Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Back To School, Peanut Butter and An Awkward Ending

Hello there people of the earthling variety. Of course, if Spock is reading this, I welcome him too.
School, school, school. Ah, yes. The time of furrowing brows and punching pillows and going to sleep way later than your parents think you are.
Let me start off by saying that this year is hard. I have some teachers who I'd rather see in a hole than in a classroom and some classmates who seem to be itching for someone to chuck a stapler at them.
But there have been other, better things too. Like seeing all of my friends again, making new ones, and those lessons where you're actually fully engaged and you WANT to learn. Unfortunately, wanting to learn comes with a price, like giving up a lot of the things you used to do over the summer to focus on schoolwork. (For example, I should be doing my homework at the moment, but instead I am slowly tangling myself into a lethal web by spending this time blogging.)
I'm also in a play now, one of my favorites: Thoroughly Modern Millie. So that's been hard. Fun, of course, but hard all the same. But trust me, I've enjoyed every stressful, beautiful minute of it, and I only have one thing to say to this new year:
Let the procrastination and anxiety begin.
Now, on to the main point of this blog. Hard to believe I still haven't finished that challenge thing I set off to do what seems like decades ago. Nevertheless, stopping now would be like never finishing my novel: WHICH I SWEAR ON MY LIFE I WILL DO!
This time I'm meant to be naming my top 5 foods. A pretty general category, I think. Food? What does that mean? Dessert? I didn't write this challenge, I swear. Not that my own writing's any better.
I guess I can do any type of food in the universe. How about the best general categories of food/food tastes? Sounds pretty good.
Let's get on with it, shall we? In no extremely particular order:
1. Peanut Butter. Oh, yes. If I could live on any two foods in the world for the rest of my life, one would definitely be peanut butter. True, it's caused me many bloated troubles in the past (we have a love-hate relationship), when it comes down to it, peanut butter is my soulmate. I could really eat it with anything, but I think it's best on bread with what I'm about to mention, which is:
2. Bananas. You guessed it, bananas are my second undoing. I like them best when they're a bit more ripe and dotted with light specks of brown. Yum. With peanut butter, of course, the harmony is incomparable, but I'm totally okay eating a banana by itself. In fact, I'm eating a banana while I write this blog post. (Now you're all imagining me sitting here eating a banana. Ha, ha.) Point is, the taste is truly out of this world, and something that makes human life worth living.
3. Chicken and Broccoli from any Chinese restaurant. Yes, I know this is a pretty general term, but if you've been to a REALLY good Chinese restaurant (and by really good I mean okay), then you'll know what I'm referring to: those thick, luscious globs of meat and vegetables soaked in a creamy brown sauce that's pretty much heaven on Earth. The scary thing is that I could probably eat this for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, every single day of my life (paired with a peanut-butter banana, of course.)
4. Cupcakes. And I'm not talking those shitty ones you buy at Giant that look far too yellow to even exist. I mean fresh out of the oven, made not by me (because we all know THAT would be a disaster), but by someone from Fraiche Cupcakery or Sprinkles or Georgetown Cupcake (the latter is my favorite). Peanut butter is generally my favorite flavour, but I don't mind a little red velvet or coconut every now and then. I'm not that hard to please. Just put some cake in a piece of paper and I'm good to go.
5. Finally, seafood. I am a very fishy person. My favorite is probably crab or some tilapia with ginger sauce (mmmm) but frankly, I'd take anything from mussels to salmon to squid to snails (are snails a seafood? Whatever, I like them). Fish is, quite literally, delish. If you ever plan on taking me out on a date (because I know you're all so turned on by my nerdy fish cravings), then take me to a seafood restaurant, because I will probably fall in love with you by the end of the night. It also helps if you pay.
All right, you guessed it. This is the awkward part of the blog where I try to wrap things up in a eloquent package but usually fail miserably. Well, just to keep you on your toes, this time I won't try to make a thoughtful conclusion or just generally make anyone groan by writing an entire paragraph that has nothing to do with the rest of the post.
(Oops.)
Well, see you all later!
(Nailed it.)



A picture I took. (I know, I'm so artistic it hurts.)





Tuesday, July 30, 2013

My Hardcore Summer

Spring has sprung, fall has fell, well...you know the rest...
Yes, it's true, summer has been here for quite a while now, which you all know means one thing:
PARTAYY! (As Fox Mulder would say.)
Granted, my version of a "par-tay" would be sitting at home by myself doing one of four amazing things:
1. Finishing season 3 of Haven or re-watching my favorite episodes of Psych (you know that's right)
2. Singing the soundtrack of Wicked (Very badly, I might add. Good luck neighbors.)
3. Inching through my novel, very very slowly, or trying to write another script I might be able to use for a movie (unfortunately, scripts aren't really my forte.)
4. Consuming, one by one, most of the contents of the refrigerator.
I know, I know, I'm pretty hardcore. But what can I say? Rowdy is my middle name.
Jokes aside, though, I just spent three weeks writing, shooting, and editing a film. It was tedious work, but I must say that it paid off, and although the final product turned out more chick-flick than I had hoped, it wasn't bad for my fist major production.
Other than that, my summer has been pretty carefree, and I am thankful to get this time off before I have to delve back in to the wonderful world of classrooms and homework.
All right, I think it's about time I get to the main point of this blog post. First of all, sorry for the delay. I wish I could tell you that I've been terribly busy, but the truth of the matter is that I'm just a throughly lazy person. It's because of that fact that I also can't tell you that I'm going to have another post in the next week, or the next month. Because I honestly don't know. But before you all start sobbing uncontrollably, wondering what in the world you will do without my wonderful posts, I can tell whatever few people that are reading this that I haven't given up yet.
Like a wise green woman once told me, "Some things I cannot change, but till I try I'll never know."
Okay, I have no idea what that has to do with anything. But hey, it's deep, so there you go. And I have "Defying Gravity" stuck in my head. (I'm also pretty sure the neighbors do, too.)
God, I've strayed again. Here we go. The main point. Six places I love more than anything else.
1. London. I've only been there once but I just love everything about it. And if I'm ever rich and famous, I will find some way to buy a flat there, I swear.
2. There is this park near where I live. Not like, swings and slides and stuff. A trail that goes along a little creek. It's beautiful and although it's simple, and there are no white sand beaches or palm trees, I love walking there every day and just thinking about everything. I don't know what I'd do without that hour of peace every day.
3. Any kind of show or concert. I don't care how crowded or muggy or unpleasant it is. I just love being there. I went to see The Lumineers last week and it was just an all-around incredible experience. If I could, I'd go there every night, and watch every single band, or every single play. Unfortunately, since I'm not George Clooney, or Brad Pitt, I don't have that option. But I'm not giving up hope yet.
4. New York. I love New York. I love any kind of city, really, but New York is just perfect. Yeah I know, pollution, taxis, flashing lights. It might seem a bit much for most people, but it's just enough for me. I like being surrounded by all of that. It makes me feel like I'm going somewhere. And if I'm being honest with myself, I think New York is probably where I'll end up. I feel like there's always been something beckoning me there, and one day I'll have to succumb. Big Apple, I'm coming. I hope you can wait for me.
5. The Virgin Islands. When I first went there, I had never seen the color blue. I mean, of course I had, but I hadn't appreciated it in its most beautiful form. The water aroudn the Virgin Islands is the most gorgeous color I have ever seen. It's impossible to describe because there's no way you can truly imagine it until you've seen it. It's like The Matrix. Except, not at all. Well, you get the point.
6. My room. I know. It's lame. But it's the most comforting place I have. And when I stare up at my giant "I Want To Believe" poster, I know that there's no way I could ever find another place like it.
So, there you go. The six places where I truly belong. And yes, I didn't say Hawaii. Maybe I'm more hardcore than you thought, eh?
Don't answer that.
Until next time, music is as real as it will ever be. (Hey, I've never explained the origin of that URL! Well, it can wait. All the more reason to post again, right?)
See you later.










Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Bugs In My Hair--and Seven Wants

Yes, I am stuck at home. Sick. With lice. Huzzah. 
Moving on, here we go, the 7 things I want (at the moment, and in general):
1. To pass my midterms. =)
2. To play Millie in a production of "Thoroughly Modern Millie," or just star in a Broadway show or movie.
3. To get all of the lice out of my hair!!
4. To form/be in a rock band at some point in my life.
5. To write and publish a book.
6. To do something weird to my hair (maybe even dye it...)
7. I want to live a full, happy life, and I want my friends, family, and everyone I know to live a full, happy life.
When I was younger I used to want to be an opera singer. Honestly, where the hell did that come from?
Anyway, see you all later (hopefully by then I will have a completely clean head).
And remember:
Embrace the deception and learn how to bend.                                                                                  Your worst inhibitions tend to Psych you out in the end. 



Saturday, January 19, 2013

Psych!

I am completely obsessed with the show Psych! It is so funny and clever!
Here are two video clips of some Psych-Out Moments:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BBEP4H-NYw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mvU3EldDGA
And some OSOM gifs!



Who Ya Gonna Call?










qtpie41184:

Shawn Spencer & Burton “Gus” Guster

The best friendship to ever grace my television screen.

loveellemarie:

<3 One of the best shows ever!



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Hope everyone is having a nice weekend! =)






Saturday, January 12, 2013

Haven



“Let’s say a guy like me, who can’t feel anything, meets a woman, discovers he can feel her touch. Seems like fate, doesn’t it?” – “Audrey… I can feel her touch.”
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Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Ed Wood



A GIF to pass the time...merry christmas everybody! 

Quotes About Love

Here are my favorite Quotes about love, to get everyone in the mood for the upcoming New Year!


Quotes About Love

“You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle”

“After all this time?"
"Always...”

“When you know my love, my love will warm you.”

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”

“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”

“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”

“Where there is love there is life.”

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.”

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”

“Do you think I'm pretty?”
“I think you're beautiful.”
“Beautiful?”
“You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.”

“I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.”

“To me, Fearless is not the absence of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.”

“I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once.”

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”

“Look after my heart - I've left it with you.”

“I'm saying that I'm a moody, insecure, narrow-minded, jealous, borderline homicidal bitch, and I want you to promise me that you're okay with that, because it's who I am, and you're what I need.”

“Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistible urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.”

“Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don't blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being "in love", which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.”

“One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.”

“Who, being loved, is poor?”

“Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.”

“You could have fooled me. Every time I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoiding me. Again."
"I wasn't. I did want to talk to you. I've been thinking about you all the time."
"I've been thinking about you, too."
"I really was sick. I swear. I almost died back there on the ship, you know."
"I know. Every time you almost die, I almost die myself.”

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”

“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”

“If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweler’s felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.”

“Wherever you will go,
I will let you down,
But this lullaby goes on.”

“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.
"Augustus," I said.
"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”


“Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say.
“I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror,” he says.
“You should wake me,” I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down.
“It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,” he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here.”


“To love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again.”

“I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you.”

“For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”

“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”

“The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote”

“Let me die the moment my love dies.
Let me not outlive my own capacity to love.
Let me die still loving, and so, never die.”

“Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.”

“and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.”

“You are like nobody since I love you.”

“If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.”

“I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face, I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all. I will share your life with you, Meredith, and I will love you until the last breath leaves your body or mine.”

“Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.”

“You are my life now.”

“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”

“He made a sound like a choked laughed before he reached out and pulled her into her arms. She was aware of Luke watching them from the window, but she shut her eyes resolutely and buried her face against Jace's shoulder. He smelled of salt and blood, and only when his mouth came close to her ear did she understand what he was saying, and it was the simplest litany of all: her name, just her name.”

“Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey-when you are the son of Poseidon, you don't have to hurry. And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.”

“I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend. The kind of person you can tell anything to, no matter how bad, and they'll still love you, because they know you. I wanted to go with her. I wanted her to notice me. And then she stopped walking. Under the moon, she stopped. And looked at us. She looked at me. Maybe she was trying to tell me something; I don't know. She probably didn't even know I was there. But I'll always love her. All my life.”

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”

“I'm gonna fight for you, until your heart stops beating.”

“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”

“The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.”

“Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.”

“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.”

“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”

“Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth,
like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.”

“Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.”

“If I love you, what business is it of yours?”

“Love is the jelly to sunshine’s peanut butter. And if I tell you that I’m in sandwich with you, I’m not just saying it to get in your Ziploc bag.”

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

“I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!”

“I love you and it's getting worse.”

One day you’ll ask me which is more important to me, you or my life. I’ll say, “Of course, my life.” And you’ll go walk away in tears without even knowing that you are my life.

Falling in love is like jumping off a really tall building. Your brain tells you it is not a good idea, but your heart tells you, you can fly.

“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”

“Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it."
She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the somber profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world:--
"And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you.”