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Christmas-time is Almost Here

I haven't been taking any new photos lately. :(  This is because most of the photos I take are outdoors, and it's winter, a season which I despise.  The warmest it has been in the past couple of weeks has been 38 degrees.  I can barely get myself to walk to class, the library, and the dining hall, let alone go outside and wander around taking photos.  Besides, everything's dead, and there's no snow as of yet, so there's not really much to take a photo of.  I do miss photography, though.  What do you guys like to take pictures of?


But the season is upon us, so I think that today I'm going to share with you guys the few winter photos I have taken in the past.  

For a while, I took exclusively photos of flowers, close-up.  This was my father's pride and joy last year - his Pointsetta.  





If you live on the East Coast, you suffered through the multiple snow storms last year, as well.  This was one of the first ones, and for my dog Dixie, this was her first adventure in the snow.  Ever.  (We adopted her from somewhere in the south that doesn't get cold or snow.)  She was loving it.  

I know that I posted this photo yesterday, but when I searched through all my photos, and could only find TWO wintery/Christmasty photos, I felt bad.  


Finals start a week from today.  I don't want to make any promises about the faithfulness of my posting next week, because there is a very high chance that when I'm not taking a final, I'll be either studying or having a nervous breakdown.  Not much time for simple things like sleep, food, and blogging.  Are any of you preparing for finals?  Or are you getting ready for Christmas, and have pictures to share?? Share the love in the comment box!
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Happy Monday

Hello everyone, how was your weekends?  I hope you had a wonderful, relaxing time with friends. :)  I went ice-skating, got most of my Christmas shopping done, and relaxed and got some much-needed studying done.  All in all, I consider it a successful, though freezing cold weekend!  What did you guys do with your time off??


Finals are next week, a fact which is stressing me out enough to consider buying a puppy for my dorm room.  (apparently having a dog can lower blood pressure, reduce stress, and reduce your chance of having/dying from a heart attack.)

This is my dog, Dixie, at home.  She was adopted, so she's afraid of pretty much everything.  And I do not exaggerate that fact.

Outside, it's 34 degrees right now.  (I want to move south.  Like directly on top of the equator.  Ecuador, perhaps?  Okay, not really.  But Georgia might be nice...)

I finished my week-long project of trying a different poetry form every day,  on Saturday.  Which means that I am now totally out of ideas for writing, so it may be a couple of days before you guys see any more of that.

Christmas time is almost here!!  Are you guys excited for the break?  I am.

Leave me some love in the comment box!

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PS.  Today is the last day for the poll on your favorite holiday.  Don't forget to vote!!!

It's Beginning to Look a Lot like Winter

Last night, I went ice-skating with a few friends.  Even though I'm terrible at it, it was so much fun.  Today, we went Christmas shopping at one of the malls around here.  It's starting to feel a lot like winter. :)

Cinquain:  From the French, meaning "a grouping of five."  The Cinquain has five lines, with two, four, six, eight, and two syllables, respectively.  Twenty-two syllables total.  No more than two sentences total.

Beauty

defines her now.

As she walks towards me,

I think only of how much I

love her.

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Hello Loves! Happy Friday :)

Hello loves, and Happy Friday!!  I love Fridays, they hold so much possibility!  Even if, by Sunday afternoon, all you've done is finish up some class-work, write a couple things that nobody will ever read, slept in till way too late, and spent some much-needed time with some good friends, it's the feeling on Friday, that so much could happen in the next couple of days.  

So in a toast to Fridays, I am going to start a new little once-a-week project, the idea of which came from two areas:  (1st) from this lovely blog, and (2nd) from something a friend and I used to do in high-school.  (We would list our "obsessions" for the day, every day)

My Loves

(1)  Sunny mornings, even if when you go outside, it's not as warm as your windows may have told you.

(2)  Our Song, by The Spill Canvas  (clicky to go listen to it!!)  

(3)  Beautiful photos that remind me why I love photography

(4)  Hot chocolate

(5)  A new month!, and with it, the realization that New Years Eve is just around the corner

(6) All things yellow  (like lemons, and my slowly growing collection of rubber ducks)

ABC Poem - has 5 lines that create a mood, picture, or feeling. Lines 1 through 4 are made up of words, phrases or clauses - and the first word of each line is in alphabetical order from the first word. Line 5 is one sentence, beginning with any letter.

A breeze blows around me,

beginning at the trees

calmly surrounding me,

dying out  at the opposite end.

It was just as though everything in the world had stopped.

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I'm going to be doing an Autobiographical Poem today.  I picked this form from here.

I am me.

Eccentric, eclectic, flighty, and free,

I am whoever I want to be,

Feeling all the senses as they surround me.

I feel as vast and as unpredictable as the sea,

That surrounds me, washing over my feet.

I am me.

So I don't know if you guys noticed, but there's a poll in the side bar, right at the top of my page. :)  Go ahead and answer it while you're here!!!

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A Storm

Still no suggestions on poetry forms from you guys, so I've chosen again.  
Today, I'm doing a Tanka - a classic form of Japanese poetry related to the haiku with five unrhymed lines of five, seven, five, seven, and seven syllables. (5, 7, 5, 7, 7)

Wind sweeps angrily

underneath a graying sky.

It brings in the rain

bitterly and with sadness

she sweeps the world with revenge

It's been raining for most of the day here. I know that it's been snowing in some other places though, like Pittsburgh and Happy Valley.

(I'm learning that I'm terrible at counting syllables. I mean, I can count the syllables, but it gives me a lot of trouble making sure I don't go over.

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