Last night I dreamt about eating Easter candy. Cadbury eggs, to be specific.
Ohhh, I wish it were reeeaaaal!!!
Instead I ate ants-on-a-log for breakfast.
But still.
I feel pretty awesome today, not gonna lie.
3.25.2010
3.02.2010
Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
This is my goal for the week: See beauty in all things.
It's so hard right now, especially since it's the border season between winter and spring, and I sooo want spring to be here, right now and I just get impatient with nature and want it to hurry up already, bring me flowers! Colors! But I forget that leaf-less trees still have their beauty, and even the yellow grass and brown dirt poking through bald spots on lawns.
Did you know I used to want to live in a field with yellow grass?
So, remember how when you're little, you'd always get assignments in school that ask you to write a paper on where you see yourself in 10 years?
I used to get this picture in my head of living in a house in the middle of a field of yellow grass, on the edge of a line of trees. It was a pale yellow house, old fashioned and wooden, small and old and creaky but cute. I had a big window in front that was right in front of my desk, a husband in the house and three (or more? O_o) little kids running around outside. I had a type-writer, too, which I used it for my work, which I did typing at my desk, and looking at the view out my window.
Of course that wouldn't have been 10 years from when I had to write those essays (or did I really think I would have three kids by the time I was 22?) and what kind of job would really let you use a typewriter these days? But I'm really bad at dreaming about my future, so this has been an image I've always come back to.
I do like the idea of a desk by a window. And I know Matt would like an old fashioned small-ish house.
I don't know where I want to be in 10 years, I'll have to work on that and get back to you all.
But I do like this childish dream I used to have, it amuses me and yet, I can almost see it being reality someday.
It's so hard right now, especially since it's the border season between winter and spring, and I sooo want spring to be here, right now and I just get impatient with nature and want it to hurry up already, bring me flowers! Colors! But I forget that leaf-less trees still have their beauty, and even the yellow grass and brown dirt poking through bald spots on lawns.
Did you know I used to want to live in a field with yellow grass?
So, remember how when you're little, you'd always get assignments in school that ask you to write a paper on where you see yourself in 10 years?
I used to get this picture in my head of living in a house in the middle of a field of yellow grass, on the edge of a line of trees. It was a pale yellow house, old fashioned and wooden, small and old and creaky but cute. I had a big window in front that was right in front of my desk, a husband in the house and three (or more? O_o) little kids running around outside. I had a type-writer, too, which I used it for my work, which I did typing at my desk, and looking at the view out my window.
Of course that wouldn't have been 10 years from when I had to write those essays (or did I really think I would have three kids by the time I was 22?) and what kind of job would really let you use a typewriter these days? But I'm really bad at dreaming about my future, so this has been an image I've always come back to.
I do like the idea of a desk by a window. And I know Matt would like an old fashioned small-ish house.
I don't know where I want to be in 10 years, I'll have to work on that and get back to you all.
But I do like this childish dream I used to have, it amuses me and yet, I can almost see it being reality someday.
2.26.2010
De-motivation
Have you realized that the word demotivation almost has the word "demon" in it? Pretty rad, huh?
So I'm having one of those days, where my motivation and good mood has seeped out my ears and down the heating vents. Why do they always conspire against me? Together? (or is that redundant...) I'm wearing my pink shoes and striped socks which totally don't match. I have exhausted facebook and my blogspot feed for possible entertainment and distraction. Third on the list, (which I hardly have to resort to, mind you, this is for dire needs only) is MLIA.
So, if this site is an accurate representation of teenage interests, that would be really neat, cause then I could pretend like I am more in touch with pop culture than I actually am. If this is correct, teenagers today are interested in: Twilight, Transformers, Harry Potter, Batman, and hating Miley Cyrus. I have seen at least one of all the above movies, including several episodes of Hannah Montana (yeah, that's right). I'm still cool. This is good news.
Now I feel adequately courageous to turn in my prospectus.
So I'm having one of those days, where my motivation and good mood has seeped out my ears and down the heating vents. Why do they always conspire against me? Together? (or is that redundant...) I'm wearing my pink shoes and striped socks which totally don't match. I have exhausted facebook and my blogspot feed for possible entertainment and distraction. Third on the list, (which I hardly have to resort to, mind you, this is for dire needs only) is MLIA.
So, if this site is an accurate representation of teenage interests, that would be really neat, cause then I could pretend like I am more in touch with pop culture than I actually am. If this is correct, teenagers today are interested in: Twilight, Transformers, Harry Potter, Batman, and hating Miley Cyrus. I have seen at least one of all the above movies, including several episodes of Hannah Montana (yeah, that's right). I'm still cool. This is good news.
Now I feel adequately courageous to turn in my prospectus.
2.20.2010
Cite This
Yesterday I wore two different deodorants, one on each armpit. I ran out of mine, and as if that weren't enough, the cartridge broke and got stuck in the stick and long story short I wore Matt's on the other armpit and went around confused all day whenever I got a whiff of it cause I smelled like a man.
And today, IIIIII wanna know: have you ever seen the ...snow? coming down on a sunny day? Cause I totally have, and I wanted to sing that song all day long! It was pretty much magical.
And today, IIIIII wanna know: have you ever seen the ...snow? coming down on a sunny day? Cause I totally have, and I wanted to sing that song all day long! It was pretty much magical.
2.17.2010
And That's All I Have to Say About That
You know what I thought about war? It's all an abuse of power. Holy war, just war, I don't wanna hear it. I think it's just plain stupid.
Think of it this way. Say you argue with your girlfriend/boyfriend. Instead of talking it over, working it out, either just between the two of you or with a counselor, you get all your friends to beat up her friends and family, your friends who know how to shoot guns to shoot his/her friends and family, and your friends who know how to make bombs to drop them on his/her friends, and family. And home. And everything to make her say, "Ok, you were right." Or, at least, "I will pretend you are right, because I have lost too much."
Is this okay?
No, it's stupid, right?
Is this a fair comparison? Of course.
What are kings and presidents but human beings? They are just human beings with power. And they abuse it.
Sad, isn't it?
Sorry, I don't mean to be depressing.
But this is so true! And you're thinking, yeah, but politicians can't just "talk things over."
Well...
So I know a lot of people hate Reagan. But for some reason, I ended up doing a report about him in high school. Did you know he and Gorbachev "talked things over," thus preventing the Cold War from escalating into bloodshed? Isn't this amazing?
Shouldn't this not be amazing? Shouldn't this be, I dunno, common sense?
And this be the hippie in me.
Think of it this way. Say you argue with your girlfriend/boyfriend. Instead of talking it over, working it out, either just between the two of you or with a counselor, you get all your friends to beat up her friends and family, your friends who know how to shoot guns to shoot his/her friends and family, and your friends who know how to make bombs to drop them on his/her friends, and family. And home. And everything to make her say, "Ok, you were right." Or, at least, "I will pretend you are right, because I have lost too much."
Is this okay?
No, it's stupid, right?
Is this a fair comparison? Of course.
What are kings and presidents but human beings? They are just human beings with power. And they abuse it.
Sad, isn't it?
Sorry, I don't mean to be depressing.
But this is so true! And you're thinking, yeah, but politicians can't just "talk things over."
Well...
So I know a lot of people hate Reagan. But for some reason, I ended up doing a report about him in high school. Did you know he and Gorbachev "talked things over," thus preventing the Cold War from escalating into bloodshed? Isn't this amazing?
Shouldn't this not be amazing? Shouldn't this be, I dunno, common sense?
And this be the hippie in me.
2.07.2010
Recycle what?
Have you ever wondered why the Recycling Bin on your desktop is called a Recycling Bin? I mean, what do we recycle? Do our old essays and blurry pictures and lolcats really get turned into something else after we delete them? I always thought that when I deleted stuff the old files just disappeared into oblivion, but apparently I'm wrong. The pixels from blurry pictures get channeled back to t3h Interwebs or Adobe Photoshop and are regrouped into a magnificent new picture that boasts "100% recycled material," right?
No, seriously, why have I never noticed this before? What is this desktop recycling business all about?
No, seriously, why have I never noticed this before? What is this desktop recycling business all about?
2.05.2010
Bangs
Confession: I love bangs.
Short bangs, long bangs, side-swept bangs, pretty much every kind except for the 80's poof kind.
But tragedy - I can't pull them off! I mean, I look ok, but my greasy skin and aversion to showering in the mornings does not mesh well with little bits of hair hanging over my forehead. My bangs would absorb all the grease from my forehead and get all clumpy and oily and it was not pretty.
It's true, I still think about getting bangs from time to time. But don't worry, I restrain myself.
I think it's about time I honored some good wearers of bangs, don't you?
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So I watched the movie Yes Man and fell in love with Zooey's bangs. It probably helps that she's adorable, too.
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I think Audrey Hepburn is the most Win when it comes to bangs. These extremely short bangs would make anyone else look ridiculous, but she makes it look classy, as with everything else she does. Absolutely amazing. Go Audrey!
Short bangs, long bangs, side-swept bangs, pretty much every kind except for the 80's poof kind.
But tragedy - I can't pull them off! I mean, I look ok, but my greasy skin and aversion to showering in the mornings does not mesh well with little bits of hair hanging over my forehead. My bangs would absorb all the grease from my forehead and get all clumpy and oily and it was not pretty.
It's true, I still think about getting bangs from time to time. But don't worry, I restrain myself.
I think it's about time I honored some good wearers of bangs, don't you?
Exhibit A: Mana
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Mana was pretty much the reason I took scissors to my hair the summer after middle school - I wanted to look like this. So, of course I am sentimentally attached to this kind of bangs. Looks really good with gothic styles and outfits, if you ask me!
Exhibit B: Zooey Deschanel
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Mana was pretty much the reason I took scissors to my hair the summer after middle school - I wanted to look like this. So, of course I am sentimentally attached to this kind of bangs. Looks really good with gothic styles and outfits, if you ask me!
Exhibit B: Zooey Deschanel
(credit)So I watched the movie Yes Man and fell in love with Zooey's bangs. It probably helps that she's adorable, too.
Exhibit C: Audrey Hepburn
(credit)I think Audrey Hepburn is the most Win when it comes to bangs. These extremely short bangs would make anyone else look ridiculous, but she makes it look classy, as with everything else she does. Absolutely amazing. Go Audrey!