A Vent of Sorts

The Pessimist Personality says...
My heart is, as the saying goes, worn on my sleeve.  It's quite a flaw, actually.  A heart exposed to the destructive elements gets a good beating when it's not properly hidden inside where it should be.  Things get messy, my heart gets plucked off my sleeve without permission, and chucked back to me slightly bruised.  


The Gratified Optimist says...
My heart is, as the saying goes, worn on my sleeve.  It's a gift, really.  Though my heart is taken very easily, it's returned complete with lessons learned.  It's a complicated process, but heartache, well, makes the heart grow stronger. 


People and life may swing a couple punches to our hearts, but ultimately we choose to either leave the wounds open, or patch them up with a sweet Barbie Band-Aid.  I'm out of the Barbie sort, so this week I chose a Band-Aid in the form of a serious cry-session, great friends, and awesome big sisters. 


To life and people who think hearts are something to be toyed with, I say bring it.  I'm still feeble, but armed with one heck of a first-aid kit.

"I invented the cordless extension cord."

Since the wheel and fire have already been invented, I'll invent something else.  Something amazing.  Something the world will not be able to live without!  Here's what I'm thinking...

• SPF Eyedrops

How they work: Pretty self-explanitory.  My eyes always suffer from sunburn in the summer, but what fool would put sunscreen on their eyeball?  This is where my eyedrops come in.  Just a little *drop, drop* and you're ready to stare UV-rays in the eye!  Oh.  That hurts, don't do that.  Just use the eyedrops.

• Snow-Be-Gone

How it works: If you're like me, you dread the winter for various reasons, one of which being the painful task of scraping snow and ice off your car in freezing temperatures.  Snow-Be-Gone would do the work for you!  It's a magical spray that melts ice and dissolves snow on contact, leaving you with a frost-free car in half the time!  Then again, you'd still have to take the time in the bitter cold to spray the stuff all over your car...Hmm.  I'll work on this one.

• Lightweight Textbooks

How they work:  I would imagine that in the near future, textbooks will cease to exsist.  They will all be electronic, like so much of our world today.  However, I like having tangible text in my hand...It's the weight I dislike, and so does my back.  Somehow, I would figure out a way to make textbooks literally light as paper.  I'll accept insight on this one.  That's all I've got.

• Self-cleaning Shopping Carts

How they work:  I know I'm not the only one that absolutely hates touching the shopping cart handle.  Can you say "ew?"  The self-cleaning shopping cart would clean itself after each use with a little sanitizing buffer wheel that would wrap around the handle and sweep across it to throughly sanitize the nasty carts.  Do you see my vision here?  It would be much better if I could use sound effects in my descriptions...

So there you have it.  The world would be a better place and I would be a wealthier woman with these simple, yet brilliant (haha) inventions.

A Few Of My Favorite Things

While raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens are quite lovely, I'm more of a sunshine on daisies and fluffy fur on puppies kind of gal.  Mostly for my own enjoyment, here are a few of my favorite things.


1.  Laughing until I cry is definitely at the top of my charts.  Who doesn't love to laugh until "you come dangerously close to falling out of a chair...but you don't"?  I know I do.
2.  You know when you're lucky enough to get the potato chip that is folded over so it just adds a little extra *crunch* to your salty snack?  That makes me happy.  Folded chips.  Ah, the simple pleasures.
3.  Music that expresses how you feel better than you ever could.  A favorite pastime of mine is scouring for tunes, by no specific genre, that easily describe any emotion.
3a.  Music that I can sing at the top of my lungs in the shower that expresses how I feel.  That's such a great stress reliever for me...singing.
4.  Dancing until I'm sore.  In the next life, I'm going to ask to be a dancer.  A really good one.  I mean, I'm a mediocre dancer now, but with past injuries, I was unable to continue to participate in dance like I would've liked to.  So basically any dancing I do now makes me sore, but I love that feeling the day after you've danced like a wild thing where you just say, "Dang, that wild thing dance made me sore."  That's awesome.
5.  A good book.  These days, all I really have time to read are textbooks, but when I sit down with a book that's more than just paper and text, I wonder why I don't read more often.  I love books.
6.  Candy.  I have a major sweet-tooth, and adore anything chocolate covered, caramel filled, and sugar coated.  Let's name a few!  Raisinettes, Cow Tails, Muddy Bears, Ice Cream...oh.  I greatly appreciate Ice Cream.


So these are just a few of my favorite things, not nearly all of my favorites.  A post like that would be entirely too long...

Another Chance To Get It Right

Yeah, yeah, I'm a little behind with the New Years post.  I actually wasn't going to do one at all considering I made no effort to make any kind of resolution this year.  I feel like I always set myself up for failure when I do and so I figured I would just avoid the guilt all together.  But here I am...feeling guilty that I didn't make at least some attempt to make 2011 a memorable year.  


If there's one thing I learned this year, it's that life simply doesn't go as planned.  I was born a planner.  I plan get-togethers with my friends, I plan my daily activities, heck, I plan yearly activities, I plan my outfits, I plan which color of pen I'll use for my notes the next day...but as I began college, I also slowly began to realize my 4-year life plan (yes, I had/have one) was simply not going the way I'd intended.  So for my first resolution, I plan (ha) to take life as it comes, one day at a time, and not worry too much about the future.  Mostly because it scares me too much.


My next resolution is to cook more.  I've always enjoyed cooking, I simply just don't have many opportunities to try out new recipes and improve my skills....and they truly need some improvement. I enjoy nutrition as well, so hopefully I can create some awesomely healthy masterpieces!


Next, I'd like to live a little more this year.  I've been feeling a tad trapped in the bubble of Cache Valley, and I just have the urge to escape for a bit.  Ideally, I'd like to spend a semester or even a summer outside of my hometown.  I figure there's no better time than now! 


Lastly, I'd like to give a little more.  I would honestly love working in some way with the Make A Wish foundation, or some kind of humanitarian project...just anything to help me focus on others instead of so much of myself. 


Big things are going to happen for me this year.  I'll make sure of it.