June 2010
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“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Coming to the realization that you cannot learn until you already know. You need to experience things, then reflect, then you are able to go forth and acquire deep knowledge. We do not learn in our youth, for we cannot. We merely absorb and prepare for the learning that is to come.
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Mayonnaise
I just made mayonnaise for potato salad, using a Julia Child recipe.
Then I decided to check out the Hellmann’s jar to do an ingredients comparison.
Hellmann’s: Soybean Oil, Water, Eggs, Vinegar, Salt, Sugar, Lemon Juice, Calcium Disodium EDTA, Natural Flavors (Listed from most to least)
Julia’s: Olive Oil, Egg Yolks, Water, Vinegar, Salt, Dry Mustard (Listed from most to...
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“Know who I don’t want to mess with? The people from the commercial who are...”
– I’m Bringing Blogging Back
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“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave...”
– Anatole France
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I shouldn't watch documentaries,
because they send me into a tailspin about all the things that make no sense in America, and the world. All this energy just boils up inside me and I get really amped up and want to do something really incredible.
This isn’t really a bad thing, I realize that, but being concerned, I mean really concerned, about the world around you changes the way you can live from day-to-day. It instills...
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“Then followed that beautiful season,
Called by the pious Acadian peasants the...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
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“People don’t change. They modify. They adjust. Underneath, we are who we are....”
– Amelia Shepherd (via ventisette)
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Just Fine -Mary J. Blige
Oh fuck yes, Mary J....
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e e cummings
the hours rise up putting off stars and it is dawn into the street of the sky light walks scattering poems on earth a candle is extinguished the city wakes with a song upon her mouth having death in her eyes and it is dawn the world goes forth to murder dreams… i see in the street where strong men are digging bread and i see the brutal faces of people contented hideous hopeless cruel happy and...
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potatoes
Me - You're going to become a professional couch potato?
Joe - Yep. I'm gonna turn into a potato. I'll grow eyes.
Me - You already have eyes.
Joe - So I'm already part potato.
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Tonic - You Wanted More
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ramblings on life
there are so many people in my life (or i guess not in) that i’ve drifted from recently. some days i want to contact them and have an intense outpouring of emotions, explanations, questions; other days i feel an overwhelming calmness and acceptance of their leaving.
life is hard. it’s amazing, and beautiful. but hard. and for all the wisdom & experience you acquire, it never makes...
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We Are the Music-Makers
We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, Upon whom the pale moon gleams; Yet we are the movers and shakers, Of the world forever, it seems. With wonderful deathless ditties We build up the world’s great cities, And out of a fabulous story We fashion an...
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“I feel like I’ve known people who in an argument can never ever, ever...”
– Ira Glass
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WatchKaty Perry - California Gurls
I totally love Katy Perry. She is talented, cool and seemingly kick ass. This song, totally bubblegum pop for sure, is still great. Plus, no one does adorable like Katy Perry. Much love.
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“It’s an insane world but in it there is one sanity - the loyalty of old friends.”
– Messala (Stephen Boyd), Ben-Hur (1959)
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Watchjakeandamir: Video Chat
Aw, this one is adorable.
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pococurante
wordjournal:
noun • /pōˌkō-ko͝o-rănˈtē, -ränˈtĕ/ • a person who does not care
adjective • indifferent, nonchalant
I am officially adopting this word!
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New life plan: Burning bridges.
I will be calling you out when you act a fool, or are just plain lame! No more passive-aggressiveness for me, thank you very much. Take it or leave it.
(I fully expect, and am willing to accept like a grown-up, the same. Bring it on.)
SHIT JUST GOT REAL!
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via brighteryellow:
“This Time of Year” - Better...
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I'm getting incredibly frustrated.
Have we really gotten to a point where we just settle for no information? The Weather Channel site keeps telling me there is an “Air Quality Alert” for my county. What has caused this alert? Oh, well, uh…they don’t exactly say. So I googled it, and the best thing I found was a vague two paragraph article with a sentence about heightened ozone levels. Now I took high school...
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You know what I LOVE?
When my friends respond to my ideas as enthusiastically, if not more so, as I suggested them. Seriously, if these past couple months have taught me anything, it’s that you don’t need a lot of friends, just a few who are excited, inspiring, and on the same page as you.
You know who you are :)
Summer of Fun 2010
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my student loans make me want to vomit
(or die)
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in my bed being attacked by gnats
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UPDATE
I did nothing else of worth or accomplishment since my last post. Fuck.
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Accomplishment of the day:
On the way to work I...
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teevee teevee teevee teevee teevee teevee teevee...
i’m gonna go watch the teevee now, until my brain turns to mush!
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happy is the heart that still feels pain
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Everybody - Ingrid Michaelson
I love her voice so...
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“Try something new each day. After all, we’re given life to find it out. It...”
– Maude (Ruth Gordon), Harold & Maude 