Life {Tag! I'm it!}

Mallory tagged me (Go read her blog, then you'll know why we're friends :) ), so here goes.

8 Things

8 Things I'm Passionate About
1) Doing the right thing, and doing things right (Read: perfectionist)
2) Art--Painting, Drawing, Photography, anything that involves making a mess
3) Finding new places and new beauty in nature
4) Lindt's Intense Orange Dark Chocolate Candy Bar
5) Family and Friends (Friends might as well be family)
6) Cooking
7) Learning (Even if I do complain about it a lot)
8) Curiosity (It's kinda like #7, but a little more general, I guess. I ask a lot of questions sometimes, lol)

8 Words or Phrases I Say Often
1) "What the heck?!"
2) "Huh? Oh, wait, yeah..."
3) "Ummmmm"
4) "I just lost my train of thought"
5) "Errr"
6) "What? No, really?"
7) "You're kidding me"
8) "Go 'way, 'm sleepin'"

8 Things I Want to do Before I Die
1) Publish a book
2) Visit England
3) Get married :)
4) Graduate college (seems like this will never happen)
5) Learn how to make stained glass
6) Get a piece of art in a gallery
7) Try the Coke/Mentos thing... I love to watch things explode
8) Learn to go with the flow a little better

8 Things I Currently Want or Need
1) More time
2) Peace
3) Money (I'm in college--I'm broke!)
4) An art studio--complete with gigantic windows and lots of room to make messes
5) A Nap
6) Someone else to clean out my paintbrushes
7) New Sketchbook (the good kind with the vellum finished paper)
8) A good movie to watch, and someone to watch it with

Mmkay, now is the part where I tag people....except I think that only Sara reads my blog, has her own, and hasn't been tagged yet. So tag Sara, you're it! The rest of you--get a blog!

Life {Ice Cream}

Here's the preface to this: I'm in a slightly odd mood. Ha, that's an understatement.

I decided something. It has a lot to do with the fact that I'm a little bit homesick and missing the amazing-ness that is Graeter's ice cream. (They just opened a Denver branch--you don't want to know how tempting it is to go there right now)

You know how they say that dating and trying to find Mr. Right is like finding your favorite flavor of ice cream-- for some people it only takes a few tries and for others you have to try every flavor at every shop?

Whoever Mr. Right is for me, he's Graeter's Black Raspberry Chip ice cream, two scoops in a waffle cone. That's it. Simple as that. I could get all metaphorical with this (mostly sweet, but with just enough bitterness to keep you from getting a toothache, just enough to appreciate how sweet, or how its just slightly out of the way of normal flavor, etc), but let's just leave it like this for now. We all know that I can go all day when it comes to working up metaphors...

I'll see ya when I see ya, Mr. Black-Raspberry-Chip. Till then, you had better take care of yourself...
:)

Life {Revisited}

I'm a major writer--I think you know that by now. I was going back through some old, old (2005) writing that I did in high school for Mrs. Killen, who was pretty much the best teacher ever and a reason that I'm in the English program and I found something. Actually, I found a lot of somethings--this one's a poem, one I remember writing from a single fragment that got stuck in my head, the line "Silence's mantle falls"...

In the Wake of a Suicide Bomber

Silence’s mantle falls,
broken,
to the floor.

Mercy’s shrill cry
rends
the burning air.

Revenge gathers the blood,
drinks,
and still thirsts.

Mortal man crumbles,
disintegrates,
dust unto dust.

Suicide.
Jihad.
Kamikaze.

Why?