Gleek Squad (see? it's a pun)

i'm a huge glee fan. don't judge. stop judging. you are so not allowed.

anyway, last night was the madonna episode... so i've had this song stuck in my head all day and i LOVE IT!

listen to it. embrace it. sing along for the rest of the day. just do it. and thank me later. ;-)

okay, the hyperlink isn't showing up so just go to youtube and search madonna - like a virgin... please. i aim to spread joy.

can't fight this feeling

i need to get out of here for a while. hey, dudes in long island? hire me. i'd like to meet and love you all. 'kay, thanks. <3>

i would tend to agree

another piece of wisdom for a dear friend.

tricky for me to say out loud, but easy enough for him to understand.

there's no real point to this one...

to the right is a picture my friend Lisa took of me the other day. it was beautiful outside so we played games and drank Italian sodas. it was glorious.
i like this picture especially because it makes me look like my brothers.

and below, we have some wonderful soap. i'm on a mission to recreate this soap so i may look at it every day and feel better.

define beauty

what makes a person beautiful?

i know many positively gorgeous people, but they don't resemble one another at all. susan is not beautiful in the same way that nikki is beautiful, but she is still beautiful.

how does this work?

so many people with freckles hate that they have them, but i think they are wonderful.

when i was little, my grandmother told me freckles were angel kisses and i guess it stuck. of course, many years later i realized that angels didn't actually kiss people to give them these beautiful spots, but on some level, that concept never really went away. my youngest brother has LOTS of freckles and i've always been jealous.

so i guess our concepts of beauty are very different. i don't know many other people who love freckles as much as i do.

any thoughts? what makes beauty?

love love love

i wish people would realize this.

for example ( and i'm going to get a little personal here for a sec), i fell in love with my best friend not too long ago. or at least it doesn't seem that long ago. in actuality it's been many many months. anyway, i fell pretty hard and couldn't understand what i was doing wrong. then i made this realization and as soon as i did, it became easier to get over him. i used to wish that he loved me back the way i thought i loved him, but then when i thought about it, just because he didn't care about me the way i wished he would, that didn't mean he didn't care at all. it just meant he loved me differently.

we now have the friendship i had wanted for us long before i started to think of him romantically. we love each other like best friends, siblings even. i tell him things i don't tell anyone else and vice versa.

and now he's in the same place i was. i wish he could figure this out.

ffffound.com

this website. i could kill hours... DAYS on this website, scrolling through and saving the ones i like... which are A LOT. i really wish we had more of this kind of artwork around daily life. in an attempt to fix this, i have dozens of my favorites printed off and hung up in and around my apartment. next step is to print them off to make cards, calendars, and posters. i send links pretty often, but now i want to give something tactile. i don't care if it ends up being used as a bookmark or something... oooh, there's an idea. make them into bookmarks.

anyway, i will make a real effort to post one ffffound.com picture for every post. most of them are actually very thought-provoking so they may lead me to write more... for those that actually read this thing. emily mcgilvray, i know you're out there. :P