The Color Code

 So one of my favorites books is The Color Code by Taylor Hartman, which I highly recommend to everyone. It's a personality profile and you take a quiz at the beginning to determine your "core color" and "secondary colors". The four different colors represent four different personalities. One's core color is their core personality which they cannot change, the secondary colors are traits {good or bad} from the other colors mixed into the core color. My core color is blue, and my secondaries are white then yellow {the fourth color is red, and I am not red at all}. Lately I've been trying to figure out what has made me who I am, so I thought rereading this book would help with that. As I was reading it this morning came across this paragraph and really liked it.

"Blues see the world through positive and healthy emotional eyes as well. They care deeply for those elements of living that tug at their hearts. Weddings, parades, and birthdays are great cause for celebration, but Blues even see beyond the events and take time to reflect on the lives of those involved. They think of their own weddings and what it means to be in love. They consider all the hours it takes to prepare the costumes and mechanics of a parade as it passes by. Blues wonder how their aging grandmother feels on her seventieth birthday, and are mesmerized by a three-year-old blowing out candles on a cake. They "make" time for sharing the important moments of life."


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more 2010!

I really like this one.

So, pretty much I was just messing around editing this one and it turned out fantastic and exploded. It was pretty cool. So I thought I'd repost.

I just really like the colors and perspective of this one. That's Alaska down there. While we were at this point my brother said, 'Hey look, there's an airplane down there..that was weird sounding..' We were high up.

I like this one. I like graffiti that actually says interesting stuff rather than the regular swear words or SALLY <3S JUSTIN BIEBER! I found this little gem under a bridge while taking pictures while my friends were swimming.

 This was at the same placeish as the last one. My friend found a little dead fish in the water and scooped it up and put it on a rock and I started taking pictures of it. They thought I was weird, but I really like how this turned out. I only thought of the lyrics and speech bubble recently and thought to myself, 'perfect!' when paired together. My sister took one look at it and said, "Kaylyn...he's not floating.." No, Andrea, no he's not.

Cake soup. The ultimate cure-all-epic-win.



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The next few day will be my favorite pictures from 2010. Some silly, some pretty..but mostly silly:) These are mostly the pictures that didn't fit in my 2010 overview in pictures..but were still very much worth sharing..some for a second time.

I love these daisies! They were purple in the middle and progressively got more yellow towards the outside of the petals. Then I found the same daisies except opposite! So I planted both..then they died. But one day I was outside and noticed they'd come back to life! I can't decide whether to make a Jesus or zombie reference..

I like this picture because it's simple, and I didn't think that much of it until Sheena from The Layered Pancake featured it first on her blog.

This is from my friends and I little attack on our other friends room. The TV is om nomming a Veggie Tales cassette, get it?:D

We labeled a lot of things..This one was my idea, and I'm pretty proud of it:)

"What the hell am I supposed to do with a crying lobster?!"

Kirstie got me this ring:) My nephew likes it. That was also the day we discovered how amazing Toy Story 3 is and shared dinosaur silly bands. It was a good day.

 

I like this sketch. It was like a bunch of mini sketchlettes that would have been lonely on their own. It also saved room in my sketch book which was nice. 

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2010 in pictures

Yuck, this is painted so horribly. It was pretty much like my worst nightmare coming true. That I am finally satisfied with a sketch and I paint it and it competently ruins it and changes the appearance. Ugh. Inspired by youth committee XD.

This one wasn't originally intended to be so...explosive. But I drew it, then I came home one day and was like, "I NEED TO PAINT THAT NOW." And I did. And this is how I felt. So I changed my original vision to cater to my newly changed view of the situation.

Best friends always know when to show up with cupcakes at your door:)

Cake solves everything that soup cannot.

I wrote a much needed letter to myself. When I become particularly preoccupied with a frillion things and am overwhelmed by the idea of..everything, or just 'something' in general I find it helpful to write myself a letter in this style. I've done it before, but it was handwritten..and private. I was just already on the computer when I decided I needed it, so I thought to myself, "Kyle, {that's what I call myself} why not just write and post it on my blog, then I will see it whenever I'm on the computer as well as printing it out." So I did.

My friends and I went to Woods and Haggens a lot. Especially on half days to party. They decided to write on my cup once, it's from Spongebob.
Spongebob: "Bye, Squidward! Bye, Mr. Krabs! Byyee Squidwaarrd;)"
Patrick: "You said 'Bye, Squidward twice.."
Spongebob: "I liiiike Squidward;)"

After watching Elf my brother and I decided to elf our house while our parents were out. We used Seventeen magazine pages and floss because I was afraid of wasting printer paper and yarn. We made a lot.

 

We went to Seattle to celebrate one of my friends' 16th birthday on Wednesday and Thursday. We shopped at H&M, Anthropologie, and Urban Outfitters. Expensive. Then we went to Pike Place. I got floral pants and bacon chocolate!

And that pretty much sums up my year of 2010 in pictures!:)

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missing: summer

happy much love monday:)

loving: looking at my pictures from summer ♥  short  bangs ♥ Seattle adventures ♥ blogging friends ♥ my new camera ♥ anticipating adventures ♥ mutual dislikes of annoying people ♥ feeling like a secret club ♥ dreams about Joseph Gordon-Levitt loving me:) ♥ my brother acknowledging the premonition I had of him marrying Zooey Deschanel ♥ massive books of Fox Trot comics ♥ the possibilities in a blank sketchbook ♥ Marc Johns shirts ♥ sweaters inherited from my brother ♥ horcruxes ♥ thinking about old friends ♥ rereading my favorite books ♥ giving the perfect gift ♥ playing with my food ♥ leftovers ♥ having a whole slew of new movies ♥ the fourth season of Boy Meets World ♥ making snowflakes out of old Seventeen magazine pages with my brother ♥ elfing my house with said snowflakes ♥ pineapple chap stick ♥ peach chap stick gifts ♥ getting a letter from a new missionary ♥ writing a new missionary a letter ♥ plaid paper ties ♥ ignoring homework assigned over the break ♥ reading a book about cake that turns out to be the trippiest book I've ever read ♥ Narrow Stairs ♥

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loving: yesterday by the beatles

happy much love monday!

loving: Beatles song lyrics, especially doodling them ♥ being able to think to myself ♥ starting a brand new shiny week! It's like a baptism from my horrible week last week ♥ Death Cab For Cutie ♥ sleep, glorious, sleep ♥ singing in the shower ♥ ranting in my journal ♥ actually learning in school ♥ ignoring all the crappy things, and making a list of the things that have actually gone right recently ♥ not reading things that I know will destroy me ♥ taking pictures again ♥ the idea of writing a letter to santa filled with your wildest dreams and wishes ♥ being silly ♥ starting the school musical ♥ waking up at 9 and still having the sun barely up and spilling into my room ♥ the colors of winter ♥ Invader Zim and Adventure Time ♥ working on myself ♥ not failing ♥ blogging when I should be reading Their Eyes Were Watching God ♥ easy quizzes ♥ singing and acting on stage, but not improv ♥ being a nerd about things I love ♥ writing a little tidbit of what I think in blog posts ♥ writing in general, especially being able to epitomize what I am trying to say ♥ trying to think of as many things that I love as humanly possible at the moment, I refuse to be negative any longer ♥ watching the city lights in the dark, and the street lights change and the headlights make it through the distant downtown ♥ my warm breath against the cold window as I watch things unravel in the world outside ♥ surprise ninjas ♥ compliments on things I worked very hard on and feel like I left a bit of myself in when I finished ♥ being organized ♥ discussing what kind of sad requires cake, or soup, because whatever cake cannot fix, soup can ♥ I would like to reiterate, not falling victim to reading things that I know destroy me ♥ the movie Paper Heart ♥ writing reeeally long lists ♥

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much love..

happy much love monday:)

loving: different shades of denim ♥ silliness ♥ cake ♥ that elephant in the room ♥ ravenclaw, and not slytherin ♥ rings ♥ justin bieber wearing a yellow snuggie with a light up stegosaurus ring ♥ impromptu cupcakes ♥ half days ♥ haggenese ♥ confusing and silly conversations, even though they're confusing and silly ♥ saving texts ♥ putting lyrics on photographs ♥ big storms ♥ standing in the rain ♥ inside jokes that are so inside no one even catches that they're there ♥ being silly ♥ death cab ♥ fall ♥ procrastinating ♥ venting with my best friend ♥ school days that i don't have to change for yoga ♥ school days that i do have to change for yoga because lunch is more fun:) ♥ ellen degeneres eyes ♥ george lincoln ♥ getting a text from someone right when you're thinking about them ♥ knowing what gibberish means ♥ the vancouver, bc temple ♥ long car rides ♥ being cryptic passive-aggressively ♥ listening to the same songs over and over again ♥ florence and the machine ♥ those friends who are super fun to be tired around ♥  combining the perfect words with the perfect picture ♥ telling secrets ♥ people who aren't too silly, but are too silly momentarily ♥

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the best best friend ever.

 It's good to know that after days that are especially way too silly there are best friends out there who will make you a cupcake and draw you a lovely picture, then leave it on your doorstep as a nice little surprise. Especially when all three gestures are chock full of inside jokes and dripping with thoughtfulness. The only thing missing was some soup:)

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