June 2010
Things cont.
Climb a tree
Learn another language
Ride a horse
Visit the town where my gramma was born
Bungee jump
Go on a real nature hike
Learn how to fish
Will be continued. (There are many years left in life, this shall be a long list.)
I'm moving to New Zealand
Just thought y’all should be the last to know.
“Every time I watch Goodfellas I just want to punch somebody and eat Italian...”
– My brother is so great. (via pasithee)
Things I've decided to do with myself.
I need to break the monotony. These are not dreams, they are goals.
Move to New Zealand - not permanently, but for a good chunk of time
Learn to surf - preferably in New Zealand
Take a vacation by myself this summer to the mountains
Learn to skate
Build a piece of furniture from scratch
Go to Paris, bike tour through the small towns
To be added upon later
I am completely covered in paint : D
God I love painting. I love having my hands an arms and shirt covered in it.
I love the smell, I love the feel of creating, I love the feel of making something old look terrific and new.
It’s been a good night.
I can't escape it.
I have never watched one episode of Lost. But everyone, everyone talks about it, posts about it, or like my brother, absolutely raves about it.
Now that the entire series is over, I could probably watch it.. won’t have to worry about the breaks in between seasons and what not..
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I realize now, that I find square jawed scruffy...
Two years sober, as of right now.
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“If I could write you a song to make you fall in love, I would already have you...”
– Mike Posner (Cooler Than Me)
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My affinity with counting time.
I have an obsession with antique clocks. I collect pocket watches. I adore old styled alarm clocks. Especially anything before quartz. Back before quartz was used in clocks, all were mechanical. Meaning you had to wind them.
I have a fabulous clock made to look like an antique hanging on the wall by my door. It is rustic looking, and is a map of the world (antique maps are another, albeit milder,...
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“Hang on, little clownz, you might just turn the world around.”
– Robert Downey Jr.
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Day 5/30 - Book Challenge
Day 5 - A Non-Fiction Book That You Actually Enjoyed
This is insanely difficult for me. Not because I don’t like non-fiction books, entirely the opposite. I find that non-fiction books are by far the best reads for me. Whether it’s My Life In France by Julia Child and how she found true love, her true calling, and truly battled all of the odds, to Stolen Innocence, a book about a...
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I’m in debt out the ass,
But god was it worth it to see Toy Story 3 today.
And I’ll probably go again before the week is out.
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable,...”
– Agatha Christie (via quote-book)
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Day 4/30 - Book Challenge
Day 4 - A Book That Reminds You Of Home
This may sound like a joke, but I promise you it is not. The book that reminds me of home is The Cat In The Hat by (take a wild guess) Dr. Seuss. Not only does it remind me of my spontaneous and albeit sporadic childhood whenever I pick it up, the story itself draws parallel to my everyday life.
1. Having absolutely insane pets
2. Having crazy people...
Please, please, please. Stop being interested in me. You’re adorable, and a very good friend, but you really aren’t what I’m looking for. To be precise, I’m looking for a second job, a way to get food on the table, a roof over my head, and eventually a way into university.
A man could only hinder the progress I’m making towards bettering myself as a person. My life...
“To be one’s self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than...”
– Irving Wallace (via 500daysofkissingmypillow)
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“We can learn a lot from trees: they’re always grounded but never stop reaching...”
– Everett Mamor (via 500daysofkissingmypillow)
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Day 3/30 - Book Challenge
Day 3 - A book that surprised you (bad/good)
A book that surprised me.. Lets see..
Most of the time, I start a novel knowing exactly what I’m getting myself into. Even when a book is written by an author I’ve never heard of, I can usually tell how good the writing is/ how good the book is going to be within the first few sentences of starting the novel.
And I’m enough of a...
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“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
– Carlos Ruiz Zafón (The Shadow of the Wind) (via vild)
“Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? I could...”
– Hayley Williams (Airplanes feat. B.o.B)
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Today's round of photos
Are queued for you! They are photos of nature, and when nature invades concrete. Something I find to be incredibly beautiful.
I hope you enjoy!
xo Growing
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“But again, truth be told, if you’re looking for the guilty you need only look...”
– V for Vendetta (Submitted by: kate-kate-kate)
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Day 2/30 - Book Challenge
Day 2 - Your Least Favorite Book
Okay. This one I know for sure. My absolute least favorite book is Blame it on Paris by Jennifer Greene. I was given a big box of books by my ex’s mother, and most of them are utterly fantastic. She gave me the complete collection of all Anne Rice novels, and a ton of Harlequin novels, which suits me pretty well seeing as I’m a lonely, avid-reading...
“Maybe tonight you’re scared of falling, and maybe there’s somebody here or...”
– John Green (Will Grayson, Will Grayson) (via 500daysofkissingmypillow)
“I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to...”
– unknown. (via freebree)
“Maybe there’s something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love,...”
– John Green (Will Grayson, Will Grayson) (via 500daysofkissingmypillow)
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“I believe that – if you are serious about a life of writing, or indeed about any...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert (via airshipsandwaves)
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My life is based on a series of coincidences.
It’s very odd how things work in my life. I’ll think of something, and it will appear. I’ll watch a movie, and there will be a quote from it, or a picture about it within moments on my dashboard. I’ll remember a book, and though I’ve told no one about it, my uncle will drop by and give me a copy. I’ll need a Tuesday off, and my boss asks me to switch shifts;...
“Poetry wasn’t written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to...”
– The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks (via quote-book)
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For the next few days, all photographs shown...
I think I’m going to do it in themes. Today’s posts are all photos I’ve taken over the past while of the sky. Sunsets and clouds, and the like. I hope you enjoy.
They are queued for you!
(It’s about damn time. Sorry.)
xo Growing.
“I’m not crazy; I’m just a little unwell”
– Matchbox 20 (via quote-book)
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Day 1/30 - Book Challenge
Day 1 - Your Favorite Book
What a disgustingly difficult question. So hard to answer. I have many books that I’ve read time and time again, ones that I adore, ones that I love for different reasons. So I have to choose, eh? I’ll go by the standards of if I could read only this book and no other for the rest of my life, I’d go with AudreyRose by Frank De Felitta.
Gorgeous ...