Let it Be

Life.

It's amazing how quickly it passes you buy.

Looking back on my life, I can see how many interesting changes have occurred just within the past 10 years. Within the past 5 years, the changes are even more dramatic. I lost friends and I've gained friends.

I've had so many viewpoints that I once held so dear, turned upside down on their heads. I was once a deeply conservative bigoted right-wing Christian, and now I'm a radical liberal who openly loves and is fascinated by and respects so many different religions. I was once consumed by collecting all sorts of things, and now I could care less about all my meager possessions, save for some sentimental ones.

Change.

Expand your ideas. Expand your horizon. Believe beyond yourself, and you will find that out there is an amazing world out there. Trust everyone, be kind to everyone and life will give back to you in so many ways.

Wanderlust.

I know some people who have never left the confines of their hometown. There are so many places I've been and thousands more I'd love to visit in the future. To see different people, to be around different people from different cultures opens your mind to so many possibilities.

Love.

Never close yourself off to love and loving. Even the people who have hurt you the most in life, deserve your love. It's easy to be kind to those who are kind back to you. It's so much harder to love those who wrong you. And those who do love you, and those you love, love them every day like it was the last day you are going to see each other. Never take for granted those whom you love.

Doing Great!

Well things have been pretty well here for me. I got a temprorary promotion at work which is leaving me in charge of our little department for several months. If I do a good job, it'll look great on a resume'. I love management, but I think thte worst part is that the responsibility for everything rests on your shoulders when you are in charge. This is what motivates people to be better managers, hopefully!

My book is going well too. I'm prety excited with the direction it is going. Lately, I hadn't been too inspired, but I have flurries of activities and that rocks!

Otherwise, my free time is spent in World of Warcraft. It is an evil world that draws you in and won't let you go! Oh well! At least it's a fun evil world.

Another thing is that lately I've been watching a lot of Monica's work for class and I just can't beleive how awesome and talented she is. She's using a lot of tools that the game industry uses and it's amazing some of the things she is coming up with video/3D modelling wise! I'm so proud of her! I can't wait to see more of her work too.

Wacky Dreams Continue

This was an interesting series of dreams last night.

The first part, I was in a cabin with some other girls...one of which was Monica and our cabin was slowly falling to earth! Anyway, somehow we had an idea to deploy some sorts of parachutes from the cabin roof and our cabin started to glide and drift ever so slowly. Outside the windows, it was snowing as the tree branches swayed in the dreamy wind.

The next scene, we had landed and I got the idea of making up a sorority for the girls in the cabin so we could keep in touch. For some reason, I came up with the "Satin Sorority" as only a dumb blonde can come up with. Then I tried to come up with our greek letters, and came up with "Iota Pi", but I thought that would not be good because it was too close to I Eat a Pie (which would be great aside from the naughty connotations).

Then I was in a big gaming convention center, wandering around. I walked by my old guy friends who were citing in a outdoor patio setting and they totally ignored me as if I didn't exist. This was a first for my dreams, and hopefully a good turning point as my mind realizes they are gone and are happy to let them be. Then, I walked by some young kids who were trying to play the Top Secret RPG about spies and secret agents and I was like, "I used to play that." But then I got up from them and left and made my way to the windows of the center and saw a whole bunch of people outside in a huge swimming pool having fun on inflatable tubes and partying. I opened the glass door and walked out and slipped into, smiling as the partygoers welcomed me into the pool.