Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Who Says it Better Than Homer?
With the semester wrapping up, and so many tests and projects being thrown at me from every direction I am totally relating with Homey in this video!
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Tears
It is a strange thing, have you ever been moved so much by something that you find yourself in tears? These tears that surface are not caused as a result of fragility encountered by frustration, nor are they necessarily the result of sorrow, they are simply the result of being so in touch with something or someone that you can actually feel what they are feeling, move with them, and yet it stirs your own emotions and memories deep within you at the same time. You feel your heart is overflowing, expanding to the extent that it becomes close to the surface where tears are easily accessible; before you know it they just come.
This occurred to me today as I read a poem, all of the feelings I stated above occurred within me as I read each line of every stanza. The authors words moved me in such away that I can never truly capture my experience with words, and at the end I literally found myself moved to tears. These tears caught me off guard because I don't really cry. Sadly in the last six years I can count the number of times I have cried, this includes the one tear bit, on both hands with fingers to spare. This isn't because I am a robot, I have felt great pains and every morsel of what I stated above, it is simply hard for me to cry.
This occurred to me today as I read a poem, all of the feelings I stated above occurred within me as I read each line of every stanza. The authors words moved me in such away that I can never truly capture my experience with words, and at the end I literally found myself moved to tears. These tears caught me off guard because I don't really cry. Sadly in the last six years I can count the number of times I have cried, this includes the one tear bit, on both hands with fingers to spare. This isn't because I am a robot, I have felt great pains and every morsel of what I stated above, it is simply hard for me to cry.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Today I have my eyes on...
Friday, November 28, 2008
Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!
"Thanksgiving: A holiday about an indigenous people, we celebrate with turkey and an underdog float." - Steven Hyde from That 70's Show.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I wish everyone "Tums" to help us sleep, and a merry week and a half of great left-overs! Personally I hope I can get some of the stuffing, in my family it is always the first thing to run out. This year for Thanksgiving we ate up at my Aunt Leslee's house (it alternates between her place and my grandmothers). The turkey was divine this year! I guess my aunt drowned the turkey in whine when she was cooking it, whatever she did it was spectacular! So I suppose drunk turkeys are the way to go? All of the food that I have been waiting for a year now for were spectacular, the cheesey-beans that my Aunt Lisa makes have become a rare treat in my family, she no longer makes them for the routine Sunday dinner, nope they have become a Thanksgiving delicacy. The stuffing topped previous years if possible, and the salads were great! (Good job mom!) I love thanksgiving, in my family it is the time that my Aunt Leslee whips out the fancy china, and the goblets (A cup that Lincoln was FASINATED by, he wouldn't drink out of anything else. Lincoln also discovered crutons this year and they were the only things he would eat. When he wasn't walking around the table pointing at people and saying his newly learned phrase: "You play ball like a girl!" (Watch the movie Sandlot and you will see where he learned it.) he was shoving a fist full of crutons in his mouth.) Well, my family dedicates alot of days for eachother, but this is one of the great ones. After the feast and the infamous pie-fest we usually go see a movie. This years choice was "Four Christmases."
Oh pie-fest, how I love you. I have to start a new paragraph for this great....GRAND event! I was only able to manage five slices of pie this year:( But they were incredible! Really, though we may not have had as many people this year, and we were short two pies of last year, it was great!!!!!!!! We had the classic pies like pumpkin and banana creme (a family favorite) as well as new pies I had never heard of like an Alaskan cooked pie, it sounds like there should be sea-food in there (When it was pink Danielle and I couldn't help but wonder) but there wasn't, it was really good and oddly had ice creme baked in it. I also loved the "hostess" pie that Travis and Danielle concocted. Ha ha.
Well it is late, and I have to work the dreaded "Black Friday" tomorrow so I will need my sleep if I am to survive. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Don't forget to be grateful, the greatest fault one can have is ingratitude, but I won't preach, a) because I am too tired to, and b) I doubt for those that have actually stuck this far with me in reading my post will want to hear it. So good night!
(Pie-fest 08!!!!!!!)
(Danielle and Travis's hostess pie, lol)
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I wish everyone "Tums" to help us sleep, and a merry week and a half of great left-overs! Personally I hope I can get some of the stuffing, in my family it is always the first thing to run out. This year for Thanksgiving we ate up at my Aunt Leslee's house (it alternates between her place and my grandmothers). The turkey was divine this year! I guess my aunt drowned the turkey in whine when she was cooking it, whatever she did it was spectacular! So I suppose drunk turkeys are the way to go? All of the food that I have been waiting for a year now for were spectacular, the cheesey-beans that my Aunt Lisa makes have become a rare treat in my family, she no longer makes them for the routine Sunday dinner, nope they have become a Thanksgiving delicacy. The stuffing topped previous years if possible, and the salads were great! (Good job mom!) I love thanksgiving, in my family it is the time that my Aunt Leslee whips out the fancy china, and the goblets (A cup that Lincoln was FASINATED by, he wouldn't drink out of anything else. Lincoln also discovered crutons this year and they were the only things he would eat. When he wasn't walking around the table pointing at people and saying his newly learned phrase: "You play ball like a girl!" (Watch the movie Sandlot and you will see where he learned it.) he was shoving a fist full of crutons in his mouth.) Well, my family dedicates alot of days for eachother, but this is one of the great ones. After the feast and the infamous pie-fest we usually go see a movie. This years choice was "Four Christmases."
Oh pie-fest, how I love you. I have to start a new paragraph for this great....GRAND event! I was only able to manage five slices of pie this year:( But they were incredible! Really, though we may not have had as many people this year, and we were short two pies of last year, it was great!!!!!!!! We had the classic pies like pumpkin and banana creme (a family favorite) as well as new pies I had never heard of like an Alaskan cooked pie, it sounds like there should be sea-food in there (When it was pink Danielle and I couldn't help but wonder) but there wasn't, it was really good and oddly had ice creme baked in it. I also loved the "hostess" pie that Travis and Danielle concocted. Ha ha.
Well it is late, and I have to work the dreaded "Black Friday" tomorrow so I will need my sleep if I am to survive. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Don't forget to be grateful, the greatest fault one can have is ingratitude, but I won't preach, a) because I am too tired to, and b) I doubt for those that have actually stuck this far with me in reading my post will want to hear it. So good night!
(Pie-fest 08!!!!!!!)
(Danielle and Travis's hostess pie, lol)(Heather craftily devised a train for Lincoln to drive around, he was SOOO CUTE!!!)
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Brady Cannon's Wedding!
Congratulations Brady!!!!!!!!
Three things I am grateful for today: Surprises, hugs, hiking
Three things I am grateful for today: Surprises, hugs, hiking
Darn Deceptive Days
I am sitting here with my Starbucks hot chocolate starring through a huge window that would have me believe today is a warm, "going outside friendly" day. It angers me, although it looks perfectly sunny and the trees' leaves are sparkling gold under the sunlight every time I go outside, I am blasted with frigid air so much so that I always end up back inside with red ears, rosy cheeks, and pretty much the whole package one gets after walking through a cold environment. The worst part? As I am sitting here looking at the window I still want to go out, even though I know I am going to repeat my earlier process.
Oh well, moving on. Who knows it may actually be warmer outside now that it is a little later (later meaning a half hour since my last attempt). Last Friday I went with my friend Samantha, my mom, my Aunt Kristan, and two of their friends to go see the movie Twilight at a Twilight premiere in Sandy.I went into the movie literally expecting nothing, Aside from how cheesy the trailers made it look, I have seen the director's earlier work and I didn't really care for it, and as far as I was concerned movies are never as good as the books so I didn't want to get my hopes up. But I was actually really impressed with what she did with it, and to my surprise I didn't mind who they chose for the cast that much. I wish she would have given the Cullens a little more a developed role in the movie, although I know they did not have a huge role in the first book either. The premiere party was sweet! Seriously! It was put together by "twilight moms" I didn't even know they existed till my Aunt bought the tickets. The event was really neat! I loved the theater because it had assigned seats so I didn't have to do the whole wait in line for six hours bit, that part rocked!
(Alright I just have to say that the person who took the photo made me bend forward, I know it looks super awkward, like I am protruding out of the photo:(...)
---------3 Things: Good books, days when I am not clumsy, hot chocolate!
Oh well, moving on. Who knows it may actually be warmer outside now that it is a little later (later meaning a half hour since my last attempt). Last Friday I went with my friend Samantha, my mom, my Aunt Kristan, and two of their friends to go see the movie Twilight at a Twilight premiere in Sandy.I went into the movie literally expecting nothing, Aside from how cheesy the trailers made it look, I have seen the director's earlier work and I didn't really care for it, and as far as I was concerned movies are never as good as the books so I didn't want to get my hopes up. But I was actually really impressed with what she did with it, and to my surprise I didn't mind who they chose for the cast that much. I wish she would have given the Cullens a little more a developed role in the movie, although I know they did not have a huge role in the first book either. The premiere party was sweet! Seriously! It was put together by "twilight moms" I didn't even know they existed till my Aunt bought the tickets. The event was really neat! I loved the theater because it had assigned seats so I didn't have to do the whole wait in line for six hours bit, that part rocked!
(Alright I just have to say that the person who took the photo made me bend forward, I know it looks super awkward, like I am protruding out of the photo:(...)(Oh ha ha, side note! I thought I would add this because it is funny and these things really only happen to me. On our way to the premiere we were driving in my Aunts new really nice car. I can't remember who, but someone earlier had given Sam and me gum, after awhile it began to lose its flavor as gum does. Sam rolled down the window and threw hers out, as I rolled down my window to dispose of mine I remember distinctly thinking that it would probably hit a car with my luck. (Keep in mind that we were on the freeway and my aunt is a speedy driver especially when she has some place she wants to be so we were going really fast) However, I reminded myself that nothing happened when Sam did it, but threw it extra hard out the window just in case. The gum went out, and speedily in a perfect parabola shape came right back and hit the side of my aunt's car. SMACK! The sound it made was so loud that everyone in the car heard it. I felt so bad! Luckily though it didn't stick, and if it did it didn't for very long because when we arrived at the theater there was no sign of it or its landing place...Moral of the story...don't throw gum out a window it is a annoying and it can fly right back at you if you have my luck.)
---------3 Things: Good books, days when I am not clumsy, hot chocolate!
Saturday, November 22, 2008
More Random Ramblings: Something About Dresses That Twirl
Ever since I was little girl (even when I was going through my long lived tom-boy phase where dresses were the last thing I wanted to deal with) I have always loved dresses and skirts that full on whirl and twirl when you spin in them. I am not sure why, maybe it is because you can never not feel pretty while wearing them (not just pretty, but also sexy Marilyn Monroe proves this in "The Seven Year Itch!"), they can be both fun and glamorous (many times they combine the two) and being that I am a fan of twirling I believe this is a big reason behind my love of this style of dress; They embellish the already fun action of "twirling!"
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Three things:
1. Corinne, after all she did help me wrap my wrist up tonight, with a "whatever it is called band aid" that unlike its boring comrades that are a dull tan color, is purple!
2. Stars
3. The Moon.
1. Corinne, after all she did help me wrap my wrist up tonight, with a "whatever it is called band aid" that unlike its boring comrades that are a dull tan color, is purple!
2. Stars
3. The Moon.
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