Jenny's Jottings

Your Aura is Blue

Spiritual and calm, you tend to live a quiet but enriching life. You are very giving of yourself. And it's hard for you to let go of relationships. The purpose of your life: showing love to other people. Famous blues include: Angelina Jolie, the Dali Lama, Oprah. Careers for you to try: Psychic, Peace Corps Volunteer, Counselor.

Oooh, scary coincidence. Same color as Molly's!

Well, we're back at it after a week off from the regular school grind. Molly and I went camping at Hocking Hills State Park for four days. We had been afraid that it would be rainy the whole time we would be able to go camping, but the weather was mostly sunny, though a bit nippy at times. We left on Thursday; we drove through some snow flurries. We got to the campsite and found that it was almost full. It turns out October is their second busiest month. Most people were in RVs. We have a nice tent. We managed to find one nice tree-y, somewhat secluded campsite. Thursday night the temperature dropped below freezing, so we huddled up in the tent with three sleeping bags and a down comforter and manged to stay warm enough. The skies were clear, and we were able to see many beautiful stars. On Friday we went hiking at Rock House. When we camped at Hocking Hills last summer (2005), we hiked the Old Man's Cave gorge. On Saturday, along with many, many other people, we hiked at Cedar Falls and Ash Cave. Ash Cave was amazing -- incredibly expansive and beautiful. I can't wait to get my pictures developed, so I can post some here and some on my flickr page. The leaves were turning, and we enjoyed the winding country roads on our way home. The trip was relaxing and restorative. I didn't get much reading done on reading week, but I am catching up this week.

The whole school thing is a bit much, just thinking of everything I need to do and read and write before the end of the semester. However, I keep in mind the quote from Julian of Norwich (whom I am studying for one of my projects): "All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well." We will pull through. We've been getting our exercise by doing some dance lessons at the Fred Astaire Dance Studio that opened up by our apartment. I signed up for two free lessons at our school's community day fair. We so enjoyed those lessons, we signed up for four more, plus a group lesson and a party. We've been learning to foxtrot, waltz, swing, rumba, tango, mambo, etc. It is great fun!

Anyway, it is late now, and I want to go to bed. We are going to see the Indigo Girls tomorrow night!!! Very exciting! We like the new album. I'll let you know how it goes :)