November 2009
“I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner, I believe in kissing,...”
– Audrey Hepburn
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension,...”
“The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and one...”
Super Mash Bros. = BEST WORKOUT MUSIC EVERRRRR
Underused Word of the Day.
Whimsical: adjective.
1. playfully quaint or fanciful, esp. in an appealing and amusing way: a whimsical sense of humor.
2. acting or behaving in a capricious manner: the whimsical arbitrariness of autocracy.
Thesaurus: fanciful, waggish, curious, droll, outlandish.
Urban Dictionary’s Definition:
A word used to describe a person that has very little muscle, and has an...
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Giving Thanks
This is an excerpt I selected from the book Cold Tangerines by Shauna Niequist.
“I am thankful, I realized in those moments, thankful for the breaking of things that needed to be broken, that couldn’t have broken any other way, thankful for the severing that allowed me to fall all the way down to the center of my fear and look it in the face, thankful for being set free from something...
Fairytales
So today in AP lit, we had read this poem about Snow White. It was a kinda satirical, cynical poem that was basically saying how fantasy is fantasy and we dabbled on the sexist tendencies of fairy tales, etc. Anyway, my teacher needed someone to read it aloud, and he usually picks people who he thinks voice matches the poem.
So he’s scanning the room….thirty seconds later, he smacks...
The Wonderful Bounty of the Internet.
So, at times my slav(ic twin) Michelle and I have these real cynical conversations about how the internet is ruining our generation, blah blah, yeah I know, hypocrite me with a blog. We just like to point out the fact that Facebook chat and catchy quizzes ruin our lives by distracting us from more pressing issues, ie. literature papers, family time, personal hygiene, and physical fitness, etc.
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“‘There is no use trying,’ said Alice; ‘one can’t believe...”
– Lewis Carroll
“Wavin’ Flag” Knaan
motivation station?
Ok. So I am severely lacking in the motivate myself to go to the gym area. For real, it’s disgusting the lack of self-discipline I have. In my lazy defense, it is pretty much the chilliest, drizzliest, most miserable day ever to don shorts and a sports bra and hit the eliptical. However, my abs, while not very very sad, would like to be toned. Preferably sooner rather than later. Fail.
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because i REALLY needed my day to be better...
Today, I was in the car with my sister and I stuck my ear buds up my nose. When I showed her, she said I was disgusting and she was surprised how I was dating a guy so hot. Just then a car came up beside us and we turned to see my boyfriend, with his ear buds up his nose, waving at us. In your face sister, in your face. MLIA
A little while ago, I learned that when I was a kid, my dad taught me...
“Bullseye”
Yeah bitches.
Got yo Back!
I think one of the best things about having a best friend (or two!) is that you have always got that support system there when you need it. I mean, the good old while driving friend home from party, she asks, “Are you alright? You seem off” and you go “Yeah I’m fi……*BURST INTO TEARS*” And you know that they aren’t going to get all awkward and back...
“Now My Feet Won’t Touch the...
I Hope There's Truth in the Stars Come December...
So, I was reading my bimonthly copy of Teen Vogue [worship] and got to my horoscope [pisces]. Now, don’t even try to give me that “Oh I don’t belieeeeeve in horoscopes” crap. You know you love them. And even if you know secretly that they are so vague that of COURSE they are going to come true in some form or another, isn’t it nice to have that consequence free...
“And what is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned...”
mhm mhm mhm.
“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, “You owe...”
– Hafiz
An Accurate Analysis. →
So so true. Favorite = “holding hands with chaperone present.” Pride and Prejudice much? “Let’s take a turn around the parlor, shall we?”
Props to vnom for this one. Great website.
Hi-fucking-larious.
“We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.”
– Winston Churchill
"If my Heart was a House" by Owl City →
Currently very obsessed with this song.
CONCERT IN JANUARY CAN’T WAIT!
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t...”
– Louise Erdrich
just a little thing called "rage disorder"
My family jokes around that my sister and I have rage disorder. It’s kinda true. Combine the stubbornness of the dutch half of my genes and the temper of the slavic half of my genes and you get someone who is outrageously emotional and pretty good at holding a grudge, at least until the situation has been talked (or screamed) through.
My friends joke about it too. My “death...
Boys, take note.
Maybe I’m just in a...
Falling in Love at a Coffee Shop
No, I didn’t, in case you were wondering. This is actually the name of that one song from that one jewelry commercial. You know, the one that goes “I think that possibly, maybe I’m falling for you…Yes there’s a chance that I’ve fallen quite hard over you,” It’s by Landon Pigg. In case you want to buy it to like, propose to your girlfriend or...
I ran across that Rupert Brooke quote, and sat...
“Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the...”
– Rupert Brooke
The Matthew Shepard Act
“No one in America should ever be afraid to walk down the street holding the hands of the person they love. No one in America should be forced to look over their shoulder because of who they are or because they live with a disability. At root, this isn’t just about our laws; this is about who we are as a people. This is about whether we value one another — whether we embrace our differences,...
