OK, so I haven't posted in for-e-ver. Or maybe even a few days longer than that. Busy with life, work, blah, blah - you know how it goes when the things you'd like to do get shoved farther and farther down your list by things you have to do until it feels like you need a flashlight to go down in the basement to look for them, and even then you keep looking back over your shoulder.
But I'm tired, dammit. And I need to write for just a minute... (I just totally corrected my own grammar in my head...maybe my mother *is* right and I'm an incorrigible grammar Nazi? *shrug*)... and I found a neat little list that seemed like fun, so apropos of nothing, here goes:
7 Places I Would Like to Visit
1. Thailand (Every. single. picture. of this place is amazing)
2. Iceland (No one in this country would see my eyeballs, which would be constantly behind a camera)
3. New Zealand (I may never come back...ever, especially if I run into Orlando Bloom. Mrow.)
4. Newfoundland (although this has been on my list for YEARS, so it prolly should be higher. GBS!)
5. South Africa (lions and giraffes and rhinos and ibex and beetles and...)
6. The Galapagos (turtles and birds and tidal pools and trees and...)
7. Antarctica (penguins! PENGUINS!!!!)
7 Things I Would Like to Make/Build
1. These peach donuts. I even drooled a little on my screen.
2. A Star Wars Lego Chess Set for my nephew. I've started collecting Legos, but it's going to take a while...
3. A crocheted Viking cap. I feel like this, together with a crocheted Viking beard, could make winter a bit more fun.
4. Something wicked cool using origami. Right now, I've mastered the Valley Fold, and that's pretty much it.
5. A Captain America Shield for my nephew. Costumes are super fun, and this is pretty awesome.
6. Um, THIS.
7. A greenhouse. Nothing crazy, nothing fancy, just something that blends in and where I can grow my strawberries in peace without midnight raids by greedy f*cking squirrels. (27 strawberry plants. Twenty. Seven. Not one single berry all summer long. Squirrel skin rug, here I come!)
7 People I Would Like to Meet (Dead or Alive)
1. Nelson Mandela. I need some tips on controlling my temper and listening to others. If a man who spent a bajillion years unjustly locked in a small room can't give me pointers, I'm doomed.
2. Mother Theresa. I've noticed over the last few years that my sense of compassion for humanity in general has dwindled down to a trickle. I don't know how she maintained her amazing attitude for almost a century, but man I'd like to buy her a tea and chat.
3. Albert Einstein. At the risk of forever branding myself an irredeemable nerd, I'd love to discuss parallell universes and dimensional overlap with this guy - I feel like I would walk out of the room with little figurative birds flying dizzily around in my brain.
4. Charles Windsor, Prince of Wales. Shockingly, he's an incredibly accomplished environmentalist, and has some seriously world-changing ideas that he's been putting in motion, fairly surreptitiously, for years.
5. David de Rothschild. Not only has he done some really neat things with environmental adventure, he's pretty hot, and about my age. Bonnuusssssss.
6. Sir Ken Robinson. Absolute revolutionary and gifted speaker on children's education - and hystericaly funny to boot. Look up his RSA on YouTube if you're in doubt.
7. Nathan Wolfe. Dude is like the Sherlock Holmes of virology, and really, I just want to know how realistic is a zombie virus? And when is it coming?
7 Things I Would Like to Own
(Though I don't like to think of myself as materialistic...)
1. A really, really, really nice digital SLR. My Nikon is dying, and replacing it is going to be painful.
2. A smaller house, much farther from people.
3. A really nice stone bench to put in the garden.
4. An around the world plane ticket.
5. A charter school for intelligent, but socially awkard kids. I wouldn't want to run it, but it would be awesome to create it!
6. Frames with museum glass for all of my art, that still languishes in the garage.
7. A craft room conducive to storing all my supplies.
7 Films I Can Watch Over and Over (and Over)
7 Things About Me That Come Immediately to Mind
1. I have infinite room for improvement.
2. I do best when I am constantly outside my comfort zone.
3. I love to create art, but have no real talent other than a meticulous attention to detail.
4. I struggle daily with my temper.
5. I am VERY slowly learning that I don't have the power to change people, no matter how fucked up they are.
6. I find it incredibly difficult to be compassionate, and admire those who are.
7. I struggle daily with a desire to be happy and the realization that the happiest people are those who care the least. I know that there has to be a happy medium, or even a medium that is less depressing, so I'll keep looking until I find one.
In the meantime, my writing spurt is done, and it's time to hit the sack. So, thought for the day:
Recycle, it does a planet good. :)
