Love the art in yourself, not yourself in art.

Hooray for no posts in June!

So, I wrote that speech, about a month-and-a-half ago, and cruised and cooked-out and graduated (graduating is a week-long process at my school.) Call me an emotionless robot, but I really enjoyed that week. We got to go on a boat, and lie out in the sun, and write ridiculously long yearbook signatures. Maybe it didn't register for me as a leave-taking, and I just thought of it as a week of enforced fun in the sun with my friends. I didn't cry at all...except when I was riding home from graduation with one of my best friends, blasting "Get Back to Hogwarts" from A Very Potter Musical for not-the-last-time-but-it-felt-like-it.


I'm unemployed for the summer, so I've turned into a total housewife. I garden and clean and play piano and cook and take  care of my dogs and volunteer and read and indulge in disgustingly long Scrubs marathons and have genteel meet-ups with friends. Unfortunately, I'm hilariously unskilled at all of these activities (except the Scrubs marathons). All my plants are being eaten by the baby groundhog that lives under our porch. He's adorable.


Housewifely industry notwithstanding, it's a lot easier to get depressed when you don't get to see hundreds of cheery people with whom you have everything in common each day. And when the official end of the Harry Potter franchise is only fourteen days away...


(Side note: I'm actually having bad dreams about my parents having to drive us to the Harry Potter midnight premiere, deciding to stop at Walgreens, and causing us to be half an hour late for the movie. It's so frightening. I'm way too obsessed.)


(Another side note: I'm so disappointed by Pottermore. Yes, it might be cool, but why, WHY have an actual COUNTDOWN to an announcement about a website that won't even be launched for four more months?)


(Final side note: I now have the Months-of-the-Year song I was taught in kindergarten stuck in my head. Why, why, why, Delilah?)


Anyway, I'm off to bake bananana bread! Hopefully I'll start blogging more regularly now that I have nothing to do!


x

Song Challenge Day 10

a song that makes me fall asleep...Heartbeats ~ Jose Gonzalez

I first heard this song last year on Bones and instantly loved it. I still sometimes listen to it before bed.

Also, there should be accents in "Jose" and "Gonzalez" but I'm too lazy to teach myself how to do them in Blogger. Also, apparently Spanish people are not as crazy about accents as the French. Can anyone confirm or deny?

In other news, I am trying to write a speech. So far I have written "Spich. By me." This is not going very well.

*Update* I've now written three lines. Just re-reading them makes me bored to tears. How does one write a thrilling commencement address?

Songz Day 9...and the return of the Blog Challenge!

a song to dance to:  Monster ~ Lady Gaga


And because I can't think of anything else to say, I'll do another Blog Challenge day...remember that thing I started way back in Januray? Yeah, me neither.


a habit I wish I didn't have...

I would put procrastination, but everybody puts procrastination. Everybody procrastinates; that's not nearly bad enough of a habit. So here goes!
One habit that I wish I didn't have is complaining about people behind their backs. I guess I don't "talk behind people's backs" in the normal sense, because for some reason I'm not usually annoyed by people I don't know very well -- or at least not annoyed enough to talk about it. What I do is worse: when one of my friends or family members has done or said something to hurt me, I don't confront him/her; instead, I whinge about it to another friend. To the person's face, I act totally friendly and unbothered even though I may be seething on the inside. I can't decide which is the better alternative, though: To tell people off for all their petty slights, introducing discord into an otherwise perfectly good relationship? Or to just remain silent and deny myself the satisfaction of complaining? For little things, I'm leaning towards the latter, trying to be less obsessive about snarky throwaway comments, trying to care less about what people think of me...basically, trying to be less of a loser :)


Sorry, this post was meant to be slightly more amusing than it turned out to be, but I ended up picking a rather dismal topic...have a picture... 

I would never dissect a ewe.

 
...and a ninja-hyperlink, if you found it! Yeah, I spend too much time on YouTube...maybe I should've written about procrastination instead!

Song Challenge Day 8-ish

a song to which I know all the words: Going Back to Hogwarts ~ AVPM

Yup. I'm just that hardcore.

That live video is pretty much the most amazing thing ever, but here's the nice clean studio-ish version if you want it.

You don't understand this love.

um...some more songs?

Yeah, so, Blogger was down, and I was busy and forgot, and...

Let's just get to this, shall we?

a song that makes me sad: Corner of Your Heart ~ Ingrid Michaelson

Not so much sad as creepy. That counts, right?

a song that reminds me of someone: Drowse ~ Queen

My seester, for some reason. Which is weird, because we never sang it together or anything.

a song that reminds me of somewhere: How You Remind Me ~ Nickelback

The Jacksonville airport on Christmas day when I was probably about twelve. I wonder why I remember this so vividly, or the fact that this song was playing. It was good times with the cuzzins, though!

a song that reminds you of a certain event: Since U Been Gone ~ Kelly Clarkson

Prom this year :)

All caught up now!

Song Challenge Day 3

a song that makes me happy: Grace Kelly ~ Mika

There are very few bad moods that this music video cannot cure.