You're truly, truly scrumptious

So I got to thinking the other day how humans have attraction all wrong. And that in the wild it's the male bird who is pretty and shows off for the girl. I thought that sounded like an excellent practice for humans to take up, because personally I'm a little sick of make up and always looking pretty. So.. I decided that boys should do little songs and dances for girls they like and wear outlandish clothing. That's the girl way to a girl's heart.




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Project 365

So, I decided to start a project 365 blog, and what better day to do it than on my birthday? I will still be keeping up with this blog for the photography, writing, and sketches. It's called Daily Love Letters, and I am quite excited for it:)




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Oh, brother.

My brother, Thane, on being awesome:


I have spent a considerable amount of time and energy over the last few years becoming the person that I wanted to be. To a large degree, the person that I am today is a result of that time and effort. I'm not talking about "life decisions" and consequences of those decisions. I'm talking about deciding who to be and going and being that person.

Life is about living. It's about being.

Though, you should be warned. At the end of the day, if you succeed in being who you wanted to become, you will have become something bigger than yourself. Like Bruce Wayne, you run the risk of becoming consumed by your identity. And, you can't turn back. The moment Bruce Wayne became Batman, Bruce Wayne was lost forever. In Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, when Alice found her "muchiness" she acquired something that could never be lost.

When you become somebody, you run the risk of becoming "awesome." And, when you become awesome, you will have alienated yourself from everybody around you. You will have alienated yourself from the reality to which they belong.

You will, inevitably, become more alone than you have ever been. All because you decided to be somebody, and actually succeeded.



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Set your sights destroy this partyline.

(I just about died when I got some of the red paint on her face.)

Sometimes people put their priorities in silly places. And I am so sick of being the bad guy.  

I just wish it would go away.



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This fire grows higher.

I'm really bad about writing real blog posts. "Real". I'm debating whether I think this is a "real" problem enough to do anything about it. Eh, maybe later.



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"they"

I often think about how whenever we want something that we know is unattainable or pure lazy silliness we blame the omnipotent "They" for our discomfort and inconveniences. It's a strange phenomena which I realized is hard to sum up in a single sentence for a sketch.. I figured that for most of us when we decide that They should do something about something or another we picture just a great American industry of endless technology and power. I thought a business suit and neat hair cut were quite fitting for this. 



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much love;

Wow, it's been a while since I Much Love Mondayed. I realized I wanted to blog today then was looking at the ones I follow and the thought of it occurred to me. I actually had to check to make sure it was indeed Monday. Things have been..silly lately. But I suppose things are always silly. Wow, that really sucks. Anyways, that's the reason for my lame posting. I'll try to write more on my posts on those rare occasions when I do post. Remaining positive right now sounds like a good idea. *deep breath* ..so here we go.


Loving: Sambaing ♥ Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ♥ Water For Elephants (The Book, Not The Movie. Don't See The Movie) ♥ Having The Sun Out Long Enough To Get A Burn ♥ Girls Named Kaylynn ♥ Concert Choir ♥ What About Bob ♥ Gill, My Betta Fish ♥ Named After Gill The Goldfish In What About Bob ♥ Being Honest ♥ The Anticipation Of Death Cab's New CD ♥ Vegetable Pizza ♥ Being Alone In Public Places ♥ Reading A Lot ♥ Writing In Margins ♥ Planning My Future To A Tee ♥ The Music From Crazy For You ♥ The Fact That This Tab/Window Has Crashed/Been Closed Twice Now Is Not Stopping Me From Writing It ♥ Leaving School Early ♥ Theater Performances Vs. Prom ♥ Thinking About Painting ♥ The Clammy Hands Club ♥ Play Dates ♥ Getting Lost ♥ Programing Radio Stations ♥ Pure Irony ♥ Trying To Find The Chocolate Jelly Bean ♥ Cleaning ♥ Hail At Four In The Morning ♥ The Squishy Red Folding Chairs At Church ♥ Real Jelly Beans, Not Easter Jelly Beans ♥ French Snakes With Itty Bitty Mustaches Named Pierre ♥ Other Snakes Named Guadalupe And Princess Beyonce ♥ Bonfire Bonding ♥ Thinking About Summer ♥ Jeans That Have Never Felt Good Before ♥ 





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and if you feel just like a tourist..

in the city you were born then..

it's time to go.

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and I will try to fix you;

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Cath, she stands;

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Aaahh!!! Real Monsters

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Honey pie, you are making me crazy.

Favorite book: The Secret Life of Bees. So it was sunny and warm yesterday, the first time both of those things have happened at once all year. I got a little excited. So I decided I'd read out on my back porch and have a smoothie like I do everyday of my life in the summer. Then I finished my smoothie, and it was too bright to read my book, so I just laid there for another hour:) And I got a little pink from it! I have light lines from my v-neck shirt and bracelets! That is a very exciting phenomena in the Northwest. I am so excited for summer:))




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tiny vessels;

Death Cab




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Well, aren't you fancy.

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I look at the world..

and I notice it's turning,
while my guitar gently weeps.

With every mistake we must surely be learning.. 

 

While My Guitar Gently Weeps by The Beatles

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when you try your best, but you don't succeed.

{bokeh branch}

{aquatic}

{dawn}

{white shadow}

 {chainlink}

{reflection}

{shards}

{contrast}

{glint}

{flight}

{vanishing point}

{red ice}

These are photos I took in photographics class and edited on Photoshop for a project. I also had to name them I thought I'd include those names even though I usually don't.


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I came along, I wrote a song for you.

This is like much love Monday on steroids.

loving: blustery days in the hundred acre wood ♥ new schedules and classes ♥ minty gum ♥ Asian tea ♥ orange blossom honey ♥ late night texting ♥ oodles of sweaters ♥ classic bangs ♥ paper hearts ♥ glitter and things in the like ♥ old photography ♥ eating pants ♥ white headphones ♥ cough drops ♥ long socks ♥ braiding hair ♥ plastic clips ♥ not pretending ♥ soup du jour hot hors devours ♥ character shoes ♥ longs sleeves ♥ back stage shenanigans ♥ the word 'lackadaisical' ♥ semicolons; sleeping in until 12 ♥ long hair ♥ cleaning ♥ talking about Glee ♥ going off campus for lunch ♥ rehearsing ♥ temple trips ♥ saying the perfect words ♥ Value Village dresses ♥ quoting Disney ♥ the song Human Again ♥ making valentines with crayons ♥ shows ♥ Valentines Day parties from elementary school ♥ journals ♥ Ticonderoga pencils ♥ BSing AP classes ♥ singing along to movies ♥ elephants ♥ scented stickers ♥ cheesecake ♥ little black rain clouds ♥ thinking about writing songs again ♥ fake glasses ♥ Subway ♥ banshees and fruit ♥ tupperware ♥ coconut water ♥ mindilin monsters ♥ baked goods ♥ best friends who are real best friends ♥ really long acronyms ♥ making fun of Justin Bieber ♥ Valentines Day ♥

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Every Mormon and every saint..

I realized yesterday that Valentines Day is tomorrow. Valentines Day is my favorite, and I'm not quite sure why. I don't believe in love. I think chick flicks are unrealistic and silly. But I love Valentines Day. Conversation hearts are my absolute favorite, pink and red together are so cute, paper strings of hearts, glitter everywhere, those mystery chocolate boxes that never come with a flavor guide so you're left looking for the coconut one for forever.. I've always loved it. Last year in English we wrote poems and decorated them with glitter and doilies and such things. Favorite assignment. I wrote a 2 1/2 page ballad for my best friend who pointed out to me probably a week before that all my poems have sad endings. So I wrote her one with a happy{er} ending. I put puffy stickers on it and glitter and Spongebob and Patrick stickers on the envelope. And Valentine cards are so fun. But all of this at the same time you'll never catch me watching The Sound of Music, or Pride and Prejudice, maybe The Notebook every once and a while and even less of a once in a while Titanic. My kind of love movies are indie, like Paper Heart or Where the Wild Things Are, which doesn't really count. I don't even believe in true love, but it's my favorite holiday. Upon realizing how close and unprepared I was I took a bunch of pictures for tomorrow:) I hope you're ready.


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