I will most likely be closing my blogspot blog and moving to Tumblr this week.
My tumblr is up.
If you have one, let's be friends!
http://coilycoquette.tumblr.com/
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
She said fear is the heart of love, and I never went back
Things are slow but steady this summer. I mostly have been going through new experiences and awakenings in many ways for the past month or so. They all seem to revolve around self- discovery. Have I said this before? Probably. I almost 20, though, and now seems like the best time to work on growing.
I have a lot of things coming up for Fall and I hate the idea that some of my bad habits won't change. There's a certain challenge coming up in my life. I know because I kept asking for strength. I keep hearing spiritual advice and sermons on how you (general) are already strong. Stop asking for strength and start believing you've already overcome. When you hear that being told to your intuitive parts, you know something hurricanous (....not a word, but should be) is about to whip you into shape. I learn the hard way, but it's time.
I was reading a girl's blog and totally identifying with her. I barely talked to her in high school or now, and don't really know how I got tagged. I enjoyed hearing what she learned and hearing that they are the same things I'm learning.
I have a lot of things coming up for Fall and I hate the idea that some of my bad habits won't change. There's a certain challenge coming up in my life. I know because I kept asking for strength. I keep hearing spiritual advice and sermons on how you (general) are already strong. Stop asking for strength and start believing you've already overcome. When you hear that being told to your intuitive parts, you know something hurricanous (....not a word, but should be) is about to whip you into shape. I learn the hard way, but it's time.
I was reading a girl's blog and totally identifying with her. I barely talked to her in high school or now, and don't really know how I got tagged. I enjoyed hearing what she learned and hearing that they are the same things I'm learning.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
From sea to shining sea
I have kind of a funny story. A friend of mine told me he got drunk one night and was playing Mario Kart. There are oils spills on the road sometimes to make you skid.
Daisy, the character on the bike, seems a little inebriated, too.
He hates the spills. So, because he was intoxicated and socially aware, he decided to email BP about the oil spills. He meant on Mario Kart, they meant the gulf. Now he gets 20 emails a day of BP updating him on the situation. You're welcome, and you're right, this is probably the only funny thing about the oil spill besides the bogus names for their solutions.
My friend also champions NOT boycotting BP stations. He goes out of his way to go to them because the little guy runs them, not BP. Each station is a franchise managed and profited by someone who lives in the neighborhood.
My uncle is a social worker who knows a woman from Africa who runs one on the corner of a busy intersection in my neighborhood in my hometown. She barely makes a profit. She buys the chips from lays and the gas. People from other countries HATE welfare or "handouts" and would always rather work, Arizona. So, I like my friend L's solution. BUY CHIPS, NOT GAS.
Or buy water, it's hot out there guys.
Daisy, the character on the bike, seems a little inebriated, too.
He hates the spills. So, because he was intoxicated and socially aware, he decided to email BP about the oil spills. He meant on Mario Kart, they meant the gulf. Now he gets 20 emails a day of BP updating him on the situation. You're welcome, and you're right, this is probably the only funny thing about the oil spill besides the bogus names for their solutions.
My friend also champions NOT boycotting BP stations. He goes out of his way to go to them because the little guy runs them, not BP. Each station is a franchise managed and profited by someone who lives in the neighborhood.
My uncle is a social worker who knows a woman from Africa who runs one on the corner of a busy intersection in my neighborhood in my hometown. She barely makes a profit. She buys the chips from lays and the gas. People from other countries HATE welfare or "handouts" and would always rather work, Arizona. So, I like my friend L's solution. BUY CHIPS, NOT GAS.
Or buy water, it's hot out there guys.
Saturday, June 12, 2010
She's not broken. she's just a baby
I'm back. I've been on vacation. Obviously. When you wake up at noon pretty much everyday and don't do much day by day, you get a lot of mixed emotions.
I'm staying in a house with people in and out. It's hard to get a job around here. So most of our friends can't pay rent. Orlando's not really a college town, which is the principle reason I moved here for college. I didn't want to feel like the only thing to do was whatever was happening in college culture at the time. So, everything near the colleges are pretty much worked by college-aged kids. Competition is steep.
I'm going to take classes later in the summer to get my substitute teaching certificate. Everyone says this is good, because I keep so many options as an English major. Really, though, it makes me feel like I'm settling just the tiniest bit. I promised I would NEVER teach because my mother was a teacher who endured many stresses and because that's what you do when you want to write fresh out of college. Eating is my only goal.
I'm staying in a house with people in and out. It's hard to get a job around here. So most of our friends can't pay rent. Orlando's not really a college town, which is the principle reason I moved here for college. I didn't want to feel like the only thing to do was whatever was happening in college culture at the time. So, everything near the colleges are pretty much worked by college-aged kids. Competition is steep.
I'm going to take classes later in the summer to get my substitute teaching certificate. Everyone says this is good, because I keep so many options as an English major. Really, though, it makes me feel like I'm settling just the tiniest bit. I promised I would NEVER teach because my mother was a teacher who endured many stresses and because that's what you do when you want to write fresh out of college. Eating is my only goal.
Friday, April 30, 2010
Young and sweet only seventeen
I was reading one of my FAVORITE blogs, The Sassy Curmudgeon, by Una, Magazine writer and blogger extraordinaire (who has a cute husband that does some awesome photography) when it hit me. She was weighing the pros and cons of mythical creatures to see which one could be the next Twilight. One contender was the werewolf, a personal preference of mine over the vampire ever since I was seven and my cousin convinced me he was a vampire because he knew I was scared of them, proclaiming they planned to kill everyone. That's kind of true, but he made it sound more like serial killing than involuntary blood thirst.
Anyway, under each contender (Angels, Ghosts, Centaurs, etc- I think of a Centaur as being called a "Sagittarius" and my brain will NOT make the correction b t dubs) there are pop culture references to the creature. For werewolves, there was one missing that was in my mental inventory.
BIG WOLF ON CAMPUS!!! Apparently called "Teenage Wolf " in every other country. This is one reason I love YouTube. On the off chance I remember some low-budget blip of a show from my adolescence... someone else not only remembered it before me, but they have video of it. Also, "the girl" in this one replaced a girl with lots of curly red hair. I didn't even remember this girl.
I really liked shows like this. I was a big Sabrina the Teenaged Witch fan. And a Clarissa Explains It All. Okay, really I was a Melissa Joan Heart fan, it seems. I pretty much watched every show she was on for as long as it ran. I also liked Boy Meets World, as a lot of people my age did. There's probably even more shows I just can't remember right now. But as far as blips from ABC Family, formerly Fox Family goes...
S Club 7!!! (in Miami)
If you are not familiar with the show, a singing group from Brittain, who were kind of like the Spice Girls but with boys, goes to Miami and live in a hotel. They work for their stay, try to get gigs and have weird mystical junk happen a lot in between like when they go back to the 50s and get stranded in the Bermuda Triangle. They had similar 90s/ Brittish Invasion stereotypes of like the "too-hot" girl, the token black person, the sporty one, etc. They had pretty entertaining songs and "Never Had a Dream Come True" ended up on the radio. Personally, they introduced me to "Dancing Queen" by Abba (when they went back in time to the 70s) before some band covered a bunch of their songs on Disney Channel. I think that group was at least also Swedish. I also heard that doo wop song "Dream" ...when ever I want you all I have to do is.. for the first time on this show (from the 50s episode). Ah memories.
Anyway, under each contender (Angels, Ghosts, Centaurs, etc- I think of a Centaur as being called a "Sagittarius" and my brain will NOT make the correction b t dubs) there are pop culture references to the creature. For werewolves, there was one missing that was in my mental inventory.
BIG WOLF ON CAMPUS!!! Apparently called "Teenage Wolf " in every other country. This is one reason I love YouTube. On the off chance I remember some low-budget blip of a show from my adolescence... someone else not only remembered it before me, but they have video of it. Also, "the girl" in this one replaced a girl with lots of curly red hair. I didn't even remember this girl.
I really liked shows like this. I was a big Sabrina the Teenaged Witch fan. And a Clarissa Explains It All. Okay, really I was a Melissa Joan Heart fan, it seems. I pretty much watched every show she was on for as long as it ran. I also liked Boy Meets World, as a lot of people my age did. There's probably even more shows I just can't remember right now. But as far as blips from ABC Family, formerly Fox Family goes...
S Club 7!!! (in Miami)
If you are not familiar with the show, a singing group from Brittain, who were kind of like the Spice Girls but with boys, goes to Miami and live in a hotel. They work for their stay, try to get gigs and have weird mystical junk happen a lot in between like when they go back to the 50s and get stranded in the Bermuda Triangle. They had similar 90s/ Brittish Invasion stereotypes of like the "too-hot" girl, the token black person, the sporty one, etc. They had pretty entertaining songs and "Never Had a Dream Come True" ended up on the radio. Personally, they introduced me to "Dancing Queen" by Abba (when they went back in time to the 70s) before some band covered a bunch of their songs on Disney Channel. I think that group was at least also Swedish. I also heard that doo wop song "Dream" ...when ever I want you all I have to do is.. for the first time on this show (from the 50s episode). Ah memories.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)