This is the blog where I tell you things that I like and complain. But you'll love it. ;D

So, those two things, the shirt and book bag, are new! Shopping for school stuff, and shopping in general, stresses me out. Luckily I was able to find some lovely clothing so I may whine and complain but it was worth it. Mariah also found some things, but I'm sure she will tell you about that.:)

Anyways, on a less whiny and poor-me-I-had-to-shop note, I started watching Drop Dead Diva on mylifetime.com tonight. I had been wanting to see the show after it was advertised but then lost hope when we didn't have the channel. Then, tonight, Chris reminded me about it because he has watched a few episodes. It's an amazing show with a really good heart to it. Kind of like Ugly Betty and Eli Stone had a baby and it's equal,fantastic parts of them. So, I recommend it and endorse it fully.

Also, some new music I've picked up that I would like to share for those with softer music tastes: Gimme Sympathy-Metric, Forever-Walter Meego, Sweet Disposition-The Temper Trap. Owl City is also really good. The interesting thing about their/his ( I never know which to say) music is that it's very upbeat and pretty but also smooth and relaxing enough to sleep to. Very fun.

I'm sorry if yer not the poemy type because so far I've done blogs and poems alternately. I'm not sure if I'll keep that up but it's a possibility. I was very into poetry from 6th-7th and I still have a love for it but I haven't had much thought of sitting down and writing. I like critiques though, so I'm cool if you have any.

Um,de-dummmm. I think that's all I have for now but to say goodbye I want to give you a little gift, right here. Please inform me if you find yourself singing it or have it stuck in your head. Muhahah. ^-^

Mariah at 2:46 a.m

Mariah has sensitive ears.
She hears through the walls.
She silences my music.

Father has acquired tastes.
He watches boy shows.
He controls the remote.

Mommy has expressive eyes.
She tells me all she has to say.
She never says a word.

Mikaella has an active mind.
She can't rest.
She roams in the silence.

Death,Dreams, and Darn I Forgot to do it,didn't I?

So, yesterday, I felt like death. Like, literally. (No,probably figuratively, but it's much more fun to be dramatic.) Church was lovely and I enjoyed seeing Leah and Allison. But after not getting much sleep the night before thanks to my crazy and then going to see grandparents and then going back to church, I was pretty dang tired. So after getting home on a Sunday night I couldn't even read, or get on aim like I had previously promised.I just went into my room, shoved the this and that off my bed, and sacked out. My stomach was in agony and my back hurt for no known reason and I had a headache. Sleep felt very very nice. I do feel much better now though. Thanks for asking.

This morning after going to bed at 9:30, a time I would have previously scoffed at, I awoke at 11:11 to some odd recollections of dreams.Here are just a few random things I can recall.

• In this dream, my cousin Tori was pregnant. Oh my goodness. And she was like, her actual age. Is was weird as heck. -shudder-
• At one point I was looking at my old iPod and it was coming back to life! But then when I touched it it died again.. and this girl,Victoria, from church was there.
  
• I was a witch who lived in this weird hollow in the woods with these other wood nymph/witch type things.
• While I was a woodwitch there were these like potato sacks with words that were floating down the creek thing at our hollow. So you would jump onto a sack and the words would become your life. Apparently my new life included having an evil stepmom who was a spider, who lived with my stepgrandma, who was also evil, in this weird shack thing that was super creepy ( It was covered in dust and spider webs and dead bodies. Oh gosh...how does my subconscious come up with this stuff?), who wouldn't allow me to do things.
  
• At one point my whole family was racing across a lake on this bridge that was more like a net and it didn't reach all the way across. So they would lay it out there and you would run like crazy on it and it would start to sink beneath you and once you got to where it ended you just had to swim to the pier.
• Also, I was on a boat with some people and the good guys-who were like, me and Leah and I think Chris was there-were trying to steal something from this room that the bad guys, let's jsut call em' baddies, were in. And we would get past all the security and one time Leah got all the way in the room, but then the baddies would spot one of us and we had to leave.
• On the boat if you went out this one latched door near the baddies' room you could go out onto this deck above this huge pool and there was also a rock climbing wall. So at one point I was going down a rock climbing wall with some other people. It was odd.

• I think Kortni and I were on a hotel bed talking at one time in the dream.

So yeah, my dreams are odd. They usually seem to stem from things I've been thinking about though. Like, I do have a cousin who is pregnant and Kortni wants me to go to the beach with her, and last week we were at the lake etc etc. I have no idea where the weird wood nymph stuff came from though. -le shrug- So I hope that sounds as interesting to you as it was to experience in my head.

I didn't exactly forget to do a blog yesterday-I was just out of ideas in the afternoon at my grandmother's house and then when I got back from church I was dead. I actually thought about it before I went to sleep. I'm surprised there wasn't a camio of a huge keyboard running after me trying to get me to type in my dream. Maybe while I was a nympitch, at my stepmom's creepy house? But in the future I will try to git 'er done. :D

Just For Kicks- I Chose Your Field

I chose your field for sitting
now im playing
now im walking
and im looking at the hand once so dearly occupied.







I chose your field for eating
and for sitting and for watching
and its kind of geting hot
watching the clouds go rolling by.







I chose your field for being
and for thinking
and for wishing
I chose it for the reasons no one would quickly spy.







I chose your field for running
in the open spaces
yes it seemed alright for frolicking
for dancing underneath sky.







I chose your field for reasons
oh the reasons
I wish to tell you
I chose your field just hoping maybe you would come outside.

SC Reunion Fun and a New Month (hasjustbegun)

Yarr matey! Wow, I'm not a pirate..Anyways, just recently got back from our second family reunion this summer. It was pretty great and fun but now I'm super tired from the traveling. This morning we got up around 9:30 and had some pancakes then picked up my little cousins Tori and Lexa so they could ride down in our van. Mariah and I read and listened to my iPod and slept mostly. Tori was out like a light shortly after a game of uno and Lexa, reluctantly followed. For a while she would turn around occasionally just to smile at us or tell us things. According to her she's getting her ears pierced, for her 10th birthday. They are growing up so fast and it makes me smile. About the time we were getting there I tried to go to sleep to no avail, but then was woken by the expectant air in the van. (That expectant air gets in my ears and makes me twinge a bit and wakes me up anytime we get someplace worth going.)

The reunion was at a little church down in SC someplace or the other. We walked in in a generally awkward fashion and made ourselves nametags. Then mother decided she wanted to show us around to people we haven't seen in a long time. "And these are my girls, Mariah and Mikaella." she would say, pointing to one of us in turn.I think she'll always say that, "my girls", even when Mariah is 25 and I'm 23, or some age around there, when most would find the term "women" suitable for our description.

We met and greeted and took some pictures and then prayer was said, and in true southern fashion, we ate. After the meal the girls and some other little ones were anxious to go outside on the playground equipment and seesaws. As it turns out, neither I or Mariah could remember a time when we had seesawed. So the children ran around as they do and we sat on a seesaw trying to see if we could balance out our weight. (And we did.) It was kind of muggy out but generally nice and we stayed for a while.

When the air conditioning was calling we came back inside and had our family picture made with my cousins and aunt and uncle and grandmother. Finally we all got the feeling it was time to leave and headed out around 2:30. Hugs were given and goodbye's said and I slept all the way home.



As for the start of August, let it come, I suppose. There's nothing I can do to stop it so I just won't try. The word August in and of itself makes me think of cookouts, a bit of chill in the air, new pencils and paper, haircuts and shopping for new school clothes. Not all of which I would mind.So, Happy August and welcome back to real life after Summer.


Currently Listening To-Puttin' on the Ritz by Taco (Covered by Shiny Toy Guns)

BEDA, just in August, not April

My lovely sister Mariah and our lovely friend Caitlin have decided to blog every day in August! Well, they came up with it but I'd like to hop on the bandwagon. =]

As Summer is, mournfully, coming to a close and high school is sneaking it's (crazyscaryexcitingunnervingincredible) new face onto my horizon, I think it's good to fall back into blogging. I think it'll be good to write out how all this NEW NEW NEW is making me feel and how I will perceive and how others will perceive me.

Sadly, me and Mariah are both losing friends to different schools this new year. One of my best friends, Madison, is heading for another school and made me promise not to get another best friend and I will try my hardiest. At the same time, I will be making new friends. (And that scares me to death.)


"Sanity is basically an act. Insanity, is dropping the act. "-Nana Lee

Guys and Dolls...the real thing.

FREAKING EPIC.