When September ends.

This month has completely and utterly flown by.

I really can't believe this is already the last evening of the month. The months of September through December are my favorite time of the year. That's one quarter gone already. It really makes me want to stop and appreciate it more.






savoir faire

The knowledge of just what to do in any situation; tact.

Easier said than done.

A few weeks ago, I was all hyped up about having this new blog. I really do wish I had the ability to post everyday. I feel I let two things keep me from writing here more often- lack of followers is the big one. And its hard to remember to both come here to write and also to figure out what to write about. I have pressure to write here now, as well as my journal for my creative writing class. I've found that my need to create is migrating more towards making things with my hands more than writing and drawing. When I was younger, drawing and writing were a really big part of my life. It seems lately I'm much more content sitting down with some music, a crochet hook, and some yarn. Working with my hands calms my mind much better these days. Speaking of clearing my mind.. I really need to make meditation a daily thing.

School's going good so far. I can hardly believe progress reports are coming out already.




Word for the day-

luminescent-
1. the emission of light not caused by incandescence and occurring at a temperature below that of incandescent bodies.
2. the light produced by such an emission.

Not much to say.. Just a word for now :P

Superfluos-

–adjective
1. being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.

2. unnecessary or needless.

3. Obsolete. possessing or spending more than enough or necessary; extravagant.

Splendiferous Sunday :P

I had an amazingly perfect day yesterday. Jenn and Jeff took me to the mountains for the whole day. We went in the Linville Caverns. OMG. It was an amazing experience. I thought I was going to freak out down there, but I was the calmest I've ever been, surrounded by nothing but Earth and water. They had this awesome store above it and I got a necklace that I'm in love with. It's a clear shell design over a dark rock that I take to be either amber, citrine, or some kind of smoky quartz.

These endevours (sp?) led me to having no internet, because we stayed at Jeff's house Saturday and Sunday night, and for some reason my computer couldn't connect to the internet at his house. While reading a book there I came across today's word.

Burgeoning-

–verb (used without object)
1. to grow or develop quickly; flourish
2. to begin to grow, as a bud; put forth buds, shoots, etc., as a plant (often fol. by out, forth).

–verb (used with object)
3. to put forth, as buds.
4. a bud; sprout.

Word of the day.

Apologies for not having a word yesterday. I had a friend over, and for the life of me I could not think of a word I wanted to look into. So here's today's:

splendiferous-

-Adjective
Splendid; Magnificent; Fine.


I just found out that my reference, Dictionary.com, has a word of the day too! They post it on twitter. I swear I don't use theirs! [and if they are the same it is purely coincedence.]

I can hardly believe that 9/11 is here again. 8 years already and it's still sad to remember it. I was in fourth grade when it happened. My teacher told us the news, and everyone was like what? The World Trade Center huh? What's that? I also remember how scared parents got, coming to pick their kids up- including my mom to get me. Somehow, even though I didn't understand the magnitude of the situation, after the news was delivered I knew that I was going home. I remember mom bringing me home, letting me listen to the radio news and explaining. I still didn't understand for quite some time, but I will never forget when she turned on the tv when we got home and watched the news with me; I still sometimes have dreams about people jumping all those stories down rather than burn or get crushed to death. To be honest, I don't know when I would have learned about the WTC if that day had never occured. I really appreciate the fact that my school held a moment of silence this morning, and has every year since it occured. As if a moment were even enough.. but still, to me, it's good that there are people making an effort to never forget. Even though I'm not directly involved with anyone that died that day, we're all connected as citizens of the Earth.

Not much :?, and my word of the day.

Not much going on for me today. Was supposed to get my after 9's today, but dad and I didn't know the DMV closes at 4:30 thanks to Bev Purdue. So, we're hopefully going tomorrow. He was going to let me miss the beginning of school and take me up there, but I got chosen for the NHS induction and I have to go to meeting at 7:15 in the am. It's all good though. NHS is a great opportunity; dad might sign me out early to go get the after 9's and I'll go back to school after since it takes five seconds.

A shout out to my friend who lives in Romania. He wants to improve on his English, so when we're talking, in exhange for me correcting any mistakes he teaches me Romanian. He's also giving me little mini quizzes to help me retain the info. This is because most of the time I'm signed on yahoo with my phone and I'm unable to write down what he tells me. In the process I'm also improving my skills for retaining information without having to write it down.

Now for the word of the day. It is:
maverick-

1) Southwestern U.S. an unbranded calf, cow, or steer, esp. an unbranded calf that is separated from its mother. (I honestly had no idea this was the literal meaning of the word until I looked it up on http://www.dictionary.com)

2) A lone dissenter, as an intellectual, an artist, or a politician, who takes an independent stand apart from his or her associates.

3) (initial capital letter) an electro-optically guided U.S. air-to-ground tactical missile for destroying tanks and other hardened targets at ranges up to 15 mi. (24 km). (umm..)

Word of the day

Today's word is:

psychosomatic.

1) of or pertaining to a physical disorder that is caused by or notably influenced by emotional factors.

2) pertaining to or involving both the mind and the body.

Basically it means that if your mind believes something, it will affect itself upon your body. If you think your sick, your body will get sick. This also pertains to positive things.

The long road ahead.

First of all, I need to shout out to my friend Katie. Because of her, I now see a road for my future. Admittedly, before today I was completely unsure of what I was going to do after college. I was really scared of graduation. I still am, because of the options I'm now aware of. So what is this amazing opportunity? The Army Reserve.

Haha, yeah, I know. Laugh it up. You think I'm not cut out for the Army. Hell, I know I'm not cut out for the Army. But the Reserve is different. From what I've gathered from Katie so far, it's three months of basic and three months AIT, and after that it's pie. You get a huge amount of money for sign-on, and biweekly paychecks when basic is complete. Not to mention you can pick anywhere for college, and they pay for it all. Family that I've told so far agree with my decision (Dad, my grandmother, my sister) and they think it's a good opportunity for me. I have to say, I agree.

The only drawback for me is the physical hell I'm going to have to put myself through. I'm extremely out of shape and today I began working out at the Y and getting used to the running.

Oh, the f**kn running.

I hate it. A lot. But all the people I've talked to about it say it's all running your ass off, so I might as well suck it up and get used to it. I'm not going to let myself be lazy and have this amazing opportunity get away from me. I've got a long road to go, and I'm putting my nose to the gear.

Behind on the issue, but still..

"Susan Boyle has the most gorgeous voice I've ever heard in my life, but... she needs a makeover."

What's wrong with that sentence? It's obvious. I prefer to ignore the latter half of it, and that's pretty much all I have to say.

Word of the day?

As said elsewhere, it is my goal to try and make one post a day. Loving words as I do, I think it'll be pretty cool to make a post every day with a word I heard that either I don't know the meaning of, or I just find interesting and want to share. I'll be using dictionary.com as my reference.

Today's word, to go along with the birth of my blog, is-

relativity-

1) The state or fact of being relative. [wonderful definition there, huh?]
2)Physics. a theory, formulated essentially by Albert Einstein, that all motion must be defined relative to a frame of reference and that space and time are relative, rather than absolute concepts.
3)Dependence of a mental state or process upon the nature of the human mind: relativity of values; relativity of knowledge. [This definition is my favorite; it's basically my concept on life and the choices humans have to affect their lives.]

Epiphany!

Something midly obvious just struck me.

As much as I love to write and let my ideas flow out.. why not do a journalism minor in college? Or even just a class. Writing is something I really love to do, and I'd like to keep up with it my whole life. As of yet I'm unaware of what opportunities journalism in college could open- job opportunities, stuff like that. If nothing else, it would teach me skills I can use to develop personally, regardless to the fact of doing something practical with it. Hell, I'm already at a standstill with choosing a college in the first place; I think I'm giving up something I really want to do due to practicality and economical issues. Therefore, I think I deserve to at least minor in something I like. I'm reasonably sure that most any college will offer some sort of writing class, which is good for me. It's damn near impossible to find a college which offers all the things I want to do. If anyone knows where I can do culinary arts and marine biology all in one, let me know.

To kick things off

For the longest time, I've wanted to have my own blog, but I never had the knowledge as to how to get one. As I believe everything happens for a reason... I was reading stuff on another guy's blog that I read, links lead to links, and voila! I found blogspot. My goal is to create at least one blog a day. Probably what I'll wind up doing is writing in my journal for creative writing class and transferring those thoughts from there to here.

So, to get going here, I'll share a poem that I wrote today in class. For the assignment, we had to write down three colors then list everything we could think of pertaining to those colors. I listed tihngs for blue, brown, and white and eventually settled on brown. From the list, we had to arrange what we wrote down and creat a poem. So here's what I came up with. Let me know what you think.

What is Brown?

Brown is Earth

Mud.. greed.

Brown is the wood

Found on trees.

Brown is beaches-

it is the sand.

It is diversity

In the palm of your hand.

I think of pumpkins

At the end of fall.

Brown is the movement

Beneath it all.