March 2011
66 posts
So, I may just learn decent pop and lock dancing techniques from a Wii game. Benny Benassi and Justice songs on the game, FTW! A workout I can enjoy. Hallelujah.
February 2011
40 posts
“I’m so glad they put the days in this order.”
– Mom
Whaaaaaa?
Gwen: “there’s a new Winnie the Pooh movie coming out… not an adult film… more adult-oriented, more philosophical…”
Me: “adult film… that would be questionable.”
Mom: “well he [winnie the pooh] never wore pants, did he?”
Why am I not recording EVERY CONVERSATION??!?
Sometimes I think it would be so much easier to kick and scream and cry. Throw a little tantrum and release all the aggravation that’s been building.
But then I tell myself, no, you can’t do that. It’s not right. That not what you represent.
But I’m human. With real emotions. Real frustrations. And a struggle that continues to rear its ugly head, because the lesson I am...
“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.”
– Walter Elliot
baking is therapy
Related to previous post and the reply made on it :) if anyone does want me to bake them something, I seriously would oblige and send it your way. It’s a way to keep my mind off the more unpleasant things. I will take requests. I have been wanting to try this.
I have this quiet little dream that I hold in my heart… that if I could just crochet something for everyone… bake everyone some cookies… or create something for anyone I encounter, I could the world come together harmoniously. Oh, how ludicrous I am sometimes.
As I sit in the midst of my clutter, which I find oddly comforting, for no apparent reason. Even though this may be a...
“Love means loving the unlovable - or it is no virtue at all.”
– G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
What's Happening in Libya Explained →
I tend to have these odd moments where my past doesn’t feel like reality, where I can play the memories in my head, but they feel distant, like I didn’t actually live them sometimes. And I look at my reflection, and see a person that vaguely resembles that girl from the years gone by, but I’m not entirely sure I recognize her.
And then I think about the people I’ve met,...
this is dinner conversation.
Mom: “I don’t trust fat cooks.”
Me: “And skinny food tasters… no, food critics, right?
Mom: “Yeah! Fat cooks and skinny food critics.”
O_o
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[talking about the deer that appeared in the yard today]
Dad: “But if there’s a bear, the bow’s coming out, I don’t care what the state says.”
Well, ok.
insufficient funds
Leave it to my mom to make an interesting, but kinda profound statement.
I had her listen to the song “Selfless, Cold, and Composed” by Ben Folds Five. There’s this line, “But you just smile, like a bank teller, kindly telling me, ‘Have a nice life’”.
She laughed and said, “I thought a bank teller would be more likely to tell you,...
“The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it...”
– G. K. Chesterton
12-Day Vlog Challenge
You know what, I guess I will do this. :)
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“There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is...”
– G.K. Chesterton in Charles Dickens (via gkchestertonquote)
“We’re called Arcade Fire — check it out on Google”
– Win Butler, of The Arcade Fire | MTV (via popculturebrain)
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I got the Kendall Payne album “Jordan’s Sister” when I was maybe a sophomore or junior in high school? This song resonates even more now.
I’ll tame this lion of flesh before the night is over My love will not let me rest until my mind is sober Reputations from my past chained so tight You break free you break fast on my decision tonight Formerly known as nothing and...
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but...”
– G. K. Chesterton
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fun times.
Chrononauts is quite an interesting game. I recommend it if you’ve ever toyed around with the idea of altering history.
Anyway. I shall paraphrase the goings-on.
Ryan: “I don’t trust him [Sean] with his lack of hat.” (Ryan, Kevin and I were all donning hats)
Sean puts a glove on his head.
[At this point, history had been altered to prevent the murder of John Lennon]
...
officialjamesbarnett:
[Sufjan Stevens -...
“All men can be criminals, if tempted; all men can be heroes, if inspired.”
– G.K. Chesterton in Heretics (via gkchestertonquote)
“When we are connected through love to other people is when we’re most...”
– Aron Ralston
chisaikame asked: Hey, Jaclyn! Whats up? Have you been reading Chesterton? :D
“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself...”
– Will Durant (via chisaikame)
“The way to love is to realize that it might be lost.”
– G. K. Chesterton
“Don’t fail to do something because you can not do everything.”
– Unknown
“There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that...”
– G.K. Chesterton in Heretics
I heart Chesterton.
Once when The Times asked him and several other prominent authors to write essays on the subject “What’s Wrong with the World?” Chesterton answered succinctly:
Dear Sirs,
I am. Sincerely yours, G. K. Chesterton
I think a broken heart can sometimes mark the beginning of something magnificent.
“There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it,...”
– G.K. Chesterton in the Illustrated London News April 25, 1931
“Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to...”
– G.K. Chesterton in What’s Wrong with the World
“Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians,...”
– G.K. Chesterton in Napoleon of Notting Hill (via gkchestertonquote)
“When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they...”
– G.K. Chesterton in the Illustrated London News November 7, 1908
Right on. 