December 7, 1941

December 7th 1941- a day that will live in infamy. . .

Remember those who have fallen! They died for your freedom.

Another Birthday Has Gone

So on Tuesday I turned 18.

I do feel a bit different. Like now I can be with adults and be included as an adult. I doubt this aspiration is anymore true now then on Monday but. . . :) 

Well anyways I was looking up online who I shared a Birthday with and I gotta say some pretty cool authors poped up!

Louisa May Alcott

Madeleine L'engle

And I saved the BEST for last!!!

C. S. Lewis!

How cool is that :D

Rather Random and Overdue

So I have not posted much of anything in the past few months but school has been busy and I guess when I did have the time I just didn't feel like it.

Anyways,

life has moved steadily onwards and my first semester in ITP (interpreters program) is almost over. I only have one day left!! 

My Thanksgiving was a little crazy. We had about 25-27 people over. It was fun 

and there was a 

prodigious amount of food about a third of which is sitting in my frige.

 Oh I recently found this lady (Loreena Mckennitt) who sings a lot of sorta Celtic/mythical songs. I don't like many of them but

she does sing some of my favorite 

poems!!!!! 

How cool is that :D 

The Highwayman 

The Lady of Shalott

both of which stem from my love of Anne Shirley :) 

Well time to sign off 

and finish writing my last paper for the semester (after I finish catching up on blogs :P)

A Thanks for My Freedom

A few little things that I love :)

And a Decade is Gone. . .

Silence (over Manhattan)

Paula Bardell

A black September shadow cloaks the dawn,

The City’s once white teeth now rotting stumps,

Midst choking dusty embers ether-borne,
Its shrunken soundless heart now barely pumps.
Infernos upon retribution rise,
Fanaticism maddening the flames,
Its once imposing deities abscise,
As the faceless antagonist proclaims:
A consummation sweet but unfulfilled,
A penetrative burst without regret,
A zealous passion never to be stilled,
An earthly instinct powerful, and yet -
This bitter loathing blowing from the East,
Curtailed but could not kill the feisty beast.

 Psalm 23:4

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death 

I will fear no evil: 

For You are with me;

Well it sure is hot out here in the desert.

Sorry I haven't written is a while but things have just been, well 

Hot  ( over 100 F)

so I have felt like nothing but sitting in the cool basement watching Psych or going to work.

That is one thing that has boosted my moral in this depressing heat.

I have a new awesome job! 

I get to sell fresh (mostly) local produce. 

So far I have only worked a couple of days but I have enjoyed it.

I hope it stays that way :p

Oh yes and I also got a 

PHONE!!

Goodbye to the days of being the only teenager still in the dark ages.

The only sad thing is as it is a Tracphone and I ordered it on Friday I have not yet received it yet :(

But it should come by Wednesday. 

Oh yes: School begins on Thursday :(

I wish summer would last for at least three more months and it wouldn't get cold and cloudy.

Yes I love fall and I enjoy snow but summer is such a lovely time full of

Freedom and Sunshine. 

No school, time to do whatever or just do nothing, sitting in the sun reading, or

playing ultimate frisbee and volleyball. 

Fairs and garage/yard sales :) 

But then I guess it also comes with times like this where it is so hot one can't move without breaking a sweat so. . .