The weather today was needless to say......WONDERFUL! It doubt it went over 80 degrees, and it seemed as if there was a nice steady breeze all day. Sadly, I didn't get to soak it up as much as I would have liked since I procrastinated all weekend on my painting homework, but I did get out for a bit. Since the weather was so nice though, I did run out and grab some Autumn themed candles! The weather just reminded me that autumn is just around the corner. My favorite time of year!
I get so excited around this time of year. Autumn is possibly by far my favorite season. There is just a feeling to fall that I think does not match any other season. It's hard to describe, but it's a warmth that just grabs hold of me. I love going on walks and hikes during that time of year. The changing colors mixed with the crisp autumn air! In my opinion, there is no better feeling than that. I get so excited for all of the pumpkins, and sweaters, and festivals, and bonfires, and leaves, and colors, and......everything!
So, needless to say, I'm excited about the upcoming season. :)
I'm warning you now. This may or may not be TMI. Depending on if you care to read about sex or not, read on or just disregard this post. Or just skip to the bottom and watch/listen to the song at the end of this.
I apologize in advance.
So more than once in the past few days my sex life has been brought up in conversation...and not by me. I've noticed that a good number of my friends have a fairly active sex life (or at least they try to have an active sex life) and they have no qualms talking about it. I'm not a prude really in any sense, so I don't mind hearing/talking about it, and I really have no opinion on how frequently they have sex.
However...they apparently have an opinion about how frequently I have sex.
I will go ahead and say that I am not a virgin. I never really made the choice to actively have a sex life, nor did I make the choice to stay a virgin until I got married. I told myself that I would wait until it felt right to me, and that only then would I make that choice. If it felt right to wait, I would, if not, that would be OK too. I didn't want to pressure myself in adhering to one or the other. With everything in perspective, I don't regret having sex. It felt right, so it happened. End of story.
The other thing is that I've never had sex (or done more than just kissing) with anyone that I wasn't in a relationship with or had some sort of feelings for. Again, not by choice really, but just because it never felt right any other time, but I've always been ok with that. I've never really had the urge or the need to go and have sex with just anyone, but that's just me. This is a fact that, apparently, is a foreign idea to some of my friends.
It's been almost a year since then end of my last relationship, and so that time equals about how long its been since I've last had sex. I'm really not bothered by this, however a few of my friends are. One person in particular looked like I had just hit his puppy with a baseball bat when he found out how long it had been. He even offered me a freebie because of how long it had been. -__- Number 1. What?! 2. No. 3. If I REALLY REALLY needed/wanted I wouldn't need to ask for a freebie. I'm not being conceited, but I feel like most people, if they really wanted, know someone who could fulfill that urge/need. And 4. NOOOOOOOOOO! The sad thing is he was not the only one to have this reaction.
I just do not understand this level of shock. First, it's my sex life...not yours. If you want to have sex with anyone, whenever...fine. If not, that's cool too. I don't care, just be safe and use a condom. Personally, I just don't put sex on the top of my priority list. If it happens, cool. If not, that's ok too...not a big deal. I really just do not understand that kind of reaction. I think someone even said "I'm so sorry"......Wait. Did I ask for an apology? Do I seem sad about it?....No, so please do not apologize. I'm sorry that this apparently shocks and awes you so much, but I really do not care. I've just learned that I'm a person that doesn't make that a first priority. In reference to affection, I miss holding hands and cuddling more that I do sex. Maybe, that makes an alien, but that's ok by me. Welcome to my planet, earthling.
I've been kind of obsessed with John Mayer's newest album lately. Here are a couple songs.
Shadow Days-John Mayer. I also love this video in part for the scenery. There are some pretty beautiful places in this video.
I have gotten into the bad habit lately of researching things that I have no ability to currently put into motion. Most of these things require a good bit of yard space, and I am very much lacking in that. I live in a 3 bedroom apartment on the third floor of my complex...needless to say there is no such thing as a backyard where I am at, and to boot, I am probably a good way away from being at the point in my life where I can have enough green space to do these things. I'm on the good ole Pinterest and I have a whole board dedicated to the garden I hope to have at some point in my life. I have looked up varying flowers, shrubs, vegetables, and fruits and what best conditions to grow them in. I also like to look at tool/potting sheds where I could store all of my garden tools and equipment, and I've looked at DIY projects for a garden.
May I remind you that I have NO space whatsoever to have anything that even remotely resembles a garden. I thought, maybe my town might have a community garden I can take part in, so I poked around the internet and found.......none.
THEN I have also been looking at the process of bee keeping. I've been reading about how you can start up your own hives and what kind of things you need to get started. I've even looked up how to make different kinds of honey.
Did I tell you I don't have a backyard to keep bees....or a garden?
So even with this knowledge what am I doing now? Looking at chicken coops... and chickens... and how to raise chickens.
For some time now I have been playing with the idea of having chickens. I've known a few people who have had them and have only heard good things about owning them. Not only about the benefits of being able to have home grown, fresh eggs, but that they are great pets as well. I read an article the other day where a woman said that she has one chicken that will follow her around the the house and who likes to be held. They are also a great teaching aid for children. I don't know if I want children, so I'm not sure that's a selling point for me, but I'm sure my brother will have kids so they can learn from my theoretical chickens. He's a kid person so he's bound to have one or two offspring. Also, there are some really awesome chicken coops out there. Oh, and chicken tractors. Yeah...that's a thing.
I officially have four blog posts that are in various stages of completion...count it...4. I swear one of these days I will complete them...at least some of them anyway.
For any Avett Brothers fans out there, they have come out with a new single called Live and Die. Here it is.
You know those moments when you are just going about your day, and then suddenly you are reminded of something or someone? You could be walking a long a path and suddenly smell the honeysuckle growing in the distance and immediately a memory floods into your mind. It can feel as if you are instantly transported back to that particular memory, and for a moment, you feel as if you are reliving that event again. It is as if you are back in that time and place.
I was walking back to my apartment today when suddenly this smell filled my nose. I can't exactly describe it, but I immediately had the feeling of being back at my great grandparents house. I remember the feeling of running around outside, catching grasshoppers, and watching the cows as they grazed. When I woke up in the mornings my great grandmother would be in the kitchen making breakfast, and she would always let me cut out the biscuits. I was very young at this time, and it always made me feel grownup when she let me help. There was a swing on the front porch that held about three people, and I remember sitting on that swing in the late afternoon with my family all gathered outside while we talked and watched as the day went by. One summer a stray cat had a litter of kittens under that porch and my cousins and I spent all summer watching and playing with them.
Even though I was young when all of this happened, the memories are still clear in my mind. I loved that house. It was old, nothing fancy, but it held the personality and love of all of my family that entered it. A few years back some of my family and I went back to that house, it was sold after my great grandmother had passed away. It wasn't the same house in the way it looked. The previous owners had let the house fall by the wayside. The grass was overgrown, the paint of the house was peeling, the wood damaged, but it still brought back all of those wonderful memories. The barn, while not in the best of shape, was still off in the distance from the house. I miss those summers. I had some great times in that old house that I would not trade for the world.
So, as I walked back home today, my mind was filled with these wonderful memories. Maybe I will make a trip back to that house some day soon. It's been far too long.
Monday, June 18, 2012
I stumbled on this video and I thought it was pretty funny.
And just encase you don't know what he's talking about, here is the song/video he is referencing.
