I need a parka...

I hate being cold - what i hate worse - waking up in a house that is cold and being told to check my vents. Does anybody really think I am that stupid.. The first thing I did was check my vent. AHH... Just come and fix it so im no an icicle in the morning and evening. I am going to have to wear a permanent parka from now on.

My weekend was fairly good. I went out on Friday night with some friends from work. The restaurant has terrible parking - so, when you get there, you have to park illegally in front of loading/fire doors, and then when a spot opens up the lot guy (if you can call him that), moves your car to the spot. Well, I am not too sure about how I felt about leaving my car keys with a random guy that i didnt. How did I know that my car would still be there when i came back.. And the good friends I have, reassured me, when I made the comment "he's probably sold my car".. that its illegal to sell the car - but he could probably sell the keys.. Thanks girls.. Then we went to Mel's for some drinks and card playing - I learned how to play asshole and Hearts (I know, I should know how to play both, but I dont.)

Saturday went to a Christmas block party with Steve. It was okay. Its always hard when you dont know most of the people and they are all older than you are. I felt like a I was 15 years old. I just couldnt relate to most of the things they were talking about. The party itself was fun - not much beats a bunch of drunk people.

I had one of my students come in today and tell me she was in love. I asked her why she thought that, and what she thought love was. I got the typical response - "I dont know, what is it". At that point, I realized that I didnt know how to respond to that question. How do you describe love? If somebody were to ask you what love was, what would you say? Well, I thought about that question for a while, and this is what I have come up with..

this is love (as far as what I think anyways)

As much as I have experienced and thought I understood love, I, as of about ten minutes ago, just figured out what it means to love someone. I mean REALLY figured out what it is to REALLY love someone. It goes so much further than just a feeling, or an emotion that is inside you. When you love someone, it means that you will do anything for that person. You will do whatever you can do to make them as happy as possible, even if it is not beneficial to you. Love is a selfless act, or at least the true form of love is. You feel so deeply for a person that you cant imagine doing something to them that will cause them any amount of pain or unhappiness. You always put that person's needs ahead of your own, and you are always willing to sacrifice for that person. If you truly love someone, you will always feel like you arent doing enough for them, and that there is always something mroe that you could be doing to make them happy. Love is a strong attachment or devotion to someone. It means that you are dedicated to a person, for better or for worse, and that there is no force on the earth that can break that attachment. Wow. We should all be so lucky to experience this feeling in our lives, and to know what its like to willingly sacrifice something that is important to you or something that you really want to do because you care to much about a person. So, here's to love, the most unselfish feeling that you will have know.

Quote for the day: Love like you've never been hurt....