Showing posts with label 30 day challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 30 day challenge. Show all posts
7.27.2010
7.26.2010
A habit that you wish you didn’t have.
Biting my nails because that means I can't paint them weird colors and have no excuse to attract attention to my hands with ridiculous jewelry. But I'm trying!
7.25.2010
7.24.2010
The meaning behind your Tumblr name: somethingplace
"Only a few months into our marriage," writes the grandfather, "we started marking off areas in the apartment as 'Nothing Places,' in which one could be assured of complete privacy, we agreed that we never would look at the marked-off zones, that they would be nonexistent territories in the apartment in which one could temporarily cease to exist."
"We were trying to make our lives easier, trying, with all our rules, to make life effortless. But a friction began to arise between Nothing and Something, in the morning the Nothing vase cast a Something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that, at night the Nothing light spilled from the guest room spilled under the Nothing door and stained the Something hallway, there's nothing to say. "
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
"We were trying to make our lives easier, trying, with all our rules, to make life effortless. But a friction began to arise between Nothing and Something, in the morning the Nothing vase cast a Something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that, at night the Nothing light spilled from the guest room spilled under the Nothing door and stained the Something hallway, there's nothing to say. "
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
5.27.2010
I've all but given up on the 30 Day Challenge. It began to bore me (as things tend to do) and kept me away from here in guilt. The next one I was to do asked me to choose a best friend. How should I do that though? I've always hated that term. Do I choose the person that knows more about me and my quirks than should be allowed, but is my significant other so of course (matt) or the person who has supported me since I was fifteen, who it's hard for me to relate to these days but whose son I consider my nephew (melissa), or the person with whom I share a "bff meter" who has been there for me many times over the recent years (manny) or the person who may be newer than the rest but I relate to most and can hold endless conversations with about the things we believe and both feel passionately about (shaunna)? I have a few others who are good for talking too. I mean, who ever came up with the term "best friend" anyway? What were they trying to prove?
Another wanted to know my favorite recipe. I make my scrambled eggs in the microwave.
I'm anxious to get that new lens. I think it will be wonderful to have on 4th of July given what i've heard about its response to low light situations.
Back to Pride & Prejudice. I know this is everyone with a vagina's favorite book but I'm just not getting it yet. Maybe later.
Another wanted to know my favorite recipe. I make my scrambled eggs in the microwave.
I'm anxious to get that new lens. I think it will be wonderful to have on 4th of July given what i've heard about its response to low light situations.
Back to Pride & Prejudice. I know this is everyone with a vagina's favorite book but I'm just not getting it yet. Maybe later.
5.25.2010
30 Day Challenge - Day 17.
Day 17 — An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.) that is your favorite.
I'm going to go ahead and use this space to give props to Kurt Halsey for introducing me to Art in a way. He was the first artist I ever bought from. I don't relate to his work as much as I once could. However, there is still an innocence to it. A somber innocence. I can't pick a favorite piece by him but this is a recent photo from his studio.
I'm going to go ahead and use this space to give props to Kurt Halsey for introducing me to Art in a way. He was the first artist I ever bought from. I don't relate to his work as much as I once could. However, there is still an innocence to it. A somber innocence. I can't pick a favorite piece by him but this is a recent photo from his studio.
Catch up.
I remember the reason I stopped fooling with my 30 Day Challenge. I got a little ahead of myself and wanted to use Day 11 - Share A Story From Your Childhood to copy an actual story from a childhood journal. I have been writing since I learned how and have never stopped . Of course once I got home and into "Zombie Mode" as I like to refer to it I never dug out my old journals. I'm just going to say the first thing that pops into my head as I don't have time to make up a zillion days at once and make them too meaningful. I give you cheap.
Day 11 - Share a story from your childhood:
When I was a kid I took Gymnastics lessons. My main concern was having the coolest leotard. I recall owning a few satin ones in multiple colors. One time while doing a back walkover with the assistance of my coach I kicked him in the mouth. He started grabbing his mouth in pain and I laughed because he was always joking. I obviously didn't know the amount of passion I apparently threw into my back walkovers because he was bleeding from the mouth. He snapped "So you think this is funny?!" I quit Gymnastics soon after that. I could have been an Olympian had he not been such a drama queen, wounding my ten year old ego. Shame!
Day 12 — Explain how you got one of your scars:
When I was a kid I used to pick our cat Tim Tim up by his tail. He was not appreciative. End.
Day 13 — How do you think others view you?
I have no idea although I am always trying to see myself through new eyes. I think others see me as small, clumsy, a pain in the ass, emotional, etc. I see myself as a Dinosaur or a bit of Transformer.
Day 14 — Talk about the cuteness of your pets.
Locke will do anything to get on the couch. He will start with a single paw, trying to trick you into petting him and ignoring what he's doing. He's wagging his tail, looking cute, and he will place another paw up. He will proceed to try to fit into the smallest space available even if it means laying entirely on top of you. He never stays still. One time he must have gotten scared of something because he was leaning against my back and ended up sitting on top of me in a split second after lunging his whole body in my direction and glancing around in fear. He is a nerd.
Day 15 — A poem you wrote.
Roses are red.
Bunnies are blue.
I like scrambled eggs with salsa.
And maybe you do too.
[Any poems i've written were written long ago and no longer relevent. Also they are all at home.]
Day 16 — A song that makes you cry (or nearly).
Anything by Michael Giacchino. Also Hallelujah in pretty much every form.
Day 11 - Share a story from your childhood:
When I was a kid I took Gymnastics lessons. My main concern was having the coolest leotard. I recall owning a few satin ones in multiple colors. One time while doing a back walkover with the assistance of my coach I kicked him in the mouth. He started grabbing his mouth in pain and I laughed because he was always joking. I obviously didn't know the amount of passion I apparently threw into my back walkovers because he was bleeding from the mouth. He snapped "So you think this is funny?!" I quit Gymnastics soon after that. I could have been an Olympian had he not been such a drama queen, wounding my ten year old ego. Shame!
Day 12 — Explain how you got one of your scars:
When I was a kid I used to pick our cat Tim Tim up by his tail. He was not appreciative. End.
Day 13 — How do you think others view you?
I have no idea although I am always trying to see myself through new eyes. I think others see me as small, clumsy, a pain in the ass, emotional, etc. I see myself as a Dinosaur or a bit of Transformer.
Day 14 — Talk about the cuteness of your pets.
Locke will do anything to get on the couch. He will start with a single paw, trying to trick you into petting him and ignoring what he's doing. He's wagging his tail, looking cute, and he will place another paw up. He will proceed to try to fit into the smallest space available even if it means laying entirely on top of you. He never stays still. One time he must have gotten scared of something because he was leaning against my back and ended up sitting on top of me in a split second after lunging his whole body in my direction and glancing around in fear. He is a nerd.
Day 15 — A poem you wrote.
Roses are red.
Bunnies are blue.
I like scrambled eggs with salsa.
And maybe you do too.
[Any poems i've written were written long ago and no longer relevent. Also they are all at home.]
Day 16 — A song that makes you cry (or nearly).
Anything by Michael Giacchino. Also Hallelujah in pretty much every form.
5.11.2010
30 Day Challenge - Day 10.
Day 10 — Talk about a regret you have.
Must I? Many include being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Yet, I think of a lot of the things I've done, and am happy to have done them just to know I have. I regret ever buying a car, but don't regret having something that felt so mine. I regretted the loss of Iron & Wine until I got them back again. Their notes no longer nauseating with the past, as I moved with the future and it moved things in me. I regret not starting college at eighteen, but would I have had all the time I wanted for late night drives and all the meaningful epiphanies had in the late hours when my blood alcohol content was severely affected and we were on the roof and Death Cab was playing in the background while we cried and laughed into beers and jars of peanut butter? I regret the use of run on sentences. I regret not applying myself now. What are regrets really? You wouldn't really change.
Must I? Many include being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Yet, I think of a lot of the things I've done, and am happy to have done them just to know I have. I regret ever buying a car, but don't regret having something that felt so mine. I regretted the loss of Iron & Wine until I got them back again. Their notes no longer nauseating with the past, as I moved with the future and it moved things in me. I regret not starting college at eighteen, but would I have had all the time I wanted for late night drives and all the meaningful epiphanies had in the late hours when my blood alcohol content was severely affected and we were on the roof and Death Cab was playing in the background while we cried and laughed into beers and jars of peanut butter? I regret the use of run on sentences. I regret not applying myself now. What are regrets really? You wouldn't really change.
5.10.2010
5.08.2010
May 30 Day Challenge - Day 8
Day 8:
Describe the style you had 10 years ago.
You made me do this, challenge, and i'll never forgive you. Thirteen is an awkward age, you know!
Describe the style you had 10 years ago.
You made me do this, challenge, and i'll never forgive you. Thirteen is an awkward age, you know!
5.07.2010
5.06.2010
5.05.2010
May 30 Day Challenge - Day 5
Day 5:
Favorite Quote -
[I have far too many favorite quotes collected over twenty three years living with a mad love of words, so I am just going to use one that I read lately, and liked quite much.]
[I have far too many favorite quotes collected over twenty three years living with a mad love of words, so I am just going to use one that I read lately, and liked quite much.]
"We try, we struggle, all the time to find words to express our love. The quality, the quantity, certain that no two people have experienced it before in the history of creation. Perhaps Catherine and Heathcliff, perhaps Romeo and Juliet, maybe Tristan and Isolde, maybe Hero and Leander, but these are just characters, make-believe. We have known each other forever, since before conception even. We remember playing together in a playpen, crossing paths at FAO Schwarz. We remember meeting in front of the Holy Temple in the days before Christ, we remember greeting each other at the Forum, at the Parthenon, on passing ships as Christopher Columbus sailed to America. We have survived pogrom together, we have died in Dachau together, we have been lynched by the Ku Klux Klan together. There has been cancer, polio, the bubonic plague, consumption, morphine addiction. We have had children together, we have been children together, we were in the womb together. Our history is so deep and wide and long, we have known each other a million years. And we don't know how to express this kind of love, this kind of feeling. I get paralyzed sometimes. One day, we are in the shower and I want to say to him, I could be submerged in sixty feet of water right now, never drowning, never even fearing drowning, knowing I would always be safe with you here, knowing that it would be ok to die as long as you are here. I want to say this but don't."
Elizabeth Wurtzel - Prozac Nation
5.04.2010
May 30 Day Challenge - Day 4
Day 4:
Favorite Book -
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows
The culmination of so much. I don't care if this is a book for children, it grew into much more. By the end these characters were friends and their world so expansive you felt like you could roll over in bed and you'd be there. JK Rowling pulls you in and never loosens her grip. I'm still waiting on my letter.
Favorite Book -
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows
The culmination of so much. I don't care if this is a book for children, it grew into much more. By the end these characters were friends and their world so expansive you felt like you could roll over in bed and you'd be there. JK Rowling pulls you in and never loosens her grip. I'm still waiting on my letter.
5.03.2010
May 30 Day Challenge - Day 3
Day 3:
Favorite Television Program -
LOST
Without a doubt, hands down, no question: LOST. It makes me think. It portrays the human condition more accurately than any show ever written; and it does this while a smoke monster floats around. It makes me feel uncomfortable, transfixed, angry, fearful, loved, understood. It is more. Now if we could just replace Kate with Buffy the vampire slayer we'd have my perfect show. Don't worry Buffy, being pushed to second place is hard, but I still like you more than Kate.
May 30 Day Challenge - Day 2
Day 2:
Favorite Movie -
Drop Dead Fred.
Because as a child this movie caused me to be obsessed with the fact that I did not, in fact, have an imaginary friend. I tried to create one, but in the end I was just talking to myself. In time I learned to just live vicariously through this movie. Thanks for sharing Fred, Lizzie. This has just become available on instant netflix and I see on IMDB that there will soon be a remake.
5.02.2010
May 30 Day Challenge - Day 1
day 1:
favorite song at the moment -
The National - Slow Show
You know I dreamed about you
for twenty-nine years before I saw you
You know I dreamed about you
I missed you for
for twenty-nine years
favorite song at the moment -
The National - Slow Show
You know I dreamed about you
for twenty-nine years before I saw you
You know I dreamed about you
I missed you for
for twenty-nine years
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