November 2010
1 post
October 2010
4 posts
I embarrass myself, no wait.. I'm just getting...
Does anyone else look back on the “you” of yesteryear and think “Wow, I feel so much improved since then! What a loser I was!”? I always feel as though I am improving myself as a person and becoming more confident and knowledgeable. I suppose this is partially because I make an effort to learn and grow, and partially just because I am getting more life experience and...
Just another Monday, feelin' high from the weekend
Knocked some things off last post’s list this weekend…
I went to Great Lakes with Lauren on Friday for lunch. We were both kind of disappointed that GL itself was out of Oktoberfest! At least I got a mug earlier this fall in Amherst. The waitress said that they ran out pretty quickly and that Christmas Ale will be rolled out on November 1st so we better get it soon! I remember last...
To Do
Winery
Great Lakes Brewery
Brew beer (do we sound like alcoholics yet?)
Go to the bodies museum
End Kyle’s snowboarding virginity
Park our butts in someone else’s hot tub
Those are the things I told my boyfriend we are doing for sure during this cold Ohio fall and winter so far. Any other ideas? Feel free to join… This is so much shorter than the summer list. Boo.
September 2010
1 post
Back in Action!
I always disappoint myself when I don’t post anything here. But to be honest, I’ve been so busy and I’ve been focusing on working on my “professional” blog when I do sit down to write something. I made a stupid URL for it, so I don’t think I’ll be showing it to anyone other than my class and professors, but oh well.
Then on the weekends I’m with...
January 2010
4 posts
back to the daily grind
Another semester begins. I only have 4 classes, but I am already slightly stressed.
I am taking 2 teaching classes. I usually find these fun because you would hope that the teachers teaching you how to teach would be good teachers, right? Usually they are—I’ve found a couple inspiring professors here at Kent. I’m also in a Teaching Journalism class. I love to write, but...
peaceroni, dudez
About that last post, when I said chaos was good… well maybe sometimes, but after a few arguments with people… I think… I’m sooo over it. Peace is much better on the soul, lol.
we thrive on chaos
I’m a free spirit. The most clear answer I can often give anyone is “definitely, maybe.” Will I be like this forever? Who knows. I feel like I go in phases, constantly changing. On one hand, I know who I am. I have strong opinions on certain things, know that I want to spend my life helping people, teaching and learning. I know things I enjoy and I know my values. I don’t...
Holidayz
I feel obligated to create a Christmas blog. Christmas was good. Family time was fun. I got an iPod touch, Burton snowboarding jacket, cool necklaces and a boyfriend! New Years Eve was fun too! Ok this post is going to be way too brief. Updating occurrences without taking the time to analyze and be my typical long-winded self is boring. But I already wrote something else and don’t feel like...
December 2009
2 posts
Pounding Hearts
Ohh I’m a funny one I guess. I surprise and confuse myself! I’m laughing at something I wrote not too long ago because I think I’m getting my answer now. More on this later for SURE!
But if what I’m thinking is true, then I am scared and nervous and ahhh! But I think that’s a good thing. I just have to keep reassuring myself it’s okay…
blahdie blah
Finals week and the week before suck. ‘Nuff said.
November 2009
3 posts
Hey there, Sthteven!
The cable guy is here at my mom’s, up on the roof, putting in a satellite dish. I guess it’s cheaper than Time Warner. We’ll see. The guy seems kind of awkward and clueless.
Thanksgiving was good. There are still leftovers I’m gonna be snacking on pretty soon here… yay to Southwestern corn casserole and fancy mac and cheese! Sweet potato casserole too. I usually hate...
If it's not important, then why am I always...
I was looking back through some old blogs and poems of mine not long ago. Most of them were from the end of high school and beginning of college. Dang, I was pretty “emo.” I do think I did some good writing. Much of my poetry was very emotion-filled and detailed, and those kinds of details come out the best when you are fresh from an experience.
I feel that since then, I’ve...
October 2009
5 posts
om nom nom
I have come to the realization: I eat a lot. I just ate 2 bowls of cereal for breakfast, had a pineapple spear and some strawberries and drank some spiced cider. I couldn’t figure out why I was spending a lot on groceries because I usually by the Wal-Mart brand of stuff. But I also buy fresh fruits and veggies and not just cheap ramen! But mostly, I just think I eat a lot! It’s weird...
“There are a ton of fish in the sea. But they are all carrying little red flags...”
“Whenever I write, I get this image of a person intensely scribbling on parchment...”
– Me!
Octoberfestivus
October would be kind of a cool month if it wasn’t the beginning of cold weather. Changing leaves are pretty, pumpkins are cool (and pumpkin spice cappuccino and ice cream is good), I love apples and cider, Halloween is fun, etc. But darnit, I hate being cold!
I love being “home during the holidays.” My mom decorates the house so cute. Right now, there is a string of ghost...
September 2009
3 posts
All this storming in my brain is making it feel a...
I just get so frustrated thinking about the government and world problems. I want to have an answer or at least an opinion on things. But for one, it’s so hard to know the truth. So many political issues are twisted by agendas and we don’t know the whole story. Most issues are dreadfully complicated and I when I think one idea is good, it’s repercussions are so many also.
I just...
Good Gracious... that quote is quotatious?
Yeah, another new blog. It’s quotatious.tumblr.com. It is going to be a compilation of quotes I find inspiring, amusing, whatever. I quote things on this blog from time to time, but I thought it would be nice to have a quote of the day every day, a place to log my favorites, even.
Also, don’t forget about hollyelisepoetry.tumblr.com
And I’m starting to write for Associated...
It's Been A Minute
I’ve slacked. Kind of. I did some writing over the summer but it never made it onto this blog. Time to start back up, just like I started classes a couple weeks ago.
So these are my classes:
Intercultural Communication: Seems pretty interesting. We have a “conversation partner” who is an international student. Mine is from China, and I will have to meet with her, write a paper...
July 2009
1 post
Down at the county fair...
So I hung out at the Trumbull County Fair every day this week. I’m “kinda” an advisor for a 4-H club, so I helped out a little and watched all of the events. As usual, the weather was absolutely horrible during the week. At one point, I had 3 layers on and a blanket and was still cold. It did warm up by the weekend though, Thank God!
I did several Generation Gap classes. On...
June 2009
11 posts
Perspectives, from time and place. And a brand new...
It’s weird that how we think of something now could have been seen in a totally different light at another time. Or all of the things going on while another is going on.
I originally thought this when I took a Pan-African English course. My professor brought up the fact that certain time periods in history are romanticized. While we think of cute love stories going on in the 1940’s...
Movie List [In Progress]
I am compiling a list of movies that I want to see.
Wristcutters: A Love Story
American Beauty
Waking Life
Adventureland
Chaos Theory
Office Space
Gigli (Because it supposedly blew soo bad)
The Secret
The Ultimate Gift
Duplex
Saw IV
A Clockwork Orange
To be continued…
I wanna know
You know that Rascal Flatts song, I Wanna Know Everything About You…
I think it explains a lot of what I look for in relationships. I’ve always had the fantasy of being with someone who doesn’t share a lot, and seems a bit of a mystery. Then, I slowly get them to open up and learn everything that makes them tick, learn things that no one else knows. I think truly getting to...
Slam the door and leave in a huff, why don't ya
While I’m on a rant, let me vent further about how stupid people are. Sellers on Craigslist are (often) sooo dumb. When I was looking to buy my car, half the time they wouldn’t even list the mileage or anything about the car. It would be like, “Civic.” Umm ok, year, ex or dx, any new parts or ones that need replaced… Jeez, then you e-mail then and they are half...
He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar...
People don’t just stop caring completely. They can’t, can they? They run away with their tails between their legs, embarrassed at how they have acted. I remember reading a Taylor Swift interview where she talked about how some of her exes completely don’t talk to her after she got famous. So maybe sometimes exes don’t talk after break-ups, but wouldn’t they be just...
“Why do people say I’ll never hurt you, I’ll never make you sad?...”
There are no words
How could I be COMPLETELY wrong about your feelings for me? I couldn’t be, which proves that you’re just hiding your feelings for me… -Many a girl’s thought process. Many a girl has often been right — men can be little cowards that will run from their feelings, choosing to ignore a feeling out of downright fear. I always have thought chemistry was something that was...
Me: BOB SAGET!
Me Again: hehehehe
“If your life was a movie or a book, would it be a good one? It should be,...”
– I give it 5/5 stars.
Upbeat/Update
Today I feel really enlightened and it’s made me to want to write about a lot of what’s been going on in my mind. My most recent personal battle has been dealing with a panic and anxiety “disorder.” It’s caused my normal, confident self to be plagued with racing negative thoughts and feelings of doubt. It’s made me feel faint and in as if I am in a dream and...
April 2009
1 post
April [snow] Showers...
Although it may look like I have forgotten about this blog, I haven’t. Life has just been a bit stressful the past few weeks. Ironically, I think writing would have helped me, and it still will. Unfortunately, tonight will be filled with beginning a 10 or so page paper that is due TOMORROW. But is anyone surprised?
OMG… Is tumblr voluntarily allowing comments now? Some little box...
February 2009
3 posts
Intellectual Souvenirs →
Dude. I'm so lazy.
Wah. I wish I would have posted here the other day ‘cause I had good shit floating around in my head. Now it’s gooone.
Say crack again! ...Crack!
Yay, I added a Facebook app so people can just read my blog from Facebook! If I want to spark anyone’s interest, I’m really going to have to start posting more.
I found a lot of older poems I wrote in a forgotten file on my computer. I posted one little bit on MySpace. I might just make another blog altogether to write my poetry and such, since it seems inappropriate to post it here...
January 2009
1 post
It's been so long, history books call it a new...
Yup, it’s been awhile! I was off for over a month for Christmas break and accomplished NOTHING! Any time I have a lot of time on my hands, I seem to fritter it away. I like sleeping, so I lay around a lot when I have nothing to do. Sad?
I did a few things actually. But who cares about recounting it. Looking at my Facebook pictures will be a much better indicator of the awesomeness that was...
December 2008
4 posts
Gonna hop on a train to somewhere...
It’s all about the stories and experience. That’s what life should be, right? A fun-filled adventure! I think about the exciting people I know, and these are people that have been through a lot and have colorful stories to tell. Some of these people chose to travel the world, etc. while others just seem to have a lot of stuff randomly happen to them. You know, those people that make...
Jumping for joy!
Why are people still so bent out of shape about the “Tom Cruise jumping on the couch incident on the Oprah show”? He was proclaiming how in love he was, and jumped on the couch out of happiness, as I take it. What’s so bad about this? Don’t we all want to be in love so madly that we would jump up and down telling the world?!
It’s still plaguing headlines on Yahoo....
Update?
I never really posted an update of things like Thanksgiving break. Not sure if anyone cares, but I like to write stuff just because. Well, I hung out with my family which is always good. Ate good food. Went shopping a little on Friday. Now that it’s been a week or so I guess I forgot all the details. I feel like if I write down every little detail, vibrantly talking about all of my senses, I...
I think; therefore I am.
Existence is a funny thing. Have you ever looked at yourself or paused while walking down a sidewalk and thought; I can’t believe I exist? How weird it is to look at your reflection in the mirror or look at your legs carrying you to your destination while you are barely acknowledging it. To be…. To be one out of the billions of people on earth, you are your own physical body and...
November 2008
4 posts
Crack open your mind with a nutcracker for the...
You know what I always thought but just recently might be able to put into words? People who claim to be open-minded, but are only open to THEIR view. I think being truly open-minded is seeing and understanding all sides of an issue. With the election still being recent and all, I notice a lot of political bashing. I call myself an independent and despise the workings of the 2 party system, but I...
Ugh... I mean, UGG!
So yesterday I was sitting in one of my classes. A class of about 200 people. And every single girl within my view was wearing Uggs or some form of them! Except me. I was wearing tennis shoes because I don’t have any boots here in Kent with me. I used to own some Ugg knockoffs, but all they did was leak and look ugly.
But seriously, THAT many people wearing them? They must own a monopoly of...
How high can you go? Or how greedy?
I just read part of an article on Yahoo talking about how the NY Yankees are about to offer CC Sabathia the highest-ever salary amount for a pitcher. I heard that he wants to pitch in the National League and probably on the west coast. Question is, is will he follow his heart or go for the money? The money wouldn’t really shock me.
The next question is, is why does any baseball player need...
Dum Dee Dum
I knew I’d get lazy and not post here. But that’s going to stop! Because blogging is “fun.” Well, in the most recent exciting news, Barack Obama is our president-elect. I was for him for awhile, but I ultimately chose to vote for Ralph Nader. I strongly believe that everyone should vote for the “best candidate” no matter what else is surrounding the election. I...
October 2008
9 posts
Blah
I feel sick, the kids at work were annoying, I locked myself out of my car and had to stay at work late, and I have a ton of work to do. Blah!