Sunday, October 31, 2010

happy happy halloween

Here's a video of a bunch of pictures. We had a fun little party in our closet we call a home and we loved every second of it. we watched "Arsenic and Old Lace" and "Practical Magic" :) we had swamp juice, kidneys stones of trolls (the round ones are from mountain trolls, the flat ones are from cave trolls...or maybe it was the other way around...) we had dried swamp worms, baby dragon scales and plenty eye of newt to go around :)
needless to say we had lots of fun oh and i still want to be a witch *poof* back to the real world where we have homework to do and papers to write. halloween we'll visit you as often as we can. Here we come Thanksgiving!! =)

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

still feeling restless

there’s something i should be doing…

no i don’t mean homework

there’s a story inside me, a tale to be told and i can’t put my finger on it. there’s a bit of my military brat that’s saying “it’s time to move on to bigger and better things.”

Seniorites!? i hope not. i still have wayy too much school to deal with that plague. bring on the rats and locusts; all i need is a cat and some pesticide.

maybe all the talk of halloween. i’m eager to get into the full spirit of things.

i miss pretending. i miss mixing potions with my mom’s cookware in our back yard. i miss smelling the flowers mix with the bugs and dirt and create the most noxious and disgusting smells (yeah, i’m a weirdo. i admit it)

ok, enough me me me. this is Danica And Jake’s many adventures, not Danica’s daily crises. hmmm.

jake and i are having a halloween shindig on saturday. we’ll be eating spiders and mud, and downing it with a chilled glass of swamp juice. I’m so stoked!

jakey is going to be WOlverine. we got him some tight white shirts (dress-code at BYUH won’t let him wear a wife-beater like logan actually does…then again would i really want him wearing one, i’m the wife!!) ;) my mom even picked up some dog-tags on post for him. i found some genuine plastic wolverine claws, so he’s all set.

i’m going as (surprise surprise) a witch! ok i’ve actually got 2 costumes. i’ll be attending the English circle halloween party as charlie brown dressed up as a ghost. basically i’ll be wearing a sheet with a lot of holes cut out and carrying around a bag of rocks. for our party i’ll be a witch. i’ve got a fantastic costume. like i said, i’m pretty stoked. =) ok. last post for the day. i promise

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Witch! Witch! She’s a Witch!

me, me! pick me!! :) I finished watching Practical Magic and…

I want Magic

 

How is it that I have this feeling that somehow me and magic are supposed to be together. There’s probably a million other people that think that…..but I’ve felt like this since i was a little kid. i saw Matilda and i was like ‘hey, that’s supposed to be me! what’s the deal?’

maybe i have issues…i dunno, do i have readers? readers, are you out there? if you are, please tell me, AM I NUTS?

is it possible to feel like there’s something bigger, like we’re capable of so much more than we give ourselves credit for?

Am I denying God? no way! I’m not talking black magic, let’s-summon-the-devil magic, I’m talking honest good magic. like charmed, practical magic, hogwarts magic. fun magic. magic that keeps my spoon stirring after i move my hand, magic that allows me to stay where i am and still get that book from across the room. that’s what i’m talking about. that’s what i feel like i’m missing…

hmmm. i need a good book.

something with witches… =)

Monday, October 25, 2010

A second to breath

between midterms, french tests, papers and work, writing has had to come to a screeching halt (papers don't count). it's amazing how good it feels to just sit and write. i feel my characters slipping away from me, i feel the man who recites his story to me will soon find someone else to listen-someone who will write down what he says. i need to dedicate "writing-time" where i put away work, school and anything else that I'm working on or that needs working on and just emerge myself in writing. i miss writing.

restrictions hurt. it's like being so hungry you feel sick, and you just need to eat, Need to or, you don't want to think about or. this is what i feel. this unease is what makes my knees bounce in class, what drums my fingers, what watches the clock. i need a second to breath and a millennium to write.