In the little house on the hill,
the occupants all tread like ghosts,
taking soft, delicate steps,
as to not set off another explosion.
Every room is filled with faded echoes
of laughter and conversation,
reminders of happier times.
But there’s no laughter filling the little house now.
Instead, there is mistrust and broken promises,
and the ghost with the hollow blue eyes,
and the ghost with the jaded green eyes,
wonder what the hell went wrong,
to turn the house full of love
into a place where there is no longer warmth
and not a soul smiles,
and the silence is so loud that it screams.
One is sick of trying and failing,
and the other hates that she lose the one she loves most.
The world below is flooded
with the millions of tears they have cried,
and the house is overflowing with pent-up emotions,
and none of them can do a thing.
The only way to stay sane anymore
is to hold onto the minute hope that
eventually, things would get better,
and they will no longer feel this way,
and once again the little house on the hill
will be the home it once was.

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Last night, I went through some notebooks of mine from years and years ago, filled with literally hundreds of poems. I pulled out two to share. Here’s one:

The mountains shine a glimmering pink
as they are stained by the sunset.
I stood under a pearlescent moon
thinking of you.
The frozen blanket that covered the ground
cushioned my footfalls as I slowly made my way through
a frozen Calgary.
Hardly the winter-wonderland it was made out to be.
Downtown, the lights from windows shine like stars
against a darkening backdrop… like the stars from that night,
and skyscrapers puncture the sky above.
Sometimes I wish the city would burn
so that maybe my memories would be charred,
And the ghosts of you that still haunt me would fade away…

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As I speak the word future,
the first syllable is already entering the past.

As I speak the word silence,
I destroy it.

As I speak the word nothing,
I create something not contained in any nothingness.

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Today I dropped off those other pictures to A’s house, and all night I have been in a shitty mood because I smashed my phone in my car door and it cracked, and I can’t afford another damn phone. When I was in the neighbourhood, I got really nostalgic about Sadie, as I always do, but it hit especially hard. So of course, tonight I see a woman walking a gorgeous greyhound that looked just like Sadie, only with a patch of white on her face and the slightest hint of brindle… I burst into tears. I have been crying a lot lately, I’m sorry I keep writing about it. Most normal people would be over it by now. I mean, we gave her back December fourth, that is ages ago.

I’m not over it. I don’t think I ever will be. That was one of the cruelest things to happen in my life so far… to have a dog of my own after yearning for twenty years… then to have her taken away. (Ya ya, easy life.)

Sigh.

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Lately, I have been thinking about the “apocalypse,” or when the world will end. There have been many terrible storms lately here, inclement weather not usual for the time of the year (having to bring in fake snow in the winter to CANADA!?), things like that. And although I believe that it is due to climate _change_, not global warming (which I think the media and special-interest groups are using as a buzzword to work people up and scare them,) I don’t think that the changes in the environment are indicative of a massive, catastrophic catastrophe that will happen and wipe out everyone on earth. The world naturally goes through warming and cooling periods (over the span of thousands of years,) and people just don’t understand that. There are those who have their eyes completely blinded to reality and say “There is no ‘global-warming,’ that’s why the tomato and orange crops in Florida were horrible this year, all the snow and cold weather. Not too warm, is it?” to which I facepalm in my mind. It is such a ridiculous argument, because what the issue is (that some people have yet to realize) is _change_ to the climate, not strictly warming everywhere. Places that are usually always balmy are getting snow, places that are usually freezing have been abnormally warm, higher rates of incidence for natural disasters (though some are refuting that, and saying that they are just better documented now)… it’s real.

I think that it is a combination of a natural causes (the Earth experiencing a warming trend) and humans exacerbating the problem. Major de-forestation, mass consumption of natural products, greenhouse-gas emissions, pollution (air, soil, water), it’s all just making things worse. It’s great that now humans are finally starting to realize the impact we are having on the planet, and how massive our ecological footprint is, but it’s almost at the point where we realized this too late. Now we’re trying to backtrack a bit, and it isn’t going to happen. I’m glad that we are making a more conscious effort to watch the size of our carbon-footprint (another buzzword,) and to recycle more and take better care of the environment, but you know what a big issue is?

Overpopulation, which was the original point of this post. At the rate we’re consuming the natural resources (especially fossil fuels,) there needs to be big changes if we want to continue on our species. The accelerated pace at which the human race is expanding is scary, because we are using up the worlds fresh water (a lot is going to watering livestock, and to grow food for livestock), natural resources (trees being torn down to make room for farmland or expansion of cities), and are at greater risk of having epidemics and pandemics wipe out millions of people.

I think that every five or ten years, for an entire year, no one can have children. That way, as people die all over the world each day from whatever causes they may be, we weed out the planet a little bit each time this happens. This way, we can slow down the pace at which we are popping out children all over the place, and give the Earth a little break.

Obviously, this would be impossible to implement, and some would find it morally or fundamentally wrong, I’m sure. But the Earth needs a break… we just aren’t dying enough to compensate for the massive amount of kids being born, especially in impoverished places.

Thoughts?

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Quarter after twelve in the morning, up in six hours, and too frustrated to sleep. There isn’t even one or two things in particular keeping me up. It’s a culmination of being over-tired because my insomnia has been kicking my ass lately, feeling frustrated at life in general, and feeling particularly ornery because of the damn heat. So I’m just going to list off a list of what is bothering me tonight, in no order, and not relaying the degree to which one is causing me to feel like this tonight. (Antsy, anxious and pissed off, in case you were wondering.)

– It’s upsetting that I keep making little discoveries of things that I don’t want to see or have in my possession anymore. This past weekend, it was gifts that A had made me and pictures of the two of us and things like that, things that have been in storage for months and I completely forgot about. The other night I couldn’t sleep because of how hot it was, so I went out for a drive to get one of my favourite bottles of iced tea, though the nearest location that sells that one particular kind was pretty damn far. I had nothing else to do so I made the trip, then remembered the stuff I had to return to A so I did that on the same trip, and even though I slipped it under his door and didn’t actually have to see him, just talking was difficult enough for me. But I was done with it, I thought I had finally swept off the final remnants of that and could be over with the awkward exchanging of things. However, tonight while I was clearing out document holder with a bunch of my important papers in it, I found more pictures I have to give back, and it’s frustrating because I worry that now it looks like I’m just finding “convenient” excuses to meet with him or whatever, which is not the case at all. I went to great lengths to avoid face-to-face contact the other night, declined an invitation to go out to eat, because the last time it happened was so damn hard on me. And I have to do the whole “I have stuff of yours, haha, I keep popping up, don’t I? Isn’t that great?” bit, and it sucks. I thought I had done a clean sweep of everything, but I keep finding new things. If I hadn’t already told him to expect an envelope of stuff waiting for him tomorrow, I would do a thorough re-check of everything, just to make sure that was all of it, but I was too prompt and I will be kicking myself if I end up finding anything else.

– I instantly go cold and detached inside when I hear the flick-flick of the lighter, the inhale, the exhale. Even hearing it through the phone does something to me, and I hate it. Especially after talking about my grandfather just the other day, and how horrible and difficult it was for everyone in my family when he died of severe lung cancer caused by his habit.

- As always, one of my biggest issues that affects my mood is how I take my reflection that day. That sounds weird, but it’s how I feel. If I take my image as “Decent, not horrible right this minute”, things are a lot easier to cope with. For the most part, and a lot lately, it’s “Fucking gross, stop looking at the god damn mirror.” I know, I know, bitch bitch bitch, but it’s constantly on my mind and affecting my thoughts and mood.

- I wish there could be just one day that I could say exactly what is on my mind, to everyone about everything, and have no fear of repercussion. I could finally get off my chest what has been bothering for a long time but know that saying out loud would be the worst possible thing to do for everyone else, and my situation. Please tell me that I’m not the only one who feels this way.

- I’m frustrated because things have stalled, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to kick-start them back into motion. I hate the lack of momentum.

- My lack of a future scares the shit out of me.

- Sleep would be so fantastic right now, but it just won’t happen. Now what? I don’t know. Spider-solitaire or Mah Jong, I guess.

– I really wish I could reconnect with a few people from my past, but have no certain way of going about it, and I vaguely remember trying to do it once with each of these people, but nothing ever resulted from it. I should leave well enough alone, and I will… I just wish I didn’t have to.

- I don’t know if anyone even reads my incoherent ramblings anymore.

- I’m not ready to turn 21 in a week… it’s not enough time. Things are going by so fast, but so slow… I wish I could fast forward to real adulthood so I knew what would come of me, and what to expect, but I’m terrified of being a bona fide adult with real problems, unlike these I speak of here.

- I would really love some ice cream… Sigh.

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I must have. I must have been out to lunch when this little tidbit was shared with Calgarians. Apparently though, if you have a BMW, you can be a complete asshole on the road.

I’m not sure what it is, but whenever I’m on the major road in Calgary (the Deerfoot,) I consistently see BMW drivers cutting people off, merging in really suddenly without even a cursory flick of the hand in thanks, nothing. It’s as though because they have pricey cars, it completely entitles them to do whatever the hell they want. Even if they are ugly, old beat-up B-mers, they are kinds of the asphalt.

So, the person has some super-charged, epic BMW with ridiculously expensive rims, and a over-tinted tint on every one of the windows, naturally us other lowly cars on the road should part like the friggen’ red sea and let them through, as though they are on a runway, merely allowing us peons the pleasure of seeing its taillights (because of course, they are going so fast that we are basically searching through dust just to see those).

M says that I may have a bias against BMW drivers because of a certain someone I know who does… but he drove the same way as the rest of them. It’s so damn aggravating. I hate seeing them on the road, especially in rush hour when I’m tired and not overly-happy to be fighting through the sharks in the morning and afternoon.

Geez. This was a pretty sarcastic post, usually I try to tone that down a little. ;)

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Oh puppy… so damn cute. One of the best-looking little mutts I have seen on Kijiji in forever.

Even though my birthday is a mere seven days away, my mom is resolute; no dogs. I know she would fall in love with this little guy… Oh well.

M, this is where you come in. GET THIS PUPPY!



KO – Capable

Baby got a little problem with the drugs man
And I tried to stop her, well
But she loves them
But I can’t do nothing that, last one man
Her nose keeps on bleeding but it’s, but it’s
but it’s nothing and I
And I won’t forget when, when she said

I lick a ring around this L
So that it burns all night
And I pass round that philly so, so
So we can all get high
You see I never knew
I never had a clue that
That you were capable of love
That you were capable of love
So lick a ring around your L,
So that it burns all night
And I pass round that philly so, so
So we can all get high

If baby keep on thinking, well
She gonna hurt herself
Baby keeps on drinking cause
Sshe lost all her wealth
Yeah,she love that liquor
She wanna have my kids
But this ain’t my problem but
But Jesus says it is
And I won’t forget when, when she said

I lick a ring around this L
So that it burns all night
And I pass round that philly so, so
So we can all get high
You see I never knew
I never had a clue that
That you were capable of love
That you were capable of love
So lick a ring around your L,
So that it burns all night
And I pass round that philly so, so
So we can all get high

I’m so glad you informed me
Her strong point was never loyalty
Bitch never done shit for me
I had to leave her, and
Well now she’s just another story
When we pass around that 40
And she says she’s so sorry well I
I don’t believe her

I lick a ring around this L
So that it burns all night
And I pass round that philly so, so
So we can all get high
You see I-I never knew
I never had a clue that
That you were capable of love
That you were capable of love
So lick a ring around your L
So that it burns all night
And I pass round that philly so, so
So we can all get high

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Alright, two in the morning and I can’t sleep at all. I synced up my Ipod, deleted all the double and triple songs I had on Itunes, I downloaded about a hundred songs and transferred them (Backstreet Boys, Spice Girls, Offspring, Blink 182, Eiffel 65, and NOFX, in case you were wondering. It’s 90′s night tonight.) I really wish I could call someone and chat, but since I am apparently the only one alive at this hour, I’ll just ramble.


This drastically improved my night though, enjoy:

And that

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