Monday, July 23, 2012

What I Want

I want to... - Sleep under the stars - Run barefoot outside in a heavy snow storm wearing only a tank top and shorts - Jump in puddles - Climb trees - Climb mountains - Explore forests and oceans - Study art history and architecture - Study literature and languages - Eat healthier and exercise regularly - Do yoga and meditate regularly - Take a sketchbook with me everywhere - Hug trees - Touch the leaves on the trees and flower petals - Walk barefoot along the beach - Stare at the moon - Tell stories around a campire - Take photographs of everything I find beautiful - Stay up all night playing video games - Build a fort with chairs, pillows, and blankets and sleep in it - insist on reading children's books to a sick friend - Buy many many many more books - Fill entire notebooks with stream of consciousness writings - Go on regular roadtrips - Believe in hugging and kissing - Write anonymous letters to complete strangers - Have a movie marathon - Spend more time around horses simply to feel their velvety lips against my hand when I feed them - Share every thought in my head no matter how random or ridiculous it may be - Cry when I need to - Throw parties for the hell of it - Take more bubble baths - Celebrate my favorite author's birthdays - Have a picnic in a tree - Make collages - Buy a nerf gun - Take a floral design class - Buy a harmonica and annoy the hell out of everyone while attempting to play it - Learn to play the ukelele - Go to a toy store and play with everything - Go to an aquarium - Always wear bright colored socks - Start a nature journal - collect leaves, sketch plants, etc - Create my own recipe book - Cook more, eat less fast food - Practice calligraphy - Practice embroidery stitches - Start doing henna tattoos - Travel the world - Stop apologizing for everything - Be daring enough to allow someone to get close to me - drop every wall and risk the rejection and humiliation - Speak up when staying silent would cause more harm than good - be assertive and bitchy when necessary :) - Take someone to Yellowstone for their first time - Realize that making mistakes is normal and striving for perfection is completely unrealistic - Gain control over my anxiety, so that fear doesnt control everything in my life - Travel so far away by myself that Im no longer afraid of not coming back

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Every single night's a fight with my brain...



I cannot think of another song that can describe my mind better than this one - the constant struggle between who you really are vs who you want to be, insomnia, the desire for more when there is seemingly very little hope, combatting what I call the "constant shit storm in my brain" (aka anxiety and depression), etc. Amazing song.

I haven't been able to listen to Fiona's most recent album all the way through because I've had some songs on repeat for days. I used to claim her second album, When the Pawn..., as the one album that resonated with me the most. I think this album may quickly take it's spot though. It's really good. I relate a little too much with it lyrically.

Oh, Fiona. You've stolen my heart with your music once again.

Saturday, July 7, 2012

My Favorite Words

I love words. It comes from my love of literature and how words can evoke certain emotions. I'm going to compile a list of my favorite words - some of these words I find fun to say, some have significant meaning, some I love for the imagery that the words bring to mind, and some of them I overuse in daily conversation, etc. I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot of my favorites, but these are the ones that immediately spring to mind.

A
Abominable
Absolutely
Abyss
Aesthetic
Affinity
Alluring
Amaranth
Amethyst
Amygdala
Anatomically
Annihilation
Anthropomorphism
Aquiesce
Arsenic
Asphyxiate
Audacious
Autumn

B
Beloved
"Bloody Brilliant"
Breathe

C
Calamity
Cataclysmic
Cathartic/Catharsis
Caveat
Chartreuse
Cinders
Coercion
Conundrum
Convoluted
Crimson
Crystalline

D
Dastardly
Decrepit
Defenestration
Deliquescence
Demure
Deoxyribonucleic acid
Desolate
Dichotomy
Dilapidated
Disambiguation
Dissonance
Divinity

E
Eccentricity
Eclectic
Ecstasy
Effervescent
Elixir
Eloquence
Emerald
Empyrean
Enigma
Ennui
Ephemeral
Epiphany
Equilibrium
Esoteric
Espionage
Ethereal
Euphoria
Eviscerate
Evocative
Exquisite

F
Facade
Facetious
Fantastic
Fascinating (I usually use this sarcastically)
Feign
Filigree

G
Gallivanting
Grostesque

H
Hollow

I
Iconoclast
Idyllic
Imbue
Incandescent
Incognito
Indeed
Indelibly
Indigo
Indubitably
Inebriated
Ineffable
Ingenuity
Insidious
Intuition
Irenic
Ivory
Ivy

K
Kaleidoscope

L
Labyrinth
Livid
Loquacious
Lore
Lucid
Lullaby
Luminescent

M
Maelstrom
Magnificent
Maleficent
Malevolent
Manifestation
Masquerade
Mausoleum
Melancholia
Mellifluous
Mesmerize
Myriad

N
Nefarious
Nemesis
Nephalim
Nonchalant
Norepinephrine
Nosferatu (I know this is a name of a vampire, but I like it)
Nostalgia

O
Oblivion
Occipital
Ominous

P
Pandemonium
Parallelogram (I had a friend in high school who could not pronounce this word to save her life - the word makes me smile now) 
Paraphernalia
Pensive
Penumbra
Percolate
Phantom
Phenomenal
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (Too much fun to say!)
Plethora
Preternatural
Pristine

Q
Quasihemidemisemiquaver

R
Rambunctious
Rejuvenation
Resonate
Reverie

S
Sapphire
Sassy
Sequoia
Serenity
Shenanigan
Solemn
Soliloquy
Stifled
Supernal
Surreal
Sycophant
Symposium
Synchronicity
Synesthesia

T
Tempestuous
Tintinnabulation (comes from one of my favorite poems by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Bells")
Transcendant
Tumultuous

U
Ubiquitous
Ukelele
Undulate
Unique

V
Vacant
Verbose
Vicissitude
Visceral
Viscosity
Vivacious

W
Whisper
Willow
Winter


Your turn. What are your favorite words?