Pieces of Today, Oct. 7th, 2016

I'm on a Twenty One Pilots kick. Seriously, this band is killing me.

The weather is GORGEOUS and OH MY GOODNESS I LOVE IT.

I'm reading Les Misérables and maaaaann did I underestimate how lengthy it was.

Browsing through my beautifully illustrated copy of Bulfinch's Mythology and feeling the wonderful thrill of it rushing through my body.

I'd die for you/ That's easy to say/ We have a list of people that we would take/ A bullet for them/ A bullet for you/ A bullet for everybody in this room/ But I don't seem to see many bullets coming through

(I told you I was on a ToP kick.)

Now is the climax to the story/ that gives the demons and angels purpose

Why won't you speak where I happen to be?

And I begin to envy the headlights driving south/ I wanna crack the door so I can just fall out/ but then I remember when you packed my car/ you reached in the back and buckled up your heart/ for me to drive away with/ I began to understand why God died

Open the slits/ in your face/ and start your day.

(Someone should probably stop me now.)

Pieces of Today, Aug. 31st 2016

#1. Grandma's house! Food! Movies! Conspiracy shows on the History Channel!

#2. Provolone cheese.

#3. Chipped toenail polish.

#4. Phineas and Ferb.

#5. Reese's-flavored cereal.

#6. Grass-pulling.

#7. A bright blue chair.

#8. Sunlight through the window blinds.

#9. (Your hands can heal, your hands can bruise.) 

#10. An adult coloring book and it's surprising effectiveness.

Pieces of Today, Jul. 29, 2016

(Or more accurately, Pieces of the Last Month or So)

#1. I found a ton of thread and stuff under my bed and now I'm braiding bracelets when I get bored.

#2. I've been downloading as much music as possible onto my iPod, and it's glorious. (My iPod's name is James, by the way. Yes, I name my belongings.)

#3. A LOT of Downton Abbey. I ought to know the whole series by heart by now. It's ridiculous and I love it.

#4. Been working on my art journal/quote book.

{They beat me with clubs to see if I was strong enough and when the 

clubs broke they decided I was. -Fezzik, The Princess Bride}

#5. Went to a family reunion and did the usual awkward re-meeting-of-cousins and binge eating and playing of cards.

#6. WE HAVE A SCHLOTZKY'S IN OUR TOWN NOW. THIS IS MONUMENTAL.

#7. Visited my Grandma, introduced her to Panda Express. Lots of orange chicken involved. We also went to Barnes and Noble, where I spent a hundred dollars on books that I definitely, absolutely, no-doubt-about-it needed. Stop looking at me like I have a problem.

#8. ('Cuz he knows that it's me they've been comin' to see, to forget about life for a while.) 

#9. (And you said you'd always have my back/ oh, but how were we to know?)

#10. And lastly, but definitely not leastly:

Our youth pastor's wife posted this on Facebook a while back and I can't tell if she knows or not. 

This is the sort of thing that keeps me up at night. 

Pieces of Today, Mar. 14th 2016

1. A taste of my art journaling:

2. Cleaning. More cleaning. And sweeping. Sweeping is not cleaning.

3. (Everybody in the ol' cell block, dancin' to the jailhouse rock.) 

4. A new computer and a very confusing keyboard. (Seriously, this thing is so spread-out and hard to type on.)

5. Paperwork.

6. MASHED POTATOES.

7. (And I don't need this life, I just need somebody to die for.) 

8. Still mulling over Harvest America.

9. (Well, I've heard there was a secret chord, that David played, and it pleased the Lord...) 

10. And such an overwhelming sense of grace; grace that saved a wretch like me.

Pieces of Today, Jan. 7th 2016

1. A WIP that I don't think I'll ever get done:

 

2. A dead computer and the potential loss of five-years worth of work. (I'm praying that'll turn out not to be the case, but it's looking pretty grim right now. Pray for my sanity.)

3. Cinnamon toast and resulting pounds. (I tried to be stoic. It didn't work.)

4. (I came here for sanctuary, away from the winds and the sounds of the city.)

5. Dating-site ads. (Where did they get the idea that I want to find my "sensual Russian soulmate"? Sorry, but no. Just...no.)

6. A new Bible study and an old Bible.

7. (Sing a song for the bad man...)

8. (World-losers and world-forsakers,/on whom the pale moon gleams./Yet, we are the movers and shakers/of the world, forever, it seems.)

9. Spicy oyster crackers.

10. Annnd running out of the Christmas chocolate already. Whoops. *wink*

Pieces of Today, Sep. 17th 2015

#1. A bit of art I did for a friend:

#2. Some awkward DuoLingo time:

#3. Realizing I have responsibilities:

#4. And shirking them anyway.

#5. School. Just...school.

#6. "The problem is not the problem, the problem is your attitude about the problem."

#7. Black ink pens that work. 

#8. Composition books. Black composition books.

#9. iPods and Spotify.

#10. Screenshots. Lots of screenshots: