Check out my Guest Blog Post!!

I did a guest blog spot for my best friend as she gets ready to leave for Oregon... So, check it out here! http://yammeringmuse.blogspot.com/

Something amazing!

        So, you all have met my boyfriend, what I mean by that is, I did a post about him a while back. He is many things, and one of those things is amazing. But even more amazing than my boyfriend, if it is even possible, is the fact that 2 days ago, we celebrated our 7 month anniversary and in the 7 months and 2 days we have been dating, we have never had a fight. Which is amazing. Seeing as I am a hotheaded, Irish girl who takes pride, yes pride, in the fact that I can go from Happy to Righteously Indignant to Raving Mad in 0.6 seconds.

        I haven't given up my anger. I mean, yes, I am getting better at having a good attitude, but am still angry and frustrated at many things. But I think that when God made us, he made us for each other. I really do. He is logical and not prone to wild outbursts, while I am wild and anything but logical... However, where it counts we are the same. We're both quiet, easy going, and creative. We like to think things through, and plan. We like the same kinds of things. We compliment each other, and I am not talking about a kind word, I'm saying we fit, we match, we make sense.

        And I could add the mushy stuff, like how he always surprises me with how crazy he can be. How he can always make me laugh with his brand of funny and witty jokes. How I am always amazed with how handsome he is, and how beautiful he thinks I am. And with how I can just be there in the moment with him, but also how he makes me look forward to the rest of my life.

         However, no matter how much "we got together like ramalamalama", I think the reason that we haven't fought doesn't stem from our mutual mojo. I think it comes from a place of maturity. Willing to accept the other person for who they really are, what they really want, and never trying to change them. We never ask the other one to be something for us. If I am going to be something it should be because I want to, and visa-versa. However, we are also giving of our love and time, without asking of the other, without expecting the other one to give in kind or to pay us back for what we have done, but we do so, because we want to.

          Love without expectations. That is why it makes sense to us, that is why we haven't fought. I am proud of who he is, what he is. I don't try to change that. He feels the same for me, and I feel something extraordinary as a result. Because of the loving relationship we have created, we feel comfortable in that love. We feel able to be who we really are.

          We haven't fought yet, but that doesn't mean we won't. My Irish temper will let him have it at some point, and at some point I will drive him crazy. But for now, what we have is working. And I am very proud of that.

The Heavenly Archway

This is the thing I would get married under, if it were at all possible. It is so super cool, and someday, the entrance to my library will have this. <3 LOVE!

No containers. Wonderful or whatever...

So a new grocery store is implementing a program where no containers or packaging is used. Just like reusable grocery bags, this store will encourage shoppers to bring their own container to house their beans and lentils (or whatever green-conscious people eat).  So the store looks like this:

Just bins and bins of loose food. Me? I think it's a bunch of bunk, and a whole lot more trouble than it's worth, but that's just me. These kinds of stores are sweep Europe by storm and in Texas, they have caught the bug. You read right, Texas. The place of big things and lots of guns (yes, I know those are just stereotypes) is getting the first of it's kind green-aware grocery store. I wonder if it will last.

(http://www.good.is/post/zero-packaging-grocery-store-to-open-in-austin-texas/)

Shelf Pod House

In Osaka, Japan, There is a house made of shelves. In this house, almost every surface is a shelf. The house could, if it wanted to, hold 10 tons of books. 10 freaking tons! My father would die to have this house. He turned my bedroom into a library, but if he had had this house, I would already be used to it. :)

Here is the link, for more information:
                           http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/house-of-shelves.html

More shelves! I love and want this house...

Happy Fourth!

They may like to fool around every once in a while, but what they do is no joke. Thank you, armed forces and you brave men and women, for making it possible for me to celebrate another fourth of july safely at home. Thank you. No kidding. 

A letter, by Alan Rickman

Bare feet. He is awesome. 

Well, Alan Rickman, amazing man that he is, just wrote this for Empire magazine. He could have been a writer. It's very good, and there's nothing more that need be said. Read the letter (you have to click it to see it better).