January 2012
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So Close I Can [Feel] It...
Previously: So Close I Can [Smell] It…
Eyes half open with my mind in a zombie state, bitter black coffee trying to kick my brain into gear, grumbles of hunger emanating from my neighbor’s stomach as if it was a guard dog trying to shoo me away… it must be the first week of a new quarter.
And that it is, the beginning of my second to last quarter till I graduate in fact. Each...
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California Dreamin.
The warm afternoon sun beating down on my face, the soft hum of the train tracks beneath me, I open my eyes and see the beautiful glimmering water and distant mountains outside my window. It’s at this point that I know, I’ve fallen in love with California.
More specifically, northern California. Sure, southern California is enjoyable with the constant hustle and bustle of the city, but it’s...
December 2011
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Woosa.
I had come on here with full intention of creating an angry, hateful post, venting about this and that from tonight. However, after a moment of thought, I came to remember something that someone special to me reminded me of:
…notice to the smaller joys in life that may be overlooked by others and as well as myself sometimes…
And so I decided against my previous plan. Oddly,...
October 2011
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More Than Words.
One of the reasons I enjoy my job, and why I’ve loved customer service positions in the past, is the interaction with the customers. Working in a bank, of course I get my fair share of angry, irate, furious, “raging and screaming at the top of their lungs in my face” customers, but there are a few that stand out and make it worth putting up with the difficult ones.
Some...
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Indian Summer.
Sitting in this concrete park, surrounded by urban nature under green and golden trees, the occasional cool breeze creates a whirlwind of autumn leaves to envelope me. Blanketing my keyboard, shrouding my screen, embedding in my hair, stowing away into my open backpack, I smile in amusement as they dance around. Suddenly, the lyrics in my ear catch my attention at the perfect moment…
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So Close I Can [Smell] It...
Wait… what?? The title sounds a little odd and maybe kinda gross when read out of context, but I’m actually referring to my graduation day. I’ve mentioned it a few times, and I suppose that it’s not actually all that close time-wise, (I still have three quarters, around 8 months) but I keep thinking about it. This is why I’ve decided (and hopefully will stick to this...
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Crossroads.
*playing the song Crossroads on YouTube*
Her (21 yrs old): This is Bone Thugs [n Harmony]!?
Me (24 yrs old): Yeah, why?
Her: That's a big change from "Candy Paint"
Me: What's "Candy Paint"? *searches on YouTube*
Bone Thugs still makes music!? Weird, this isn't the Bone Thugs I know...
Her: This is the Bone Thugs I know. Wow, what a difference three years can make =P
Me: -_-;;
September 2011
4 posts
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Interestingly Uninteresting: To Future Generations →
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“Don’t try to be an adult at 14. At 22, the American version of Skins is all kids in belly shirts dry humping each other and eating ecstasy syringes and showing off their tattoos. When I was 14, I was wearing braces, Old Navy tshirts, and wondering if sex was…
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The Last Day I'll Kiss the Sky.
Diving head first into a textbook, swimming through the information, word after word, page after page, critically analyzing art, comparing and contrasting, applying the concepts and styles to the past, present, and future… It was an average Saturday night for me (or at least, that’s become what average is). Homework every weekend from Thursday straight to Sunday has become my routine,...
Blogging from My Phone, Just Because I Can.
I was laying here in bed, beginning to lose my battle with the waking world, when I started thinking about my blog. I had intended on using this for a record of my life and to help exercise my creative mind, but I haven’t been doing much of either of those lately, which is why I decided to set a new weekly goal. At the very least, I plan to post something substantial in here once a week,...
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365 Day-sary.
Whether we’re exploring downtown and running through random buildings or just sitting back and exploring TV trying to find something to watch (most likely reruns of Chopped, Hoarders, Bizzare Foods, or most recently Tanked)…
Whether we’re eating amazingly delicious sushi or chowin’ down on some Reese’s and Sun Chips…
Whether we’re talking and laughing...
August 2011
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Strangers.
noun. a person with whom one has no personal acquaintance.
For each individual person in this world, there are billions of people that could be considered strangers. Every single day that you step out of your house, you see strangers that you see on a regular basis and (even more frequently) you see strangers for the first time, that you may never see again. There are billions of strangers in...
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Random blahg of happiness...
…Simply because there’s so much unhappiness in the world, that sometimes it’s nice to blahg about the little things in life; the things that often go unnoticed and underappreciated. Although, I can’t take full credit for this idea, it actually came from a certain special someone I know.
When I began mentally packing for my upcoming trip to California, there was one shirt...
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Rebuilding.
Man, what a pain, I don’t know what happened but apparently all the blogs that I was following somehow got unfollowed from my Tumblr. Now I have to go find and follow EVERYONE again…
If you’re following me and I was following you before, please do me a favor and send me a message or like this post or do something so I can find you again. Anything to help me out with this process...
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Traditions.
Today marked the end of my long weekend away from work, but it also marked the potential beginning of something better. Almost exactly one year ago I attended our local Uptown Art Fair with just a friend; today I attended the same Uptown Art Fair with the same person, but this time she’s my girlfriend. It seems we’ve started something that’s looking to become an annual tradition...
July 2011
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Autumn Leaves.
All children are born artists, the problem is to remain an artist as we grow up.
- Pablo Picasso
Tonight, I got reacquainted with an old cartoon that I might say (along with Boy Meets World) helped define my childhood; that cartoon is Rugrats (for anyone who may not be familiar with this show, you can click here to read a little about it, otherwise, I’m going to continue on under the...
June 2011
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alyssa's world: “Years ago, Allan got down on one... →
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“Years ago, Allan got down on one knee & asked me to be his girlfriend. On this day in Point Reyes, he got down on one knee & asked me a different question. I ♥ my fiance! ^_^”
Meet my brother and now future sister-in-law. After almost 11 years of being together, he finally proposed and…
For the longest time, their relationship has always been somewhat of an...
Abet Speaks Tumblr: Don't take your life for... →
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Somewhere out there, somebody loves you terribly. Meanwhile, somebody else is waiting to BE loved. Whether or not you realize it, your life will never be stagnant. It is always moving. Always changing. Everyday is a progression toward something you have yet to discover. Be it negative or positive,…
April 2011
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Not Sure Which is Better...
N: What's that smell? --sniffs my arm-- Oh, it's you, you smell like cu*!
J: I smell like what!?
N: You smell like cu*!
J: O_O... OOOOOH, I smell like CUB (grocery store).
N: Yeah, what did you think I said? Wait... --smacks me--
J: What!?
N: I didn't realize Cub had a distinct smell... you smell slightly like butchered meat.
J: Wow... thanks -_-;;
Anonymous asked: What is your happiest childhood memory? What makes it so special?
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Ambient Noise.
Go outside and you’ll see people everywhere with wires hanging from their ears pumping rhythmic beats into their heads. But how many people are honestly consciously listening to the music that’s playing? So often, I feel like music is taken for granted (and I am admittedly guilty of this). People use music to replace the outside world…
replacing the hustle and bustle of the city...
March 2011
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Patience.
1 year and 6 months ago Our lives crossed paths for barely an instant. You were this faceless girl, in a momentary memory, whom I never thought I’d see again.
1 year ago Our lives spiraled back again and continued to spiral more quickly; caught in a vortex where time seemed to fly by as our relationship grew closer together.
6 months ago Our lives’ paths reached the pinnacle of...
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...And in Health.
As difficult as love can be to find, and as rare as society can sometimes make it out to be, there are times when perfectly healthy relationships can go wrong.
Anyone who has been in a previous relationship brings emotional baggage into a following relationship. The baggage can be good, in the form of lessons learned and fixed in the new relationship, but the baggage can also be bad, in the form...
rioleo-deactivated20110829 asked: What are you thoughts about "fighting for love?"
about "moving on"?
about "moving on"?
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Blahg [2].
I realized the other day that’s it’s been a fairly long while since I’ve posted anything. This is, in part, because of the fact that I haven’t really been able to think of anything to post about. It’s also been because of the fact that I’ve gotten much busier lately. So, I figured it’s about time I clear purge some of these thoughts out of my mind so that...
February 2011
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“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to...”
– Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
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“Love is a raft in a swiftly moving river, scant protection against rapids and...”
– Joan Konner - O, The Oprah Magazine (2003)
What Are You Thinking?
Talk to me world. I have no idea how far my blog actually reaches and how many (or how few) people actually read this. So please, feel free to drop me a line; leave me a comment, ask me a question, or if you’re feeling adventurous, do both. I’d love to hear from you, whoever you are, so don’t be afraid…
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In Sickness...
Love’s intentions can often be misinterpreted. There are people all over the world, in every country, every culture, of every nationality that are in dysfunctional relationships. They supposedly stay in it because they are in love, but there’s another way to look at this.
Love isn’t easy, but it shouldn’t be impossible either. It should bring a relationship more joy than...
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Infirmus Day.
Valentine’s day is a brilliant conspiracy between candy, restaurant, stuffed toy, and greeting card industries devised to fool society into unnecessarily spending extravagant amounts of money on…
heart shaped boxes of chocolates half of the contents no one even like (raspberry coconut hazelnut filling? Really?) teddy bears thagt sing annoying pop songs when squeezed (only really entertaining...
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Life in Numbers [6].
6 strings on a standard guitar. 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon. 6 afraid of seven because seven ate nine. 6 quarters left in my college career.
Hell, I’ll even throw in another one for good measure…
6 years of my life have been devoted to my college education.
At the age of six years old, I was just beginning my educational journey. I still have fond memories of elementary school. My...
January 2011
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Blahg.
It’s weird, I feel like I have this innate urge to write, or blog, right now, yet I have no idea what to blog about. I don’t have any particular topic that’s weighing heavy on my mind, I just know that I have this deep urge to write… and so that’s what I’m doing. I’ve come to the conclusion that whatever this blog turns out to be, whatever crap it may be...
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Life in Numbers [24].
Twenty four hours in a day. Twenty four beers in a case. Twenty four carats in the finest purity of gold. Twenty four years in my life.
It’s pretty weird to me thinking about the fact that I’m already twenty four years old. It’s easy to say that I’m still so young, I’m only twenty four, but then again that’s all relative. Under the assumption that I’ll...
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Homes.
Huron. Ontario. Michigan. Erie. Superior. This is the first thought that came to mind after reading a friend’s comment on Facebook pertaining to her internal struggle with finding or defining one’s “home”. But after cracking my joke, this thought continued to linger on my mind for the remaining 20 minutes of my journey to my first class of the day.
After thinking about it some more, the next...
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Life in Numbers [4].
Four seasons in a year. Four beats in a standard musical measure. Four quarters in a dollar. Four months being with the most amazing girl I’ve had the pleasure of knowing.
Love is a topic that I could go on and on about forever, which is probably why I mention it here so often; for as long as I can remember, it’s been on my mind. A friend of mine recently put it into words that I...
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Life in Numbers [300].
Three hundred Spartans led by King Leonidas into a battle with the Persian army and Xerxes. Three hundred points in a perfect game of bowling. 300 dollars for a 32Gb iPhone 4. Three hundred posts about my life in this blog.
This is officially my three hundredth blog post here on my Tumblr… that’s a lot of crap that I’ve talked about. Leading up to this blog post, I’ve...
