Good Old Dilbert

Every day, as I eat my morning bowl of cereal, I at least skim throught the newspaper, sometimes reading through articles that interest me, sometimes barely scanning headlines. Depending on how much I read, sometimes I don't have time to read through all the comics (the last section), but I always make sure I read one.

Dilbert and his co-workers can always put a smile on my face. Here are some recent favorites:

And a classic:

Amortentia

"It's the most powerful love potion in the world!"
"And it's supposed to smell differently to each of us, according to what attracts us, for me it's . . ."

Did you recognize the book? If you were thinking Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, congrats. Being a Harry Potter lover myself, I was thinking about this one day. If I were to smell Amortentia, what would it be for me?

Rain: so cliche, I know. But what can beat the freshness, the cleanness, of damp pavement and grass after a summer storm?

Freshly Baked Homemade Bread: my mom's particularly. It's incredible to get home from school and follow your nose to the kitchen with a hot loaf waiting on the cutting board.

Pine: every Holiday Season, we cut down a a Christmas tree and keep it up for about a month. It smells absolutely amazing. Pine is perfect. It's almost a sweet smell, with a hint of spicyness, forest, riverbank, and clean.

Is It Like Possible?

I am plagued with a problem that is in no way unique. However, I may be somewhat unique in the fact that I want to change that problem. Yes, I am part of generation like. I too have contracted the infection. I am somehow able to intertwine the word like at least once in every other sentence I say. It is unintentional, yet, in my eyes it is condemning. This must not go on. I refuse to join the millions of other Americans who have fallen captive to the tyrannical word. I will prevail. I will not sound like an uneducated schlub. I will make a conscious effort to eliminate any incorrect usade of the "L" word from my vocabulary. This is my oath. I do not make any promises of success, I only swear to try.

Summer Review

Random fact: I live by making lists. I do. I have completely filled notebooks with lists of just about every kind.
While mourning the loss of summer the other day, I reflected on the finer moments of the season, and ended up with this summer review list (the first list of many to come, I'm sure). My apologies, a few of these are inside jokes.

1. Best song of summer: “Healing Begins” by Tenth Avenue North. Really, really beautiful new song by a great band. I listened to it over and over.

2. Best snack of summer: sliced tomatoes spread with miracle whip and mustard. I'm being serious.

3. Best movie: Inception. It completely blew my mind. Halfway through the movie I realized that I was gripping my seat and breathing heavily. Thankfully, I realized I wasn't the only so engrossed, the man next to me kept whispering, "No, no, no!"

4. Best new activity: rappelling = so much fun! I was more than a little scared when my twig of a twelve year old belayer's voice cracked as he told me not to worry, but it was a great experience.

5. Best quote of summer: this really made me laugh cause it was so outrageous. I’m not sure if it was meant to be a joke or not. “The Internet’s completely over . . . all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can’t be good for you.” -Prince

6. Best hairdo of summer: up Girl’s Camp style! (My props to Tiana Truman for designing these)

7. Best morning of summer: waking up, eating super-sugary cereal and hitting the courts

8. Best band of summer: “The Sunstreak” I just discovered this band, and they are on pretty much every playlist of mine right now. What better name for a "best of summer" band anyway?

9. Best way to spend a spare 15 minutes: Catnap. I've never been one for napping, but sometimes when I laid down for a few minutes, I'd wake up a short time later, feeling invigorated.

10. Best retro activity of summer: Rollerblading. It really never fails

11. Best place for a late-night summer chat: on my front lawn, underneath the stars
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12. Best TV show of summer: The Most Extreme . . . I really don’t watch TV very much. But I found myself intriged with the topics of this show. The Most Extreme Resorts. The Most Extreme Water Parks. The Most Extreme Haunted Places. The Most Extreme Slime. And the list continues

13. Best way to kill time while waiting in line: Phase 10. Yup, we played while waiting for a movie, we even got some random people waiting with us to join in.

14. Best place to hold a family reunion: Koosharem UT Probably one of the smallest places you'll ever go that could be considered a place worth dwelling. But with my relatives, that's just the way we roll.

15. Best drink of summer: Homeade root beer with a few secret additions.

Life in Six Words

The challenge was presented in my English class during our poetry unit: to create a 6-word memoir. Basically you have to sum up your life, and everything that you are in 6 words. I didn't think I could do it. However, i dug into the project, and after much deliberation, i came up with mine. I kind of fell in love with it. And, if I ever achieve anything great enough in the eyes of the world to have my biography written, I'll insist that it be the title. However, I'm pretty positive that will never happen. And with all the new, independent ways to publish books these days, I hope you realize what you're getting yourself into by reading my blog.
Anyway my 6-word memoir is my blog title, naive mind searching only for sunshine