one of my friends is being ripped away from her boyfriend and is about to attempt the dreaded long distance relationship. it seems that quite a few people i know have been in that situation. it's weird that one of my first thoughts when she found out his leaving date was "i should see if she wants me to compile a list of sad songs to cry to." then i thought about how that's weird, but she totally would be down.
i think we all do it. some people read something sad, some people watch tear jerkers, and some of us put on sad music. i do it all. sometimes you just need to make yourself cry when it wont come out on its own.
so, here are a few that have made me cry for various reasons over the past few years.
i'm a suck. yes, i know.
i'm sure there are a lot more, but these were the first few that came to mind.
Showing posts with label geeky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geeky. Show all posts
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
hennorama
my friend brought back henna powder with her from india, and we finally got around to using it. we didn't really have a good tool for application (we literally had a cardboard cone in a plastic bag that we had poked a hole in...), so the lines were really thick and everything was a lot messier than we had hoped, but in the end, it worked out pretty decent....except i forgot how long henna takes to fade away and i would like it to be gone sooner rather than later.
either way, this was the result:
either way, this was the result:
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
hair flips
on a scale from 1 to 10, how embarrassing is it that the real reason i want real blinds (instead of pretty much see-through drapes) is so that i will feel less stupid dancing around in my apartment, because i know no one on the street will be able see me..
also, i learned a song in two days. no big deal. i'm still not the best at strumming/etc. and my fingers kill, but it's coming along. :)
(yes, the song only has 4 chords and is maaaybe two minutes long...but still. i'm proud.)
i don't have a pick, and my hand doesn't want to cooperate with me and the strings, so i've been using a guitar pick earring i happen to have. see, jewelery is attractive AND practical.
Saturday, August 20, 2011
runrunrunrunrunrunrunrepeat
at mcdicks right now they have a deal of any sized pop or iced coffee for $1. (i still have yet to EAT mcdonalds since April 12, 2006. coffee or soft drinks don't count).
so point of story: since all sizes are $1, i got a large (most bang for your buck!) and drank it down very quickly about 2 hours ago. there was a SHIT TON of caffeine and sugar in that drink and i'm absolutely buzzing right now. still. two hours later. i feel like i'm on drugs and feel very very anxious and jittery. my bod is not used to this much sugar/caffeine in one go.
dunno what to do with myself!
Thursday, August 11, 2011
crafty doo da
buttonnnnns. i'm a huge nerd. i kind of collect buttons. i tell myself i'm going to make stuff with them (and i have), but mostly they've just sat around. i had this huge bag that i wanted to sort for a while (again, because i'm a nerd, and i like things organized and color coded...), so that's what i did. i think i'm going to make some sort of framed piece with a ton of buttons, because i have way to many. i'll keep the really cool/unique ones for jewelry and clothes.
also, my friend pete and i are doing an art swap. we did one last week as well and i gave him this trippy/dreamlike collage (that i wish i had taken a picture of!) and i got this rad giraffe warrior girl drawing in return.
this is my thing for him for our art swap this week. he asked for some words and i gave him dreams/nightmares/owls, and he gave my the word octopus...so BAM. here's my octopus for him. and i can't make anything without glitter sooooo, yeah. glitter everywhere. hope he likes it.
i also made some sweet magnets the other day, and am working on a project involving silhouettes. ou la la, art-o-rama.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
because i know you were all so curious...
i have no idea what the proper name is for this shade, but it is my favorite color.
Monday, August 1, 2011
say ello to my li'le friend
kind of excited about it
i'm not sure why, but i've always wanted a ceramic animal bust. i think i'm going to make a cool base for it to go on. i found this puppy at pine ridge hollow today when we went for my mom's bday lunch. 50% off! huzzah! i couldn't say no. it was the cheapest animal bust i've come across thus far, and i really liked the horns. i might use it to display some necklaces or something. updates to come. now i just need a name...i think it's a goat, so to be lame (or lamer, some might say...because who names ceramic goats...who OWNS ceramic goats..), i might name him william...or bill for short..get it? har har.
UPDATE: oh shoot. just realized it's a gazel. wiliam will not work at all.
i'm not sure why, but i've always wanted a ceramic animal bust. i think i'm going to make a cool base for it to go on. i found this puppy at pine ridge hollow today when we went for my mom's bday lunch. 50% off! huzzah! i couldn't say no. it was the cheapest animal bust i've come across thus far, and i really liked the horns. i might use it to display some necklaces or something. updates to come. now i just need a name...i think it's a goat, so to be lame (or lamer, some might say...because who names ceramic goats...who OWNS ceramic goats..), i might name him william...or bill for short..get it? har har.
UPDATE: oh shoot. just realized it's a gazel. wiliam will not work at all.
more old posts that i had never posted
for one reason or another. here they are now:
3/21/11
this blog is about 3 1/2 years old.
what the heck.
time flies. so much has gone down since post 1.
so many changes;
changes in relationships, friendships, experiences, interests, etc.
i feel more "me" than ever.
i go through phases of when i feel the need to blog or not.
for the past year though, i feel like i've used this more as an art blog than anything, which is nice. i don't need this to say anything to anyone anymore.
this is all very interesting to me.
sorry if this post makes no sense to whoever is reading it.
but i think that's the point..?
02/02/11
i feel like i want to talk about some things, but i can't for the life of me bring any of these thoughts into words.
so let's pretend
1/25/11
wracked:
Cause extreme physical or mental pain to; subject to extreme stress: "he was racked with guilt".
wracked. good word! i like w-r words.
facetious:
Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor.
also a fun word to say. not too fond of how it looks though. face. tious.
11/14/10
when you smile,
my heart sighs
11/03/10
"I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe."
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
(if you've never heard of or seen the diving bell and the butterfly, get on it. fantastic and amazing (true) story.)
the best kinds of kisses are upside down kisses. because you both get the bottom lip.
10/1/10
i just woke up from a nap of sorts. i'm not sure if i actually fell asleep for any of the hour i was laying down. you know when you're not quite asleep, but your mind is off wandering and you start having semi-awake-asleep dreams/thoughts? well that's what was just happening to me.
i was having some sort of dream, because i remember kind of waking up and thinking i've been out for an hour then i looked at my watch and it had only been ten minutes.
i had my window open and a large flock of geese flew over the house and as they got closer they got louder and i thought "the geese are screaming." and had an image of a bunch of geese in the pond near my house, and all of them are looking up towards the sky screaming.
weird.
09/30/10
after years and years of walking on eggshells constantly. i'm getting very exhausted.
12/13/09
"Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart."
-life of pi
"When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years."
-the beach, alex garland
11/16/09
it's strange how many divorces there are these days. if you think back to our grandparents age, people stayed together a lot more often. maybe it was because people were more dependant on one another. now everyone is able to support themselves, so they let smaller things push their relationships apart. also, people usually got married a lot younger back then. did a lot of them marry their first love? maybe that's the trick. it always takes people ages to get over their first love, so what if you never had to. even if you fell out of love down the line.
11/09/09
why do i find light eyes and dark hair attractive?
i think it's because brunettes are dark and mischievous looking, and bright blue or green eyes are innocent looking. when you put them together you get an exciting/spontaneous person who's secretly super sweet.
08/12/09
i had yet another nightmare. most of the nightmare i was having a really nice time with my friends and we were just hanging out having fun at a summer camp type situation. all of a sudden i couldn't breathe and i curled up in a ball on the ground and i told my friends that i'd been hiding the fact that i had tons of tumors in my back and i was dying. a friend of mine was rubbing my back to comfort me and then pointed out all the lumps from tumors on my back. then i died and woke up.
it was sad and weird. usually when someone dies in my dreams, it signifies a new beginning associated with my feelings toward that person or our relationship, so i guess i should expect some changes to occur within myself?
07/31/09
i had another very odd dream.
i was at my friends apartment with another friend of mine (i'm not sure who) and we were trying to take the elevator, which was more like a small room and there were buttons to tons of floors, but they weren't in numerical order so it was hard to find the floor we needed (16), so i picked floor 14 and planned to walk the rest of the way up. the elevator had about 20 or so people in it and when we arrived at the 12th floor the doors opened and the entire floor was on fire, somehow we found out that all the floors below us were also on fire. the group of people, my friend and i decided it was best to take the stairs to the roof and figure things out from there. when we arrived at the roof, my friend and i discovered that the roof of the buildings next to the roof we were on, were close enough that we could jump from roof to roof and climb down to safety. everything was covered in snow and it was really dark out. my friend went first and i watched her easily make it on to the roof, but then her coat caught on fire. i screamed at her to warn her and she quickly got her jacket off. i turn around towards the group of people still with me on the roof and they told me this was all a plan to kill me and my friend in the fire. so i ran off to join my friend and we both ran and hid from the giant group of people, who apparently had magical powers or something. my friend and i managed to get away from the bad people but were freezing cold wandering in a desert of snow. we eventually saw a small town that looked like it'd be on the cover of a christmas card. somehow my friend and i found new snow suits and were making sure to only look at the snow because the evil people cold tell where they were by what we saw or something. we ended up finding a sled and curled up and went to sleep in a field covered in a blanket. we awoke to some woman saying that my friend was her son, and the people who she was with took us and put us in her red station wagon.
something happened and my friend was now an old boyfriend. i was really excited to see him and the dream wasn't a nightmare anymore for a bit. then while we were together this girl comes in and they kiss. it turns into a nightmare again and i ask who she is and he says she's his nurse. i ask when they met and he says months ago when he was going through treatment. i asked what he's talking about and the nurse said "the tumors!" i got really upset because i realised that he was dying.
and then i woke up.
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Back to the present. an that's that.
3/21/11
this blog is about 3 1/2 years old.
what the heck.
time flies. so much has gone down since post 1.
so many changes;
changes in relationships, friendships, experiences, interests, etc.
i feel more "me" than ever.
i go through phases of when i feel the need to blog or not.
for the past year though, i feel like i've used this more as an art blog than anything, which is nice. i don't need this to say anything to anyone anymore.
this is all very interesting to me.
sorry if this post makes no sense to whoever is reading it.
but i think that's the point..?
02/02/11
i feel like i want to talk about some things, but i can't for the life of me bring any of these thoughts into words.
so let's pretend
1/25/11
wracked:
Cause extreme physical or mental pain to; subject to extreme stress: "he was racked with guilt".
wracked. good word! i like w-r words.
facetious:
Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor.
also a fun word to say. not too fond of how it looks though. face. tious.
11/14/10
when you smile,
my heart sighs
11/03/10
"I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe."
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
(if you've never heard of or seen the diving bell and the butterfly, get on it. fantastic and amazing (true) story.)
the best kinds of kisses are upside down kisses. because you both get the bottom lip.
10/1/10
i just woke up from a nap of sorts. i'm not sure if i actually fell asleep for any of the hour i was laying down. you know when you're not quite asleep, but your mind is off wandering and you start having semi-awake-asleep dreams/thoughts? well that's what was just happening to me.
i was having some sort of dream, because i remember kind of waking up and thinking i've been out for an hour then i looked at my watch and it had only been ten minutes.
i had my window open and a large flock of geese flew over the house and as they got closer they got louder and i thought "the geese are screaming." and had an image of a bunch of geese in the pond near my house, and all of them are looking up towards the sky screaming.
weird.
09/30/10
after years and years of walking on eggshells constantly. i'm getting very exhausted.
12/13/09
"Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart."
-life of pi
"When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years."
-the beach, alex garland
11/16/09
it's strange how many divorces there are these days. if you think back to our grandparents age, people stayed together a lot more often. maybe it was because people were more dependant on one another. now everyone is able to support themselves, so they let smaller things push their relationships apart. also, people usually got married a lot younger back then. did a lot of them marry their first love? maybe that's the trick. it always takes people ages to get over their first love, so what if you never had to. even if you fell out of love down the line.
11/09/09
why do i find light eyes and dark hair attractive?
i think it's because brunettes are dark and mischievous looking, and bright blue or green eyes are innocent looking. when you put them together you get an exciting/spontaneous person who's secretly super sweet.
08/12/09
i had yet another nightmare. most of the nightmare i was having a really nice time with my friends and we were just hanging out having fun at a summer camp type situation. all of a sudden i couldn't breathe and i curled up in a ball on the ground and i told my friends that i'd been hiding the fact that i had tons of tumors in my back and i was dying. a friend of mine was rubbing my back to comfort me and then pointed out all the lumps from tumors on my back. then i died and woke up.
it was sad and weird. usually when someone dies in my dreams, it signifies a new beginning associated with my feelings toward that person or our relationship, so i guess i should expect some changes to occur within myself?
07/31/09
i had another very odd dream.
i was at my friends apartment with another friend of mine (i'm not sure who) and we were trying to take the elevator, which was more like a small room and there were buttons to tons of floors, but they weren't in numerical order so it was hard to find the floor we needed (16), so i picked floor 14 and planned to walk the rest of the way up. the elevator had about 20 or so people in it and when we arrived at the 12th floor the doors opened and the entire floor was on fire, somehow we found out that all the floors below us were also on fire. the group of people, my friend and i decided it was best to take the stairs to the roof and figure things out from there. when we arrived at the roof, my friend and i discovered that the roof of the buildings next to the roof we were on, were close enough that we could jump from roof to roof and climb down to safety. everything was covered in snow and it was really dark out. my friend went first and i watched her easily make it on to the roof, but then her coat caught on fire. i screamed at her to warn her and she quickly got her jacket off. i turn around towards the group of people still with me on the roof and they told me this was all a plan to kill me and my friend in the fire. so i ran off to join my friend and we both ran and hid from the giant group of people, who apparently had magical powers or something. my friend and i managed to get away from the bad people but were freezing cold wandering in a desert of snow. we eventually saw a small town that looked like it'd be on the cover of a christmas card. somehow my friend and i found new snow suits and were making sure to only look at the snow because the evil people cold tell where they were by what we saw or something. we ended up finding a sled and curled up and went to sleep in a field covered in a blanket. we awoke to some woman saying that my friend was her son, and the people who she was with took us and put us in her red station wagon.
something happened and my friend was now an old boyfriend. i was really excited to see him and the dream wasn't a nightmare anymore for a bit. then while we were together this girl comes in and they kiss. it turns into a nightmare again and i ask who she is and he says she's his nurse. i ask when they met and he says months ago when he was going through treatment. i asked what he's talking about and the nurse said "the tumors!" i got really upset because i realised that he was dying.
and then i woke up.
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Back to the present. an that's that.
tips for girls
1. if you're going to a house/apartment/etc. and all the people who live there are boys, bring some tp/kleenex in your purse. it's almost a guarantee they wont have toilet paper and nobody likes to drip dry. (tmi? too bad.)
2. try to learn to take things at face value. especially when it comes to boys. you can't read their minds, so stop trying to over analyze and fill your head with "what ifs.." just wake up and see what happens. (it's hard i know)
3. "do you wanna come over and watch a movie," "do you wnat to come in and have a cup of coffee," etc. are all still codes for "do you wanna come in and make out." beware.
4. if you don't want someone calling you/you're not going to pick up when they call, DON'T give them your number. easy. just say no. or lie and say you have a boyfriend, that usually works.
5. sometimes guys aren't playing games, they just really are that oblivious.
ex) you text a guy, he takes an hour to text back. you think "he waited an HOUR to text me back?! well, to make sure he knows i'm not desperate, i'm going to wait an HOUR AND A HALF to text HIM back! he can't play games with me!" uhhhh. he's probably just busy. you're the one playing games girl.
(i'm going through my archives of posts and found a bunch of "saved as drafts" that i haven't posted. this was on of them.)
2. try to learn to take things at face value. especially when it comes to boys. you can't read their minds, so stop trying to over analyze and fill your head with "what ifs.." just wake up and see what happens. (it's hard i know)
3. "do you wanna come over and watch a movie," "do you wnat to come in and have a cup of coffee," etc. are all still codes for "do you wanna come in and make out." beware.
4. if you don't want someone calling you/you're not going to pick up when they call, DON'T give them your number. easy. just say no. or lie and say you have a boyfriend, that usually works.
5. sometimes guys aren't playing games, they just really are that oblivious.
ex) you text a guy, he takes an hour to text back. you think "he waited an HOUR to text me back?! well, to make sure he knows i'm not desperate, i'm going to wait an HOUR AND A HALF to text HIM back! he can't play games with me!" uhhhh. he's probably just busy. you're the one playing games girl.
(i'm going through my archives of posts and found a bunch of "saved as drafts" that i haven't posted. this was on of them.)
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
ear wear
i made a new earring today! i found a blue jay feather the other day and found myself with some spare time/creativity and BAM....earring.
only thing is, i would like to make something to go with it, but i only had one blue jay feather...i'll figure somethin out.
[side note: my hair's gotten really long out of no where!]
[more side notes: this wedding a friend of mine is getting married, and i have been dubbed the unofficial official photographer as well as the bridesmaids hairdresser. aye yi yi! pressure to perform!]
only thing is, i would like to make something to go with it, but i only had one blue jay feather...i'll figure somethin out.
[side note: my hair's gotten really long out of no where!]
[more side notes: this wedding a friend of mine is getting married, and i have been dubbed the unofficial official photographer as well as the bridesmaids hairdresser. aye yi yi! pressure to perform!]
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
3 Simple rules of life
1) if you do not go after what you want, you'll never have it
2) if you do not ask, the answer will always be no
3) if you do not step forward, you wil always be i the same place
2) if you do not ask, the answer will always be no
3) if you do not step forward, you wil always be i the same place
why do bruises always look their worst while they heal?
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i had a slightly emotional attack today while i was at work. lately i've been doing a lot of work that doesn't require too much thinking, which makes my mind wander all over the place. today it brought me close to tears.
my heart and my head are working in unison to freak and stress me out.
i've been having nightmares again.
i've also just been having extra strange dreams.
one weird part of a dream i had last night, was that i had just moved to Amsterdam and i was walking through a town centre and it was pouring rain. i ducked into a coffee shop to stay dry and it was a kitty cafe, where everything is cat themed and there are actual cats running around that you can play with. i was having the best time playing with the cats and was taking pictures to send to a friend of mine who loves cats. then i saw my friend brendan who i've been missing like crazy, and i was super surprised to see him in Amsterdam, and it turned out he had moved there too. we ended up walking around in the rain, and we saw my sister, and she had an umbrella, but brendan was too tall to fit under it with us. we were all drenched anyway. we went into a sears and were looking to buy a big futon. brendan and i decided to be roommates, but we were so poor that we could only afford to share a bed, so we bought one and then we made a fort in in and just stayed in there talking, still soaking wet.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
i recently watching the movie jack goes boating with philip seymour hoffman . he was in the movie...i didn't watch the movie WITH him, that would just be weird.
any who...
it was okay. it had it's moments. it's basically about p.s.h's character jack, who's really awkward, and his relationship with an equally awkward woman named connie who seems to get groped a lot by random men on trains and things....i liked it enough. there was one quote from the film, right at the very end, that i liked. it's simple, and hardly worth quoting, but i just felt something for it. so, here it is:
(the characters are talking about swimming and such)
Connie: I knew you'd be good.
Jack: I am for you.
told you, hardly worth quoting, but maybe you felt what i felt too. it was just a sweet couple moment that everyone has in a relationship, that make you smile and feel like you fit. feeling like you're good for someone, and that they are good for you, that you're meant to be together, whether it's for a short time or a long time, it's always nice.
side note: the film had a great soundtrack. a good soundtrack can make an okay film turn towards good or great.
side note number 2: i dunno why, but philip seymour hoffman kind of creeps me out.
any who...
it was okay. it had it's moments. it's basically about p.s.h's character jack, who's really awkward, and his relationship with an equally awkward woman named connie who seems to get groped a lot by random men on trains and things....i liked it enough. there was one quote from the film, right at the very end, that i liked. it's simple, and hardly worth quoting, but i just felt something for it. so, here it is:
(the characters are talking about swimming and such)
Connie: I knew you'd be good.
Jack: I am for you.
told you, hardly worth quoting, but maybe you felt what i felt too. it was just a sweet couple moment that everyone has in a relationship, that make you smile and feel like you fit. feeling like you're good for someone, and that they are good for you, that you're meant to be together, whether it's for a short time or a long time, it's always nice.
side note: the film had a great soundtrack. a good soundtrack can make an okay film turn towards good or great.
side note number 2: i dunno why, but philip seymour hoffman kind of creeps me out.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
i lost
on friday night a friend and i tried to double on my bike (with me sitting on the handle bars). i'm not even sure why we were attempting this seeing as the party we were going to was literally a five minute walk away, but logic wasn't with us at this point. somehow i ended up face planting into the pavement, using my knuckles and my hip to break my fall. later i got a bike petal to the thigh.
i am left with some pretty gnarly scrapes and bruises. carved chunks out of my knuckles, bruised/scraped my chin a tad, mega bruised my thigh and hip, and for the first half of my day i had pins and needles in my right hand.
(the pictures really don't do it justice)
i am left with some pretty gnarly scrapes and bruises. carved chunks out of my knuckles, bruised/scraped my chin a tad, mega bruised my thigh and hip, and for the first half of my day i had pins and needles in my right hand.
(the pictures really don't do it justice)
Saturday, June 11, 2011
found my stereo mood
doo wapp bop.
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practically all packed up. it's strange to be surrounded by such blank walls.
tomorrow i'm going to confirm the purchase of a love seat. it's old, vintage, in great shape, and orangey-red. oh, and $50. holla!
i spent tonight packing and fixing things. i just finished repairing the handles on a teapot that had bamboo wrapped around them that was all busted off. i re wrapped them in hemp, but now my fingers are RAW. worth it though, turned out pretty great.
the other night i made a collage i'm really pumped on. i'll take some pictures when i unpack it again. i'm going to try to find a frame for it or something, it's still looking a tad unfinished at the moment.
i have 4 and a half boxes of books...i need to buy at least one other bookshelf.
oh and:
well done sufjan.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
whuddup
just bought these online.
see you by june 8th motha fuckaaaasss
(ps: this dress has been selling out nonstop and they keep restocking it while i'm not looking, and then it sells out again. i saw they had restocked it and it was "low in stock" and within the two minutes of me clicking on it to buy and actually buying it, it had gone out of stock again, but i had snagged myself one in the nick of time!)
Friday, April 15, 2011
don't put me in a vintage or antique store and expect me to not buy anything.
yesterday i bought a typewriter. it's missing it's ribbon, but i'm pretty sure it could still work if i wanted to use it. right now it's purely for decoration.
except in my current living arrangement i have absolutely no where to put it...so it's sitting on a towel on my floor haha.
it's a beast! it weighs 35 pounds!!
i like it. it was a good find for $15.
it seems every time i walk into a vintage/antique store i walk out with either an accessory or a gadget of some sort (usually a camera). i'm ok with that.
yesterday i bought a typewriter. it's missing it's ribbon, but i'm pretty sure it could still work if i wanted to use it. right now it's purely for decoration.
except in my current living arrangement i have absolutely no where to put it...so it's sitting on a towel on my floor haha.
it's a beast! it weighs 35 pounds!!
i like it. it was a good find for $15.
it seems every time i walk into a vintage/antique store i walk out with either an accessory or a gadget of some sort (usually a camera). i'm ok with that.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
rollercoaster!
ups, downs, left and rights. shits coming at me from every angle!
some positive,
some negative,
but i got this!
today was relieving in a sense. even though everything is still completely up in the air on all fronts, it's still nice to hear SOMETHING!
it's nice to know that your efforts haven't gone unnoticed.
now let's make this hard work pay off!
some positive,
some negative,
but i got this!
today was relieving in a sense. even though everything is still completely up in the air on all fronts, it's still nice to hear SOMETHING!
it's nice to know that your efforts haven't gone unnoticed.
now let's make this hard work pay off!
Monday, April 11, 2011
number crunchers
i wish i could delete more "friends" from facebook.
i have 339 "friends" after i just deleted 21 people.
the reason i feel like i "can't" delete more people is because i would feel rude if they noticed (although i'm not sure that many would...). a lot of the people i would delete would be current and ex-coworkers i have never hung out with outside of work, acquaintances or friends-of-friends that i see every rarely and the only conversations we ever have is small talk. as well, i would delete a lot of people i used to be friends with that i don't ever talk to anymore, and stuff like that.
i got curious as to how many people i'd actually delete if i didn't feel any social guilt by doing so, and the number was 117. that's a hefty number. being the big list fanatic and number cruncher that i am, i sorted my facebook friends into several groups to see what group ruled. it wasn't all that surprising, but it is a little sad.
my results:
actual friends: 63
mostly party friends/people in my social group that i only hang with in larger groups: 70
acquaintances/friends of friends (aka people who i'd mostly have small talk with): 86
family: 9
current/ex-coworkers: 39
councils/groups: 12
friends from high school: 21
people i used to be good friends with, but don't see too often anymore: 32
other (including random swede i met at a bar, my tattoo artist, two of one friend's ex-girlfriends, a friend's dog, etc): 7
(for those keeping track, only 40% (friends + social group friends) of my facebook friends are people i actually consider my friends...)
if i were able to delete guilt-free, i would be down to 222. this grouping would be friends, the majority of the social group friends, a couple family members, and then people who i felt would be good to stay in touch with for arts/cultural job/event/etc purposes. i would like to delete 35% of my "friends" on facebook.
sometime i'd like to just delete facebook all together, because it creeps me out at times, but in the end, i keep it, because it really is a great way to keep in touch with people and figure out what to do on a friday night...
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sorry, i know this post was probably real boring for anyone other than me, but in the end it's my blog, and it's all about recording my thoughts, inspirations, etc. so yeah.
there will be more music, art, and whatever else soon i'm sure.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
don't you want me to wake uuuuup? then give me just a bit of your time
over thinking
leads to
...insomnia
...writing
...crosswords and logic puzzles
...headphones and darkness
...frustration
...confusion
...listening to dance yrself clean by lcd soundsystem on repeat and wishing everyone else wasn't sleeping so i could belt it out (instead of silently mouthing the words...not nearly as satisfying haha)
arg.
leads to
...insomnia
...writing
...crosswords and logic puzzles
...headphones and darkness
...frustration
...confusion
...listening to dance yrself clean by lcd soundsystem on repeat and wishing everyone else wasn't sleeping so i could belt it out (instead of silently mouthing the words...not nearly as satisfying haha)
arg.
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