So... most of you know that I did not move to Colorado, but took up an offer at University College London, and will be in England come September! I have my ticket, my confirmation of attendance, and on Monday I will make an 8 hour round trip into Dallas (via a-train and dart) to get my visa! Which cost a good $450.00 so it better go through...
I am watching my aunt's house (and the cousins) and the younger one is not doing too well; he got lost for about an hour, opened the door to someone after 11pm, promptly forgot what the policeman (who turned out to be at the door) said, and broke a huge fancy bowl so that it cut him all over the arm and shredded my right foot :(
Not cool.
I have my first fancy piece of luggage! So exciting.
Also, I am going to be in Colorado on September 2nd. I will try to keep everyone informed!
Thursday 4 August 2011
Saturday 23 April 2011
Moving!
I am moving to Colorado in a little over 3 weeks, and I wanted a way of keeping in touch with the people who mattered to me, who may care what is happening :P
Stopped therapy this week; yikes. I really loved my therapist; I think she and I did great work that helped me focus on redefining my life and I am definitely trying to interpret my life in a more positive way.
Lots of I statements ^_^
But it's super weird to be moving out. I am trying to purge my stuff of unnecessary clutter. Do I really need my ironic twilight collage? Nope! And I do have to clean the fridge out. Blurg...
Monday 21 March 2011
Unspeakable Love
If I could speak I would bind you to me with the power of a million spells,
If I knew how to keep you I would,
And we would be intertwined forever,
With our faces superimposed on each others shadows,
I see like you,
I smell like you,
I breathe like you,
And breathe you like a crisp autumn breeze,
I inherited the love of you from lifetimes before,
Ten thousand years is almost enough,
But here comes the pattern again,
The need to be,
To breathe again,
Perhaps we posses each other,
Locked in eternal happiness,
Eternal pain,
Eternal bliss,
You cannot escape the beginning if there is no end,
If I could speak I would drown out the sounds of anguish in my mind,
Just the thought of you is enough,
To scare away the fear,
The sadness,
The void of emptiness that haunts the vast wreckage of my soul,
I think of you and fight to speak,
Of the long, forever years of coming back to this place,
With you and me,
And the shadows of lives past,
We all come together,
And weep for fear and sadness,
And the annihilation of both,
With the promise a temporary reprieve,
Tears made sweeter by their barter:
Time for love,
Tears of heartbreak, and possibilities,
Tears…
Of unspeakable love.
If I knew how to keep you I would,
And we would be intertwined forever,
With our faces superimposed on each others shadows,
I see like you,
I smell like you,
I breathe like you,
And breathe you like a crisp autumn breeze,
I inherited the love of you from lifetimes before,
Ten thousand years is almost enough,
But here comes the pattern again,
The need to be,
To breathe again,
Perhaps we posses each other,
Locked in eternal happiness,
Eternal pain,
Eternal bliss,
You cannot escape the beginning if there is no end,
If I could speak I would drown out the sounds of anguish in my mind,
Just the thought of you is enough,
To scare away the fear,
The sadness,
The void of emptiness that haunts the vast wreckage of my soul,
I think of you and fight to speak,
Of the long, forever years of coming back to this place,
With you and me,
And the shadows of lives past,
We all come together,
And weep for fear and sadness,
And the annihilation of both,
With the promise a temporary reprieve,
Tears made sweeter by their barter:
Time for love,
Tears of heartbreak, and possibilities,
Tears…
Of unspeakable love.
Friday 29 October 2010
Kitty for a day
So, one of my friends found a kitten at her house and my roommate and I adopted it a couple days ago. They were calling the cat Jennifer but Jennifer was definitely a fixed male cat who we called Herbst (Autumn in German). And then we found out roommate was allergic. Damn sinuses!
So Herbst went back to the country...
But I wanted to put up pictures of Herbst, so I needed to make a blog entry :)
P.S. When I get a cat next year it's going to be a long-hair, since Herbst shed all over EVERYTHING.
Thursday 21 October 2010
Cheese is the adhesive that keeps my mind together
Today seems to be another bad day. But I have my therapy appointment today so maybe it'll get better. So I will start by saying:
My roommate and I are out of cheese again, because, well, cheese is the shit. And since my decision to become vegetarian I have been consuming cheese like it will somehow cure my hunger for bacon (which it won't, btw).
Secondly, what is up with tights as pants? I had to keep a straight face while talking to someone and stop myself from shouting "PAINFUL CAMELTOE!" at her throughout the conversation.
I am sorting through mags for the WMST department at my job and there is about 35 years of Good Housekeeping . Princess Di is on about every one in three of them. And they are super misogynistic.
I feel a little bit empty right now. I wish it was like a PMS craving and I could go out and buy three pounds of salt and vinegar chips, a gallon of ice cream, and 70% cocoa chocolate bars and it would feel better.
Stupid body. Stupid mind.
I am going to go back to sorting through GH now, maybe that will fill the void. Isn't that why mags were invented?
My roommate and I are out of cheese again, because, well, cheese is the shit. And since my decision to become vegetarian I have been consuming cheese like it will somehow cure my hunger for bacon (which it won't, btw).
Secondly, what is up with tights as pants? I had to keep a straight face while talking to someone and stop myself from shouting "PAINFUL CAMELTOE!" at her throughout the conversation.
I am sorting through mags for the WMST department at my job and there is about 35 years of Good Housekeeping . Princess Di is on about every one in three of them. And they are super misogynistic.
I feel a little bit empty right now. I wish it was like a PMS craving and I could go out and buy three pounds of salt and vinegar chips, a gallon of ice cream, and 70% cocoa chocolate bars and it would feel better.
Stupid body. Stupid mind.
I am going to go back to sorting through GH now, maybe that will fill the void. Isn't that why mags were invented?
Wednesday 20 October 2010
So today all the purple shirts are making me feel sad
I am mine.
It's a lesson you learn early if you're going to grow up with abuse. You look around you and realise; the only person who cares what happens to me is within this flesh. My father beats me and from the way he talks to me I understand he hates me, my mother never speaks up for me. They both don't care. Or at least Mom doesn't care enough.
So within your walls you are safe. You live far away, you're princess Mia or Laura Ingells Wilder. You're Queen Amidala or Hermione Granger. You know you could be all these people if only you could get away. If you could get away you could be anything and everything. Everyone would love you. Like Mia's mother loved her, Laura's Pa made her safe, Queen Amidala kicked everyone's butt, and Hermione was so smart she didn't really need Harry and Ron, but she had them.
But in your heart of hearts, you know you can't be those people. First off, they're not real. Secondly, you were raised here, by these people. They don't love you enough to stop hitting you or to keep other people from doing so. In fact, they do things simply because they hate you, because it hurts. Moreover, they are nice to other people. SO nice, in fact, that your cousins envy your wonderful father.
"You must be so happy,"
So, that sneaky part of your mind that knows you can't be Hermione, no matter how hard it wishes, it knows why as well. There's something wrong with you. If your own father, who is simply marvelous to everyone else, is beating you; wouldn't that mean you were somehow deficient? If your own mother, who is supposed to love you and protect you, just watches as it happens, doesn't that say something about who you are?
So you try to change. Your father says everything is your fault? Maybe it is. You take responsibility. You're Mom says if you did housework better or "rubbed your father the wrong way" less, it would all work out? You become the maid. You stay out of your father's way. You say he is always right. You try...
But that doesn't work. Years go by and he still hates you and she still blames you and so you move on. You decide:
I am mine,
My parents have decided I am unworthy, and maybe I am. I have tried to change that and it's become obvious that I can't. This is one of the saddest conclusions you will ever have to come to. There is nothing you can change that will make you alright. Nothing you can do that will make you worth not hitting, not hating. That will make you worth love.
So, now what? You can't exactly live like this. You won't be able to survive the years it takes to get out of this horrible place. You won't make it out to see if you can be Hermione, the dreamy part of your brain screams.
So I will do it, the sneaky part says. If no one else wants the job, and it has to be done, then I will give it my best shot.
And you cocoon yourself. God, but it is a wonderful feeling. You think, it's ok that no one else loves me, because I do. I'm the reason I've survived this long, I'm the reason I will leave. I may not have Pa or Harry or Ron, or even jedi awesomeness. But I have something that's kept me afloat this long.
I have Me.
And with that power come certain limits. The only reason you realise you have this power is because that is also all you have. It will always be this way, only you. Within your own skin you're safe, because you trust You. You has kept you alive, placated you when it was hard, pushed you to still care when you almost gave up... Loved you.
Other people not so much.
So, one day You, with all your force and power, leaves. And you are safe, with the person you love. But it still hurts, because even though they are far away, hate radiates. It reaches everywhere. I can feel my father's hate from across the globe. In my dreams. In my memories. In my bones.
Because it is ME.
You want someone to prove that you are wrong, but you see only what proves you right. You want to hope. But You know it's just the dreamy part of your brain wishing to be Hermione again.
And you know that outside of your walls, there is a world filled with people. Not necessarily good people. Not bad people. But they are people. They are not You. And so you know how they will feel.
Outside of You you are unworthy.
It's a lesson you learn early if you're going to grow up with abuse. You look around you and realise; the only person who cares what happens to me is within this flesh. My father beats me and from the way he talks to me I understand he hates me, my mother never speaks up for me. They both don't care. Or at least Mom doesn't care enough.
So within your walls you are safe. You live far away, you're princess Mia or Laura Ingells Wilder. You're Queen Amidala or Hermione Granger. You know you could be all these people if only you could get away. If you could get away you could be anything and everything. Everyone would love you. Like Mia's mother loved her, Laura's Pa made her safe, Queen Amidala kicked everyone's butt, and Hermione was so smart she didn't really need Harry and Ron, but she had them.
But in your heart of hearts, you know you can't be those people. First off, they're not real. Secondly, you were raised here, by these people. They don't love you enough to stop hitting you or to keep other people from doing so. In fact, they do things simply because they hate you, because it hurts. Moreover, they are nice to other people. SO nice, in fact, that your cousins envy your wonderful father.
"You must be so happy,"
So, that sneaky part of your mind that knows you can't be Hermione, no matter how hard it wishes, it knows why as well. There's something wrong with you. If your own father, who is simply marvelous to everyone else, is beating you; wouldn't that mean you were somehow deficient? If your own mother, who is supposed to love you and protect you, just watches as it happens, doesn't that say something about who you are?
So you try to change. Your father says everything is your fault? Maybe it is. You take responsibility. You're Mom says if you did housework better or "rubbed your father the wrong way" less, it would all work out? You become the maid. You stay out of your father's way. You say he is always right. You try...
But that doesn't work. Years go by and he still hates you and she still blames you and so you move on. You decide:
I am mine,
My parents have decided I am unworthy, and maybe I am. I have tried to change that and it's become obvious that I can't. This is one of the saddest conclusions you will ever have to come to. There is nothing you can change that will make you alright. Nothing you can do that will make you worth not hitting, not hating. That will make you worth love.
So, now what? You can't exactly live like this. You won't be able to survive the years it takes to get out of this horrible place. You won't make it out to see if you can be Hermione, the dreamy part of your brain screams.
So I will do it, the sneaky part says. If no one else wants the job, and it has to be done, then I will give it my best shot.
And you cocoon yourself. God, but it is a wonderful feeling. You think, it's ok that no one else loves me, because I do. I'm the reason I've survived this long, I'm the reason I will leave. I may not have Pa or Harry or Ron, or even jedi awesomeness. But I have something that's kept me afloat this long.
I have Me.
And with that power come certain limits. The only reason you realise you have this power is because that is also all you have. It will always be this way, only you. Within your own skin you're safe, because you trust You. You has kept you alive, placated you when it was hard, pushed you to still care when you almost gave up... Loved you.
Other people not so much.
So, one day You, with all your force and power, leaves. And you are safe, with the person you love. But it still hurts, because even though they are far away, hate radiates. It reaches everywhere. I can feel my father's hate from across the globe. In my dreams. In my memories. In my bones.
Because it is ME.
You want someone to prove that you are wrong, but you see only what proves you right. You want to hope. But You know it's just the dreamy part of your brain wishing to be Hermione again.
And you know that outside of your walls, there is a world filled with people. Not necessarily good people. Not bad people. But they are people. They are not You. And so you know how they will feel.
Outside of You you are unworthy.
So
I have been thinking. I really want to write again. I used to write when I was in high school (doesn't everybody?), and I think it may help me through a little bit of a rough patch. Some of this blog may be really sad, and I apologise. Feel free to skip them.
Some of it will be funny (or at least I think so).
If you were invited to this blog, I probably have either discussed my life in detail with you, or I want you to have an insight into my life. If you are not interested. I will not be at all offended if you choose not to follow. I am a bit morbid and sarcastic and I sometimes have a hard time listening to me.
I hope this blog is enlightening or entertaining for you.
Some of it will be funny (or at least I think so).
If you were invited to this blog, I probably have either discussed my life in detail with you, or I want you to have an insight into my life. If you are not interested. I will not be at all offended if you choose not to follow. I am a bit morbid and sarcastic and I sometimes have a hard time listening to me.
I hope this blog is enlightening or entertaining for you.
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