Becca's blog

My Top 10 Favorite Scents

1.My husband
2.A bonfire
3.The ocean
4.Rain
5.The forest
6.Vanilla
7.Fresh baked bread
8.Food on the grill
9.Freshly popped popcorn
10.Honeysuckle

The Logical Song - Supertramp

When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful,
a miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical.
And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily,
oh joyfully, oh playfully watching me.

But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible,
logical, oh responsible, practical.
And then they showed me a world where I could be so dependable,
oh clinical, oh intellectual, cynical.

There are times when all the world's asleep,
the questions run too deep
for such a simple man.
Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned
I know it sounds absurd
please tell me who I am

I said now watch what you say or they'll be calling you a radical,
a liberal, oh fanatical, criminal.
Won't you sign up your name, we'd like to feel you're
acceptable, respectable, oh presentable, a vegetable!
Oh Take it take it yeah!

But at night, when all the world's asleep,
the questions run so deep
for such a simple man.
Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned
I know it sounds absurd
please tell me who I am,
Who I am
Who I am
Who I am

Who knows who's so logical.

25 Things You Always (or never) Wanted to Know About Me

1. I love most music, and have a special place in my heart for '80's hits.
2. I am a 2nd degree brown belt in Shaolin-do karate.
3. I have a hard time tolerating close-minded, short-sighted, selfish, and lazy people.
4. I hold a Bachelor's degree in Art.
5. I believe in ghosts.
6. I participated in the Kentucky Derby Festival Mini Marathon once and didn't come in last.
7. My favorite season is autumn.
8. I'm completely addicted to caffeine.
9. I can be critical, sarcastic, and distrustful, and have a tendency to assume the worst of people.
10. A beautiful sunrise can bring tears to my eyes.
11. I have taken piano and guitar lessons, but can't play either one very well.
12. I love to sing, but rarely do it where anyone else can hear me.
13. I am a cancer survivor.
14. I once won a trophy for bowling a 250 game.
15. I learned to read at the age of 4, and have been “chain-reading” books ever since. Right now, I'm reading two books: a sci-fi story; and an instructional book on “quantum touch” healing.
16. I can drive a stick shift.
17. I helped build a house with Habitat for Humanity.
18. I love cheeseburgers, but often feel guilty when I eat meat.
19. The first concert I ever went to was to see Rush, the last was to see White Zombie.
20. I'm a total cat person, but also love most other animals.
21. I'm fascinated by what quantum physics is revealing about the way the universe works.
22. I sleep with the lights on.
23. One time, I set off the smoke alarm while cooking breakfast, and the fire department came.
24. I've seen most of the sci-fi, fantasy, comedy, horror, and action movies that have been in the theater in the last 20 years.
25. I believe we are each responsible for our own happiness.

The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

I had a dream a couple of nights ago that I woke up in my bed and felt like someone was in the room with me. I looked at the bedroom door which in the dream had a chain lock on it and I saw the chain move and lock the door. I tried to scream for Jay, but no sound came out. While I kept trying to scream or make any kind of sound to get Jay's attention, the furniture in my room started moving toward me. Finally Jay opened the door and came in. We ran out together and ran down the hall to the living room and he told me the furniture in the living room was moving too. When we got there, I turned around and looked back toward my bedroom. I saw a big man-shaped figure in my doorway that looked like it was wrapped in tan-colored bandages like a mummy. It came toward us down the hall. I yelled to Jay to get one of our cell phones and use it to videotape what was happening. The mummy-ghost reached the living room and attacked me. It threw me around the room and felt completely solid when I pushed back at it. I struggled with it over to the front door and managed to throw it out the apartment door and down the stairs. It was daylight outside. When it hit the stairs, it lost it's shape...as if the ghost had disappeared from inside the bandages and left the bandages behind. When I went back in, there were about 5 more ghosts that had materialized inside. I told Jay that we needed to throw them down the stairs outside. I fought with all of them and threw them all outside one by one.

Becca Flying MonkeyThe Masks We Wear

One of my favorite Halloween costumes that I've worn in recent years is that of one of those Flying Monkey minions of the Wicked Witch from the Wizard of Oz.

"In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime..."
-Richard Bach "Illusions"

I started playing Fable on Xbox last weekend, and I'm hooked! I'm not a big game player in general, and I almost never play video games, but when a friend of mine told me how much she loves Fable and then loaned me her copy, I had to give it a shot. The graphics are nice, the characters are cute, and the controls are relatively simple. I can't wait to see what happens next!

Unwritten - Natasha Bedingfield

I am unwritten, can't read my mind, I'm undefined
I'm just beginning, the pen's in my hand, ending unplanned

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you can now find

Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten

Oh, oh, oh

I break tradition, sometimes my tries are outside the lines
We've been conditioned to not make mistakes, but I can't live that way no no

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you can now find

Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins

Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you can now find

Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open

The Middle - Jimmy Eat World

Hey,
Don't write yourself off yet.
It's only in your head to feel left out,
Or looked down on.
Just try your best,
Try everything you can.
And don't you worry what they tell themselves
When you're away.

[Chorus]
It just takes some time,
Little girl, you're in the middle of the ride.
Everything, everything will be just fine,
Everything, everything will be alright. (alright)

Hey,
You know they're all the same.
You know you're doing better on your own, (on your own)
So don't buy in.
Live right now.
Yeah, just be yourself.