The Answer is the Square Root of 3, Obviously.

{Brace Yourself for a Long One}

This post is going to be lengthly for a variety of reasons, (one) I haven't written for a while, (two) theres is lots on my mind, (three) everything I have heard and thought since the last time I wrote has been significantly blog worthy. So enough of talking why it's going to be lengthy... here it is.

 --"Lately I have been more and more depressed about school work. Besides the fact that I have absolutely no motivation to do it, when I go into a class to take a test, I feel like I know nothing. I am ever so amazed by how much I don't know about a subject I am being tested on. I feel like I am losing my educational drive to finish anything and I just want to quit school and move to a far away fairytale land where everything is perfect and no one has to work. All in all, I have an over bearing amount of work to do and no motivation to do it." - Written Yesterday- Now, today, I have everything done, and life is so much better. Way less stress.

 I think I have discovered something. I think what people need to realize is that everything, everyone, every story, every idea, every feeling, every everything is deeper than it seems. We walk around thinking we know things and really, we know nothing. This is why we have arguments, cruelties, and much more problems in this world, because everything is deeper than it seems and we, as humans, are not mature enough to handle it. Sometimes I wonder, what are we all doing here. It almost like we are all just running around like chickens with our heads cut off in a chaotic world full of so many things that are horrible. We all just conform to what seems best for us. What gives us our ideas and our thoughts and feelings. sure we learn, but where did the learning and ideas all begin? Where to our new ideas stem from? Everything is deep. Hard to think about.

 I don't like it when people take traditional logos and try to make them look more new age. It's unfortunate, for example, to go to disneyland and only find crazy colored & sparkled new characters splatted on every t-shirt you see. I would prefer a classic white, maybe gray, shirt with the original character stamped on the front. I have also seen this in my favorite I {heart} NY shirts. There are now new colors, fancier styles, new logos, and more to confuse the shopper and brainwash them into getting something "cute" instead of a classic. If that;s what they want, that's fine I guess. But for me, I prefer the classics, the simple originals are always my first choice.

[POEM]

Can we go out for a walk, 

even though it's getting dark, 

we can stroll around the park, till daylight come. 

I can teach you how to fly, 

we can sing and laugh and cry, 

to nieve to figure out why, we're so in love. 

Now that things aren't confusing, 

and nobody is still using, 

it is you I am choosing, and it's okay. 

With you here... Today. 

 "The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with friendship." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You don't have a soul, you are a soul. You HAVE a body." - C.S. Lewis

"Society is constantly pulled away from important things by the superficial." - Mrs. VanOrden

"What do you have to wake up for?"

 I think that one of my desires in life is to be different. I haven't decided yet whether that desire is bad or good. My current decision on the issue is that the desire to be different is in that gray area between a bad and good desire. For I believe that no one is bad enough to be making a good decision to change themselves to total difference, and no one is good enough to be making a bad decision to switch to the bad side.. if that made any sense. I think that if we all have some desire to change somethings, particularly the bad things... that is overall a pretty good desire. So does this mean that because I want to change completely that I am overall a bad person, trying to change to be good? Maybe, but to me that is very debatable. Maybe my desire is to make my seemingly bad traits good and my pretty fair traits even fairer. I think that overall my desire to change those things is a good desire.

 Simple Puddles 
I feel a need to trust in you
and follow everything you do
to follow you out to the shore
and continue asking for just one more
to love until all light fades
then cherish items in summer haze
but what if feeling was never there
we were only driven by nothing to share
then maybe simplicity is just better
we don't always have to be together
I don't just want to waste my time
trying to hard to make a climb
so patiently I'll sit and wait 
and hope you ask before it's to late
the truth lies flat and still cold
like dark iron strong and bold
through we still haven't found that iron thing
we can still teach each other how to sing
and even when words increase in length
I will stand with precious strength
how I've stressed to many points 
and spent every of the worried coins
to end so soon seems hardly fair
but the question is, why would we care?


    

I love family, and as painful as they might be I also enjoy traditions. Our fruit basket tradition for example is a really great one. As much as I dislike all the assembly, and delivery and stress of the whole process, the whole idea of hanging out fruit for Christmas is really cool.

 "BUT I CAN'T! I'M JUST A TOW TRUCK!" 
-Mater
When I am reincarnated as a talking car, I am going to live in Radiator Springs and be best friends with Mater and Lightning McQueen, and marry the Volkswagen that sells organic oil. That's all I have to say about that.

 Human {TOUCH} :
Have you ever noticed that there is this little thing called {touch} that we all crave for. From brushing hands, arms, or shoulders to holding hands, to sleeping or crying on a shoulder. From comparing hands with someone to feel their warms hands. A high five or fist bump, cuddling, punching, patting on the back, wiping a tear or eyelash off a cheek. We all want to touch other humans to bond and even learn more about each other. 
{inspired by E.C.P.} 

 I THOUGHT ABOUT THE ALPHABET


Anytime that I think deeper
Butterflies fill my stomach
Carry on with hopeless
Daydreams and be
Evasive
For what will happen when dependence is
Gone. Sometimes
Happiness
Isn't far away. We can choose to 
Jump like a confused
Kangaroo. Then discover for yourself, what
Life is really al about. 
Many things may crowd your life but
No one is important as you.
Open your heart to new ideas and
Ponder
Quietly, what you must do. For
Real life isn't far away but 
Serenity is closer.
Time again comes to call. 
Underneath the bridge we will sit. 
Vent emotions in your own
Way and artificially play your 
Xylophone, for lack of words is all
You'll have. Take my life, acquire my 
Zeal and care for what you think. 

Birds flying high you know how I feel
Sun in the sky you know how I feel
Breeze driftin' on by you know how I feel
It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life
For me
And I'm feeling good
Fish in the sea you know how I feel
River running free you know how I feel
blossom in the trees you know how I feel
It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life
For me
And I'm feeling good
Dragonfly out in the sun you know what I mean, don't you know
Butterflies all havin' fun you know what I mean
Sleep in peace when day is done
And this old world is a new world
And a bold world
For me
Stars when you shine you know how I feel
Scent of the pine you know how I feel
Oh freedom is mine
And you know how I feel
It's a new dawn
It's a new day
It's a new life
For me
And I'm feeling good

== Feeling Good - MUSE 

TO END SUCH A LONG ENTRY I WANT TO SAY A COUPLE MORE THINGS:

• Christmas is in 5 days
• I miss the simple younger days

BE REAL, 

Kristen 

THE END. 

Crime and Punishment

 "If it's still in your mind, it's worth taking the risk." - Paulo Coelho

Remember when we are were little kids and everything was real? Santa was right around the corner on Christmas morning, the idea of the tooth fairy bringing another dollar for your tooth made the pain of pulling it out a little more bearable. Dad, or Grandpa almost caught the Easter Bunny every single Easter and you dressed up every single Halloween in a costume you had been planning for months. And most of all you knew, that someday you would ride off with your prince charming that was equal to the grander, and perfection that is held by all the princes in the disney movies. But then we all grew up and our fairy tales vanished. We all turn to things that we can trust for sure and that aren't flaky fantasies of whimsical wishes. In the end though, we realize that it is to hard to let go of that fairy tale dream entirely, its hard to forget all of your almost impossible wishes and fantasies because in the end, we all still have a small bit of hope that one day we will open our eyes and leave reality behind, and it will all come true.

 Don't we all sometimes feel like this bird, like we are helplessly falling and instead of others using every resource to pull us back up they are just staring at us hanging on in the darkness. I thought of the analogy of drowning, there is a point in our lives where we will feel like we are drowning, like we have fallen into the deep dark ocean of hard, confusing life, and we are struggling, treading water to stay a float. The people that are safe above are the people we look to for help and we wish and yell for them to throw us something useful to help us float above the water until they can eventually pull us back in to safety. This story however ideal is not always how things pan out though. Sometimes, instead of floating devices, people are throwing sticks, and stones, and other random things that are no help at all and actually make you start sinking even more. When this happens our human nature tells us to give up, to simply duck under the water to avoid the flying objects and just float under in our own darkness. To flea to our corners and cry to ourselves because we are scared that if we cry to others that the ammunition will be brought out and we will get no gain but only hurt from pleasing for others help. I think we all fell like we want to go in the corner sometimes, to not care, to not advance in the world, simply to exist in our own thoughts and misery. But, there are still people out there who will throw you a floating device instead of sticks and stones, they will pull you in to safety, give you a warm blanket and help you feel better about your worries, it is these people that we should not only seek out to help us but also the people we should constantly seek to be.

Oh boy, if you ever have to let me down, in this world.
My life surely would be upside down.
If you ever find that your piece of mind, is shattered in so many ways.
I find my feet, down on lonely street, I'll be still here waiting  of you.
Boy you got me.
Oh yeah, let me look into your deep brown eyes.
Let me share, every moment, every sweet surprise.
See that I have grown, and need mercy shown, theres a window to my heart.
If I find my feet, down on lonely street, I'll be still there waiting for you,
Boy you've got me.
- Duffy

Just Because I Haven't Written Poetry for a Long Time:

Since the beginning of the time I saw you,
I knew exactly what I was going to do,
I thought it was strange,
Then I rearranged,
and I realized that this was so much more.

There are bigger things in store,
If you just choose to explore,
Carry all the weight,
Find a later date,
and cast yourself into the sea.

In the end we will see,
It was easily meant to be,
Bask in the quiet,
Everything silent,
The End is coming near it's true.

Absolutely no thought went into that poem I just thought I would spit out some words that rhymed, think of something in life that is a struggle and apply it to that, don't look for deeper meaning because let's be honest, there really is none.

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. -- `Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' -- Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood?" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The End.

Pitter Patter

Snipits of my Magic List:

• Rain
• Long Drives
• Messy Rooms
• Strange Naps
• Watermelon
• Showers
• Lyrical
• Butterfinger
• Organization
• Pet Rock
• Diet Dr. Pepper
• Watercolors
• Paperweight
• Surf & Slurp
• Reading
• Fruit
• Good Talks
• Beautiful Sunsets
• Dance
• Flowers
• Sizzler
• Delicate Arch
• Rivers
• Rafting
• Teaching
• Chicken Fingers
• Diving Boards
• Nothing To Do
• Money
• Hair
• Sandals
• Shorts

SUMMER

Summer time teases me with it sun and its laughter.

It rolls through the hills spreading laughs and chills.

Popsicles and Snow Cones.

Rainbows and Butterflies.

Grass and Pools.

Rivers and Streams.

Mountains and Rocks.

Love and Freedom.

I love the summer time.

HAPPINESS

Happiness is more than a goal to meet.

It usually comes in something sweet.

Whether you love to jump or love to fly.

Happiness is not available to buy.

{Trying Too Hard To Be Yourself}

Just some pictures for today:

QUESTION OF THE DAY: HAS THERE EVERY BEEN SOMEBODY THAT YOU JUST CAN'T FIGURE OUT?

Don't worry to much about trying to love me,

I will forget you if you just let me be,

Seasons come and go, and I thought you should know,

There is a time for everybody to see.

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”

- RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"Do Your Own Thing" - My Tribute to 70's Culture

Learning about the 70's in U.S. History has definitely sparked a nerve in my brain. A while ago I posted a picture of a 20's girl and said that I would have been the best 20's girl but I changed my mind. I want to be a Hippie from the 70's (minus the bad parts)...

So here is a tribute to 70's culture. It has a bunch of stuff I have learned in class and also some of my own research. The pictures are my favorite part ;)

[MUSIC OF THE SEVENTIES]

I realized as my history teacher started playin

g seventies music in class that not only did I recognize almost all of the songs but I also had most of the lyrics in a little drawer in my head. I have to thank my parents for making sure I know all of the seventies music ;)

These are all of my favorite seventies songs! (Not in any particular order)

1. "BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER"

-Simon & Garfunkel

'I'm on your side, when times get rough, and friends just can't be found, like a bridge over troubled water, I will lay me down'

2. "YOU'RE THE ONE THAT I WANT"

- Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta

' It's ELECTRIFYING'

3. "I WILL SURVIVE"

- Gloria Gaynor

'Then I grew strong, and I learned how to get along!'

4. "UNDERCOVER ANGEL"

- Alan O'Day

'Undercover Angel, the answer to my prayer, you made me know, that there's love for me out there (somewhere) yeah, somewhere.'

5. "Y.M.C.A"

-Village People

' Young man, are you listening to me?'

6. "PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC"

- Wild Cherry

'Play that funky music white boy, play that funky music right!'

7. "SUNSHINE ON MY SHOULDERS"

- John Denver

'Sunshine on my shoulders, makes me happy, sunshine in my eyes can make me cry'

8. "(THEY LONG TO BE) CLOSE TO YOU"

- The Carpenters

'Just like me, they long to be, close to you... la la la la la la la close to you...'

9. "BABY COME BACK"

-Player

'Baby come back! You can blame it all on me! I was wrong, and I just can't live without you...'

10. "LET IT BE"

-The Beatles

'When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me. Speaking words of wisdom, Let It Be.'

11. "BENNIE AND THE JETS"

-Elton John

'Say, Candy and Ronnie, have you seen them yet? But they're so spaced out, B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets'

12. "BRANDY (YOU'RE A FINE GIRL)

- Looking Glass

'Brandy, you're a fine girl, what a good wife you'd be, yeah your eyes could steal a sailor from the sea."

13. "RAINDROPS KEEP FALLING ON MY HEAD"

- B.J. Thomas

'Raindrops keep falling on my head, and just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed, nothin' seems to fit, those raindrops keep falling on my head, they keep falling'

14. "WAR"

-Edwin Starr

'War, huh yeah, what is it good for, absolutely nothing, uh-huh!!'

15. "ABC"

-Jackson 5

'ABC, as easy as 1,2,3"

[HIPPIE POEM]

Hip clothing - Tie-Dye, bell-bottoms, peace signs, and love beads

Illegal substances - ya know, drugs

Pray to Buddha - became buddhist and most of them actually practiced the religion.

Poor - lost money because they didn't believe in materialism.

In the middle - most hippies were middle class college students

Exiled Materialism, War, and Technology! - they were against these things

Simple life - they wanted a simple life but not working and then smoking all day usually made their lives more complicated.

(There would be a sweet picture of a hippie here but I didn't dare google hippies...)

[LAST, ART AND ANDY WARHOL]

This is a famous piece done by Andy Warhol.

"POP" or popular art in the seventies consisted of simple, colorful, and comercial images. This picture is of celebrity Marilyn Monroe.

I just really liked this picture and quote by Andy so I decided to put it on :)

Well, that is the end of my seventies tribute.

THE END.