Jul 09 2007
Terrariums
A couple of days ago I was shopping in Grand Forks and I found these awesome, little, healthy, prickly, miniature cactus plants in these tiny ceramic-like pots and I thought they were cute so I bought a few. My mom helped me plant them in this round clear glass bowl and I decorated it with colorful sand and put some neat looking rocks in it to make a terrarium. It’s so rad! You should see it. In fact you can because I posted a picture of it down at the bottom. Let me know what you think of it. For those of you who have a hard time remembering to water plants, cactus’s are easy to take care of because they don’t require a lot of water and they last a long time to.
As I mentioned before, I had quit my job at Heartland care in June and since then I have filled out 16 applications to various places in D.L. and 1 in Lakota and for awhile there I was about to give up, but then on Friday I got call from the manager of the Dairy Queen in D.L. and she told me to come in for an interview on Monday morning. So I’m pretty happy about that. I hope that if I get the job that I don’t take advantage of the employee discounts. It’s nice being able to stay home and relax and not have to work, but at the same time I miss working and I need the money to pay my bills so I really hope I get the job.
Last night night I watched the movie “Bridge To Terabithia” and for those of you who haven’t seen it yet I’ll spoil the surprise for and tell you all about it. This movie is about about these two kids, Jess and Leslie, who become good friends and they build this tree fort together in this forest not too far from their houses and in order to get to their fort they must swing from a rope across this creek. These two kids put their creative minds together to come up with this fantasyland in the forest where they are acted by creepy looking monsters and this huge giant tree that has the face of their enemy, a bully at school. Most of the movie is about their adventures in the forest with their fantasyland, Terabithia. Towards the end of the movie Jess gets invited to go to the museum with one of his teachers that he likes and he thinks about inviting Leslie to come with, but he decides not to and while they are gone, Leslie went to the forest by herself and she fell in the creek when the rope that she was swinging from broke. She drowned and died. Jess of course feels terrible because if he would have invited her to go with that wouldn’t have happened. Jess ends up building this bridge across the creek so that he can keep Terabithia alive and I’m sure you know by now that’s how the title of the movie came to be “Bridge To Terabithia.” Leslie was Jess’s bridge to Terabithia she inspired him to use his imagination and to forget the world around him. It’s a pretty good movie, you should see it if you haven’t already.
I guess the reason why I told you about the movie is because I wanted to share with you what I have learned through it. I was thinking about the bridge and the significance it has in that movie and I thought about how my bridge to God is my faith in him and how important that is in my life. Even though I can’t see him I still believe that he’s there and that he’s real. Just like Leslie and Jess couldn’t really see Terabithia without their imaginations. I guess maybe comparing faith to someone’s imagination isn’t the greatest comparison, but it makes sense to me in a way. Maybe I should discover my own Terabithia fantasy world in my forest of cactus’s that are in my terrarium…and then again maybe not.
Tip of the day:
Don’t let your curiousity get the best of you! What you don’t know won’t hurt you. Trust me, because once you find out what you don’t know your going to wish you didn’t know what you shouldn’t have known in the first place.
