2.28.2011

FEBRUARY QUOTES.

This year I decided to post a quote everyday. A lot of people started posting a picture a day for a year so I thought this might be fun since I read a lot and actually catch myself jotting down noteworthy dialogue! You can check my "Quote of the day" tab to see them all but here I have posted all of the quotes from February 2011. It starts with the most recent first so if you want to see February 1st scroll down to the bottom. Also, you can catch all my quotes starting from January 1st on my quote page which you can find HERE. ENJOY! :)

"I choose..." (02/28/11)

"You're worth it. If I had to choose between saving lives and loving you; I choose loving you. I will choose you every time."

-House to Cuddy (House; M.D.)
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"to serve..." (02/27/11)

"God should be the center of your world. You can't serve both. You either serve God. Or you serve the world."

-today's sermon; Fr. Culver
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"Say it wit ya chest!! (02/26/11)

"soooo.... SOMEBODY had to GO!!"

-Kevin Hart; Seriously Funny
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"wrapped up in your magic..." (02/25/11)

There I go, there I go, there I go... there I go
Pretty baby you are the soul that snaps my control,
Such a funny thing that everytime I'm near you
I never can behave...
You give me a smile and then I'm wrapped up in your magic
Music all around me, crazy music
Music that keeps calling me so
Baby close to you, turns me your slave...
Come on and do any little thing with me what you want to
Baby I just want to be next to you
Am I insane, or do I really see Heaven in your eyes
Bright as stars that shine up above you, in the clear blue skies
How I worry bout you; Just can't live my life without you baby come here
Don't have no fear, no... is there wonder why, I'm really feeling in the mood for love....

from "Moody's Mood for Love"
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"Anyway..." (02/24/11)

You're the perfect lover
And you are the perfect friend
Now all that's ever been
We simply rose above
And as long as we don't build
A castle on quicksand
We'll experience and understand
The pleasure of lasting love
My heart's on fire
Burning with a flame that will never die
There's a voice inside
Saying don't be afraid don't compromise

from "Anyway" a song by Brian McKnight
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"Amazing" (02/23/11)

"I just want to do nothing. That would be amazing."

-random guy at school
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"my thoughts" (02/22/11)

"My words fly up,my thoughts remain below,words without thoughts never to heaven go..."

from Shakespeare's "Hamlet"
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"no options" (02/21/11)

"When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options."

-Breaking Dawn
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"a way to get yourself killed" (02/20/11)

"Trust is a careless pursuit at best. At worst, it's a good way to get yourself killed."

from "Fallen" a novel by Lauren Kate
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"need..." (02/19/11)

"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."

-Andy Warhol
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"imperfection..." (02/18/11)

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

-Marilyn Monroe
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"only this..." (02/17/11)

"There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way. No day but today."

-RENT the musical; "Life Support"
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"scars... (02/16/11)

The scars of your love, remind me of us.
They keep me thinking that we almost had it all
The scars of your love, they leave me breathless
I can't help feeling
We could have had it all

from "Rolling in the Deep" a song by Adele
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"please don't go" (02/15/11)

Oh, Please don't go.
I want you so
I can't let go
For I lose control

from "Please Don't Go" a song by Barcelona
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(Happy Valentines Day.)

"LOVE." (02/14/11)

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."

-Mother Teresa
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"gravity" (02/13/11)

"Something always brings me back to you... it never takes too long"

from "Gravity" a song by Sara Bareilles
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"just live" (02/12/11)

"Everyday is a precious gift. That's why it is called the present. Just live."

via facebook
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"the whole damn world..." (02/11/11)

"I wouldn't have missed a second if it, kiddo. Not for all of Lorien. Not for the whole damn world..."

from "I Am Number Four" a novel by Pittacus Lore
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"the happiest and the unhappiest" (02/10/11)

Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men... At my age I need a steady, quiet life... can that be so in our connection? My angel, I have just been told that the mail-coach goes every day, therefore I must close at once so that you may receive the letter at once. Be calm, only by a calm consideration of our existence can we achieve our purpose to live together. Be calm, love me, today, yesterday, what tearful longings for you... you. you. my life, my all... farewell. Oh continue to love me, never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.
ever thine
ever mine
ever ours

-Beethoven to his immortal beloved
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"regret..." (02/09/11)

"we don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in our past. some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. maybe it's a regret, maybe it's not. it's merely something that happened."

from "I Am Number Four" by Pittacus Lore
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"stained by you" (02/08/11)

"In this world love has no color, yet how deeply my body is stained by yours."

"In This World" a poem by Izumi Shikibu
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"like jumping..." (02/07/11)

"I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go."

from "Before I Fall" a novel by Lauren Oliver
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"supposed to be" (02/06/11)

"You're supposed to be the leading lady of your own life for goodness sake!"

from "The Holiday" with Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz
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"just staring at the other" (02/05/11)

"Our gaze stays locked, each of us just staring at the other, no words being said but much passing between us."

from "I Am Number Four" a novel by Pittacus Lore
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"doesn't understand" (02/04/11)

"He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled."

from "I Am Number Four" a novel by Pittacus Lore
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"known..." (02/03/11)

"A man is known by the company he keeps."

-Anonymous
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"your ability to love..." (02/02/11)

"If you let anger into your heart, it will push out your ability to love."

from "The Lost Saint" by Bree Despain
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"this moment" (02/01/11)

"I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever."

— from "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

STAND UP.

Have been watching A LOT of stand up lately. I love watching real comedy! I was DYING last night watching Kevin Hart: Seriously Funny and Jo Koy's "Don't Make Him Angry!" Today I watched Jamie Foxx: I Need Security! It seriously feels GREAT to laugh after the crazy emotional week I had last week. I mean, I don't know WHAT was going on with me. I was all over the place emotionally but it felt so GOOD to just laugh like that. Anyhow... here are some clips.. ENJOY!

JAMIE FOXX.





KEVIN HART.





JO KOY.

2.23.2011

FASTING.

Every year for Lent I try to give up something significant. For those of you unfamiliar, Lent (practiced by most Christian/Catholics) is the period of time leading up to Easter. The point of LENT is to prepare for Holy Week which commemorates the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. (Just a little history for you :)) Anyway, it is common for someone to fast for the 40 days leading up to Easter; giving up something significant to show respect for the 40 days Jesus spent walking through the desert. One year, while I was working at Peet's Coffee nonetheless, I drank no other beverage but water. You could imagine how difficult it was for me to not have my daily espresso. Last year I decided to go vegetarian which actually proved to be quite a challenge but THIS year I've decided to go VEGAN! I plan to blog my diet for 40 days and see how easy or difficult this will be for me. One other thing is that LENT is always around the same time as my birthday and this year Ash Wednesday (which marks the beginning of the 40-day Lent/fasting period) falls on my birthday so I won't be able to eat meat or cheese or ANYTHING on or after that day until Easter. It will be a fun project to blog my progress and hopefully it will keep me motivated not to cheat. I have about two weeks left until my birthday so I will occasionally be making updates.

2.16.2011

REMINDER.

Just a reminder to check under the other tabs for MUSIC, MOVIES, BOOKS, et al. I like to update the quotes page daily so even though the "home" section does not look updated the other tabs may have updated posts. Thanks!!

ADELE 21.

I absolutely ADORE Adele. Her music truly inspires me because I feel that she has such an amazing voice it just motivates you to be great. It is just insanely beautiful to listen to. One of my FAVORITE singers by far. Below is a video of her song "Rolling in the Deep;" ENJOY!



You can see more songs I love on my music page HERE!!


2.11.2011

I AM NUMBER FOUR.

I Am Number FourI Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Really good read. Very different story. I don't read much sci-fi but I enjoyed this one. Can't wait for the next book and in the mean time I might catch the movie adaptation. Definitely recommend for sci-fi fans.



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Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We have powers you dream of having. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic books—but we are real.

Our plan was to grow, and train, and become strong, and become one, and fight them. But they found us and started hunting us first. Now all of us are running. Spending our lives in shadows, in places where no one would look, blending in. we have lived among you without you knowing.

But they know.

They caught Number One in Malaysia.
Number Two in England.
And Number Three in Kenya.
They killed them all.

I am Number Four.

I am next.

2.09.2011

ARTSY.

Started posting some pictures under ART/KRAFT. These are just pictures I think are artsy or pictures of some of the things that I've made like jewelry, knitted gloves, t-shirts, etc.

Check them out on the ART/KRAFT button or look for them HERE!!

2.01.2011

JANUARY QUOTES.

This year I decided to post a quote everyday. A lot of people started posting a picture a day for a year so I thought this might be fun since I read a lot and actually catch myself jotting down noteworthy dialogue! You can check my "Quote of the day" tab to see them all but here I have posted all of the quotes from January 2011. It starts with the most recent first so if you want to see January 1st scroll down to the bottom. ENJOY! :)



"Listen" (01/31/11)

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."

— Shel Silverstein
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"not everybody..." (01/30/11)

"I'm really tryna make it more than what it is, 'cause everybody dies but not everybody lives"

-DRAKE in "Moment For Life" by Nicki Minaj feat. Drake
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"Words..." (01/29/11)

"You want me to believe that you ain't even like that
Baby show me that you ain't even like that"

from "Words" Bobby Valentino
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"the price" (01/28/11)

"The price of a memory, is the memory of the sorrow it brings."

from "I Am Number Four" by Pittacus Lore
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"spectacular" (01/27/11)

"My tweets are real, and they’re spectacular. "

-Ellen DeGeneres
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"to be loved" (01/26/11)

"That to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed."

from "City of Bones" a novel by Cassandra Clare
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"Spark the creativity" (01/25/11)

"What we can do—what America does better than anyone—is spark the creativity and imagination of our people."

-President Obama; State of the Union address
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"you pierce my soul." (01/24/11)

"I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant."

from "Persuasion" by Jane Austen
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"no matter how short..." (01/23/11)

I’ll miss you. No matter how short a time you’re gone.

from "Midnight Sun" (aka "Edward's Twilight") by Stephenie Meyer
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"because they need it... (01/22/11)

"We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it... because we need it."

from "The Dark Divine" a novel by Bree Despain
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"does not leave us..." (01/21/11)

"Darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope.

from "Beautiful Darkness" by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
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"someone worth dying for..." (01/20/11)

"How many lives do you need to live, before you find someone worth dying for?"

from "Torment" a novel by Lauren Kate
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"vocabulary lesson..." (01/19/11)

Mike Chadway: Shut up! Yet again I told you that I'm in love with you and you're standing there giving me a vocabulary lesson.
Abby Richter: You're in love with me. Why?
Mike Chadway: Beats the shit out of me, but I am.

from "The Ugly Truth" with Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler
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"to be defined" (01/18/11)

As you get older, you realize that you don't want to be defined by your tattoos, because that's not the type of person that I am

-Kelly Osbourne
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"beauty of human life" (01/17/11)

"The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation."

-Martin Luther King Jr.
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"A fool" (01/16/11)

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool"

-William Shakespeare
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"the best feeling" (01/15/11)

"That's the best feeling in the world; taking off your bra!"

ME.
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"to those who believe..." (01/14/11)

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

-Eleanore Roosevelt
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"in a wakeful doze, I sorrow..." (01/13/11)

Half the night I waste in sighs,
Half in dreams I sorrow after
The delight of early skies;
In a wakeful doze I sorrow
For the hand, the lips, the eyes,
For the meeting of the morrow,
The delight of happy laughter,
The delight of low replies.

from "Maud" By Alfred Lord Tennyson
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"wisest mind..." (01/12/11)

"the wisest mind has something yet to learn..."

-George Santayana
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"beautiful body..." (01/11/11)

"If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?"

from Groucho Marx in "You Bet Your Life"
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"I can hear your heart beat" (01/10/11)

"and in the dark... I can hear your heartbeat, I try to find the sound. But then it stopped, and I was in the darkness. So darkness I became..."

"Cosmic Love" by Florence + the Machine
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"the stars walk backward" (01/09/11)
((this is more like "words" of the day since it's an entire poem))

dive for dreams
or a slogan may topple you
(trees are their roots
and wind is wind)

trust your heart
if the seas catch fire
(and live by love
though the stars walk backward)

honor the past
but welcome the future
(and dance your death
away at this wedding)

never mind a world
with its villains or heroes
(for God likes girls
and tomorrow and the earth)

"Dive For Dreams" by E.E. Cummings
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"dwell on dreams" (01/08/11)

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live..."

from "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by JK Rowling
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"a kind much closer than friends use..." (01/07/11)

"All I really want to do is love you, a kind much closer than friends use... but I still can't say it after all we've been through. And all I really want from you is to feel me, as the feeling inside keeps building... and I will find a way to you if it kills me... if it kills me..."

"If it Kills Me" by Jason Mraz
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"it's real..." (01/06/11)

"When it's real... you can't walk away."

from the Vampire Diaries
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"...be careful..." (01/05/11)

"One must always be careful with books and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

from "Clockwork Angel" a novel by Cassandra Clare
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"the human heart has hidden treasures..." (01/04/11)

"To my darling daughter April, 'The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed' From your loving father"

from the movie "Definitely, Maybe" with Ryan Reynolds and Isla Fisher
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"this ain't a fairytale..." (01/03/11)

"I'm not a princess, this ain't a fairytale. I'm not the one you'll sweep off her feet, lead her up the stairwell... this ain't hollywood, this is a small town. I was a dreamer before you went and let me down. Now it's too late for you and your white horse... to come around..."

"White Horse" by Taylor Swift
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"...the summer beneath the trees" (01/02/11)

"My Dearest Allie. I couldn't sleep last night because I know that it's over between us. I'm not bitter anymore, because I know that what we had was real. And if in some distant place in the future we see each other in our new lives, I'll smile at you with joy and remember how we spent the summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds, and that's what you've given me. That's what I hope to give to you forever. I love you. I'll be seeing you. Noah"

from "The Notebook"
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"If you stay..." (01/01/11)

"If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, bit I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay..."

from "If I Stay" a novel by Gayle Forman