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Thursday, June 17th, 2010

I have a very bad habit of starting to write posts and then either drifting into a rambling ramble where I make up new words like “intrinsicity” or deciding it’s not important anyway.  I figure I might as well put them to some use, eh?  Therefore, behold!  A post comprised of other partial (or possibly snippets from) posts.

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Apparently I have a thing for lists. I reckon I always have. I have these random stashes of post-it notes with old lists on them, that for whatever reason I feel the need to save. There are probably literally over 100 just sitting on my desk crammed into this little box. I opened it earlier and found a dollar sandwiched between a post-it with directions to a yarn store and one with 5 random words (daft, conglomerate, plethora, brilliant, & implication, in case you were wondering) , so the monetary finding was quite a nice surprise.

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How to Entertain Yourself on a Train: The progression of a trainride from the west coast of Scotland to Glasgow.

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I want to go home.

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I’ve always had quite an enjoyment for collecting quotes.  I think it’s quite interesting how a snippet of words can so perfectly say something that could just as easily take up pages filled with not as adequate words.  Quotes are like, an art.  I like art.  I like quotes.

Recently, I’ve been jotting them down on post-its.  Which I then tend to lose, or stash in a book, or stick on a wall, or whatever.  And then I forget about them, until some random moment I by chance re-encounter one, and it no doubt makes me smile.  That is why I love quotes.  Even if maybe it is not entirely pertenant by the time I re-find it, it still somehow seems to encompass a world of meaning that, at least, was once perfectly said.  I don’t even know if that makes sense… or why I am still rambling about this.

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Alas, I do not, and so grows my skill for leaning toward instricitiy.  Which is probably not even a word, but it sounds kind of awesome.

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Okay, that wasn’t as exciting as I thought it’d be.

Photo-y Goodness

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

The weather has been quite unexpected here the past week or so.  My dad, Caleb, and I went skiing/snowboarding last week.  We stayed the night before skiing, and they got some 8″ that night alone – which seems crazy, even for Northern AZ.  Anyway, proof (in photo form) of the beautiful diversity of AZ weather for ya’!

We can even see snowy mountains in the distance from here in Gilbert. Beautiful! :)

The rain is really loud today.

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

Nothing terribly overwhelmingly exciting going on, but I figured I’d pop by and say something and perhaps post some rather overdue photos?  I think I’ll go in reverse chronological order.  Indeed.

First!  The sweet origami swan the random Japanese lady made us.  Also, the old school-ish camera I bought in Krakow!  I kind of want to get some film and try it out just to see if it works.  Beautiful, isn’t it?

This is Housemate/Panama/Ginger Matt; he is random.  (I don’t actually know what was going on here, but I figured people photos are always exciting.)

I had kind of forgotten about this until I ran into it my photos.  I think it was towards the end of October/beginning of November, but the sky was weird beautiful colours.  Not quite the Northern Lights, but still pretty cool looking!

Lastly, a photo I found from some birthdayesque celebration stuff.  Sophie and Kerilee bought me a cool caterpillar (that’s a weird word) cake.

In other news, I’ve been working a bit a the Christmas market here in Belfast, doing some random piggy bank + ornament decorating.  Just a few hours a week, which has been nice!  Belfast is beautiful at Christmas, actually.  I’ll have to take some photos next time the day isn’t filled with precipitation…

Hmmm.  I think that’s about it.  Ten days to home!