Stop counting down the events in your life. Slow it down and take this mortal existence one day at a time. Enjoy the small moments that have always made you smile and remind others to do the same.

Sunday, February 16, 2014

Avoiding: verb; writing this instead of doing homework

Well I'm doing homework on the weekend again! :) :) :) 
What do I love more than this? Everything.  The answer is everything. 
Please do not think I was being serious about loving my homework.
Once upon a time my great grandmother told me she complained about 
having homework in grade school and she never had it again.

Once upon another time a peer complained about homework 
and we got another assignment that the professor "forgot".
Times sure have changed. 

I just wanted to write something funny, so now that I have failed I will tell you some music to check out.
If you're into that sort of thing. Some people aren't, so don't judge those who prefer the silence. 

Capitol Cities
American Authors
Echosmith <--found them today and haven't stopped listening! 
Passion Pit
A Great Big World
King Charles-Love Lust (I don't know his other stuff, but this song is the bomb.com)
The Avett Brothers (long time love here)
Birdy
G. Love and Special Sauce (First band I liked for a boy. I loved them, but not him.)
Avalanche City
Kill it Kid- Run <3 
Christina Perri- human (another <3)
The Mowgli's
Hillsong United- Oceans (where feet may fail)
Aubrey Hunt- Lovely Love (my best friend D has great taste)
Sea Wolf- Middle Distance Runner

I know. It's a mess, but it reflects me...a little. I'm not quite so "scattered". 

Have a happy Sabbath day! <3

Monday, February 3, 2014

Bill Murray envy.

Yesterday was Groundhog day and pretty much everyone who knows/loves me knows that I adore that day with kind of my whole heart.  I celebrate hardcore.  I bake a cake.  I watch the film 'Groundhog Day' with my fam bam (or friends) and love the heck outta that day.

Yesterday it was definitely overshadowed by what we civilized homosapiens like to call
Le Super Bowl XLVIII
(that's 48 for those who do not read Roman numerals)

I don't mind. My loving roommates baked a cake for the groundhog with me (by with me I just mean that M baked and frosted it while I devoured literally 1/6 of it) and we watched the game.  So it was not a bad day at all.  

**NEWS/SPOILER ALERT FOR TIME TRAVELERS COMING FROM PRE-2014:
The Broncos lost and Punxutawney Phil saw his shadow.

Future prediction (I hope that time traveler will leave me a comment if these are true):
Sad Coloradoan's. More winter.

Speaking of Bill Murray...poor transition, but I want to get on with this thought before it leaves me forever.

What would you do if you had a certain amount of days that would just restart and repeat exactly as it happened that day and the only thing that changed it was your choices?

I thought about this as I did my homework this morning- I'd probably do all of the homework for the semester until I got so good that I could just test out of the class. 
I would also tell people a lot of things just to see how they would react.
I wouldn't run a muck on the town of Rexburg, but I wouldn't be satisfied with sitting at home doing homework all the time.

In the end...I would act as Bill Murray did in my favorite 90's flick 'Groundhog Day' and explore selfish wishes, but eventually learn to be there for others and become the most selfless person in the whole movie (except for that camera guy- he literally gets no cred).
Good thing I'm so humble, right?

I would also become incredibly skilled at everything I have ever wanted to be skilled at. 

So now I thought as if it were profound- what is stopping me?
My challenge is to be more Phil Connors-esque this month.
I'm living on the edge (within reason) and you can't stop me (although I don't have much strength you probably could physically stop me, but that's not the point)!