all it took

an excerpt from the blog minortweaks.com (HILARIOUS) which, incidentally, perfectly represents my life.

How to Wake Up

1. Set the alarm on your phone the night before.

2. Place the phone across the room so that you'll actually have to get out of bed in order to silence it.

3. When it goes off the next morning, leap from your bed and unplug it.

4. Go back to bed. Take the phone with you.

5. When it goes off again, five minutes later, hit snooze.

6. Hit snooze.

7. Hit snooze.

8. Hit snooze.

9. Decide to get up.

10. Hit snooze.

I have a feeling some of you college kids out there can relate.

love. mara.

i'm never drinking coffee again. ish.

One of my roommates left the rest of her coffee out on her desk over the weekend. This is the mold it gathered. Sick.

I think I'm quitting blogging. For fear that my cynical view of the world spills out and infiltrates your minds and makes you be like me. YIKES.

on admitting defeat

Saylor: Mara, I love you.

Mara: I love you MORE!

Saylor: No, I love YOU MORE.

Mara: I love you to the moon and back.

Saylor: I love you around the house, to the moon, around all the refrigerators, and around the house again.

faith without deeds is dead

in Jesus' name, amen
mara

reason i am uncool #264

I need to know why these are cool. I mean, do you know you look about 8 years old when you're riding it? I feel like it should be red and yellow stamped with a big "LITTLE TYKES". In all seriousness, I just have to know what the appeal is.

love,
mara

now on to step 2

If I have learned anything in my life through making the same mistakes over. and over. and over again, it's that if you give satan any kind of authority to name you, to tell you you're insignificant, to tell you how you will never make any kind of difference in the world, if you ever give him even the slightest opportunity to tell you that, hey, they're right, you do suck at life, you are impossible to deal with, you won't ever be half as pretty or smart or holy or lovable or perfect as she is,

then he totally effing will.

satan is just an a-hole like that.

love,
mara

a fall haiku

it is cold outside

the weather is autumnal

let's snuggle? YEAH, BOi!


love,
mara

i'm being so serious. and accurate.

A personal note to Keely: If you read this, I LOVED IT! I meant to tell you when you got home last week. But I forgot. Your kids are hilarious though, and I laughed at the story all the same.

Whilst babysitting Miss Roe Belle.


Roe: Mara, why is your chin so much bigger than ours?

Mara: ....what?

Roe: Your chin. How come it's so much bigger than ours?

Mara: HAHAHAHAH! An excellent question.



Love,
mara

you have to imagine it in Hugh Grant's soothing voice:

Yesterday, we initiated all of the new little Kappas. I loved it. I love them.

Today, I have to spend all day writing a research paper on sex slavery in Thailand. Although I think that everyone needs to learn about this kind of stuff so we can acknowledge and do something about it, it makes me more cynical than usual, even. You know those times that you feel like the world is a very depressing place and that there's no way in a million years you could ever do anything about it, and it's kind of true because we screw things up and Jesus is the one that makes them right? That is today.

It made me think of the move Love Actually, at the beginning when Hugh Grant is talking about the airport and life and stuff. And really, you have to see this movie. Even if you think it is going to suck, because it's mushygushychick-esque. Because most people I have made watch this movie have thought that and loved it. I think that means it has some kind of spiritual ties. (Weak and wounded sinner...). Anyway, he says this:

"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaking suspicion love actually is all around."



So here's to looking for it.

Love,
Mara

Words of Wisdom, courtesy of Saylor Lillie

I found a pair of binoculars Saylor made in Sunday school or something out of toilet paper rolls. I put them on and ask the girls if they look good on me.

Saylor: Haha! Those make you look chunky!

Mara: ...what?

Saylor: Those binoculars! They make you look chunky!


I'm afraid to tell you that it is not, in fact, the binoculars on my face that are making the rest of my body look chunky. HAHA!


Love,
Mara

dear man with the deafening, excessively loud truck,

Have you heard of overcompensation? Because I'll tell you who has: Every woman in America.

Love,
a concerned citizen.