5 Fall Goals.

I found a tag on Smile Couture's blog about fall goals, which I thought might be fun to do.

1. Avoid procrastinating. 
I am so fracking practiced at procrastinating by this point in my life that I should be able to find a way to avoid it.

2. Knit mittens for my friends.
I promised them mittens last winter, but then slacked. Time for me to break out the yarn again and have my grandfather make jokes about my elderly hobbies.


3. Hipster Thrusdays. 
Today Moriah and I had hipster Thursday today, where we strive to dress like hipsters. Or, you know, an excuse to wear quirky pieces of clothing we happen to own (*cough*llama sweater*cough*) We actually don't dress much differently on Hipster Thursdays, but we will totally still do it for kicks.

4. Don't buy cosmetics. 
I'm trying to come to terms with not getting paychecks anymore and going on a cosmetic purchase ban is hopefully going to keep me from burning through my allowance too fast. After my sixth nail polish purchase of the summer, I decided that I needed to stop for a while. 


5. Pick up a bit of piano. 
I kind of want to learn a bit of piano. Because piano chords are actually way easier than I assumed.
Love,
-J-
Currently reading: Will Grayson Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan

Crayons, the possible cure for the common cold.

I stayed home with a cold today and watched the season premier of How I Met Your Mother, Castle, as well as Two and a Half Men, simply because I was curious about how they would get rid of Charlie Sheen. The writers sure had fun with that episode.

This weekend I went to a Vineyard youth conference at a camp. It was so chill, they didn't even go over the rules when we got there. I love the Vineyard and their impressive laid back-ness.

I had a good time hanging out with people, making hipster jokes with Noah, and a marriage proposal from both Sam and Moriah beginning with,"Well, we've been friends for so long that we may as well just get married...". In addition to the good times, I has a rather frightening time sitting on a trampoline with three middle school boys and two overly medicated friends playing Stella Ella Ola at 12:30am.

Top moments of the weekend included Todd (Noah's dad) was wearing a candy necklace. At an exit, Noah, being an amusingly awkward person, leaned over from the passenger seat and took a bite of the necklace. The four of us sitting in the back seat were in hysterics. We imagined getting into a accident and Todd having to explain to the cops that his teenage son took a bite off his candy necklace while he was driving.
Love,
-J-

Facebook kind of made my day.

The hobbit you just called fat? He's skipping 2nd breakfast. The dwarf woman you called ugly? She spends hours braiding her beard so you can differentiate her from a dwarf man. The Uruk-Hai you just killed? He's been abused by Saruman. See that Gollum creature with the gangly limbs&large eyes? For 500 years the Ring poisoned his mind. That Elf you just made fun of for crying? She just lost her wizard friend to a Balrog. Put this as your status if you're against bullying in Middle-Earth.
  
PLEASE put this as your status if you know someone (or are related to someone) who has been eaten by pandas. Pandas are nearly unstoppable and when hungry, also breathe fire. 71% of people won't copy this into their status because they have already been eaten by pandas, 28% are hiding in their… showers with fire extinguishers awaiting the coming pandocalypse and the remaining 1% are awesome and will re-post.

Things of which have lately occured.

• I joined choir yesterday. First song we're doing is Bohemian Rhapsody. My enthusiasm is abundant. Also, Brittany joined too, so I think we will have fun being crazy together. 
• I went to a concert in Moncton last night. Newsboys, Thousand Foot Krutch, Manafest (which was too loud... I went to the lobby), a total of ten acts. There were a few acoustic guitar guys who were really good. It started at 5pm and went to 11pm. Some of the acts were terrible, but some were quite good. TFK has good music, and the guitarist has epic dreads (which he whipped back and forth). Newsboys are good performers and they balance that well with their music. Newsboys are more my type of music. I got home at 2am. So caffeinated at school today.
• I discovered my love of metaphysical poetry. Never have I felt like such a dork. I'm currently working on a project comparing the views of God as found in "Batter my heart" by John Donne and "Love (III)" by George Herbert. I'm kind of liking it way more that I should. I think this love has sprung from having poetry written about religion, which I understand fairly well, and am therefore able to decipher. I seriously fail at most other poetry.

Love,
-J-