I'm enjoying watching the fooseball on Sundays, Mondays, and oh yeah sometimes Thursdays...snowboarding...reading a good book...keeping up with current events...a little shopping, mainly for the house and not me...finding songs I forgot about on itunes...cooking for Dave...traveling...hanging out with friends, which doesn't happen too much lately :o( ...enjoying a good cocktail...going to the beach to relax...
I MEASURE every grief I meet
With analytic eyes;
I wonder if it weighs like mine,
Or has an easier size.
I wonder if they bore it long,
Or did it just begin?
I could not tell the date of mine,
It feels so old a pain.
I wonder if it hurts to live,
And if they have to try,
And whether, could they choose between,
They would not rather die.
I wonder if when years have piled—
Some thousands—on the cause
Of early hurt, if such a lapse
Could give them any pause;
Or would they go on aching still
Through centuries above,
Enlightened to a larger pain
By contrast with the love.
The grieved are many, I am told;
The reason deeper lies,—
Death is but one and comes but once,
And only nails the eyes.
There ’s grief of want, and grief of cold,—
A sort they call “despairâ€;
There’s banishment from native eyes,
In sight of native air.
And though I may not guess the kind
Correctly, yet to me
A piercing comfort it affords
In passing Calvary,
To note the fashions of the cross,
Of those that stand alone,
Still fascinated to presume
That some are like my own.
~Emily Dickinson
Pretty much anything goes...Jack Johnson…311…R&B…Hip Hop…ALO…Pepper…even a little country…Bon Jovi (JERSEY!!!)…did I mention that when I grow up I want to be Mary J. Blige???
The Princess Bride ("have fun stormin' da castle")...Best in Show ("it was a little over the top, and I looked freakish")...A Mighty Wind ("thank God for the model trains, you know? If they didn't have the model trains they wouldn't have gotten the idea for the big trains")...The Boondock Saints (if you haven't seen this you must)...13 Conversations About One Thing (another B movie that I randomly picked up, but it is soo good)...Lord of the Rings (all of them)...This is Spinal Tap (another must see)...V for Vendetta...Lucky Number Slevin...
So I've boycotted Grey's Anatomy since George and Izzie slept together...I kept myself busy w/ Burn Notice this past summer(LOVED IT!!)...The only shows that haven't pissed me off are CSI & CSI NY.
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski...The Dune series...A People's History of the United States...Amy Tan...Dan Brown...Rick Moody...and anything I randomly pick up at the bookstore...open to any suggestions!
My mom...she is such a strong woman...I've finally come to that point in life when you realize how awesome your parents are and i can only hope to be as strong and loving as she is.