Blows everything out of the water

BOOM! And there goes everything you've ever known, all the knowledge that you built up and maybe even everything you knew about a person after they cheated on you. Well, maybe not to those extremes, but do you know the feeling?

Good luck, sailor.

It's one of those moments when you are thinking that life is going a-okay for you. Your job is going well, school is going well, your friends are acting pretty sane for the most part and you have food on your table. But then, out of the blue something incredibly aweful happens and turn it all upside down. Can you imagine how this might go down? I can, sometimes. I can see my life as a ship sailing along on the ocean blue, raising the flags on good days and on the bad days batting down the hatches and waiting for the squall to pass through. On the very worst days, when I hear of something that blows my ship apart, I think about what is left in the wreckage. I can see that I planned ahead and packed a floating box full of items that I might need to get out of this mess. As I'm treading water, I keep my lift jacket handy, with my flashlight and whistle ready to be used at the time of need. In my floating rescue box, I have my small little inflatable life raft and a few provisions. I have my rain jacket, a fishing line and another flashlight, but right now, I'm doing okay, since I'm pretty close to land!

When you feel that everything is about to blow on your end, try to grab a few things, or people that you know will be trustworthy enough to help you float in the water after the aftermath. You never know if you're going to need these things or not, but it might be good to have them.

A(B)C

I'm an a student with awesome algebra skills
Does this mean I'll be popular?
I'm a bouncing bubbly brunette
Does this mean everyone will think I'm smart too?
I'm a cute Caucasian chef
Does this mean that ill win that cooking show?
I'm a deaf & dumb clothing designer
Does this mean I'll be treated the same way as everyone else?
I'm an eccentric energetic engineer
But I'm also a girl, will I be paid the same?
I'm a flashy fun Filipino
Does this mean that I'll still be stereotyped?
I'm  glorious, gay and grateful
Does this mean that ill be shunned?
I'm hot handsome and hunky
Does this mean I'll be covered in babes?
I'm icy, ignorant and feeling immortal
Does this mean that I'm also anti social?
I'm joyful jubilant and jealous
Does this mean that i cant be normal?
I'm a kind hearted kindred spirit
Does this mean that I can't sometimes be naughty?



I'm lazy, a loser and lucky
Does this mean I'm still a waste of space?
I'm mad, meticulous and meandering
Does this mean that I'm also a menace to you?
I'm nice, noble and naughty
Does this mean that I suffer from a particular disease?
I'm open obvious and oppositional
Does this mean that I'm hard to work with?
I'm positive pleasant and particular
Does this mean that I shouldn't have any more friends?
I'm quaint quite and quite a sight
Does this mean that I'm different?
I'm radical, raunchy and reverent
Does this mean that I shouldn't be this way?
I'm shy, speechless and sorry
Does this mean that you can walk all over me?
I'm talkative tiny and can go off on tangents
Does this mean that you'll treat me like a child?
I'm a unit, universal and ugly
Does this mean I'm too big?
I'm a very versatile voluptuous being
Does this mean I'll have lots of dates?
I'm young and yellow bellied
Does this mean that I should be afraid everyday?
I'm zany, zesty and zoetic
Does this mean that I should be quiet and tame instead?

Hot Pad!

Crack your back if you're having a bad day! Yea... I thought I'd hear a few *Cracks* out there. Well, finally I decided to do something about my back, besides have someone else keep an eye on it for me. At my current job I have to lift a few heavy things above my head, walk thirty feet and put it down again lower than my waist. Well after about three trips, that starts to hurt my shoulder! A friend of mine helped me out and sent me on my way to make my own 30 second hot pad that I can lay on my shoulder at night.

You Need:

- A rectangle piece of cloth about 1 ft x 1.5 ft
- Thread
- Funnel
- 2- 3 cups of raw rice

Directions:
1. With the right sides of the cloth facing IN sew the cloth into a rectangle but only on three sides. On the fourth side leave an opening big enough for the funnel to fit into and turn the bag right side out
2. Place the funnel in the opening that you left there and pour in the rice. When as much rice will fit in there comfortably (Leave Some Room) sew the last corner together.
3. You have just made your own personal hot pad!

Best methods of use:
☺ Heat for 1:30 minutes before you go to bed and sleep with a warm compress on your aching body
☺ Heat for 30 seconds for your on again off again sports injuries
☺ Heat for 30 seconds and it will be cool enough to place on your head for headaches
☺ Really awesome for those cramps... ladies. Heat for 2 minuets and lay it on your tummy.

Warnings:
♠ You WILL smell like cooked rice after using this
♠ Your bed WILL smell like cooked rice in the morning
♠ IT IS REALLY HOT!  

Rainbow Cupcakes!

Excited for summer? So am I! It's time for parties and picnics and finding ways to impress your host!
This is the second time I tried this, the first time I didn't get the chance to have a hand in i, but I did most of this by myself!

To do rainbow cupcakes you need:
- Cupcake mix (and all ingrediants needed for the cupcake mix) Prepare before hand!
- Cupcake wrappers
- 4 - 5 food coloring choices

1. Divide the cupcake mix into 5 containers

2. Add food coloring to the seperate containers

3. Use a teaspoon to place one scoop of each color into the wrappers
     *If you are doing red white & blue cupcakes for the holidays, drop in two of each color

4. Bake the cupcakes exactly as you had prepared them. They will come out similar to this! The different colors will make a neat pattern... almost too good to eat!

Enjoy! Add your pictures to the comments below if your cupcakes come out better than mine! ♥

If It Means Alot to You - A Day To Remember

And hey darling
I hope you're good tonight
And I know you don't feel right when I'm leaving
Yeah I want it but no I don't need it
Tell me something sweet to get me by
'Cause I can't come back home till they're singing

La, la la la la la la

'Til everyone is singing 

If you can wait till I get home
Then I swear to you
That we can make this last
(La la la)
If you can wait till I get home
Then I swear come tomorrow
This will all be in our past
Well it might be for the best

And hey sweetie
Well I need you here tonight
And I know that you don't want to be leaving me
Yeah you want it but I can't help it
I just feel complete when you're by my side
But I know you can't come home 'til they're singing

La, la la la la la la

'Til everyone is singing

La, la la la la la la

If you can wait till I get home
Then I swear to you
That we can make this last
(La la la)
If you can wait till I get home
Then I swear come tomorrow
This will all be in our past
Well it might be for the best

You know you can't give me what I need
And even though you mean so much to me
I can't wait through everything

Is this really happening?
I swear I'll never be happy again
And don't you dare say we can just be friends
I'm not some boy that you can sway
We knew it'd happen eventually

La, la la la la la la

Now Every body's singing

La, la la la la la la


-Sent to me by a very lovely boy. ♥ We have a similar circumstance.

Compared

I feel honored
I feel scared
I feel as if I’m being compared.

You feel praised
You feel maimed
You too are being compared.

He feels called
He feels mauled
He believes that he being compared.

She feels empowered
She feels devoured
She feels that only cowards are compared.

It feels prepared
It feels impaired
It wishes that it was not compared.

You, Me and Your Worst Enemy

"We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

It's rude of me to question a saying of a wise man, but isn't it better to understand than to not like something if I don't understand it? As for this quote, I understand completely. Take Facebook for instance. Just today someone that I recently became friends with made a very rude comment to which I unfriended him for. His friends are mad for making the comment, and the friend that he tagged in the comment is furious. I'm assuming that the silent unfriending that is going on is speaking volumes to this character and he is chastising himself for such a comment. We have not become his enemies, but are giving him the fuel to judge his own self.

"Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you."
- Yassir Arafat

Quite often we find ourselves with a new character in our life. Some how this character can be beneficial, as in can help you fix your car or knows how to save at the nearby grocery store.  These friends are handy and quite often indispensable. Here I should also add, be nice to everyone. Your kind gesture may turn their day around. However, when you are rude or inconsiderate, then you have made an enemy. You suddenly have a target on your back. Imagine that you're back in middle school, the breeding ground for gossip, false friends and first period gym class.  On your first day you bumped into the cheerleaders captians little sister and spilled her homework all over the floor. Suddenly you hear taunts and cheers of being clumsy, an idiot and so forth. But she doesn't say anything rude. Instead, she cleans up her homework, with your help and you both apologise and move on. You've made a ten second friend. On the other hand if you hadn't helped and let her be, why would you help the next it girl anyways, you've made yourself the target and no one will help you. You've found yourself with enemies when this was a chance to make a few friends.

"There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself : an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly."
- Antisthenes

Words can hurt and they can heal. When they hurt, sometimes people feel that the best way to make that hurt go away is to pass on the hurtful words. Some girls are told that they are too fat, when they're as thin as a bean pole, and tell the next person in line that they are too. Some boys are told that they aren't tall enough to do a sport, so the pass it on to the next person saying that they're too dumb to play. Words hurt, when they shouldn't. Words some times kill too, they're our greatest weapon. The person that you allow yourself to hurt you, has become in control of you because you allow that comment to destroy you. Next time you hear a rude comment toward yourself, think about the person that said it to you. Often when I'm on the internet, I hear that the skinny girls need to eat more. When I see this I wonder about the subjects self esteem. Is she going to take this to heart? Who is really saying this to her? Are these people losing thier temper because they see a skinny person who happens to be that body type naturally and they're made because they're not? Or are these people her friends and have noticed an eating pattern in their friend and they're concerned? 

As a closing statement, if I was ever stuck on a deserted island with you, myself and my worst enemy, I would say my worst enemy is the mirror, because all I can see is myself. And what I see in myself sometimes is not the most postive person that I can be.

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

 

Woof. I mean look at Agent Sawyer! If that's not a reason to watch this movie, then shoo. Go watch Twilight or something just as terrible. Agent Sawyer works for the United States, and guess who he really is, Tom Sawyer! Oops, I'm getting ahead of myself, but who would have thought that he would turn out to be so good looking? Oh and Sean Connery (Who Will Never Die) is in here too. Did I mention that I'm a fan of him too?

Anyways (tears eyes away from Sawyer) the scene is set for the 1900's, a time for new inventions, dastardly evil deeds and a need for a super hero. Or seven. The "Fantom" is terrorizing England and Germany with new war tactics and an army that is human, but just won't die. A band of legendary characters bands together to bring down "Fantom", namely, The Invisible Man, a Vampress (one of Dracula's brides, and other book review coming later), Dorian Grey (and another book review coming later), Captian Nemo (no, not the fish Nemo), Tom Sawyer, and Dr. Jeykll / Mr. Hyde. Fantom manages to get into Allan Quartermain's head that he's going to destroy the powerhouse cities which prompts Mr. Quartermain to build his own army.

Everyone has a mini back story, where everything plays out in the drab bits which makes everything a bit more interesting, and less drab! The Invisible Man reveals how he became invisible, and how much fun it is to be invisible; the vampress loves seducing men and then bites their heads off... figuratively of course. Then there's Dorian Grey who is so full of himself that he doesn't see it himself. Captian Nemo has a kick ass ship and car, he's kind of a before-Iron Man that's how awesome he is. Then theres the dreamy Agent Tom Sawyer who works for the American Army; Dr. Jeykell & Mr. Hyde's story is pretty well known, but it does come in handy during the movie and then there's Allan Quatermain who mourns the loss of his son and swears revenge on the elusive 'M.' There's more to each story but you have to read the books, or just watch the movie!

Anyways, I know I'm not that helpful by playing up Tom Sawyer, but you wouldn't believe how this band of misfits turns out to be the best League. Better than the superheroes, but not better than the Harry Potter trio. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a little bit more untouchable than Harry Potter.

♥ Tom Sawyer ♥



SLIME!!!

Slime is easy to make. It only takes a few ingredients and a few minutes to make a batch. Follow these step-by-step written instructions or watch the video to see how to make slime. To get started, gather the following materials:

• water
• white glue (like Elmer's™)
• borax
• food coloring (unless you want uncolored white slime) 

If you're making it with a small crowd, this is a good recipe. Good luck!

1. Mix 1 tsp of borax in 1c of water. Stir until the borax is completely dissolved. (May take a few minutes)
2. In another container, or another person, mix 1/2 c of white glue with 1/2 cup of water. Here you can add the food coloring!
3. When everything is mixed completely in the separate containers, mix the two liquids. It's already going to look weird, goopy and fun to play with! I would say mix this in a plastic zip lock bag, it makes it more fun to squish it with your hands and watch it mix!
4. Mix mix mix mix! When you start to see water/food coloring, take out the mixture and add it to another zip lock bag. Keep squishing!
5. When it is in the separate bag, leave it out on the counter for about half an hour. You can squish it every so often. After, take it out and play with it! Have fun!

The List

So after the kid gave me the information I got a call about a suspicious truck in front of the town hall. Naturally I had to investigate, I was the only one close enough to do anything about it. I sent the kid home, with out his gun, I'll deal with that later, and headed out to the car. I never get the chance to clean it out, it's always full of fast food wrappers and old coffee cups. On the bright side, occasionally I'll find an unopened cracker bag so I never really go hungry.

Every once in a while I get to use my lights and sirens, so today was not exception, I pulled all the buttons and streaked down to the town hall. When the driver of the suspicious yellow truck that was parked in front of the town hall saw me speeding down main street, one of the goons jumped into the passenger side and the chase was on! Very cliche I know, but I really love these car chases. They're quite fun and you get to go 65 mph in 25 mph zone without getting in trouble. I know I'm the law and all, but it's still fun!

Nodnol really isn't that big so I thought I had the goons in a corner as soon as we went down this hill. I called in for back up and let everyone know where I was. However, something happened that has never happened before.  Typically after a police chase, the culprits are caught. The funny thing about this police chase was that they weren't caught... I was! During the chase the truck went down the only hill in town and popped open a ramp about parol car size. And since it was the only hill down in the chase... All I had to do was let gravity do the work when when they hit the brakes! This was a first in the books alright, I did not expect this at all! I found out later that my brakes were tampered which made the nab much easier. So imagine my surprise when suddenly I off the road driving up a ramp and into the suspicious truck.

It was just one surprise after another today. In the truck, I met the kid again... but I wasn't quite sure. It seemed like all the goons just dropped from the ceiling. It was a tight fit, the truck's bed was just big enough for the car.  I think I saw the kid, I could have sworn it was him, but then the goons opened my drivers door and clocked me.

And to think, what is nice about the new cruisers is that theres a GPS inside that lets dispatch know where you are and if you're close enogh to a call. Nodnol put those cars in next years budget. So who knew where the hell I was. Even I didn't know. While I was out the goons tied me up and tied me up so I laid in a hammock of sorts on the top of the truck, just above my cruiser. While I was up there they dropped off my cruiser somewhere, I'll find out later where exactly it was and took me to thier hide away house. I don't remember anything up until they woke me up with another clock to the head. When I was coming to I heard the names Angel, Rick, Ryne, Liz, Craig and Dave. I don't think I was supposed to hear any of that.

I found out a second later when someone said "Shit, is he awake? He might have heard you!" And they hit me again.

Help?

Colby's Eggs

This weekend we had a lovely dinner party with a few friends, and one of them brough hard boiled eggs! How lovely! I love hardboiled eggs, if the rest of the family doesn't really. I asked Colby if he would share his recipe and this is what he gave me:

Colby's Hard boiled Eggs
*For one dozon eggs

1. Hard boil the eggs
2. Cut the eggs in half and take out the yolks
3. In a large bowl, mix 1 cup of mayonaise
                                     1/2 hand ful of chedder cheese
                                     4 strips of bacon (cut into small pieces)
4. Add one teaspoon of mixture to hollowed hole of each egg
5. Serve and enjoy!

I wish I took a picture of his eggs, they were quite lovely. In the meantime, enjoy this picture. ☺

Reverting to Stolen Kisses

You asked me again tonight if we should give ourselves another chance
I shook my head but of what we’ve done before created a memory dance
I wanted to say yes but when you asked I still was not sure
Before I could make a final decision I noticed a puddle on the floor from your cur
♥
It was like you had never left, tonight as we lay down on the sofa
Playing games with our fingers and stealing kisses behind the back of your Ma
You were my first kiss and I know that you’ll never forget that
Your mother called us for dinner, and for a moment I had forgotten that you had a cat
♥
I knew it was coming but I did not fear it like before
After dinner you kissed me and my happiness began to soar
I kissed you back, on the lips, on the cheek and in return you kissed me again
And the longer I stayed the more I saw you more than a casual friend
♥
At the movies I found that the other boy in my life was after all not right
You do not need to have a physical relationship to have a wonderful night
With Him I felt at peace and overjoyed that I knew how to be satisified
To this day I realize that to me he has never lied
♥
I’m home now, after a night of wishing that this would never end
The seconds that we were together just seemed to blend
Right now all I have is your smell lingering on my shirt
And a stolen kiss to which now to its memory I shall revert

S.O. [18]

You're only brave 'til you're scared, you're only unique until compared.

It's taken me a while to go through this phrase, I still don't quite understand it, but that's alright, right? We don't always understand what we read or hear. That makes us thinkers, we think to understand, we weigh the facts and go through the steps to understand what is being said.

Now, we are brave, occasionally. We are brave enough to stand in a group of people and say "Hello my name is Elizabeth and I am taking this class because..." or able to order something at the drive through or stand in front of an audience and a speech. The president is brave, the teacher is brave and the student is brave, for running for the presidency, for teaching a group of smart individuals and the student is brave for answering the question. We are all brave and have done a brave act in our lives.

Now "You're only brave 'till you're scared...", consider what you have to be in order to be brave. You can't be scared. If you're scared, you have 0% in your brave meter. You can't be brave if your scared level out weighs your brave level. You just become a scared-y cat. Sorry, but its true. Ever watch the Lion King? Mufasa tells his son, Simba, that he is scared, but he is brave too. Being scared is part of being brave. You don't know what you're running into sometimes, but you run into anyways because you also have that rush of adrenaline that out weighs your scared level. Does this make sense at all?

The second statement "You're only unique until compared" is a little bit different. I know I'm comparing my favorite subject, Disney princesses, but these girls are a perfect example. Each princess is different. Ariel wants to live on land and be with the humans, Cinderella wants to get out from her step mothers thumb, Jasmine wants to have a better life outside the palace walls, Belle watns to live her life in peace with her father and her books, Aurora wants to marry a common stranger and break the palace rules, and Snow White wanted to live out her life at the castle being mooned by Prince Charming. When it all comes down to it, all the girls want something different, something unique in their quest to find a happy ending. Each girl may have a different hair color, back ground, and attitude, I mean really, compare Snow White and Jasmine. Snow White goes along with everything, is scared out of her mind and the first thing she does is clean. Jasmine on the other hand, when she gets the chance in the market stands up and shows whose boss! I could keep going, but a similarity between all these girls is that in the end, they become princesses. Princess Belle after marrying Prince Adam, Princess Ariel was the youngest of King Triton's seven girls and marries Prince Eric. Princess Cinderella after she marries the Prince. Princess Jasmine as she is the only daughter of the Sultan. Princess Ariel/Brier Rose as she is the only daughter of the King and Queen and supposedly marries Prince Phillip and Princess Snow White, the only daughter of an unnamed King and Queen, and marries Prince Charming as well.

                        

  

So, how unique are you? Are you unique enough to be copied? It is a form of flattery you know.

And how brave are you? Do you let your scared level out weigh your brave-ness?

Think about it.



Ruthie's Scarf

I know I know, it's ANOTHER scarf! Well I had fun doing this one so *blows raspberry*. My girlfriend of 5 years just graduated from college (Go Ruthie!) So as a present I decided to make her a scarf! She picked out a few of the colors, green and blue, but when I got to the store, the green she wanted wasn't available! So I had to go to the next best thing, dark blue!
In total I have twelve light blue granny squares (the easiest thing next to regular rows!) and I tied them all together using the inside row of the square. Confused? If you look close you can see the neat stitching I created when doing so. I also did the same pattern with the dark blue.
Usually I just put edge for the sides, but I decided this time to put a double edge on the scarf, and wouldn't you know it Ruthie loved my prototype! And the best part was, she already had a jacket that matched it perfectly! I love happy endings. ♥
Congrats again Ruthie!

Sweet Suit

So guess who went for an interview today! Yes, thats right... ME! And well, for the first time in a while, my mom helped me pick out the outfit. Ayup. That turned out to be interesting. Any who's I've had this suit in my closet for years but I've been trying to avoid using it because, well, I have so many other pretty outfits to wear to interviews! Lets not mention how a few years back I went to the movies for an interview with a little summer dress on... yikes.

Now this needed a little extra help since it is pretty down there. Luckily in my closet I also had a vest size collared shirt to help! (These are before and after ironing shots so please ignore the odd numbering of buttons!) The vest helped me get the professional look and set off the drab one color scheme that I had going on. Yick yick. You know how much I like drab!

The suit I found at a Goodwill, and I used it for a state get together. Ask me about the details, I'd love to talk more about it! ☺ So I may have only spent maybe $15 on the whole get-up? Not for a professional look though! The shirt was around $3 - $4 and the shoes were $30... they cost that much because they were originally bought to go dancing in for a play... I just can't give up my plays! And if you look at the first picture again, you can see that at the en dof the day at work, after the interview or what have you, you can turn this outfit into a play date outfit if you have the right shirt underneath! It's a high waist so it hid all the ugly wrinklies caused by the underneath shirt, which is great for me, I always seem to have them!

Oh and one last bit, I didn't take a picture with the jewelry but I did wear bright blue costume jewelry with big balls that matched the earring set. It went well with the light pink shirt and tan suit!

Suit:       $15
Shirt:      $4
Shoes:    $30
Jewelry: $1

Santa Barbara

The first picture and the last picture are taken at the beach in Santa Barbara right next to the pier.
There is a veterans group that started putting a cross and candle for every death in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The amazing thing is that they only do it on the weekends. They put up this graveyard and
Take it down every weekend. Guys sleep in the sand next to it and keep watch over it at night so
Nobody messes with it.

Every cross.....has the name, rank and D.O.B. And D.O.D., on it.

Very moving, very powerful??? So many young volunteers. So many 30 to 40 year olds, as well.


Amazing !


Did you know that the ACLU has filed a suit to have all military cross-shaped headstones removed?,



And that they filed another suit to end prayer from the military completely.

They're making great progress.

She drove me to drink...

I used to be like this...

Then I met a girl...

 

She was like this...

 

 Together we were like this...

 I gave her gifts like this...

 When she accepted my proposal 

I was like this...

 I used to talk to her all night like this...

 And at the office I used to do this...

 When my friends saw my girlfriend

they stared like this...

 And I used to react like this...

 But on Valentines Day she recieved

a red rose from some one else like this...

 And she was like this...

 And I was like this...

 Which later led to this...

 And this...

 I felt like doing this...

 So I started doing this...

 NOW look at me...

 DAMN Girls!