Elevators and Jimmy Johns

Elevators are a daily endurance. I prefer to take stairs when I can but they are so akward and creepy in my building. Sometimes you're alone and that is nice. Sometimes you're with a creep who seems really uncomfortable, as if I'm a vampire. Sometimes people are fine, nbd, whatever. Sometimes people are just friendly enough, and sometimes over friendly.
Constant vigilance.
But there is always the hope, the dream, the chance that you might get to be on an elevator with a Jimmy John's delivery boy (or something similar). They don't look like they fit in. They usually have really tight cut off shorts, or something similar. A messy do, and usually facial hair. It's cool, I love them.
They are a far cry from the men I'm used to seeing in the elevators, business suits with cowboy boots, ladies in ill fitting pants and a tupperwear container that has or had lunch in it.

Crush

I always have movie crushes, that's obvious.

It's funny how when presented in different mediums, whether book or movie, your love for this or that character can be different.

Examples:

LOTR Movie Crushes



Leoglas the woodland elf

Faramir son of Denethor II, the Steward of Gondor

Meriodic "Merry" Brandybuck, of the Shire

LOTR Book Crushes



Boramir, son of Denetor II, Steward of Gondor

Haldir of Lothlórien, probably a Silvan Elf.

Legolas - done, just look at those blonde braids and pointy ears. Aubrey means ruler of the elves.

Faramir - I don't really know why I love him, he's not techincally good looking, I just melt when he's on screen though.

Merry - I love the crooked nose and his angry eyebrows, and of course, he's short so I'm sold.

Boramir- HATED him in the movie, and he's not cute, but I adore adore adore him in the book. He's wonderful, and frequently described as very tall and strong. Ew la la!

Haldir- again, not cute in the movie, though I do love him. You get to know him so well in the book too and I'm smitten. Ruler of the elves.

Harry Potter Movie Crush

Draco Malfoy

Harry Potter Book Crushes

Fred and George Weasley, through the ages

Professor Remus Lupin, the werewolf




Draco - Too cute to care that he's evil

Fred and George - done and done. I'm sold, I'm in love. Done

Lupin - He's just written so wisely. AND he's a werewolf. 

Text

Kendyl: I don't think he has facebook.

Me: If he doesn't have facebook he doesn't exist.

Kendyl: Haha I like that

Me: Too bad I didn't write it on your wall, so you could "like" it on facebook. I like this conversation so much that I might blog about it.

Kendyl: I approve of the blogging and facebook activites... More blogging than facebook.



All That is Gold Does Not Glitter

In college my favorite stupid pointless class was Caligraphy.
I'm not an artist so of course I was bad at it but my favorite project was writing this out.

The time has come, my little friends, to talk of other things

of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings

and why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings

Calloo, Callay, let's eat today like cabbages and kings.

-Alice in Wonderland

(The original animated Disney version that is)

If I could go back in time, I wouldn't change that decision but I've come across some other real contenders.

LOTR

&

Lee Ann Womanck

In my other project for that class I quoted Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore

Just for the sheer fun of getting to write his whole entire name

Also it's a great quote.

Dark and difficulte times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Here are some other awesome pictures



verge of spontaneous combustion

I'm 23. Like Michael Jordan.

I'm almost 24 but that is besides the point - I didn't have a blog on my birthday. I always had random thoughts about turning 23 thanks to a random assortment of songs I'd heard which had weighed heavily on my mind.

23 by Jimmy Eat World

Amazing still it seems

I'll be 23

I won't always love what I'll never have

I won't always live in my regrets

Gangsta's Paradise by Coolio

23 now but will I live to see 24

The way things is going, I don't know.

Pardon Me by Incubus

Never thought I would be, at 23,

On the verge of spontaneous combustion

woe-is-me

What's my Age Again by Blink 182

Nobody likes you when you're 23.



Oh Remember, Remember...

"I’m not giving you these experiences for yourself. Write them down."

-Henry B. Eyring

"Where would we be if Moses hadn’t written his history of the world??"

-Spencer W. Kimball 

We often recieve journals as gifts. I got one this Christmas.
I started to use it at work to write down random thoughts that come to me during the day.

"No one is commonplace, and I doubt if you can ever read a biography from which you cannot learn something from the difficulties overcome and the struggles made to succeed."

-Spencer W. Kimball

As I always do when I begin a journal I wrote this quote on the first page.

"I never travel without my diary. One must always have something sensational to read on the train"

- Oscar Wilde

I've always had this little idea to make and sell pretty little diaries with perfect diary type quotes on them. I imagine they are already sold and come and go at places like Anthropologie. One would of course have the aforementioned quote. But here are someother quote possibilities that I think would make delightful covers.

"Tomorrow is fresh with no mistakes in it"

-Anne of Green Gables 

(because so many things we can write down will be mistakes that we can learn from)

"There are somethings you cannot share without ending up liking each other"

-Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

(to write of adventures with friends)

"If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient"

-Pride and Prejudice

(journals can be where we express our desires of the past and regrets)

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us"
-The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring

(we write down what we've done today to help us chose where we stand so we know what we can do tomorrow)

I love quotes so that is one of the main things I write in my journals. Maybe one day I'll make and sell these, maybe at Anthropologie? Maybe.....

A journal is the literature of superiority. Each individual can become superior in his own humble life.
-Spencer W. Kimball

Merci

"Je ne comprends pas qu'est-ce tu dit!"
-me

Lauren & Brian LePhelps' wedding.

Best trip of my life.

Beautiful wedding - you get the picture.

But mon parti favori of the wedding was this silly little fact.

On the gift bags at the candy bar were little cards that said Merci.

I love the world Merci.

The 500 Days of Summer Soundtrack came out.

I tombé en amour with the French song.

A few weeks ago I visted Utah and was in the car of mon amie.

Ms. Macy Greenleese McKenzie's, the French Canadian.

She had a lovely CD playing.

Carla Brunci.

Singer of Quelqu'un m'a dit on the 500 Days soundtrack.

I bought a silly little app that teaches you languages.

I spent a good part of my morning just listening to the basic phrases en français.

Magnifique!

Also, seeing as Christmas is over je me suis rendu a new background for my computer.

The Christmas Formula out.

Paris, in.

Bob Schneider, Spoon, Evita & Twilight Soundtracks out.

Carla Bruni and Rufus Wainwright in.

Merci pour la lecture.


One of my favorite pictures ever.