Bustin Jieber

"Spoonerism"

Please read the above definition. It is so nice to know the explanation for such an embarrassing slip, one I often make.

I have Jieber Fever.

While we're on the topic...

Confession #7 I'm responsible for three of my siblings' scars

I'm hesitant to admit to this one...but it's true. Christian, Katherine, Kaleigh, I am so sorry, for scarring you the way I have, literally.

Story 1: Christian. (we'll say he was 7 and I was 5...ish)

Once upon a time, not tooooo long ago, seeing as I'm still quite young, Christian was getting a lovely "bowl" cut from my mother. An important detail, seeing as to give an adequate "bowl" cut, one must use scissors, and not just a razor. Also, it's fun to point out that yes, Christian sported this fashionable hairdo. He also had thick glasses...anyways...tangents, tangents.
At the time he was receiving the cut, I was in the bathtub, playing, and possibly bathing, though I was known to merely toss in half the bottle of bubble bath (fabulous invention, by the way), or simply let the entire bottle float around in the tub, while I continued splashing, and it's contents continued frothing, and my bubbly beard continued growing...ahh the life of a 5-year old! Anyways...tangents, tangents.
For unknown reasons, at approximately the same time my mother was cutting around Christian's ears, my jolly self decided to scream, probably because I was out of bubbles. So, naturally, mother jumped, cut Christian's ear, Christian screamed, I screamed, mother screamed.
Oops.

Story 2: Katherine. (we'll say she was 8 and I was 12...ish)

Once upon a time, even less long ago, because I am still quite young, Katherine and I were playing the "put the blanket over your head and try to catch me" game. We were very creative. It was her turn to have the blanket over her head, and conveniently enough, she was facing the opposite direction. Well somewhere in the depths of that mushy thing in my skull, I decided it would be a good idea to "trick her" (note: the word "trip" did not cross my mind at this point) and hold down the blanket. I did, she tripped, cut her lip on the chair, cried. I won...
Oops.

Story 3: Kaleigh.(we'll say she was 5 months...and I was 6-7 ish...)

Iaccidentalydroppedherwhenshewasababyandshecutherliponthetableandhadtohavestitches.

Oops.

All I can say is I got distracted when she was on my lap and I let go...and gravity is my enemy...hers too...and I had to practice holding babies with dolls until I was allowed to hold her again....

Like I said, oops.

DANI GIRL

Yesterday was Dani's farewell! I can't believe she's leaving so soon. She's going to be a missionary in Jamaica! Which will be the complete opposite climate and culture of where I am. But we are pretty opposite in some ways :)

I am gonna miss this girl! We've been best friends since our freshman year at college and I think the longest we've gone without seeing each other since then is about 2 months. So just add another 16 to that...

She'll be amazing though!
JAMAICA!!

Memory loss at such a young age?

There's this book I read in the 7th grade...can't remember the name, author, and most of the plot. But I remember loving it.
I do remember the title was something kind of strange, and it had something to do with slowing down time when in this certain chamber or something...
Now I want to hunt it down to see if it's as good as my memory is making it out to be...so far I've got nothing. I've googled "7th grade reading lists" to see if the name would ring a bell, I've searched through young adult book lists on goodreads...
Oh the frustrations evoked by a silly book.

If anyone has any idea of what I might be talking about...please share!

Also, it frustrates me how slow dictionary.com is. Since I'm venting, might as well throw that out there.

Inverting a recent green foliage of plant

If you can't tell, reading is quite the hobby of mine. I read a lot, whenever I can, really (which is not enough, in my opinion). But a part of me feels like it is a bit of a selfish hobby.
I read to learn, I read for pleasure, but all of it is for me. I often tell people what I learn about, or recommend they read something I have read, but it's not quite enough.
So I have an idea (which was planted by something I read...) to take it to the next level.
When I read something that I enjoy, I am going to give a copy of it to someone who I think would also enjoy it (friends, family, acquaintances, ex-lovers, etc.). It will be theirs to keep, a gift, if you will.
However, because I operate on a tight budget, it will have to be limited to a monthly activity (assuming I read more than one book a month).
As I am soon leaving, this plan will mostly have to commence upon my return.

I am very excited to begin.

Don't you wish we were friends? ;)

"Ain dat duh troof" - The Brothers K

Originally uploaded by EK Captures

I'm a little bit of a dreamer.

Originally uploaded by Parker Fitzgerald

Words

The word for "heart" in French is "le coeur." I like that.

Smoky Heart - قلب الدخان
Originally uploaded by Hawee Ta3kees {In UK/On-Often Off}

Why I should be diagnosed clinically insane

I have been working with formatting some documents and they don't want to look the way I tell them to. It is part of the cause of my potential insanity, I tell you. I don't know how many times I've raised my fist only to realize punching the computer screen is the dumbest possible solution.

So I sit here in my chair, keeping it cool.

Here's the other reason I'm insane:
I only have a month and a half-ish before I leave.
Part of me wants to run another marathon before then (frankly, the other part of me wishes I could just lie in bed all day, reading, of course).

That leaves me about a month to train.
My knee is ready to give out on me.

We'll see what Mr. Doc says.
I'm crazy.

How I feel

interpret as you wish

Someday...

I'll go back.
(PS That's Scotland)

Someday...

I will have a wrap around porch.

Someday...

I will have a library.

Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.

~Raymond Carver

That just about sums it up.

Just ordered some creative juice. Until then, I have nothing to report.

18 months...

Fave Fails

I got a kick out of these. Enjoy!

A First

Now this might sound crazy, but last night was my first EVER real all-nighter.

The funny thing is I'm not in school right now.

I think back to all those nights where I stayed up late working on papers, studying for exams, reading Harry Potter, etc. but there is not one where I didn't sleep the entire night. I always took naps. Well, I didn't this time. I am proud to say it was a legitimate all-nighter.

Sometimes I wish we didn't have to sleep so I have more time to do all the things I want to do.

I stayed with Dani until about 3-4 a.m. then drove back to P-town and did not go to bed. I organized my room (still in progress....)

Needless to say, I got things done.