"are your friends making you fat?"

its finally friday people!!! yea!!!! hehehe. im feeling good, im thankful to God for bringing me through another week. from now on, i am going to try and be worthy of my nickname "PJ SUNSHINE"! recently, ive read a couple of things that's really convicting me to be more positive.
first, i read matthew 13 "the parable of the sower" this past week about the farmer who sowed the seeds that fell on different types of ground. the one that stuck out to me the most was when he threw the seeds out among the thorns of other plants. those seeds eventually grew, but they were cut down and choked by the thorns. Jesus compared this to people who hear the Word of God and grow. they become a bit stronger, but then they are choked down by the worries and anxieties of this life and end up not being fruitful....i analogized myself to this example...


i love my law school friends and im so thankful that we have the kind of relationship where we can be honest with each other. my friend kindly reminded me that ever since she's known me ive worried about the future. that really put me in place. im really hard on myself. it's that type A personality that constantly craves to be on top of things and makes everything in life so (unnecessarily) urgent! i really need to live in the present and not take the little moments for granted. its okay that im not where im meant to be yet. maybe i wont get there for another 10 years! i need to stop worrying. *sigh* easier said than done tho! at the end of the day, i just want to be able to say that i've accomplished things that im proud of. i dont know if i can say that yet....

yesterday in class a question was posed to us students: why did we come to law school? why would we come spend $150,000 on 3 tortured years of hard work, living in the library, and not seeing your family and friends? It's definitely not for the prestige because people hate lawyers! initially i knew the reasons when i first came to law school, but im still trying to figure out the answer.

second, i read this article on nytimes last week entitled: "are your friends making you fat?" hehe. i thought it was a funnie title, so i read it and it was actually really interesting! there are 2 social scientists who researched a group of friends in their 50s/60s and came up with the conclusion that our range of influence extends outside of our circle of friends. we actually have the ability to affect our best friend's mother or our husband's boss! our range of influence goes out three degrees from us. we can infect people we know and even those we don't know with happiness, joy, depression, smoking, obesity, and unhappiness.
there's A LOT more to this article, but i thought to myself: omg! i have a strong responsibility to be positive and to have a good effect on other people. i would like to have healthy, happy contagious behavior for the people around me. you may or may not believe the scientific work that's been done since it's difficult to prove, but i believe there's a pretty strong correlation between our behaviors and how it affects people close to us. ive seen it happen with my two friends in law school! haha. if we want to eat healthier, we all try. but if we become depressed, we can affect each other as well. lol.

well here are some pics that ive been meaning to post up. this is a picture of my cousin, my, who left to study her masters in thailand. when i look at this picture i think of laurel thatcher ulrich's quote: “Well-behaved women rarely make history” haha. it's always fun to hang out with her--she's got a great attitude! ill miss her but i know she's going to have the time of her life out there.



here's our weekend at the renaissance festival with katie and kelvin. it was our first time there! in all my life of living in MN, ive never once been there. my body was literally in a state of shock for the first 15 mns bc ive never seen anything like it! haha it was fun and i think johan really enjoyed it. everyone came dressed up in costumes! it's nice because there's a lot more entertainment than the state fair. but hands down, the food is better at the fair haha.



heres a picture of a tight rope walker. he was an amazing performer! one of his acts consisted of 11 things that he did simultaneously, i.e. hopping on a pogo stick, juggling balls, blowing bubbles, etc. haha. it was neat.


me eating a wild rice soup bread bowl! =)


well this wraps it up for today. im really excited because after work i get to go shopping for a dress. then johan and i are supposed to go on a little date for dinner! i love my husband, i haven't really talked or spent time with him this week. then he's gonna go play magic with the guys to prep for the zendikar tourney tomorrow and im going out with my sisters and cousins to celebrate my sister mitchia's golden birthday. yea! happy 24th birthday to my sister mitchia! =)

have a great weekend! bye!