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Another sad errand to the deep parts of South Jersey tomorrow. While everyone else is out shopping I'm headed to visit the grave of a dear friend who would have been 21 on Saturday. She would never let me forget she was 20 days older than me. <3
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[23 Nov 2009|10:48pm] |
Listening to music about the city you live in that shaped your life before you lived in that city is a very jarring experience. Both good and bad, I suppose, because you know that you aren't alone in how you feel about this place where you live and the life you live here, but also because you know that it's starting to seem like a never ending cycle. I love this place in its weird beauty, and I feel like when I leave it I will leave a part of myself with it. Or maybe I'll stay for a while and be one of those people who don't leave after college but hangs around for a while for some reason known only to them. Or maybe I'll leave and come back - be one of the few in the city who isn't part of the immigrant or student population.
This is brought on in part by the weird, unsettling but enlightening and inspiring experiences I've had over the last week.
I should really be finishing my logic homework.
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I suggest:
~Taking a walk around your city in the cold Autumn mornings
~Making your own soup stock - it is much more delicious and satisfying than from a can or carton
~Trying to smile when you first wake; it makes each day much better
~Sleeping in the company of those you consider living with before actually living with them. It avoids trouble or surprises, later.
~Taking multi-vitamins. If you can't swallow pills, they make gummy vitamins for adults, now. Also chocolate chews.
~Eating vegetarian or vegan at least once a week. It saves on grocery bills, is really yummy and cuts down your carbon foot print
~Eating locally grown/cultivated food for the same reasons as above.
~Buying a hat and scarf and gloves you really love and can wear all Winter.
~Seeing your favorite musician/band perform live, especially if it's for your favorite album
~Admiring the work of your favorite artist in person rather than prints
~Buying a pair of sunglasses you really love. They protect your eyes and can provide an impromptu disguise
~Create a signature drink/recipe to bring to potlucks. It makes things much easier to coordinate when you know ______ is bringing the _______ and that it will be delicious.
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| Love, Love, Love. |
[12 Nov 2009|09:36pm] |
1. I've modified my diet so that I put on weight simply so I'm healthier. I haven't stepped on a scale since I started this project but my pants are starting to fit, again, and I no longer get dizzy or pass out when I stand, so I think I'm doing well. I need to remodify this diet, though, once I know how much weight I've gained, to either put on more or maintain where I'm at, phasing out soda and high fructose corn syrup yet again. They've been re-introduced in small amounts because for simple gaining of fat they do a wonderful job.
2. Caramel Crunch Chex Mix.
3. Garlic hummus with lemon juice and olive oil.
(This list is starting to be about food)
4. Tea! Always, tea.
5 Holiday cheer and all that crap. :p (Srsly. It just makes me warm since in my family, Holidays start with Thanksgiving and don't really stop until after New Year. Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, My birthday, Christmas, Boxing Day (:D), New Year's Eve/Day, My brother's birthday.)
6. Deep, heady, intoxicating scents.
7. Planning the future interior decoration for my future house/apartment/dwelling space
8. Vivid dreams, even if they are frustrating sometimes.
9. Corporations celebrating veterans like my dad in weird ways - for Veteran's Day a lot of restaurants were giving out free meals, for example.
10. Good, long, sleeps.
11. Animal love. Fuzzy things just make me so happy. Well, all animal things, but I can't exactly nuzzle my fish.
12. My brother turning away money-making opportunities to pass them on to me because, "Cassie needs it more." <3
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| My boyfriend is weird. |
[24 Oct 2009|01:09pm] |
"I love you Piggy." - Me, to Brian while lying in bed.
"I love you Tupac." - Brian, to me, while lying beside me.
"... Did you just call me Tupac?" - Me
"Yeah, you just called me Biggie." - Brian
"No, I definitely didn't. I said Piggy." - Me
"Oh. Well, I still love you, Tupac." - Brian
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[01 Sep 2009|08:50pm] |
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Already, one day in, I have too much work with my 18 credits for a job this semester. That is fine, and probably for the better. Learn to live poor again. And time to actually focus on the idea for a new essay project I have. I haven't felt this burn of inspiration in a long, long time. It's exciting and scary.
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| I'm done with my Summer courses. And am here for a week or so before gone until almost Sept. |
[12 Aug 2009|10:55am] |
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Basing this solely on my "Summer '09" playlist, I will say that 9 songs later the Summer is ready to be over and was honestly, just okay. Especially since I'm already working on an "Autumn '09" playlist that sounds just three songs in so much better than Summer's did. Some Michael Jackson and a little bit of Weezy did me well enough, but not phenomenally. That said, go listen to Owl City and Company of Thieves! Go! Go!
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[30 Jul 2009|11:36am] |
Me: Mom, if I were to plan a trip to China for about two years from now, post-graduation, would you help me fund? Additionally, would you want to come?
Mom: *shrug* Yeah, sure. I don't know how your dad is going to feel about it, but sure. Talk to your grandmother and your aunts, too.
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[16 Jul 2009|01:58pm] |
I took a sick day, today, because despite taking a lactaid pill to eat pizza last night, I still spent this morning from about a half hour after I woke to an hour and a half later doubled over in stomachcramps and feeling like I was going to puke. It's good to catch up on sleep, even if I did miss a WWI lecture in class this morning and I'm on a tea and toast and rice and clear broth and crackers diet until tomorrow. I'm hoping I'll be all picked up and ready to eat normally and spend a fantastic weekend in Long Island tomorrow. In the spirit of Things I Love Thursday and my Happy Lists, I'm doing another! This one is a glorious mix of a Happy List, a Things I Love Thursday list and a "Things in General that are Wonderful" list. :D
( Fifty More Things That I Love or are Simply Wonderful. )
Earlier incarnations can be found here:
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| Things I Love Thursday |
[02 Jul 2009|02:02pm] |
1. Portion Control. Even if I am still eating something like two meals a day, if that.
2. Making trail mix from dorm leftovers! Cashews (roasted and chocolate covered both), almonds, pretzels, dried cranberries, golden raisins, pretzels, carob chips and (if I can get my hands on them) white chocolate chips!
3. My sweet, nuzzly hamsterbaby!
4. Class at 8am starting next week forcing me to keep normal Summer (Camp) hours again, rather than this awful sleep at three am wake at eleven am schedule I have going on now.
5. Boyfriend and his mystification at Costco, even though it was he who insisted we go so we could buy two hundred fla-vor-Ice.
6. Fla-vor-Ice. Well, freeze pops in general.
7. Outdoor chimneys
8. 1950's themed Sweet 16's and plans with Brian to outdress all of the other attendees.
9. Oldschool mix cds from middle school/high school
10. EMPLOYMENT! I always seem to fall back on counter work at delis and cafes.
11. A bleach kit and imported purple hair dye waiting to be used on my poor, unsuspecting head.
12. Basing entire outfits around shoes.
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[12 Jun 2009|01:11am] |
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I can't keep doing this.
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[01 Jun 2009|10:53pm] |
Hello Darlings!
Will you do me a favor? I am looking for books. All kinds of books, so long as they are books. Mostly because I have not much to do this Summer, otherwise. So will you help me out? Recommend things that I MUST read, that my life will not have been complete without me having read them. Or books that are silly, or sad, or anything. Just books.
Thank you so much!
xx,
C.
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[19 May 2009|11:40pm] |
I have decided that if for whatever reason I can't get a job (because I can't lift, because I abhor office work, whatever) then I will limit myself to spending money on gas and personally at most $25 a week - since I'm living with my parents I don't need to buy food, or anything, really, unless its extravagance. It will be an experiment in living simply and letting others take care of me/the Universe do what she will. Even if it does mean totally disregarding my diet and eating whatever cheap food comes my way when I'm in PA. I did not mean for that to rhyme. I'm expecting tax refunds soon, anyway, and am generally really good at not spending money on unnecessary things. With Summer it becomes difficult, though. We shall see what happens, I suppose.
I should mention that my friends who I have kept from my first camp (eight years of friendship and counting!) sent me flowers in the shape of a cupcake to make me feel better. I'm in love with the flowers and my amazing friends. I'm making thank you cards, because Goddess knows I don't have much else to do with my time if I'm confining myself to walking distances. Maybe I'll start walking/exercising regularly again, since I won't have a hill to climb up and down at least twice a day for two and a half months.
An MRI is scheduled for me early tomorrow morning. And then in the afternoon I have physical therapy again. Thankfully after that Sarah and I are going to get cupcakes (we tried today and the cupcakery was closed D: ) and finish the tie dying we started tonight. Then I'm taking one of the hamster babies home with me. She and I might be going to the mall on Thursday night so she can buy leggings to match a supercute dress she bought today.
Brian and I will have been together officially for 6 months on Saturday. Eight unofficially. Almost enough time to have created a miniature version of ourselves, which we thankfully have not. He makes me super crazy happy.
Perhaps a lazy Summer will be good for me. I don't know. This is dumb. I still need to go through my things and get rid of the "STUFF TO BE USED AT CAMP" things. A lei, a laurel wreath, stacks of magazines, cheerleading pom poms and horn. Things like that. I'm thinking I'll keep the toga, though.
♥
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[07 May 2009|08:31pm] |
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So I just spent a good two hours writing a letter in the same style of found poems, using song lyrics. I did this instead of studying for my intro to American Studies exam. I think it's worth it.
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