adventure: risky or unexpected undertaking

When you're seeking adventure it doesn't help that the last 500 miles of the West has become a routine. Of course interstates don't really count as adventures. Completely predictable people along with the Gas, Food, Lodging and Rest Areas that are beside them. The scenery that you zip by you can't really touch, because it's behind a fence and endangered is only a hint of what you're missing out on. But when you begin to remember particular rock formations and saguaros it takes on the sensation of driving to work.

But I was thinking about it, where is this adventure? I'm beginning to feel that not very much of it is left in the great wide open, guessing how many miles until the next Wal-mart is not a risky or unexpected undertaking. And with everyone having the same things, the same music, and the same Internet, what is going to be unique and unanticipated beyond the curve in the road? Which leads me to believe that the only real adventures left in the US are in the top major cities like LA and NY. Where all the people that are still seeking adventure flock to.

Scavenger Hunt went amazing

Need I say more? Thanks to the people of Goleta the Goodland, another amazing Saturday afternoon was successfully enjoyed. Can't wait for next year. Will I play? Who knows? I hope that Dan and Ryan will follow through with the expert level, because that's what I want to do!

Facebook photo album of Scavenger hunt

The way sound echoes through Goleta

Tonight for the second time in the row I just heard the sound of a bus, as in an old school MTD bus out there somewhere in the mist. Bill's bus? Not sure. I love this town

End of semester...almost...hah!

I was just about to write on here how great things are going but then realized after making a to do list, that I still have so much to do before the end of this semester. That I really need to get off the high I am on right now and go to sleep!

Review went great today, and I'm glad to have so many friends here and everywhere and feel everything in my career path growing with so much excitement. The growth and the connections.

And I feel asleep writing this or something.

Art?

It's so funny I come from a non-art background. The question is, is my mind artistic or not? I might be only artistic because of the all oddities of the way my mind works. But maybe that is what constitutes art. I feel very narcissist sitting here and trying to dissect my brain.

But one thing is for sure my life has been so a typical, especially in my exposure to art and I love it. Because that isn't that in itself an expression of art, a different approach to experiencing something even if you didn't choose that approach?

Growing up in Southern California under loving nerds. Being tossed into the music world and just considering it another part of my back yard. Now here, being dragged through the mud and my eyes being open to the full glory of life.

I just remembered I use to hate art in elementary school. So much I use to stay out loud and often. It was such a chore, those left handed scissors were the worst. But now that I think about it, it wasn't art. Cutting out patterns of leprechauns and gluing them together is not an expression of one's self and thought. But how do you get an elementary school kid to express themselves without them filling overwhelmed to do something right? How do you communicate the process whatever it may be, is just as important at the end, and taking time to just think about the process and what it means is the whole point.

Regardless, I was and still am a structured person most of the time. Even though my process through life is so chaotic. It' s because I like a reason, and I'm a hoarder of life. I might not be artistic at all really and it is only because my thought process is so different than everyone else's that it comes off as art. Art is anything that some finds awesome and cares about.

The beginning of a new beautiful life

Remember this moment because it is the first moment of the rest of your life. You are finally free and have survived something you had no idea how you were going to survive.

You sat there and thought if I could only be free, life would be so different and beautiful. And now you are free and life is so beautiful. I know it's different this time, so many things have happened over the past few months that the beauty of life has taken over and taken on a new glow. A new glow that I appreciate so much that nothing will ever be the same. I appreciate every smallest detail. The bird walking on that roof outside, the fact that I have time to sit here and look at that bird walk on that roof and enjoy all the thoughts that come to mind, makes me so happy. Just imagine how happy everything else is going to make me. I can't even fathom.

Chores don't seem like chores they seem like steps to creating an organized focused life of beauty and dreams. Not to mention you can listen to whatever music you want when you do chores, and it won't distract you. Procrastination no long makes sense, it will only lead to more wasted time towards the activity whether it be the agonization or the repercussions for acting at the last moment. But there will be no procrastination, there is nothing in life that I don't look forward to now, as long as I have the time to do it. The time to thoroughly enjoy every last drop. And when the pressure returns again, hopefully I will be more prepared from the many life lessons that I have grown so much from, especially over these past few months.

What home really is, American Beauty, my iphone, BIM!, Greenbuild, Lady Gaga, breaking things down to be organized, getting in shape can be baby steps, Art, Beauty, dressing up, costumes, fashion, Food, eating out, NATURE, the magic of being organized, the magic of not procrastinating, outlines, study habits, waking up early, staying up late, staying up all night, tea, grasshopper, twitter, google reader, friends, conversation, dinner, breakfast, meat, music, ratatat, phoenix, alcohol, people, conventions, assertive, your own business, beautiful ARCHITECTURE, cold, warm, recipes, community online reviews, subs, Phil, my baby, water, chapstick, grocery shopping, sunlight, websites, potential, marketing yourself, Los Angeles and of course Goleta, traveling, northern california, oregon, washington, australia new zealand, south america, japan, europe, creative people, house hunters international, iron chef, japanese cuisine, spices, friend you keep in touch with, net flix, hotels, experiences, people watching, society watching, riding in the car, going home for the night, going to bed, sleeping, looking forward to great events, people that know how to party, breaks in life, the cabin, snow, quiet, forest, roads to walk on, mud on shoes, cold noses, warm drinks, heaters, libraries, moving cat ears, stores, being hungry and being able to eat, working really hard for something, achieving something you have worked really hard for. Don't even get me started on all the realizations I have had and all the new things that have come to life.

And now I am off to enjoy life, and all the things I haven't been able to get around to doing.

Life update

Life update: I'll take any life that happily works. Yep. Any. I am 100% humbled. And by happy I mean getting to a point where you make more money than you spend, you have time to be happy, and a place to be happy. Yep, that's it.

Thank you.