It's kind of hard to sum up anyone in just a few words, and I'm no different. But if I've somehow sparked your interest, I don't mind being added. I check out everyone who adds me, but I don't always add back.  I'm not mean, I'm just picky. I'm mostly just looking to make new friends who are interesting, creative, and at least somewhat intelligent. It also helps if we have things in common. If you'd like to introduce yourself first, just leave a comment here.

Monday, September 1st, 2008
First day of September and my last day in Seattle, my new favorite place.
A day spent riding buses, getting lost, flowers, seafood, beer, an underground tour, and a giant bunny.


( i heart seattle )

Enter your date of birth, then pick four events, three births, two deaths, and one holiday.
Snagged from xsteadyxboysx

October 11th

Events:

• 1984 - Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
• 1975 - The NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live debuts with George Carlin as the host and Janis Ian and Billy Preston as musical guests.
• 1950 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission issues the first license to broadcast television in color, to CBS
• 1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain, often causing widespread panic to the natives.

Birthdays:

• 1985 - Michelle Trachtenberg, American actress
• 1982 - Valentina Zelyaeva, Russian fashion model
• 1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States

Deaths:

• 1991 - Redd Foxx, American comedian and actor
• 1965 - Dorothea Lange, American photographer

Holiday:

• United States - National Coming Out Day

Oh, this was fun.
I especially love that my birthday doesn't even exist in some countries.
And I know you love my new icon.

I just calculated (yes, bored), that if I keep up my 365, it'll end next St. Paddy's Day. SWEET.
I'll also be legal by then, so I'm pretty sure I'll be trashed for that particular self-portrait.
In any case, I'll have to go out with a bang. Head-to-toe green body paint anyone?

Other notable occurrences (if my calculations are correct):
Day 200 will happen on my love's birthday :]
Day 208 will be my birthday.
Day 232 will be Election Day.
Day 262 will be our four year anniversary :]
Day 290 will be New Year's.

I really hope I calculated correctly, or else I'm gonna be pissed at myself for not being able to count to 365.

snagged from lipsoflove

1. Where is your cell phone?
Next to me.

2. Your boyfriend/girlfriend?
I love him.

3. Your hair?
Need to wash.

4. Where is your father?
I don't know.

5. Cheesecake?
With strawberries, please.

6. Your favourite thing to do?
Take pictures everywhere.

7.Your dream last night?
I don't recall.

8. Your favourite drink?
Canned Diet Coke.

9. Your dream car?
Mini Cooper convertible

I just got waaaaaay too giddy over learning that there will be a Hannah Montana movie coming out next year.

And I'm listening to the tv soundtrack for the third time in a row now.

".....cos I really am a rock star."

You know how it is when you're just completely overwhelmed with head over heels love for someone? It's funny how the simplest thoughts can bring about that feeling. Just sitting on the john, taking a leak, and suddenly you remember how he surprised you one morning with your very first tripod. Which makes you remember how he bought you your first real camera and how he got you the camera you'd been craving for the longest time. And then you realize it isn't just about him buying you things; it's that he's helped you delve even deeper into something you've always been curious about.

And it always figures that your skin and your hair behave perfectly once you get home, something they'd never do when you need them to. Or maybe it's just that the lighting's different in your bathroom than it is in the hotel's. Or maybe it's just that you're used to your lighting, so you're used to how you look in the mirror at home and that the hotel's lighting shows how you actually are. I always wonder how I really look to other people.

Sometimes I imagine myself from outside my body, to try to see how I look to other people, to see how I move. I always wonder how people perceive me, like how you sometimes judge people on their looks. "She's a bitch, he's a frat-boy, she's slutty, he's a perv." What do people label me as? How do I come off? Do you ever wonder if you're the exact person you always bitch about, but have no idea? I always get irked at those stuck-up girls who boss everyone around and just seem overall unpleasant to be around. But am I that girl?

It's these trips that take me away from the norm that always bring about thoughts that seem to have always been lingering about my brain, I just didn't take the time to think about them. Reading does the same thing. I should do both more often.

I've been doing these for a few weeks now for this group. I thought I'd finally share one.



1. Funky Munky, 2. Lunchable, 3. The Little Witch, 4. yeah!, 5. Aaaargh! (Vræl!), 6. you're in my heart, 7. It didn't seem right, but it had to work..., 8. Ivory Coast, 9. Face off, 10. 771, 11. Guess who Janell Version, 12. 12CM (5") BANANA SPIDERS

1. What was your nickname as a child? I didn't really have a nickname besides variations on my first name like Sam, Sammie, and Sambo. But one time my friends and I made up names for each other, and mine was Munky.
2. What was your favorite food as a child? I looooved Lunchables, especially the pizza ones.
3. What was the theme of your favorite childhood birthday? I always had Halloween birthdays since mine is in October. And I almost always dressed up as a witch. But one year a hurricane blew through a few days before my party, so almost no one came.
4. What were you punished most often for? Talking back. I had a mouth on me.
5. What special talent or skill did you have? I could beat up my little brother really well. Hey, he deserved it!
6. What was the name of your first best friend? My first true friend (and love) was Jeremy when I was five. He lived next door, and we were inseparable.
7. What was your favorite cartoon character or superhero? Ninja Turtles. My brother and I even had pillows shaped like them.
8. What did you want to be when you grew up? For the longest time I wanted to be a teacher. I would even play school with my brother and make him take tests :]
9. Who did you look up to? My dad. He was kind of strict, but he would always take time to play with us.
10. What elementary school did you attend? Smiths Station Elementary. It's named after the town which was named after a railroad stop.
11. What was your favorite game to play? Guess Who.
12. What was your biggest fear as a child? Spiders. Specifically the banana spiders that lurked under the kitchen sink when we lived out in the boonies.

I just did this as a way of taking requests at my icon comm, and now I have the huge urge to do here again, for the third time.
-Put your MP3 player/other music device on random.
-Post the first line(s) from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
-Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
-Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
-Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING

1. Upon a roof below the moon, nearby a park-bench in the sun
2. Dreamed I was an eskimo, frozen wind began to blow
3. Your touch your taste your breath your face your hands your head
4. Mention this to me, mention this to me, watch the weather change
5. She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak.
6. All around the world statues crumble for me, who knows how long I've loved you.
7. Faint white figures paint my sleep, please don't tell my secrets.
8. Everytime that you're walking, I feel the vibe inside.
9. Well can't you see that it's just raining, there ain't no need to go outside.
10. Like we always do at this time, I go for mine, I gots to shine.
11. She was lying on the floor and counting stretch marks.
12. I must go on standing, you can't break that which isn't yours.
13. My dream girl don't exist, at the age of five she slit her wrists.
14. Take your white finger, slide the nail under the top and bottom buttons of my blazer
15. Well I'm just people watching the other people watching me.
16. Brainstorm, take me away from the norm, I got to tell you something
17. When I look into your eyes you help me realign
18. I hear you on the radio, you permeate my screen, it's unkind but...
19. Won't you let me catch your fall, won't you let me lend a hand.
20. Threw you the obvious, and you flew with it on your back.

You must see it bigger. It's much better that way.

It's day 100/365. So proud I made it this far.
Lots of ideas floated around my head, but I decided on this one.
Mostly inspired by the idea of making a personal mood theme using just photos of me.
For once, taking the photographs was the easiest part. The hard part was putting them all together.
Thanks to my slow ass computer, it took me nearly two hours. We really need a new computer.

92/365 - I'd make it my header image if it wasn't so emo looking.


Trolls are tasty.


There was a dead bird in the rotunda.


And a dead dragonfly on the windowsill in the hall.

I'm such a dumbass.
I must have left them there when I was taking pictures last week.
It took me an hour of ransacking the house to finally look over and see them there.
But hey, at least I found them.
I was starting to worry that they were gone forever.

Lalala twelve weeks.....
Didn't do any for Flickr Group Roulette......it's been getting a little too...silly for my taste.
But I did start The Photography Project last week....it's interesting. I started at a good time too, since last week's theme was self-portraits, so I mostly just used my 365 shots for it. This week's theme is the seven deadly sins, which started today, which is why I made out with my mirror for today [day 84]. While researching the sins, I realized I commit just about every single one of them everyday. So I guess I'm going to a hell I don't believe in. Anyway, today's shot is definitely my favorite. You can see how clear my skin is getting, at least on that side of my face. I barely even edited it at all, just added some sepia to it. Least favorite is probably 79, just because my creativity was really drained that day. Blah.

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Poll #1202246 365days Week Twelve
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 8

Which is your favorite?

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Nothing left to say right now.

That is all.

Yay, another week! Only one for FGR - Day 72, which was "My, What is That You're Wearing?" I like it.
My favorites this week are 71 & 74. I can't decide between them!
My least favorite is 75. I had almost forgotten to take my photo for the day, so I took that picture with my cell phone outside the theatre. I can't download the pictures off my phone because it's a stupid piece of shit, so I had to take a picture of my picture. Oh wells.

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I have to add something that's been on my mind for a while. I absolutely love what the sunburn did for my face. It made my skin even out in tone and dried up all my zits. I haven't had a giant pimple since. I have a few small ones on my forehead, but whatevs. I've barely even been wearing makeup, just a little bit of foundation under my eyes and of course, mascara. Yay!

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Anyway, tell me this:
Poll #1198134 365days Week Eleven
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 8

Which is your favorite?

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FYI for my new friends: this is something I do every week to track my progress with my 365days project on flickr. I hope you enjoy it!

3rd timer. 46 photos.
A day spent in Panama City Beach, Florida, that started out promising & ended up miserably.

stolen from room429

-Pick 10 of your favorite movies.
-Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
-Post them here for everyone to guess.
-Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
-NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions!

1. I thought I'd die with all my hate in my veins. But then something happened. It happened to me... just as it happened to you.
2. There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours. The Princess Bride
   
3. What Freud said about the Irish is: We're the only people who are impervious to psychoanalysis. The Departed
   
4. We were all feeling a bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it being a night of no small expenditure. A Clockwork Orange
   
5. Lots of midgets have offed themselves. I hope yours doesn't, otherwise your film'll be fucked.
6. No, no. It's not schizophrenia. It's just a voice in my head. I mean, the voice isn't telling me to do anything. It's telling me what I've already done... accurately, and with a better vocabulary. Stranger Than Fiction
   
7. Take the best orgasm you've ever had... multiply it by a thousand, and you're still nowhere near it.
8. You can start by wiping that fucking dumb-ass smile off your rosey, fucking, cheeks! Then you can give me a fucking automobile: a fucking Datsun, a fucking Toyota, a fucking Mustang, a fucking Buick! Four fucking wheels and a seat!
9. Because I'm a fucking caveman!
10. In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people angry and has widely been considered as a bad move. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    

Yay! Hit milestone Day 50 this week :] No Flickr Group Roulette challenges this week :/ They were all pretty lame or boring or I just couldn't do it. Anyway, my favorite this week is Day 53. It happened by accident, and I just went from there. Day 55 is a close second. As for my least favorite, I'd say it's probably 51, just because it didn't turn out the way I wanted it to. So what do you think?

Poll #1186709 365days Week Eight
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 4

Which is your favorite?