Listability Part III

Five Best Things to Have in Cold Weather
1. Hot chocolate (with marshmallows of course)
2. A heated blanket (this gets difficult with no electricity I.e. stuck in a blizzard)
3. Fuzzy socks and really warm ones at that
4. Heated car seats (ooooh)
5. Remote start to defrost your car (my favorite)

Five Phrases I Hear Around Me Often
1. Don't you wish we lived in Hawaii?
2. Do you have a Starbucks card?
3. LOL (this would be people who actually say the abbreviation out loud in a conversation because they think it's hip- it's not...)
4. What day is it?!?!
5. Coords?

Five Things I Keep In My Car
1. First aid kit
2. Nasal decongestant (which someone actually left IN my car a year ago and dammit they will take it back)
3. Reusable shopping bags
4. Chapstick
5. A hanger for my business suit

Five Places Not to Go For Coffee
1. A gas station
2. Denny's
3. A mall kiosk
4. A food truck
5. Jiffy Lube (they offer free coffee but don't drink it!)

Five of My Type-A Panic Buttons
1. Doors halfway open
2. Scuffed shoes (ahhhhhhh)
3. Uneven alarm clock times (I.e. 5:32 am)
4. Leftover time on a microwave
5. Tangled cords

Short post after not posting forever!!!

Cheers,

A.

Things I wish I knew when...I was a kid

1. No one actually cares that your crayons are Crayola or Dollar Tree brand.
2. Packed lunches are way more awesome than cafeteria food.
3. Be nice, you never know who will be your boss one day.
4. Be truthful, friends are much more important in quality than quantity.
5. Being the teacher's pet is a good thing.
6. Grades are ranked with A being outstanding, not F.
7. Bullies are insecure and they don't disappear after grade school. Be strong.
8. That old poem? Sticks and stones...? It's true. 
9. The fewer signatures in your yearbook, the more friends you have. Truly.
10. Birthday party invitations don't define your popularity status.
11. Love your hobbies and practice them. They make you unique.
12. Braces are worth the pain.
13. You won't ever use the Train A/Train B math problem. Ever.
14. You'll have plenty of time to be a grown up, but not a lot to be a kid.
15. Take pictures. Lots. Small moments are the ones we forget.
16. Beauty is not defined by others. Rock those bellbottoms.
17. Coloring inside the lines is not nearly as fun as coloring on the outside.
18. Being picked last for a team is doesn't mean you don't matter. It means you matter the MOST.
19. Read as much as you can.
20. Spend time with your family.
21. There's a lot of people in this world. You're not alone.
22. You are loved.
23. Drugs never solve your problems.
24. Violence never solve your problems.
25. Go big or go home. Always.

Cheers,
A.

Listability Part II.

Five Names I've Always Wanted to Name My Dog Even If They Don't Match the Dog
1. Pickles
2. Bubbles
3. Cat
4. Socks
5. Jelly Beans

Five Street Names I've Lived On:
1. White Sands
2. Crossing Place
3. Wickersham
4. Springwood Meadow
5. Woodside

Five Really Good Drinks
1. Orangina
2. Sprite
3. Minionade
4. Nourish Your Brain
5. Strawberry Tea

Five Awesome Inventions:
1. Booties for puppies
2. Soup jar with attached spoon
3. Wireless controllers
4. Netflix
5. Sherlock Holmes

Five Things Everyone Should Do In College
1. Highlighter Party
2. Explore the Library
3. Speak up in class
4. Extra Credit
5. Join an organization

Five Spades Variations I Adore
1. Mirrors
2. Suicide
3. Double Blind Nil
4. 4 Hand Rule
5. Evil Spades

Five Alphabet Soup Acronyms From Spades That Only Spaders Know
1. Glp/gla
2. nnp/ndnp
3. typ
4. ncp
5. gga/ggp 

NaNoWriMo

Ah finally here. Well, here goes nothing. To the end of my novel! Wish me luck. Many happy words to my colleagues on their endeavor this month. I'll post back here early December. Maybe I'll post something but all my writing efforts are being used so if I do post something, it'll be short. Like this one!

Cheers,
A.

Listability Part I.

Five Things I've Been For Halloween:

1. A vampiress
2. Pocahontas
3. A milk carton
4. A gypsy
5. A pirate wench

Five Bands I Always Listen To While Driving

1. Linkin Park
2. Evanescence
3. P!ATD
4. Senses Fail
5. Kesha

Five Foods I Crave At Midnight

1. Cheesecake
2. Brownies
3. Mango Sorbet
4. Peach Yogurt
5. Cinnamon Buns

Five Things In My Closet I Can't Bring Myself To Give Away

1. My blue plaid skirt
2. My yellow kitten heels
3. My 80s "Florida Retirement" blouse
4. My stuffed animal frog Jeremy
5. My cookie tin of old gigapets

Five Themes I Would Decorate My House With (If They Went Together)

1. Americana
2. Steampunk
3. Black & White
4. Madmen Style
5. Ultra Modern

Five Movies That Scared The Hell Out Of Me

1. It
2. Poltergeist
3. Halloween
4. Leprechaun
5. Salem's Lot

Five Breeds Of Dogs I Love

1. Greyhounds
2.Yorkshire Terriers
3. Labradors
4. Beagles
5.Jack Russell Terriers

Poetry Slam 2010

And still this nagging, persistent and seemingly permanent feeling of the temporality of life remains. It is in my best interests that I feed off the elixir of life and nourish my soul but in my worst interests that I starve my soul to maintain my awareness of everything?

Perhaps I will one day walk among a forest, one with a footbridge floating over a forever serene body of water with glowing images of many moons above me. The stars in the sky are comets, long tear streaks on the face of the heavens for the immorality of man and his selfishness. 

The trees are softly swaying in a gentle breeze that hits every branch on its way through an infinite cycle of earthly motions.

And at the bottom of the sea, the very bottom, there will be a tiny fish who is scared and alone but hopeful that one day humanity will end so that peace may be restored to the earth. 

It is maybe too much for me to assume the heavens would not miss mankind, but for that, I am only human and my knowledge is finite. Infinitely finite for what it is worth; a speck in the pond of the drop of water on a leaf on a tree in a forest on a planet in a galaxy of the heavens.

I rest.

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The Jocelyn Project [Prologue]

                In the tallest tower in the city, on the highest floor, in the most private room, a high council simply called the Table met. It consisted of 12 women and 12 men, all of whom were very powerful witches and warlocks. They had risen to power through not a bureaucratic but a totalitarian system. The oppressed people and creatures to which the council ruled worked for them day and night, in ordinary jobs, but for no money. They worked plainly to live. The more hours they put in, the more access they had to medical and longevity activities. Mortals worked the hardest, but even those born as immortals had to work because the Table suppressed their natural born powers in order to prevent an uprising. 

                In the deepest basement of the tallest building, there were witch and warlock soldiers, like me, who trained day and night to become strong and cunning. Their life goal was to protect and defend the Table who in turn would allow them access to their own private apartments and necessities. They trained plainly to do the Table’s bidding and were told nothing otherwise. Unbeknownst to these elite few hundred that trained, an all out inter-world war was on the horizon…

                For the fate of the council and their position of power was in crisis. The meeting was focused quite intensely on a plan that was foolproof. An intricately designed plan to secure a future for the Table which proved most beneficial to them was set into action. A rather strange time frame was given to the plan, aptly a project which would be the only of its kind. All attention and resources went into this project and most assuredly all eyes…if that’s what they could be called. 

And so began the Jocelyn Project.