i have decided to start a project. this project is to read all of the books on the following list, of which there are supposed to be 100 (but there are really more than 100 because some of the 'books' on the list are series). this list was put out by people in Britain and i got it from Trent, off of facebook. lol
here is the list:
[ ] A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
[ ] A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
[ ] A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
[ ] A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
[ ] A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
[ ] A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
[ ] A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
[ ] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
[ ] Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
[ ] Animal Farm - George Orwell
[ ] Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
[ ] Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
[ ] Atonement - Ian McEwan
[ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
[ ] Bleak House - Charles Dickens
[ ] Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
[ ] Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
[ ] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
[ ] Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
[ ] Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
[ ] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
[ ] Charlotte’s Web - EB White
[ ] Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
[ ] Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
[ ] Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
[ ] Complete Works of Shakespeare
[ ] Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
[ ] Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
[ ] David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
[ ] Dracula - Bram Stoker
[ ] Dune - Frank Herbert
[ ] Emma - Jane Austen
[ ] Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
[ ] Germinal - Emile Zola
[ ] Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
[ ] Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
[ ] Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
[ ] Hamlet - William Shakespeare
[ ] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
[ ] Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
[ ] His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
[ ] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
[ ] Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
[ ] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
[ ] Life of Pi - Yann Martel
[ ] Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
[ ] Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
[ ] Lord of the Flies - William Golding
[ ] Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
[ ] Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
[ ] Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
[ ] Middlemarch - George Eliot
[ ] Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
[ ] Moby Dick - Herman Melville
[ ] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
[ ] Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
[ ] Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
[ ] Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
[ ] On The Road - Jack Kerouac
[ ] One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
[ ] Persuasion - Jane Austen
[ ] Possession - AS Byatt
[ ] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
[ ] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
[ ] Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
[ ] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
[ ] Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
[ ] The Bible
[ ] The Color Purple - Alice Walker
[ ] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
[ ] The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
[ ] The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
[ ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
[ ] The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
[ ] The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
[ ] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
[ ] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
[ ] The Inferno – Dante
[ ] The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
[ ] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
[ ] The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
[ ] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
[ ] The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
[ ] The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
[ ] The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
[ ] The Secret History - Donna Tartt
[ ] The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
[ ] The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
[ ] The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
[ ] The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
[ ] The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
[ ] The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
[ ] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
[ ] Ulysses - James Joyce
[ ] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
[ ] War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
[ ] Watership Down - Richard Adams
[ ] Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
[ ] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
some of these are actually repeats, but i didnt write the list, so... but anyways, i will be calling this project Project: Library Card. why? i dont know... just feel like it. and i'll probably have to use my library card a lot throughout the duration of this project...
so. i have completed a book:
[X] The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
i had read it before, but not all the way through, it's a good book. it has several similarities to Orwell's 1984 (which i will be rereading, of course. Handmaids Tale was all about extreme religion and politics as well as the basic human instinct to survive and its incredible ability to adapt. i would definitely suggest reading it.
(note: it might be a bit difficult for guys, maybe)
more on the way. i will repost the list, with the books i have read crossed off, periodically. the list here is in alphabetical order, but i do not intend to follow the order of the list, i am just going to choose books from the list regardless of their position on the list. :) fun times and happy travels!
--as always
Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Monday, 24 August 2009
I wondered what might happen
two parts to this post today. the first time i have done such, but whatever.
part one: song of the day.
"This Time" by Jonathan Rhys Meyers
"Tonight the sky above
Reminds me how to love
Walking through wintertime
And the stars all shine
The angel on the stairs
Will tell you I was there
Under the front porch light
On the mystery night
I've been sitting watching life pass from the sidelines
Been waiting for a dream to seep in through my blinds
I wondered what might happen
If I left this all behind
Would the wind be at my back
Could I get you off my mind
This time
The neon lights and bars
And headlights from the cars
Had started a symphony surrounding me
The things I left behind
Have melted in my mind
And now there's a purity inside of me
I've been sitting watching life pass from the sidelines
Been waiting for a dream to seep in through my blinds
I wondered what might happen
If I left this all behind
Would the wind be at my back
Could I get you off my mind
This time
I've been sitting watching life pass from the sidelines
Been waiting for a dream to seep in through my blinds
I wondered what might happen
If I left this all behind
Would the wind be at my back
Could I get you off my mind
This time"
this song is from one of the saddest inspirational movies i have ever seen to date. it is also on my list of favorite movies, as this song is on my list of favorite songs.
i have been hearing the same sort of thing from all different places lately: the start of a new life; a new beginning; a fresh start. college: it's a new direction, a new chance. "my life starts now" ... but what about the person who had already started living their life, whose life 'started' a long time ago? what about the person who knows where they are going and has for a while now? what about them?
see, i hear all these different people saying these things and i feel a few different things, whether wrong or right for me to feel. i feel a sort of humor that i can only explain to myself or anyone else by the phrase "you're only just starting now?" but then i also feel as if i can relate, in a distant sort of way... i dont mean to offend anyone, not by any means. it's just how i feel. and i do relate. i once felt as if i was starting the rest of my life from a certain point. my point in life just happened to be sooner than, apparently, almost everyone else's.
there's not much else to say on the subject without getting into certain details of my life which i dont really feel like doing at the moment... (sorry, if you were expecting it) if you really want to know, ask me.
part two: the day's shenanigans.
Morning:
i wake up and get out of bed this morning at around 9. then i get ready for school and whatnot. i drive to the school and i have the hardest time finding parking. i had to park out in the boonies and even then i had to back up and i almost hit a person (someone i knew, btw)
Math:
i am sitting outside my math class and Matt Hissong walks up and takes a seat next to me (he's trying to crash a math class) and we talk. i haven't seen him in a very long time, let alone talk to him. it's nice to know that we are now on better terms than what we left off as the last time i spoke to him. (but maybe it was just my impression that we weren't on that great of terms).
the teacher had similar mannerisms and taught just like older LeBeau... but no sweat, it's my third year of calc. Sara and i talked with Matt almost the whole class period.
Passing Time:
i walk around and locate one of my classes for tomorrow. then i see some more old friends and i say hello to them. that was pretty cool.
French:
i am sitting in french 101 with Rima and the teacher is actually from France, which is pretty cool. i am sitting there, feeding Rima answers and the teacher thinks that she is really cool and that she knows a lot about french culture and the french language; and i just laugh. and the teacher starts her lesson with: "je m'appelle..." and i just start laughing (not out loud, mind you, but silently to myself and a bit with Rima) that class is a breeze!
Passing More Time:
i decide that i want to go home. so i do. then i lay on the floor and close my eyes for 45 mins, in my old tradition of sleeping (no joke, i would honestly consider that sleep in the days of IB, which really weren't that long ago...) then i go back to the school and i have no trouble finding parking.
CIS:
i really like my CIS teacher. he wears a cowboy hat and apparently sings karaoke... lol. he takes roll and then he starts to go over the syllabus and when he is done talking about what he wants to talk about he asks us if we have any questions and there were only about 5. he then says: "well, i guess you all can go, then" or something along those lines, so we all leave. it's only 1900 (or 7 pm for all of you who dont like military time) and so i turn to Dakota and say: "hey, you want to go to the dog park?" and so we went to the dog park
The Evening:
so Dakota and i went to the dog park and had fun with all the cool playground stuff. then we decided that we should call people and tell/ask them to join us. so we called Sara, Woody, Niiki (and vicariously Chelle) and Brendan... Woody said she would try to make it, Nikki and Chelle were about to eat dinner, and Brendan wouldn't answer his phone... so it ended up being just me, Dakota and Sara at the dog park chillin and having fun and stuff.
great conversation bit (it's abbreviated a little):
Sara: "what are those people doing?"
we decided that they were running in slow motion
Dakota: "why?" (or something along those lines)
Sara: "maybe they are making a movie for people who like to watch their movies on fast forward"
Me: "it would be a silent film..."
Sara: "they'd just have REALLY long subtitles"
we all burst out in laughter
the three of us then decide to go to get ice cream and so we all go to MacDonald's, where Sara and i proceed, or rather continue (because we actually have several of these moments at the park), to have several "like this (includes hand gesture)" moments. which make Dakota face palm and laugh. the best part is that we couldnt really help it, it just happens. ahh, good times.
so that was my day. fun filled and great, like every other day, for the most part. :) i look forward to many more!
--as always
part one: song of the day.
"This Time" by Jonathan Rhys Meyers
"Tonight the sky above
Reminds me how to love
Walking through wintertime
And the stars all shine
The angel on the stairs
Will tell you I was there
Under the front porch light
On the mystery night
I've been sitting watching life pass from the sidelines
Been waiting for a dream to seep in through my blinds
I wondered what might happen
If I left this all behind
Would the wind be at my back
Could I get you off my mind
This time
The neon lights and bars
And headlights from the cars
Had started a symphony surrounding me
The things I left behind
Have melted in my mind
And now there's a purity inside of me
I've been sitting watching life pass from the sidelines
Been waiting for a dream to seep in through my blinds
I wondered what might happen
If I left this all behind
Would the wind be at my back
Could I get you off my mind
This time
I've been sitting watching life pass from the sidelines
Been waiting for a dream to seep in through my blinds
I wondered what might happen
If I left this all behind
Would the wind be at my back
Could I get you off my mind
This time"
this song is from one of the saddest inspirational movies i have ever seen to date. it is also on my list of favorite movies, as this song is on my list of favorite songs.
i have been hearing the same sort of thing from all different places lately: the start of a new life; a new beginning; a fresh start. college: it's a new direction, a new chance. "my life starts now" ... but what about the person who had already started living their life, whose life 'started' a long time ago? what about the person who knows where they are going and has for a while now? what about them?
see, i hear all these different people saying these things and i feel a few different things, whether wrong or right for me to feel. i feel a sort of humor that i can only explain to myself or anyone else by the phrase "you're only just starting now?" but then i also feel as if i can relate, in a distant sort of way... i dont mean to offend anyone, not by any means. it's just how i feel. and i do relate. i once felt as if i was starting the rest of my life from a certain point. my point in life just happened to be sooner than, apparently, almost everyone else's.
there's not much else to say on the subject without getting into certain details of my life which i dont really feel like doing at the moment... (sorry, if you were expecting it) if you really want to know, ask me.
part two: the day's shenanigans.
Morning:
i wake up and get out of bed this morning at around 9. then i get ready for school and whatnot. i drive to the school and i have the hardest time finding parking. i had to park out in the boonies and even then i had to back up and i almost hit a person (someone i knew, btw)
Math:
i am sitting outside my math class and Matt Hissong walks up and takes a seat next to me (he's trying to crash a math class) and we talk. i haven't seen him in a very long time, let alone talk to him. it's nice to know that we are now on better terms than what we left off as the last time i spoke to him. (but maybe it was just my impression that we weren't on that great of terms).
the teacher had similar mannerisms and taught just like older LeBeau... but no sweat, it's my third year of calc. Sara and i talked with Matt almost the whole class period.
Passing Time:
i walk around and locate one of my classes for tomorrow. then i see some more old friends and i say hello to them. that was pretty cool.
French:
i am sitting in french 101 with Rima and the teacher is actually from France, which is pretty cool. i am sitting there, feeding Rima answers and the teacher thinks that she is really cool and that she knows a lot about french culture and the french language; and i just laugh. and the teacher starts her lesson with: "je m'appelle..." and i just start laughing (not out loud, mind you, but silently to myself and a bit with Rima) that class is a breeze!
Passing More Time:
i decide that i want to go home. so i do. then i lay on the floor and close my eyes for 45 mins, in my old tradition of sleeping (no joke, i would honestly consider that sleep in the days of IB, which really weren't that long ago...) then i go back to the school and i have no trouble finding parking.
CIS:
i really like my CIS teacher. he wears a cowboy hat and apparently sings karaoke... lol. he takes roll and then he starts to go over the syllabus and when he is done talking about what he wants to talk about he asks us if we have any questions and there were only about 5. he then says: "well, i guess you all can go, then" or something along those lines, so we all leave. it's only 1900 (or 7 pm for all of you who dont like military time) and so i turn to Dakota and say: "hey, you want to go to the dog park?" and so we went to the dog park
The Evening:
so Dakota and i went to the dog park and had fun with all the cool playground stuff. then we decided that we should call people and tell/ask them to join us. so we called Sara, Woody, Niiki (and vicariously Chelle) and Brendan... Woody said she would try to make it, Nikki and Chelle were about to eat dinner, and Brendan wouldn't answer his phone... so it ended up being just me, Dakota and Sara at the dog park chillin and having fun and stuff.
great conversation bit (it's abbreviated a little):
Sara: "what are those people doing?"
we decided that they were running in slow motion
Dakota: "why?" (or something along those lines)
Sara: "maybe they are making a movie for people who like to watch their movies on fast forward"
Me: "it would be a silent film..."
Sara: "they'd just have REALLY long subtitles"
we all burst out in laughter
the three of us then decide to go to get ice cream and so we all go to MacDonald's, where Sara and i proceed, or rather continue (because we actually have several of these moments at the park), to have several "like this (includes hand gesture)" moments. which make Dakota face palm and laugh. the best part is that we couldnt really help it, it just happens. ahh, good times.
so that was my day. fun filled and great, like every other day, for the most part. :) i look forward to many more!
--as always
Sunday, 23 August 2009
Don't touch that, it's hot.
why is it that the things that are inevitable always hurt the most? the pain you see coming hurts worse that it really should... it's like, when you anticipate there to be pain, and you are waiting for it, you always seem to feel it more acutely...
what's up with that? why do we do that to ourselves? if we know it's going to happen, why do we brace ourselves? why do we make it hurt more? what the heck! whatever... we can't all be like those people who walk across live coals... such is life and so it goes.
--as always
what's up with that? why do we do that to ourselves? if we know it's going to happen, why do we brace ourselves? why do we make it hurt more? what the heck! whatever... we can't all be like those people who walk across live coals... such is life and so it goes.
--as always
Friday, 21 August 2009
opposites attract?
i feel like i have bipolar nights... because i really like the night, it's one of my favorite times. it's a time that i feel i can most be myself, where the lights arent so bright and i can see better, and i feel more free and more relaxed. but it seems like no one else likes nighttime as much as i do... everyone likes there to be total silence; and dont get me wrong, silence is good, but i would like to be able to do things.
nighttime is my favorite time of day, but it's always the time i feel the worst. (hence the whole bipolar nights theory) lol... i just feel like i shouldnt have to tip-toe around just to get anything done... i wish i lived on my own...
--as always
nighttime is my favorite time of day, but it's always the time i feel the worst. (hence the whole bipolar nights theory) lol... i just feel like i shouldnt have to tip-toe around just to get anything done... i wish i lived on my own...
--as always
Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Maybe I'm just out of my mind!!
today has been full of stuff. it's not very often (if ever) that i post two things in one day. but today is one of those days
i have a song for you all. it's a classic. one that i didnt choose for the lyrics but for the feeling it leaves you with. so here it is:
"I'm With You" by Avril Lavigne
"I'm standing on the bridge
I'm waiting in the dark
I thought that you'd be here by now
There's nothing but the rain
No footsteps on the ground
I'm listening but there's no sound
Isn't anyone trying to find me?
Won't somebody come take me home?
It's a damn cold night
I'm trying to figure out this life
Won't you take me by the hand
Take me somewhere new
I don't know who you are
but I, I'm with you
I'm with you
I'm looking for a place
I'm searching for a face
Is anybody here I know?
'Cause nothing's going right
And everything's a mess
And no one likes to be alone
Isn't anyone trying to find me?
Won't somebody come take me home?
It's a damn cold night
I'm trying to figure out this life
Won't you take me by the hand
Take me somewhere new
I don't know who you are
but I, I'm with you
I'm with you
Oh! Why is everything so confusing?
Maybe I'm just out of my mind!
It's a damn cold night
I'm trying to figure out this life
Won't you take me by the hand
Take me somewhere new
I don't know who you are
but I, I'm with you
I'm with you
Take me by the hand
Take me somewhere new
I don't know who you are
but I, I'm with you
I'm with you
Take me by the hand
Take me somewhere new
I don't know who you are
but I, I'm with you
I'm with you
I'm with you"
this song always leaves me feeling sad. and this is definitely and day for sad. ... i did it to myself, but thats the way these things go. or so it seems. either way this day at this time is a moment, is a time, is a day for sadness.
it is also a day for happiness. as i said earlier, i got a new bird today, and i absolutely love him. he's so great.
also it's a day for fun. there were many fun moments for today. Nikki came over today and we watched SGA and that was very fun. also, i went on a date today, and that was very fun. i had a nice home-cooked vegetarian Chilean dish, which was very thoughtful on the part on my date. very encouraging. and then we all played wii mario cart and i lost every single round, but still had a blast.
so, despite the jumble of things and the roller-coaster of emotions, i think that i had deemed this day an overall good day, but it still has me left with this feeling. this feeling that you get from listening to this song...
--as always
i have a song for you all. it's a classic. one that i didnt choose for the lyrics but for the feeling it leaves you with. so here it is:
"I'm With You" by Avril Lavigne
"I'm standing on the bridge
I'm waiting in the dark
I thought that you'd be here by now
There's nothing but the rain
No footsteps on the ground
I'm listening but there's no sound
Isn't anyone trying to find me?
Won't somebody come take me home?
It's a damn cold night
I'm trying to figure out this life
Won't you take me by the hand
Take me somewhere new
I don't know who you are
but I, I'm with you
I'm with you
I'm looking for a place
I'm searching for a face
Is anybody here I know?
'Cause nothing's going right
And everything's a mess
And no one likes to be alone
Isn't anyone trying to find me?
Won't somebody come take me home?
It's a damn cold night
I'm trying to figure out this life
Won't you take me by the hand
Take me somewhere new
I don't know who you are
but I, I'm with you
I'm with you
Oh! Why is everything so confusing?
Maybe I'm just out of my mind!
It's a damn cold night
I'm trying to figure out this life
Won't you take me by the hand
Take me somewhere new
I don't know who you are
but I, I'm with you
I'm with you
Take me by the hand
Take me somewhere new
I don't know who you are
but I, I'm with you
I'm with you
Take me by the hand
Take me somewhere new
I don't know who you are
but I, I'm with you
I'm with you
I'm with you"
this song always leaves me feeling sad. and this is definitely and day for sad. ... i did it to myself, but thats the way these things go. or so it seems. either way this day at this time is a moment, is a time, is a day for sadness.
it is also a day for happiness. as i said earlier, i got a new bird today, and i absolutely love him. he's so great.
also it's a day for fun. there were many fun moments for today. Nikki came over today and we watched SGA and that was very fun. also, i went on a date today, and that was very fun. i had a nice home-cooked vegetarian Chilean dish, which was very thoughtful on the part on my date. very encouraging. and then we all played wii mario cart and i lost every single round, but still had a blast.
so, despite the jumble of things and the roller-coaster of emotions, i think that i had deemed this day an overall good day, but it still has me left with this feeling. this feeling that you get from listening to this song...
--as always
That is the greatest thing I have ever heard!
i just got a new finch today because one of the two that i had died, and zebra finches do not like to be alone. so i got this new finch and he he very young and excitable and he's an all around spaz. but, he has the greatest song EVER!!! it's the funniest song i have ever heard. and i have heard some weird songs.
when i first got finches, i got three. and only one had a relatively normal song. one of them sung Woody the Woodpecker's song, no joke. and the other sounded like and old car engine trying to turn over. lol ... but this one. this new guy, he sings this song that sounds like computerized springs compressing and expanding. it's soo funny!!
--as always
when i first got finches, i got three. and only one had a relatively normal song. one of them sung Woody the Woodpecker's song, no joke. and the other sounded like and old car engine trying to turn over. lol ... but this one. this new guy, he sings this song that sounds like computerized springs compressing and expanding. it's soo funny!!
--as always
Sunday, 2 August 2009
The world seemed a restless place
Sad song of the day:
"Song For Ten" by Murray Gold
"Well I woke up today
And the world seemed a restless place
It could have been that way for me
And I wondered around
And I thought of your face
That Christmas looking back at me
I wish today was just like every other day
'Cause today has been the best day
Everything I ever dreamed
And I started to walk
Pretty soon I will run
And I'll be running back to you
'Cause I followed my star
And that's what you are
I've had a merry time with you
I wish today was just like every other day
'Cause today has been the best day
Everything I ever dreamed
So have a good life
Do it for me
Make me so proud like you want me to be
Wherever you are
I'm thinking of you oceans apart
I want you to know
Well I woke up today
And you're on the other side
Our time will never come again
But if you can still dream
Close your eyes, it will seem
That you can see me now and then
I wish today was just like every other day
'Cause today has been the best day
Everything I ever dreamed
I wish today was just like every other day
'Cause today has been the best day
Everything I ever dreamed"
Happy song of the day:
"Hope For The Hopeless" by A Fine Frenzy
"Stitch in your knitted brow
And you don't know how
You're gonna get it out
Crushed under heavy chest
Trying to catch your breath
But it always beats you by a step
Alright now
Making the best of it
Playing the hand you get
Well you're not alone in this
There's hope for the hopeless
There's hope for the hopeless
There's hope
Cold in a summer breeze
Yeah, you're shivering
On your bended knee
Still, when your heart is sore
And the heavens pour
Like a willow bending in the storm
You'll make it
Running against the wind
Playing the cards you get
Something is bound to give
There's hope for the hopeless
There's hope for the hopeless
There's hope
There's hope
There's hope
There's hope"
Usually I choose songs that pertain to what I am feeling, or what I am going through... but these two songs have very little to do with what I am feeling or what I am going through(actually, I guess I've been a little out of that practice for the past few...). And if you've heard these songs or if you read the lyrics and think that I must have listed them under the wrong sections, I didn't. The true meaning of the first is the parting of two people and the desire to remember the happy times, and it is genuinely a sad song. The second is about hope and though things go wrong and bad things happen, there is hope for everyone and everything.
Today was an odd day. Odd in many, many ways. I suppose I don't have any other words for it than that, just odd. My mother comes back home tomorrow and I have been Miracle Max all day. Constantly making things happen miraculously. Such as: cleaning the entire kitchen in under 30 minutes, driving people around town, getting home early, wrapping mattresses (don't ask, it's silly), keeping the boys in line (no easy task), and several other countless little tasks... all in record time. My mother says it's because I have functioning legs... but that's only because it's hard for her to move around.
I made a lot of decisions today; some that still have uncertain outcomes and others with outcomes that I can thoroughly predict. Sometimes I forget. I forget just why I feel the way I do, which is actually a silly thing to say and almost a complete lie. But there it stands... see, I hear people say all the time that you can't have two things at the same time, you can't have both black and white... but I don't believe that, I am living proof that you absolutely can.
So, that's the real reason for both of these songs. Two songs pertaining to life and it's hardships and one is sad and the other is happy. Black and white; at the same time. It's been one of those sort of days, where you have the good along with the bad, the joy along with the sorrow, the motivation along with the apathy... both existing in the same place, at the same time. So, that's it. That's all I have to say.
--as always
"Song For Ten" by Murray Gold
"Well I woke up today
And the world seemed a restless place
It could have been that way for me
And I wondered around
And I thought of your face
That Christmas looking back at me
I wish today was just like every other day
'Cause today has been the best day
Everything I ever dreamed
And I started to walk
Pretty soon I will run
And I'll be running back to you
'Cause I followed my star
And that's what you are
I've had a merry time with you
I wish today was just like every other day
'Cause today has been the best day
Everything I ever dreamed
So have a good life
Do it for me
Make me so proud like you want me to be
Wherever you are
I'm thinking of you oceans apart
I want you to know
Well I woke up today
And you're on the other side
Our time will never come again
But if you can still dream
Close your eyes, it will seem
That you can see me now and then
I wish today was just like every other day
'Cause today has been the best day
Everything I ever dreamed
I wish today was just like every other day
'Cause today has been the best day
Everything I ever dreamed"
Happy song of the day:
"Hope For The Hopeless" by A Fine Frenzy
"Stitch in your knitted brow
And you don't know how
You're gonna get it out
Crushed under heavy chest
Trying to catch your breath
But it always beats you by a step
Alright now
Making the best of it
Playing the hand you get
Well you're not alone in this
There's hope for the hopeless
There's hope for the hopeless
There's hope
Cold in a summer breeze
Yeah, you're shivering
On your bended knee
Still, when your heart is sore
And the heavens pour
Like a willow bending in the storm
You'll make it
Running against the wind
Playing the cards you get
Something is bound to give
There's hope for the hopeless
There's hope for the hopeless
There's hope
There's hope
There's hope
There's hope"
Usually I choose songs that pertain to what I am feeling, or what I am going through... but these two songs have very little to do with what I am feeling or what I am going through(actually, I guess I've been a little out of that practice for the past few...). And if you've heard these songs or if you read the lyrics and think that I must have listed them under the wrong sections, I didn't. The true meaning of the first is the parting of two people and the desire to remember the happy times, and it is genuinely a sad song. The second is about hope and though things go wrong and bad things happen, there is hope for everyone and everything.
Today was an odd day. Odd in many, many ways. I suppose I don't have any other words for it than that, just odd. My mother comes back home tomorrow and I have been Miracle Max all day. Constantly making things happen miraculously. Such as: cleaning the entire kitchen in under 30 minutes, driving people around town, getting home early, wrapping mattresses (don't ask, it's silly), keeping the boys in line (no easy task), and several other countless little tasks... all in record time. My mother says it's because I have functioning legs... but that's only because it's hard for her to move around.
I made a lot of decisions today; some that still have uncertain outcomes and others with outcomes that I can thoroughly predict. Sometimes I forget. I forget just why I feel the way I do, which is actually a silly thing to say and almost a complete lie. But there it stands... see, I hear people say all the time that you can't have two things at the same time, you can't have both black and white... but I don't believe that, I am living proof that you absolutely can.
So, that's the real reason for both of these songs. Two songs pertaining to life and it's hardships and one is sad and the other is happy. Black and white; at the same time. It's been one of those sort of days, where you have the good along with the bad, the joy along with the sorrow, the motivation along with the apathy... both existing in the same place, at the same time. So, that's it. That's all I have to say.
--as always
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