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March 20, 2014

Riotous Springtime Tingles

Here look at these things while I try to find time in the chaos of my current lifescope to formulate thoughts and organize those thoughts into a blog entry... jesus h christ.

This sculpture:

This quote that I can't find accredited to anyone inspite of my exhaustive research on the internet machine (I searched on google once):

"And kid, you’ve got to love yourself. You’ve got wake up at four in the morning, brew black coffee, and stare at the birds drowning in the darkness of the dawn. You’ve got to sit next to the man at the train station who’s reading your favorite book and start a conversation. You’ve got to come home after a bad day and burn your skin from a shower. Then you’ve got to wash all your sheets until they smell of lemon detergent you bought for four dollars at the local grocery store. You’ve got to stop taking everything so goddam personally. You are not the moon kissing the black sky. You’ve got to compliment someones crooked brows at an art fair and tell them that their eyes remind you of green swimming pools in mid July. You’ve got to stop letting yourself get upset about things that won’t matter in two years. Sleep in on Saturday mornings and wake yourself up early on Sunday. You’ve got to stop worrying about what you’re going to tell her when she finds out. You’ve got to stop over thinking why he stopped caring about you over six months ago. You’ve got to stop asking everyone for their opinions. Fuck it. Love yourself, kiddo. You’ve got to love yourself."

Tina on Bob's Burgers is my heart's twin:

And this sentiment:

Also my shit-tastic diet is over and now that I can eat all of the cheese and candy that I want to I'm kind of okay with not eating it. It's like I've joined some kind of cult.

August 14, 2013

I seem to be in a kind of cocoon/waiting room period in my life right now. It's kind of cool because I think when your life quiets down for a bit you know that big exciting stuff is in the works. It's a feeling I really dig. So in the meantime I've been cultivating the art of finding things that make me happy just for the sake of being happy.

And in the spirit of sharing (or talking about myself... which, let's face, is the entire raison d'être of this blog) I thought I'd do a little show and tell about some of my recent tingles.

1. Welcome to Night Vale

I'm sure many of you have already known about Night Vale for months and months, but I am traditionally the last person on every cool kid band wagon so I just heard about it this week. For those that haven't heard about it, Welcome to Night Vale is a bi-weekly podcast about a little town in the desert called Night Vale where a lot of weird shit is happening. It's kind of like Rod Serling and Amy Sedaris wrote an episode of Prairie Home Companion. It's truly very awesome even if you aren't a science fiction fan.

2. The Wire by Haim

This is a new song from super cool sister group Haim. I love their sound... like some weird Stevie Nicks/Belinda Carlisle/mid 90s Liz Phair combo.

3. The Daily Love

I'm a good news junkie. I treat my happiness like a set of lost keys: I look for it everywhere. This website/daily email newsletter has become such a highlight in my day. The creator Mastin Kipp started The Daily Love as a twitter account when he was in the baby steps of his own spiritual journey. It's crazy how almost every day Mastin's message in my inbox feels almost like it was written specifically for me and addresses something I am currently going through... like today, for instance:

How many of us can do that in life? Instead of demanding what we want and wanting it now, can we ask The Uni-verse for what we want, and then let go? Can we rest in the peace of the moment knowing we are provided for and that the perfect thing, which is probably better than what we asked for in the first place, will show up?

Do we really have the faith to live the maybe? Or better put, can we see that the delays of The Uni-verse are not Its denials? Can we let go and let things unfold naturally?

This just really spoke to me and how I've been feeling lately... like all of my momentum has been put on hold. I think I've been struggling to recognize it as temporary, and instead I've been worrying that I might be at a dead end. I've been seeing lots of 'Nos' when really I've been getting lots of 'Maybes'. I had such a great aha moment when I read this.

4. The rain

We've been getting Oregonian levels of rain around here. I am in love with it. Everything is so GREEN and beautiful. The trees are actually growing moss and there are mushrooms everywhere. It's majestic. But I am genuinely sorry for the people with flooded basements.

5. This picture of a tiger living his/her best life.

Every time I look at this picture of a tiger relaxing in a waterfall I feel peaceful. And I don't know where I am in this photo... am I the tiger? Am I the water flowing around the tiger? Or am I the stone and rock on which the tiger lays and over which the water flows? Do I care? Nope.

March 30, 2012

Spirit Animals

Also, the sigil of House Jess would be this:

But maybe with some flames or something to make it more intimidating when I carry it into battle.
Source.

March 2, 2012

First Five! A Confession! And A Spirit Animal!

Well I woke up this morning with Rebecca Black's Friday stuck in my head with no idea how it even got there.

But I guess that's cosmic payment for the terrible thing I did last night.

What did I do? Weeeell... I may have downloaded something for my iPod that pretty much trumps every other awful thing I've ever downloaded.

And, you guys, I have a Ke$ha song on my iPod... and more Flo Rida than any one person has a right to own... so that's really saying something.

Okay... here goes. Last night I downloaded this:

I know. The entire thing is on my iPod right now.

Here's the thing, though... just look at that track list! With the exception of Christina Perri and Bruno Mars, it's pretty awesome. And you can only get most of the songs (besides the Christina Perri and Bruno Mars) by downloading the entire GD thing. So I did it. So there.

Okay... let's see if my iPod can palate cleanse this Rebecca Black situation away.

1. Pot Kettle Black - Tilly and the Wall

2. The Trolley Song (from Meet Me In St. Louis) - Judy Garland

3. It's Oh So Quiet - Björk

4. Nasty - Janet Jackson

5. Candyman - Christina Aguilera

Whoa, Mr iPod Man... you just blew it out of the park today.

And this photo I found on the internet machine is blowing it out of the park at pretty much explaining my entire existence.