I'm a lizard sunbathing in your radiance...

The title of this blog is a lyric from a really cool song by Brett Denen called Desert Sunrise. Brett has quickly become one of my new favorite artists, with his song "Blessed" being one of my special favs. Check out his myspace. You won't be sorry you did. And, no, I am in no way related to or paid by him or his affiliates.

Which classic movie star are you?(pretty pics!) Grace Kelly You are Gorgeous your face was literally carved by angels! no wonder you are so photogenic!

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Now, I'm not sure, after answering just 3 questions, how this survey got me so on target, but, what can I say? I'm a natural beauty =D

Dream for an Insomniac

It's 2:51 am, and I can't sleep...

I went Christmas shopping today. It was pretty gruesome. Christmas shopping is not fun unless: a) You have a lot of money, b) You find really great deals, c) You have some idea what to buy people and where to get it. Unfortunately, none of these factors were working in my favor. I have this disorder in which I randomly buy things and later have no idea who I should give them to. Only 5 days left until Christmas, and only 2 before I leave to go out of town for it.

Well, I did it...I graduated from college! (Applause) Thank you. It wasn't easy, but I'm glad I stuck with it. I'm not glad about all the student loans I now have to pay back, but whatever. We had a graduation celebration at my parents' house Monday night, so that was fun. Zack is even more excited about my graduating than I am, I think (maybe b/c when I'm stressed out, I take it out on him...then again, maybe it's b/c now I can work full-time and make some $$$!) I checked my grades for this semester a few minutes ago. I got one A and two A+. Ya, I'm pretty smart=D. I'm so glad not to be worrying about projects and finals and driving an hour and a half to and from school anymore!! Woohoo!!

I'm going to Colorado in a couple of weeks, so I'm excited about that. I have some pretty fun and big plans for the upcoming year. It's going to be the best one ever...because I'm going to make it that way! The last few have been pretty rough for Zack and I, but I think good things are in store for us! Well, I guess that's enough ranting. My ibupropen has kicked in and my head's stopped hurting, so I'm going to go try to lay on it some more. It's officially 3:10 a.m., so I guess I should. Ta-ta for now.

Christmas Memories

Well, since I've been getting absolutely NO lOVE on my blog, I thought I'd do a more interactive post this time.

One of my favorite Christmas memories is driving to Palatka to see our family when I was little, and being so cold in the car on the way up because our heater didn't work in the car, and snuggling under this old blanket my dad got in Mexico in the backseat with my two sisters Meghan and Rachel, and singing Christmas carols on the way.

Please comment me with one of your favorite Christmas memories!! I'd love to hear them!!

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Fight for your right to be thankful!

If you're like me, you love Thanksgiving...the food, the family, the thankfulness, the food. However, I am shocked and appalled at the lack of recognition it receives in this country. Am I alone in this? Stores go nutso over Halloween, of which I'm no fan, but whatever. Then, from November 1, a month which should be set aside for turkeys and scarecrows and horns of plenty, before your very pumpkin pie-loving little eyes, they're stocking Christmas trees and boxes of candy canes and pre-lit reindeer for your front lawn! Don't get me wrong, I love Christmas just as much as the next guy, but it's so commercialized now that it's disgusting. A holiday that is supposed to be about Jesus' birth has been turned into another greedy excuse to exploit. And a holiday about being thankful for what you have instead of worrying about what you want or what you have to give, fades in the background.

A couple of weeks ago, I went out shopping for a Thanksgiving wreath to hang on my door. I found nothing. Absolutely no Thanksgiving merchandise for sale...I looked everywhere. Sure, I found some paper plates with pumpkins and some dish towels in fall colors, but mostly I found things like fat little singing santas, fake Christmas trees and stockings hangers-- in mid-November!! Am I alone in my sadness over the loss of the celebration of Thanksgiving? (Wow, talk about a lot of prepositional phrases!) Maybe I'm so vehement because I live in Spring Hill, the land of gaudy Christmas decorations and home to people who leave their Christmas lights up YEAR ROUND (no, I'm not kidding, and yes, I said PEOPLE). Christmas decorations are just not appropriate until the day after Thanksgiving, people, don't you know this??!!

I just love Thanksgiving, a time when the pilgrims and the Indians sat down together and gave thanks for what they had. Sure, the Indians didn't know that the white men were about to bring years of oppression to their race, but they ate Turkey and green bean casserole together just the same.

I guess the reason Thanksgiving is looked upon with such indifference, even disdain by so many today is that more and more people reject the fact that there's Anyone to be thankful to. If they are thankful, then they have to admit that there's Someone to thank. I pray that God has mercy on such a selfish, greedy, thankless nation. And I for one am going to fight for Thanksgiving, and do my best to be thankful every day for the blessings God has giving me, because I don't deserve a one.

Handey Thoughts--part 1

All right, all right, I've gotten a little out of control lately. I found a bunch of Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey, and have been cracking myself up with them and annoying the heck out of everyone else! So, as an outlet for my love o Handey, I am going to start posting one Handey thought a week. These are hilariously funny, and are right up my alley, so if you don't like them, you probably wouldn't like me, so get outta here! =D Here's the first:

Fear can sometimes be a useful emotion. For instance, let's say you're an astronaut on the moon and you fear that your partner has been turned into Dracula. The next time he goes out for the moon pieces, wham!, you just slam the door behind him and blast off. He might call you on the radio and say he's not Dracula, but you just say, "Think again, bat man."

The rantings of a sleep-deprived white woman

When will this torment be over?? School, that is. I feel like I've been in school my whole life...wait, I almost have. I just finished taking 3 tests in my online Jazz class. I love Jazz, though, so at least it's interesting. What I really like is the Big Band/Swing Era--reverse that order for accurate chronology. I have always wished I'd been born in the 20's or 30's. I love that era. I would have loved to swing dance all night, curl my hair in that 20's style and wear twirly skirts. I love movies set in that era with all the gangsters and swingers and war heroes. I'm sure I'm romanticizing it all, but it sounds so adventurous and fun. I wonder if that time had a different "feel" to it than we have today. No, I guess people just went about their lives in the same way we do--taking things for granted or getting caught up in the menial. I want to start making an effort to live my life like that--like no one will ever get to live in the early 2000's after our generation passes. And one day, people will say, "Wouldn't it be cool to live in that time? When people had to type on computers, or liked to listen to screamo music or during the time when the twin towers fell?" Maybe they won't say that. But maybe they will. I've been thinking a lot lately about how it will all end (and not just b/c school is making me want to kill myself either). I don't want to take things for granted. It's such a cliche, but I really do want to live my life, not looking back or ahead, but just appreciating the now. It will never be here again. I can't ever get it back. And more and more, I realize that that doesn't mean "living life to the fullest" in the way the world would say, by having fun or making myself happy. It means that life is fleating. Why even bother living for myself when it will all be gone in an instant? Whoa. How did I get here? Din't I start out talking about hating school? Do you see where sleep deprivation will eventually lead? To the end of all things, that's where.

Jack Handey is my idol.

Here's why Jack Handey is my idol:
"At first I thought, if I were Superman, a perfect secret identity would be 'Clark Kent, Dentist,' because you could save money on tooth X-rays. But then I thought, if a patient said, 'How's my back tooth?' and you just looked at it with your X-ray vision and said, 'Oh it's okay,' then the patient would probably say, 'Aren't you going to take an X-ray, stupid?' and you'd say,
'Awe, crap! You, get outta here,' and then he probably wouldn't even pay his bill."
--Jack Handey

Melanomagoodness

Man, I feel so melancholy lately. Where do you suppose that word came from? Melancholy. Does it perhaps mean melon-like? Man, I feel so melon-like lately. I'm sweet and soft, but all people ever want to do is squeeze me, sniff me and throw me back with all the other melons. That, or they take me home, cut me up and chew me with their sharp teeth. Why don't people understand that melons can do things, they can feel things. Well, not real melons. But I can.