On a whim...

I have slowly started packing up and separating my stuff up, and was looking through some of my old journals-personal and for classes, sketchbook, and random notebooks. I found quite an accumulation of old memories, moments, thoughts, and comments and they just made me happy. So I thought I'd share some highlight moments of my life-the little tidbits I had mostly forgot til I rediscovered them, buried in my bookshelves. After all, its the little things that really count.

Flying Toasters and Pickle People
Peace is not just the absence of war; peace is the absence of tension

Mango Slices!

"The surface of the earth is soft."-Thoreau

" 'The pictures, they're talking.' 'What are they saying?' 'They say...Keep me, Protect me, Share me, And I will live forever.' "

Seconds tick away
Slowing as the time passes
Hesitantly stops.

Have a Lizst, Gone Chopin, Be Bach later.

Continue with life and don't look back

C'est la vie

All things shall perish from under the sky, music alone shall live, music alone shall live, music alone shall live never to die.-Band Camp

Hippograffe!

"How are you like a backpack?"-Mike Carroll

Live, See, Jump, Become, Play, Smile, Journey, Imagine, Burn, Fall, Write, Trust, Exist, Discover, Believe, Laugh, Grow, Doodle, Fly, Float, Dream, Dance, Sing, Belong, Encourage, Hold, Hope, Trust, Allow, Perceive, Build, Enhance,

"Let me go, I'm not done. I swear I'll take just one lifetime."-Boxcar Racer

Consciousness is the edge of reason and humanity. The encompassing of heart and soul in a single being.

"Hold me, love me, choose me."-Meredith Grey; Grey's Anatomy

"Hold me, Love me, ain't got nothin but love babe, eight days a week."-The Beatles

Let sleep claim you, drift you, love you. Dreams hold the intimate caresses of infinity, the wistful longings of yesterday, and the ending of forever. Loose yourself and wonder if you'll never return.

Vanilla-the childhood memory of snow ice cream.

"The dust has only just begun to form crop circles in the carpet. Sinking. Feeling."-Imogen Heap

"Don't know how much time has passed, and it feels like forever. But no one ever tells you: forever feels like home."-Stone Sour

Heels make me feel powerful.

"Time falls away, but these small hours still remain."-Rob Thomas

Hug a musician, they never get to dance.

"When in doubt, follow someone! Even if you don't know them or where they're going, because they may be going to the same place as you!"-Heather on driving.

You have to work for what you want.

Creation is unique.

When you taught me how to dance...

Life is sense overtaking you.

"The beauty of grace is it makes life not fair."-Reliant K

My ideal is unreachable, and yet I can't erase it.

A second can mean a life, a death, a breath...

Believe in the moments, Believe in eternity...

"If you ever felt
alone
if you ever felt
rejected
if you ever felt confused
if you ever felt lost
if you ever felt anxious
if you ever felt wrong
if you ever felt wronged
if you ever felt unclean
if you ever felt angry
if you ever felt ashamed
if you ever felt curious
if you ever felt
used
be prepared to feel
revenge
feel the romance
my brutal romance
my beautiful romance
my miserable romance
my x-rated romance
my harlequin romance
my innocent romance
my selfish romance
my scandalous romance
my childish romance
my watercolor romance
my chemical romance."-My Chemical Romance

AM: The thrum of life filling you from the inside out.

"Write about the whale.' 'what whale?' 'The one trapped in your imagination , dieing to get out."-J.M. Barrie

What is my yellow brick road?

Our culture is growing and thriving as we drown in our own lack of identity.

Do you trust yourself to catch you?

I stood watching as the ship sailed out to sea. The settig sun tinted the sails with a golden light, and as it disappeared from sight, a voice at my side whispered, "He is gone." But the sea was a narrow one.
On the farther shore, a band of family and griends had gathered to watch and wait in happy expectation.
Suddenly, they caught sight of the sail, and at the very moment when my companion whispered, "He is gone." A glad shout went up in joyous welcome, "Here he comes!"

"Happiness is a journey, not a destination..."-Souza

"When you stand int he present moment, you are timeless. "-Rodney Yee

Paganini looks like Filch!

"I was in the library, and a girl in a gorilla costume popped out at me from behind a shelf and said, "Hey, you want a kafka $ and a hershey bar?" She was getting funny looks from those studying." -Karmen

Captain Harry!

"He was a jaded romantic."
"So it's like somebody broke his rose colored glasses?"
"Uhh...well, I have no idea what you're talking about."-music history discussion

Beef, it's what's for dinner.

Joy to the world, Barney is dead, we barbecued his head...!

NOISE!

And I can only wish I could include some of the sketches I found in my class notes. I obviously was not paying enough attention to the lectures.

Here and Now

Today's the first day in quite some time that I haven't felt incredibly restless, something for which I'm rather thankful for. I spent the afternoon on my couch doing absolutely nothing, I only left for my guitar lesson (which was embarrassing when I didn't realize I was singing the songs under my breath until Bill loudly proclaimed, "At last, I hear a voice!") and about 4 I realized there was nothing I'd rather be doing. So as I sit here, discovering new music, reading fanfic (because I am that big of a dork), checking everyone's facebook, and just overall catching up on the world around me; I realize I am at peace in this one moment. While I still have the itch to get out-to wander around, in this one moment, I am satisfied. Could be in part because I made travel plans for next month today, but whatever the reason, this is enough. I will get where I'm going when I get there.

Found this website of awesome pictures I want to try and recreate and expand upon.
http://crystalinks.com/holdthesun.html
Already have one myself, and for some reason I never really saw how much more could be done with it. Something I will have to rectify!I have also enjoyed discovering new music tonight, as well as rediscovering old groups. I'm currently working on making a new playlist and will likely have to go to Hastings and some other music stores tomorrow.
Found an awesome and hilarious quote by Kate Winslet.

There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.

Here's to knowing when!

It's Been a Week

This last week has been rather fun and interesting. It started on St. Paddy's Day. Morgan and I decided to go out and meet up with some of her old high school friends for the evening. We started out at Jimmy'z (where I learned Morgan can't take shots-something to be soon rectified), hung out at Zola's, and had a late late dinner at the Satellite. At one point in the evening we attempted to trade mardi gras beads for an awesome headband, but the girl was kinda heinous and told us no in a rather piss off kind of manner. I was rather disappointed in that, at least laugh about it even if you won't make the trade. Although lets be honest, I probably would have traded just to have the story to tell afterward.

The day after I woke up energized and rearing to go. Getting bored rather quickly, I texted my roommate and asked for a direction. Thankfully we had discussed that I would be someday soon doing just such a thing and she responded with a prompt, "SOUTH!" So I got in my car and drove south to Rosalia, looped back up on the old 195, back down to Colfax, took the Walla Walla exit and ended up coming to Ritzville from the south before heading home. It was absolutely gorgeous outside and I enjoyed every bit of my adventure. Stopping to take pictures whenever took my fancy along the way, I found some pretty cool things, including a one room building off the side of the road which said "Interested in Time Travel Meet Here" and a truck stating I was entering wheat country. I can't wait to take my next get in the car and see what you see adventure. I may go all the way north to Canada and have a Canadian adventure even. Maybe try setting up a bed in the back of my car, well see how it goes.

Then on Saturday, Finders Keepers was doing an event for the Spokane Presevation Society. It was western themed so we were all wearing old 1900 skirts, red button downs, cowboy boots and cowboy hats. It was sooo much fun! Nyla, Eric and I started a mini-competition to who would raise the most money selling the sheriff badges and I totally expected to loose as the other two are awesome sales people. I was rather satisfied when my sales equaled theirs combined and I had to go steal more badges from both of them because I kept running out. We managed to raise almost $700 for the society, and then got to have fun prancing around in our western wear the rest of the evening. I love doing events like that, especially when its dressed as something I normally would never do. I have so much fun getting into personna and just putting on a show all evening. Its really great and I'm happy that Deena always seems to want to take me along to the events.

To Making It Count

I had a sudden intense urge to watch Titanic tonight, and who am I to deny? It really is quite fun, especially when Rose goes up on her toes to prove her toughness. I wouldn't be opposed to living as Jack did, minus the whole going down with the ship thing. His motto of making each day count is really quite empowering, especially since it lead to the party in steerage. That was definitely the real party to be at. I feel especially sappy that I'm almost crying here at the end of it. Well, at least until she "accidentally" drops the Heart of the Ocean. That scene is rather ridiculous, although I suppose they had to dispose of it for the plot line. But I love how she did as he asked, and made each moment count, and did all that she had dreamed.

So here's to making it count, to the moments:

"The purpose of life is to matter, to count, to stand for something; to have it make some difference that we lived at all."
Leo Rosten

Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.
Charlie Sheen

Life is a succession of moments, To live each one is to succeed.
Corita Kent

There are all sorts of strange things and experiences that happen to you over the course of your life, moments where you can't possibly believe what is happening other than for the reason that it is.
Richard Gough

"We do not remember days, we remember moments."
Cesare Pavese

Life is filled with so many exciting twists and turns. Hop off the straight and narrow whenever you can and take the winding paths. Experience the exhilaration of the view from the edge. Because the moments spent there, that take your breath away, are what make you feel truly alive."
Stacey Charter

I'll meet you in Wisconsin

Went to twigs with Morgan last night and had a delicious dinner. We determined that since she won't be able to go to Europe with me, that we will drive cross country on scooters together at some point in the future. We were joking about how when were both teachers and have summers off, even if we live on opposite sides of the country, well call each other up and pick somewhere to meet up. Being the smart ass I am I told her, "I'm going to call you up and say I'll meet you in Wisconsin in 3 days!" morgan got such a kick out of this that we determined that's our new phrase. So Morgan, someday I'll meet you in wisconsin on scooters and you can damn well bet we will be eating some chili and cheese while were there!

gonna be tired tomorrow!

So I officially have my layout for tomorrow (+12 hours or so...). Tonight, I'm cleaning my apartment (completely) because I'll be out of town all weekend, and packing. Tomorrow I work at the bagelshop from 6:45-3:15. From 3:15-4:00 I clean out my car cause I'll be totting people around in it. 4:00-7:00 I work at finders keepers. 7:00-? I'm joining Morgan at a Youth Center dealio by SCC. ?-10ish, get to my mom's h0use, start my laundry, eat my dinner, get dressed to go. 10ish-pick up Jen, Ryan, and Ryan's friend and head to the Valley theatre. 12:01-Alice in Wonderland (in NOT 3D, because 3D is stupid and I'm angry that River Park Square is only showing it in 3D.). After the movie get to bed. 6:30 get up, make sure I have everything. 9:00-be on the plane and leaving for Vegas. Will I be exhausted? Hell yes. Am I looking forward to every moment of it? But of course. So when I'm comatose in a couple days, I just want you all to know why.

Best part of my day?

So we have some detectives who eat at the bagelshop a couple days a week. Today when my
Mom said we'd run the food out to them, they laughed and said we could walk it if we instead if we wanted. I told them skipping was best and I don't think they took me seriously. My day was made when the guy doubled over because he was laughing so hard as the girl I formed him, "I dared her to do that!" as I skipped happily over to their table.
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