I tend to be kind of an extreme person and often finicky so I like to document my obsessions/guilty pleasures because often they change, along with me. :) I have been pretty passionate in what I am enjoying these days and decided to make a top ten list. :D Here they are.
1. Everything Vintage...especially second hand. Drop Your Drawers has been my one favorite shop and down Monroe in the Garland area where there are ton of antique shops and little hidden away spots full of second hand steals just waiting to be found. And my one true obsession along with this category: Audrey Hepburn in all of her elegance. Also, the black and white photos of my grandparents are part of this obsession. I copied thirty of their photos and put them all around my room. They are so classy and beautiful.
2. Cassette Tapes..I guess this could probably fall under the category of vintage..but I have been really into buying cassette tapes. This inspiration for tape purchasing is owed to my honda...it only has a cassette player. My first two cassette purchases(second hand of course): A cassette called "Green Peace Rainbow Warriors." It's a compilation of seventies artists and quite the eargasm. haha. The second, The best hits of Steve Miller Band. More to come. :D
3. Playing soccer. I have recently rediscovered my love for the game and am desperately trying to find a girls team to put together and play outside. Outdoor games are just so much more enjoyable than indoor..although that season starts up come September.
4. Pizza..undoubtedly my most eaten meal. It's horrible..working at an amazing pizza place has turned me into a pizza monster. My favorite as of now: Margherita with pepperoni...or if I'm feeling more like being a vegetarian that day: the artichoke.
5. THE SEVENTIES. This is a lifelong obsession. HIPPIES AS WELL.
6. Post Secrets...the website and writing my own..as of now I have almost seventy secrets I have saved in a special spot.
7. DANCING. This is also a lifelong obsession, but I have currently been loving interpretive dancing and have found that I absolutely love dancing by myself almost more than dancing with other people.
8. Laying in hammocks..especially when a nap is included and underneath green trees.
9. EUROPE. I recently made a new european friend this year. His name is Gareth and he is a soccer coach at the camp I worked at this summer and he is so hilarious and I absolutely love his accent. Learning about Europe has made me want to travel there even more.
10. The water...lakes, sea, oceans...etc. this is also a lifelong obsession.
Top Artist this month: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.
From a sentimental free spirit's perception
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Strangers
Isn't it interesting how there are people throughout your life that you become very close to and don't even talk to anymore? It's almost like you aren't even in the same world as them. There are people that I remember being so so close with. People throughout my life..friends...lovers...people I would talk to everyday, people who knew my fears and dreams and emotion. Now I don't know who they are. They walk through their days and I walk through mine and we are aliens to eachothers own worlds.
I guess it's a part of growing and learning who you want to stay in contact with. I've kept a journal all of my life..since I was seven and sometimes I like to look back on what I wrote a year ago today. Am I still feeling those same emotions? Is that person still important to me? Alot of the times they aren't. It isn't there. Moments and people are fleeting. It's a part of life that every single person on this planet can relate to. If there is someone out there that has stayed in contact with every single person they have been close with forever then I want to meet that person and learn their secrets. Or do I? The change is good sometimes. Sometimes those people aren't compatible with your new world...the changing "now" so to speak.
I have always had a problem with ending friendships or slipping away or losing touch with people..sometimes it's hard and sad and sometimes you don't even notice it, until one day something reminds you of that person or the past.
I wish I wasn't so nostalgic and sentimental. I could grasp the concept so much easier of lost closeness. Of someone understanding all of you and all of your world..and now you would awkwardly hide from them if you were to run into them in public (I hate small talk sometimes).
What if you had a chance to pick up from where you left off with someone? Would you take it? That best friend from grade school that always saved you a spot on the bus, that divorcee that held your heart in their hands, that significant other that made your head spin, that relative that knows all of the things that you got away with as a kid.
The world is so fascinating. So are the people in it.
I guess it's a part of growing and learning who you want to stay in contact with. I've kept a journal all of my life..since I was seven and sometimes I like to look back on what I wrote a year ago today. Am I still feeling those same emotions? Is that person still important to me? Alot of the times they aren't. It isn't there. Moments and people are fleeting. It's a part of life that every single person on this planet can relate to. If there is someone out there that has stayed in contact with every single person they have been close with forever then I want to meet that person and learn their secrets. Or do I? The change is good sometimes. Sometimes those people aren't compatible with your new world...the changing "now" so to speak.
I have always had a problem with ending friendships or slipping away or losing touch with people..sometimes it's hard and sad and sometimes you don't even notice it, until one day something reminds you of that person or the past.
I wish I wasn't so nostalgic and sentimental. I could grasp the concept so much easier of lost closeness. Of someone understanding all of you and all of your world..and now you would awkwardly hide from them if you were to run into them in public (I hate small talk sometimes).
What if you had a chance to pick up from where you left off with someone? Would you take it? That best friend from grade school that always saved you a spot on the bus, that divorcee that held your heart in their hands, that significant other that made your head spin, that relative that knows all of the things that you got away with as a kid.
The world is so fascinating. So are the people in it.
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