an Easter brunch at his sister's house. I would like to go, right now I'm so tired though. Hopefully I'll get my butt up soon and take a shower. I'm gonna start working on a doodle soon too maybe. I have a litttleeee bit of homework to get done before tomorrow! I'd rather just watch people bake cakes.

Flat Tire ...

I wouldn't know how to change one, but I know now how to fill one up ... I just hope it stays well enough for my trip to work and back tomorrow!
Work! I had a 7 hour shift the other day and it was exciting. I don't know why, but I worked with Logan, and it was pretty busy so I manned the front while he helped around but mostly glazed and changed lots of music. I'm glad we have a cd player in there now instead of an annoying radio that plays the sameee songs all the time. I don't mind as much as the other girls cause they've been here longer, but after 3 times hearing a song, I get a little, what's the worddd ... "over it." So now we can bring in our own music, but I have no personal preference, I love everything! When Andi came in, I helped around throughout while she took care of customers. Then for a good amount of time we got to talk about ourselves, which was very nice, we definitely, hm, connected? which is a really good thing, I think. I'm really loving working there, I just wanted to rave about that. Oh and this one girl, probably high school or college aged I have no clue, was painting the most BEAUTIFUL plates ever, I absolutely adoooored them. :)

So today, Robert and I took the bus(es) to Sea World, it was veryyyy interesting to say the least, the bus ride there I mean. This crazy African American wanna-be-hoodlum tried scaring Robert & I into giving him money, but we knew the dude was a jokeeeee. Regardless, I still wanted to get the hell out of downtown, quickly!! So we got there, had a blast, got to see all the shows [besides the night ones, we got too tired by the middle of the day] ... and then came back home. My wonderfulllll dad picked us up at UTC and had a little bit of a hissy fit while he was at it ... :( Ha. But I'm very thankful for him cause ... buses freak me out!

All in all, the experience was good, and we got to use our Silver Passports! & I spent the wholleeeee day with Robert, which is rare during this break because we both work so much this week. His days off were Tuesday & Thursday, mine are Thursday and Saturday. Well, I'm very sore. It's looking like that scrapbook goal is going to go down to 5 or something lower unless a miracle happens on Saturday!

Finally!

I finished one page. My goal for the week was 50, but at this rate, I'll be lucky to get 3 done.
I'll aim for 10. :)

Seeing the pictures sure does bring a ton of memories back!

I'm going to start cooking ...

Well, maybe not. I'd like to, I'd like to try to, but honestly...
I'm scared of burning the house down. It's always been a fear of mine, ha, ever since those firefighters came to my elementary school and told us about the horrors of house fires. I need to get over it, every woman should learn how to cook sooner or later.

I'm also lazy, that's not helpful.