If you look closely, you will recognize this as my friend from this morning. Dead on the cold, laminate floor.
Is it a warning?
A fond farewell?
Either way, I feel like I should sleep with one eye open tonight.
5.27.2011
I am not even joking here: an update.
This was waiting for me--right in front of the door, mind you--when I got home from work:
If you look closely, you will recognize this as my friend from this morning. Dead on the cold, laminate floor.
Is it a warning?
A fond farewell?
Either way, I feel like I should sleep with one eye open tonight.
If you look closely, you will recognize this as my friend from this morning. Dead on the cold, laminate floor.
Is it a warning?
A fond farewell?
Either way, I feel like I should sleep with one eye open tonight.
one of the drawbacks of living alone.
Is that people aren't around to witness things. This morning, for example, I'm taking a shower, mindin' my biz, dreading thinking about work, when this fly buzzes all in and is like, Hai. Sitting on the wall. Admittedly it was disgusting, kinda like he was all
Me:
:|
I swear we locked eyes and then out of nowhere, all cognizant and Bugger-like, this thing just dances around the wall, taunting me, as if to say,
And I'm all
It was also sort of like:
Me:
:|
I swear we locked eyes and then out of nowhere, all cognizant and Bugger-like, this thing just dances around the wall, taunting me, as if to say,
And I'm all
It was also sort of like:
5.24.2011
top ten tuesday: guilty pleasures.
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Top Ten Tuesday: Guilty Pleasures.
1. Spending an entire Saturday reading in bed.
2. Cheetos.
3. Watching cartoons. (Adventure Time! Samurai Jack! Invader Zim! Family Guy.)
4. Daydreaming.
5. White birthday cake with lots of frosting.
6. Vin Diesel movies (The Chronicles of Riddick, xXx, Fast and Furious,The Pacifier, Babylon A.D., et. al)
7. $28 mascara. (Merci, Dior!)
8. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (Let’s just...not, ok?)
9. Men’s cargo pants.
10. And on the opposite end of #6, we have the BBC/Focus Feature oeuvre featuring Bright Star, Becoming Jane, and most importantly, North and South, with Richard Armitage as John Thornton (who is also going to be in The Hobbit. YUP.)
Top Ten Tuesday: Guilty Pleasures.
1. Spending an entire Saturday reading in bed.
2. Cheetos.
3. Watching cartoons. (Adventure Time! Samurai Jack! Invader Zim! Family Guy.)
4. Daydreaming.
5. White birthday cake with lots of frosting.
6. Vin Diesel movies (The Chronicles of Riddick, xXx, Fast and Furious,
7. $28 mascara. (Merci, Dior!)
8. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (Let’s just...not, ok?)
9. Men’s cargo pants.
10. And on the opposite end of #6, we have the BBC/Focus Feature oeuvre featuring Bright Star, Becoming Jane, and most importantly, North and South, with Richard Armitage as John Thornton (who is also going to be in The Hobbit. YUP.)
5.17.2011
top ten tuesday: after dark
I'm one of those people that comes awake at night. No, not in a mistress-of-the-night, vampire way (weirdos), but more in a, hey-my-creative-energy-is-going-crazy-let's-go-bunjee-jump-off-a-bridge-and-then-paint-a-masterpiece-before-exploring-the-tunnels- running-under-Salt-Lake-City kind of way. Kind of.
But luckily I'm able to control most of my nighttime impulses and have found more acceptable ways of channeling this energy. These are pretty tame in comparison to what actually runs through my mind.
Example:
Thought: Fly to Paris and take a class in French pastry.
Action: Make my own version of mille feuille with puff pastry, custard, and nutella.
Thought: Write a novel.
Action: Write the beginnings and plot lines for hundreds of stories.
You get the idea.
Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Things to Do After 10 pm.
1. Bake Amish oatmeal while listening to A.A. Bondy.
2. Drive around on Bacchus with the windows down and the music up. Some high school habits never die.
3. Write the beginnings of stories. Fifty-six and counting...
4. Go star-gazing in the mountains.
5. Look for the "elf house" in Copperton.
6. Go to some late-night place after a show and let it all sink in.
7. Sit outside on my deck and listen to the river and the crickets.
8. Plan trips to exotic places that would cost tens of thousands of dollars.
9. Start reading a new book.
10. Oh and sleep. I do that, in addition.
But luckily I'm able to control most of my nighttime impulses and have found more acceptable ways of channeling this energy. These are pretty tame in comparison to what actually runs through my mind.
Example:
Thought: Fly to Paris and take a class in French pastry.
Action: Make my own version of mille feuille with puff pastry, custard, and nutella.
Thought: Write a novel.
Action: Write the beginnings and plot lines for hundreds of stories.
You get the idea.
Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Things to Do After 10 pm.
1. Bake Amish oatmeal while listening to A.A. Bondy.
2. Drive around on Bacchus with the windows down and the music up. Some high school habits never die.
3. Write the beginnings of stories. Fifty-six and counting...
4. Go star-gazing in the mountains.
5. Look for the "elf house" in Copperton.
6. Go to some late-night place after a show and let it all sink in.
7. Sit outside on my deck and listen to the river and the crickets.
8. Plan trips to exotic places that would cost tens of thousands of dollars.
9. Start reading a new book.
10. Oh and sleep. I do that, in addition.
5.11.2011
a perspective i'd like to hear more often.
"This is the church of Jesus Christ, not the church of marrieds or singles or any other group or individual. The gospel we preach is the gospel of Jesus Christ, which encompasses all the saving ordinances and covenants necessary to save and exalt every individual who is willing to accept Christ and keep the commandments that he and our Father in Heaven have given. ....
An eternal marriage will be composed of a worthy man and a worthy woman, both of whom have been individually baptized with water and with the Spirit; who have individually gone to the temple to receive their own endowments; who have individually pledged their fidelity to God and to their partner in the marriage covenant; and who have individually kept their covenants, doing all that God expected of them."
-Pres. Howard W. Hunter, "The Church is for All People," August 1990
An eternal marriage will be composed of a worthy man and a worthy woman, both of whom have been individually baptized with water and with the Spirit; who have individually gone to the temple to receive their own endowments; who have individually pledged their fidelity to God and to their partner in the marriage covenant; and who have individually kept their covenants, doing all that God expected of them."
-Pres. Howard W. Hunter, "The Church is for All People," August 1990
5.10.2011
top ten tuesday: happiness
Here are the top ten things that made me happy today, on May 10, 2011.
Top Ten Tuesday: Happiness for May 10, 2011.
1. Cute bakery items.
2. Realizing my hair is the longest it's ever been.
3. Golden retriever puppies.
4. Flowers in my room.
5. Vacation in June!
6. Being pen pals with an old friend even though we live less than two miles away from each other.
7. Buying a new book.
8. Thinking about the adventures I'll have with my sons Fox, Gunner, Bandit, and Jefferson (as in Thomas).
9. The genius of Adventure Time.
10. Going on my favorite walk around the neighborhood.
A pictorial summation:
Top Ten Tuesday: Happiness for May 10, 2011.
1. Cute bakery items.
2. Realizing my hair is the longest it's ever been.
3. Golden retriever puppies.
4. Flowers in my room.
5. Vacation in June!
6. Being pen pals with an old friend even though we live less than two miles away from each other.
7. Buying a new book.
8. Thinking about the adventures I'll have with my sons Fox, Gunner, Bandit, and Jefferson (as in Thomas).
9. The genius of Adventure Time.
10. Going on my favorite walk around the neighborhood.
A pictorial summation:
5.04.2011
total squeeee and other serious matters.
Jane Eyre. Hence the squeeee. Yeah yeah yeah, I've written about it before. Does not change the fact that Mr. Rochester's got it goin' on, yaknowwutimsayin. What is it about Gothic (not goth, judgers) romance that enthralls so many people? Spirits speaking to spirits, souls being destined for each other...exactly the kind of thing that in "real" life doesn't make the grade, or even a minor appearance. Or at least doesn't seem too. And that's one thing that I love about that book. Jane Eyre's character and personality make their relationship possible, because she not only believes in being guided by an unseen spiritual life that tells her "Yeah he's the one; see how he looks at you as if he knew your soul before it was written?" BUT she is equally guided by a grounded moral code of self-esteem and unbending ethics. Chyeah. She's my homegirl like that.
My realistic sense kicks into overdrive on these matters until I'm left staggering with how cavalierly I treat the topic of soul mates and how they're so unrealistic. But deep in the darkest recesses of my soul I hope and think
We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.
My greatest hope is that I'll find someone who understands me--and lets me understand him--without trying. That's also my greatest fear.
My realistic sense kicks into overdrive on these matters until I'm left staggering with how cavalierly I treat the topic of soul mates and how they're so unrealistic. But deep in the darkest recesses of my soul I hope and think
We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.
My greatest hope is that I'll find someone who understands me--and lets me understand him--without trying. That's also my greatest fear.
5.03.2011
top ten tuesday: artists
You thought I forgot, didn't you?
Well I did.
Top Ten Tuesday: Artists.
1. Vermeer
2. Kandinsky
3. Rothko
4. Pollock
5. Gaugin
6. El Greco
7. Miro
8. Chagall
9. Hopper
10. Degas
And fin.
Well I did.
Top Ten Tuesday: Artists.
1. Vermeer
2. Kandinsky
3. Rothko
4. Pollock
5. Gaugin
6. El Greco
7. Miro
8. Chagall
9. Hopper
10. Degas
And fin.
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