Some News!

I got all A's this semester! Yes yes yes. Copious amounts of studying and late night readings have paid off.

I want to read more D.H Lawrence.

New Camera Obscura is very good. I already have a handful of favorites on the album.

I hardly log onto the internet any more. It's a great feeling.

I need to go get ready for work...

Life is good.

Europe

I have a lot more thinking and planning to do.The more and more I think about the possibility of going, the more butterflies I feel in my tummy.

Oscar Wilde

...has quickly become one of my favorites writers.

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
"I can resist anything except temptation."
"Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years."
"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. "

Perfectionism

Why must I contest myself against myself?

+/-

+ Turning twenty on Saturday.
+ Reading James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man for my British lit. class.
+ The soft pretzel I will soon be nom-noming on.
+ Not closing AT ALL next week.

- Stressed and worried about financial situations to come, like how I'm going to afford an apartment when I transfer.
- I haven't yet started my paper on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
- Gloomy weather.

63 Degrees

Hurry and get a little warmer, California! I have more dresses than anything else in my closet and I want to wear them.

Thankful!

* Happy, smile-filled days like day. I laugh with my "entire body."
* Coming home to my dad's moussakka.
* The "Sadaf" brand tea with two spoons of sugar that I'm currently sipping on.
* Thinking about the future. I can't help but feel butterflies inside me.
* 500 DAYS OF SUMMER.
* Talking to my Tatti and hearing her uplifting words, which brightened my day.
* Being a nerd by doing my homework and studying for my exam in the break room at work.

Perfect For Today

You could waste your life feeling lonely, or you could waste your life feeling pain. When you carry the weight of one too many yesterdays, you won't know to come in from the rain.

Hey You.

Bath Bomb!

I added lavender fragrance as well as Vitamin E oil to my mixture. My skin is going to smell and feel amazing when I get out of the bath!

There Is No Such Thing As Perfect

You do enough. You have enough. You are enough.

Just Weird

Driving home tonight while listening to Coast to Coast AM radio has spooked me out...




...too much talk of shadow people and haunted houses.

First Post Of 2009

I wonder where I will be, or what I will be doing, at this time next year. I wonder if I will be happy, sad, or somewhere in between.

But for now, however, I'm happy.

My Next Purchase.

I think I'm in love!

The Plusses, The Minusses

+ Life has been good.
+ Work is great.
+ Home Alone 2.
+ Chevy Chase's Christmas Vacation.
+ Sigur Ros.
+ Murder City Devils.
+ Invisible Man.
+ The poetry of Pablo Neruda.

- Winter session classes start on the 5th.
- I miss my family.
- A lack of apple cider and peanut butter in my refrigerator.

Didn't Take Long To See I Was Wrong

I can do this, I know I can.

In only a matter of time, it will no longer be a problem.

The future looked hazy only a few days ago, but now it's bright, sunny, and clear.

The ball is in my court and I will fix this. I'll take it all back.

...And A Moment of Grace...

I'm currently taking a break from writing a paper on Samuel Johnson's "The Vanity of Human Wishes" and listening to Jeff Buckley's Grace.

This album is beautiful. "Lover, You Should've Come Over" leaves me feeling as if I'm floating atop a bed of clouds.

Oh, What A Difference It Makes!

I woke up this morning feeling good about myself and in a wonderful mood.

I love feeling this way.

Olives!!

I spent the entire morning picking olives with my pa from our olive tree. I will be marinating them by myself...for the first time! I hope they turn out tasty. We'll find out in about a month. :)

Hope you all had a good day today.

Tonight.

I am spending this evening making raspberry jam, reading, and watching copious amounts of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

I feel like such an old lady.