Spring Cleaning part 2

Well another day of cleaning gone by and I still have a few things to organize here or there.  Overall, my room looks glorious!  It's just so roomy now, and without all the old papers and things gone it feels open and clean :)

My method seemed to work, I've moved everything to it's new spot now, and put stuff to go home in the trunk of my car so as not to take up more space.  My desk isn't cluttered anymore, but I just have to figure out how I want to arrange things on it.  I've also been getting motivated to change the decor and look of my room, and my creativity has skyrocketed!  I've got so many ideas, and I can't wait to get to work on them once I've organized all my belongings.

On top of this productive few days, the weather has been perfect, I've been able to open my window all the way and let the sun shine in.  It's amazing how your mood can change just because of the weather!  It just makes me want to go outside and take in the fresh air.  Unfortunately we're supposed to get rain from Thursday through Monday, but I'm going to enjoy the rays while they last now :D

The most exciting thing happening this week is that on Friday, after a whole month of not seeing each other, my boyfriend and I will get to spend the weekend together!  I love having my own apartment away from our home town, cause we don't have to deal with our families being around.  I have a pretty big family, but the house itself is physically small.  Now that my older brother and his girlfriend live there with my parents and grandparents, getting some peace and quiet is near impossible. This weekend will be so relaxing and fun, I'm counting down the days!

I thought I'd put up some pics of Spring to get everyone in the mood for the season!

Spring in Central park!

http://andrewprokos.com/d/central-park-spring-blossoms?g2_itemId=1903&g2_serialNumber=2

 Monet painting of Spring...

http://www.digitalart.ab.ca/art/impressionism/images/spring.jpg

Too precious to not put up ^.^ 

http://media.photobucket.com/image/Spring/sonmade44/spring-3.jpg  

Until next time!!!!!!

Oh and sidenote: I saw the first crocus of Spring this past weekend on my friend's front lawn!  Yay!

Spring Cleaning part 1

As I mentioned in my last post, I'm doing some organizing and rearranging in my room.  This is probably the worst condition it's ever been in, and there's the fact that I can't get work done or concentrate when my space is this cluttered.  While I've lived with the current setup I have for over a year, it hasn't been very convenient, since I can barely open my dresser drawers all the way, or get to the other side of my closet with the keyboard right there :\  It's time for change, and I can't wait to make it more manageable!

Now I'm no expert, but for anyone who might be doing this rearranging thing in the near future, I do have some steps you can follow :)

1.  Before you do anything, think of the way your room is put together, and then imagine how you want it to look instead.  Think of the most logical place for your desk, and make sure you can easily access your shelves or drawers and items you use on a daily basis.

2.  Once you've got an idea of how you want the setup, make sure you go through your clothes and papers, books, etc. to clean out any unwanted stuff, or just to reorganize them.  

3.  Then empty everything out of your dresser, desk (whichever you are moving) so it's not as heavy, and place the items in the closet for now or out in the hall so they are out of the way while you are changing things around.

4. When you have your furniture in it's new home, put all the items from before back to their rightful places, or the place they now should be.

There you have it, a basic idea that you can build on or just take into consideration.  While I've only done this once, the process has proven to be way more demanding this time.  I started today, but have only gotten through changing my summer and winter clothes ,  giving away clothes I don't wear/need anymore, and revamping my closet.  I have to get to my desk and shelves, etc. either later tonight or tomorrow morning.  Either way I need to make sure I finish by the end of the weekend.  Once my room is clean and spacious, I'll be able to get my work done at my desk and focus better :D

Hope the advice helped, and until next time!

Love

First off I want to apologize for my hiatus! I've been extremely busy with school and such so I haven't had much time to write. I'm back though, and so happy with how things are going in my life right now. Just because I've been so head in the clouds about love recently, I've decided to dedicate this post to that feeling. 

So love is a tricky concept, but then again it's as simple as pie sometimes. And then the fact that it makes people seem somewhat insane is a bit off putting, but we all want it.

My family has had it's ups and downs (mostly downs due to bad luck and such), but if I had grown up differently I'd probably be in a different degree or school, and I would probably have different friends, which I can't bear to think of. My mom and I have always been close, telling each other about our days, confiding in one another, and being there when things get rough. It's odd to some of my friends, but I'm really glad I've been able to know her as well as I do. As far as my other family members, my Dad was never really the most fun, chatty guy, but at crucial points in my life he's given me great words of wisdom that I've never forgotten. My brother is a bit of a different story. We played together when we were little, got along pretty well, until we hit middle/high school, then ehhh... But now that we're older we've started to get along again, and with all he's been through I'm happy to have him in my life still. My grandparents actually lived right downstairs from us my whole life, and there aren't too many kids who can say they got to hang out with theirs anytime they wanted to. I used to go down and watch Nanni's soaps and game shows with her, and she'd always give me an ice cream bar. Poppi was a bit different, he'd offer me sips of beer when I would ask what he was drinking haha! Just thinking about those days makes me smile, and sometimes I wish I could go back and be young again and not have responsibility etc. 

Then there are my friends. Maybe it's because I love being home, but I have a bunch of great friends back in Connecticut. One who sends me cute things in the mail once in awhile, some that I can always hang out with and just share things with, and a bunch who I love to party with. Most of them are pretty far from my school, but we've managed to keep in touch since HS, which I always find impressive haha! Others were acquainted with me, but we didn't really become too close until we graduated and such. Then there are the few that I've lost touch with, but then managed to get back in touch with recently. Don't you love the feeling of rediscovering a friend you hadn't talked to in years, only to pick up where you left off even though you're both older and wiser now? That sense of a fresh start has always been appealing to me. It's like all the issues that tore you apart back then don't really matter, because they were being immature, or you pushed them away without realizing it etc. It's like you both come to terms with the excuse of being young and irresponsible, and you forgive and forget. This is what we call "being an adult," :D In college I've developed some new friendships over the past 3 or 4 years, a couple of which I don't know what I'd do without. I have a best friend here, who just understands me perfectly, and she never flakes out on me when we have plans. We can watch movies or just have a meal and chat and it's so easy talking to her. She's been a great companion to me, and I've been there for her as well. We laugh all the time, love the same kind of humor, and are both pretty interesting people compared to everyone else around us. The best part is when something is serious she listens, and if I need cheering up she's right there helping me out. I have a couple other friends who are a lot of fun and always make me smile when I see them, just because of who they are :) 

Long story short, I love all these people in my life in many different ways. They make me who I am, and I think I've turned out all right so far. I know that sometimes it gets crazy, but again, everyone wants to be loved and love other people. It's in our nature to be that way. Who doesn't want to be so tight with their family that they can turn to them for anything, or have a best friend that gets them more than they get themselves most of the time? I have such wonderful friends and family... I don't think about that enough, but I really do. 

Another important question though, is who doesn't want to feel passion for that one person they connect with the most? The one who'll always want to be around them even when they are acting ridiculous and stubborn, and who won't be afraid to say how they really feel. Everyone is looking for someone special to make them feel like the greatest person in the world. I've been lucky enough to have found someone who I've loved as my best friend first, and then fell in love with when I realized he was way more than that. It's amazing to think that I got my cake and can eat it too, because how perfect is it that the only person I've ever trusted with everything in my life, is the one person I'm so head over heels, sickeningly sweet, in love with? It just makes so much sense when I'm with him, and he's always made me smile and laugh. We've been together for awhile now, but it kind of feels like we're just starting our relationship again. There's that new love vibe, and as silly as I may be, I'm just ecstatic about it. Knowing that someone out there is as in love with me as I am with him always makes me feel so special <3

So there you have it, all the types of love in my life, and at least I left out all the other things that I love, such as dolphins, teacups, etc. I won't go into that, because then I'll be writing all day, which wouldn't be a lot of fun with all the stuff I have to do. But TGIF, I can't wait to have some time to catch up on sleep and do my work. I also need to get some Spring cleaning going, as my room has become ground zero :P 

And as always here's a picture, since I just love photography, and this one was taken by yours truly :) 

Until next time! (which hopefully won't be more than a day or so)

Inspiration

There are so many ways we get inspiration: Places we go, people we talk to, people we see interacting with one another, things we see, our own realizations. I've been feeling particularly inspired the past couple days, but it's almost as if it's an overload of inspiration I can't control. I'll see something and picture using it in song lyrics or a photo collage, but unfortunately my class work has stopped me from being able to do anything about that right now. I think I'll have more time this weekend to get my creativity fix with the snow storm that's due to arrive tomorrow.

Anyway, speaking of class work, this post is going to be short, but I'll leave you with some photos that came up when I googled inspiration ^.^ 

 

http://fileserver.tinker.com/tinker/events/4/4331_main_image_1245252722.jpg

 

This reflection is so beautiful, I wish I could take such amazing pictures!

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/images65/Playa-Reflections.jpg

 

I've never seen an evian bottle like this one, but I would definitely reconsider my water brands if I knew I could drink it out of this haha!

http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/6838/69897540hg8.jpg

 

http://sarahstuartt.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/inspiration1.jpg

 

  

 

http://media.photobucket.com/image/inspiration/hoangtumuathu_vn/inspiration.jpg 

 

  http://inspirationforliving.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/inspiration.jpg

Until next time!

First post

Well here goes!

My first official blog post, so bear with me...  I suppose I'll just start off with who I am, as a sort of background, so I don't confuse people.  While I've never had much experience with things such as student government or being the leader of a club, I do have quite a lot to say.  I find it way easier to get things out when I'm writing them down rather than talking to someone in person.  This is a problem though, which I do hope I can solve as time goes on.  Just something about being able to backspace and start over is comforting.  It's as if I can pretend I didn't really type it, where as once I've said something, it's gone, out in the world, and there's no backspace button to fix it.  I don't know about you, but it's terrifying to me to risk saying the wrong thing.  Public speaking is not on my list of talents :\  

I'll tell you what is on that list though: Music

Music is the universal language.  Everyone understands it in some way or another. It's also emotional (whether you believe it or not, it is).  There's a reason why people pay so much money to see concerts of their favorite musicians or turn to their ipod for comfort after a long day of work.  We can express ourselves through this art form, and find a friend that "just gets us." If music didn't move people, there wouldn't be millions of song writers, or performers, or tons of equipment invented for it.  And I'm not saying it has to be the sole reason for living, but as humans we rely on our senses to connect with things.  A person can hear a word or melody that triggers an emotion: Happy, sad, lost, envious, angry, excited; you name it.  Even if music doesn't always effect someone's emotions in a really deep way, it can still make you want to dance or tap your foot just because something persuaded you to.  That something (regardless of it it's a big deal or not) is a feeling, and while it might seem silly, it's the truth.

Being a music major in college, I've been able to appreciate the experiences I've had singing in my choir or as a soloist.  Musicians are a "different breed" according to my voice teacher.  We're not as concerned with getting a degree so we can have a better chance at a job or making enough money to afford nice expensive things.  We do this because we love it, because we get excited waking up in the morning knowing we'll be able to make music and feel that awesome connection.

Now that I'm done preaching about music (it is something I'm pretty passionate about), I have some pictures I want to share with you :)

 

http://smilepanic.com/images/stories/2009_feb_12/1/14.jpg  

  

http://www.corriere.it/Media/Foto/2007/02/21/PECHINO.jpg 

 

http://www.fohguild.org/forums/attachments/screenshots/122851d1255234618-funny-strange-random-pics-img_0996.jpg

http://www.visit-hokkaido.jp/en/photo/photo1.files/303-2.jpg

 

 

http://www.jeffsweather.com/archives/Picture1.gif

I found these whilst stumbling (http://www.stumbleupon.com)

That's all for today, enjoy!