Thursday, May 31, 2012

My heart has seen the ages (graduation day)


My heart has seen the ages
Flicking past
Like a passenger on a train.
The blur of trees and towns
Kings and queens
Castles and skyscrapers
Until nothing is certain anymore.
As a part of me, it wanders
Like a villain
Through these timelines
Never waking.
A somnambulist
Forever dreaming
Of what it let die.

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Today I finally graduated. And yes, that is a Hello Kitty head purse sitting next to me on the sofa. I forced my brother to hold onto it for the entire ceremony. :)

Monday, May 28, 2012

At the bottom of my heart, there's really not much.

So today was mildly traumatic for me. I crashed my brother's car. There's not much damage, and no one was hurt, but my mother's reactions hurt just as bad as they always do. I went into my room and cried.
A friend, Felicia, showed up at my door spontaneously, because she must have some sort of radar for when something is wrong. For the next hour, she helped me get everything in order and clean my room. It's about halfway done, but the hardest parts of this battle are finished. I just didn't want her to leave.
In another situation with a friend, things are not going so happily, and I wish that I could just fly away from all of this, I wish that I could just be like Enid, from the movie Ghost World.
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It's time for me to hang up my star halo and let Hello Kitty take the smaller things away from me. I have important things to deal with.

Friday, May 25, 2012

Keeping my inner child satiated

Today was difficult. Not emotionally, merely physically. Last night I stayed at a friend's house with a few other girls, and one of them forgot their sleeping pills, and therefore was awake all night. Because she and I are such close friends, I stayed up with her, much to the chagrin of everyone else there. I think that I eventually drifted into slumber around 6 or 7 in the morning. 
I woke up at ten, it could have been worse. After that, however, I had to go out to the Secretary of State and renew my driving permit, even though I despise driving and ultimately want to end up living in a city where I don't have to. The wait was incredibly long, and I didn't have any food in my stomach, due to the fact that I waited so long to wake up. I eventually ate at 2, and I can honestly tell you that that meal of a bagel with butter and dusted with garlic dipped in spaghetti sauce was the best concoction in the entire world to me at that moment. I mean, I like it anyways, because there's garlic and spaghetti sauce, but you know what I mean. 
After lunch, I was sent to the laundromat to put in a load, and once I arrived home from there I was promptly put to work cleaning. And once the cleaning was done, I went and sat through a play, written by local playwright Scott Philips, so I got to end my tiring day with a nice laugh. Thanks Scott. :)
 Out in my yard, I have an array of flowers blooming. As a surprise for Leah, I'm pressing some of them for her. (It's okay, she doesn't read this blog. She doesn't even have internet!)
 Here are her lovely flowers again. I'm going to steal a few other blossoms from a well-endowed tree next door, to add to this collection. I'll keep you updated on my scavenging!
 And here's an "artsy" closeup...aka I have a crappy camera, but I love it anyway.
 I got a large box of old Christmas stuff from my friend, Ashley, last night. This beautiful star garland was in it. It reminds me of how in kindergarten and first grade, they would make halos out of this stuff and sell them to us for fifty cents each. I remember, I was always so jealous of all of the lucky girls who wore them so proudly. My family wasn't in the best of financial straits back then, so every penny counted, and I couldn't be spared the money to buy one. Needless to say, even at age 18, when I found this garland, I was completely overjoyed, as well as inspired.
 I also found four random boxes, and due to my boredom decided to write random things on the tops of them. Pardon my language on this one. I just had to.
 Random hipster thing. I guess. That's why I added the heart. I can't deny that I'm a little bit of a hipster, and though the word carries a lot of negative connotation, I don't think that it's a bad thing.
 This is the point where you get to decide whether this box is being shockingly devious or plainly boring.
 Not the truth, but I couldn't think of anything good for this one.
 Here they are, all jumbled together. Don't they just look like they're organizing a revolution?
 Tada! I made my star halo! It makes my inner child very happy.
Here I am, in my lovely halo. For some reason, I always make that face when I take pictures of myself. I'm not entirely sure why.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

If I dance these days away.

My first week of being a free agent! Most of my time has been spent with friends and cruising online. Nothing earth shattering. I haven't discovered the cure for any diseases yet, but hey, give it time. 
 Found an abandoned house when Felicia and I went to visit Leah. It's pretty, isn't it? I wonder of those orbs are all a bunch of ghosts. More likely than not, they're just balls of dust. But a girl can dream!
 Here is Leah, investigating the old outhouse from the house we found. Most of the floor had fallen victim to time already, but the cement parts were still intact. Shortly after this picture was taken, the neighbors of the abandoned house came out with dogs and chased us away from it.
After being chased away from the abandoned house, we went stargazing and were terrorized by more baying dogs, though they were fenced in, so it only sounded as though they were coming to rip us apart. Sadly, I do not have any pictures of this, because stargazing is something that is done in the dark, and the flash of a camera in that sort of stillness is absolutely unholy. And, it wouldn't have caught any star pictures anyway.
 Leah's sister was kind enough to lock all of us out and leave us to find our own way inside, even though she was sitting on the sofa, watching television.
 Oh look! I took an "artsy" picture of a light. Ooooh. Aaah. Can't you just feel my boredom radiating off of this webpage? We were in the garage for at least 15 minutes, probably more.
 I'm leaving for vacation in a few days, so I prepped my suitcase by spray painting it gold-bronze. Isn't it lovely?
 Here it is, not looking so blurry. You can see a few mistakes on the front, but I love them. They give the piece so much more character!
 A close up of the buckle. I thought it looked especially pretty.
 Reconnecting with my My Chemical Romance music, I was inspired to make this Party Poison shirt. I made it by bleaching the design in, then painting it with acrylic paint, and putting parchment paper over the paint and ironing it.
 A better picture, again not as blurry.
 My wall. Boredom again.
 Another picture of the Party Poison shirt.
Yep. The final one.