Hedgehogs Be Praised

For the second time in bloggerworld, I have been tagged! Seriously, is being tagged not the best feeling ever? =D

John the hedgehog from Banana's Aren't Good was nice enough to grant me the glee of being tagged! Here were his eleven questions:

1. You don't like bananas, right?

They are sometimes squishy and gross. Besides, I don't like monkeys.

 2. Do you want to build a snow man with me?

Oh ever so much! It doesn't snow here. =(

 3. Do you like movies with sand in them? I do. Jack's friend does too and that is how I saw the movie with sand in it.

I am not a beach person.

 4. Will you see the movie with the boy named Jack Frost in it?

If you buy the ticket.

 5. Will you read the books before the movie?

Serious doubts.

 6. Do you like books?

They smell nice.

 7. Do you have someone like Jack to read them to you?

No. But sometimes the ghosts in the closet come out and listen.

 8. Do you have a boring big brother like I do?

In all fairness, he does not bore me that much.

 9. Do you like cold chocolate or hot chocolate more?

Hot chocolate season is short-lived here. Cold is the way to go.

 10. Is your birthday the same day as my birthday?

Negative.

 11. Do you want to put candles on your tree?

I do not think my tree would like me if I did that. I read books in her leaves, and I have a desk made out of plywood up in her branches. However, candles are not to her liking.

Someday I will live in a treehouse.

And here are my questions:

1. Are you okay with bats?
2. If I asked you to check out a book called "Lasagna for Breakfast" at the nearest library, what would your first thought be?
3. Something on your "bucket list"?
4. Is it cheesy to say gesundheit?
5. Are monkeys cute or creepy?
6. First guy's name that comes to your head?
7. If you were to break your arm tomorrow, how would you do it?
8. Best shoes to dance in?
9. Would you recognize any Beatles's songs if one randomly played on the radio?
10. Something that's bugging you now is...?
11. The last video you played on YouTube was...?

And now: THE TAG-EES!

Ely @ www.quillquizzer.blogspot.com

Lauricia @ www.giveitsomestyle.blogspot.com

E-Jai @ www.divingintochaos.blogspot.com

Leauphaun @ www.thelifeofleauphaun.weebly.com

Reg @ www.monsterchinchilla.blogspot.com 

Isabelle @ www.singing4life-isabelle.blogspot.com 

Alosia @ www.thecastleintheskies.blogspot.com

Once again, thank you John the hedgehog! You are a good hedgehog friend, and I look forward to hearing more from you.

God bless!

K-Minty

"The Time I Kill is Killing Me"

There are a few things that we as humans don't seem to have figured out yet. For example, why do we complain about time flying, yet at the same time, when asked how our day went, we moan:

"SLOOOOOOOWLY.",

Punctuated with exasperation. It just doesn't make sense to me. Shouldn't a slow day be a blessing? If time is such a short, fleeting element, wouldn't it be right to revel in it? There's that saying about sitting back, breathing, and letting it all go. Well that sounds nice, but if you let it all go, you may not have anything left by the time you wake up. There are certain things that anchor you to what matters. Things like Hope. And Hope is important. The minute you let him go, you will realize that you need a bigger road map. Lucky for us as believers---we always have hope!

And that, as Gandalf said, is a comforting thought.

          1 Corinthians 7:29-31

²⁹ What I mean, brothers and sisters, is that the time is short. From now on those who have wives should live as if they do not; ³⁰ those who mourn, as if they did not; those who are happy, as if they were not; those who buy something, as if it were not theirs to keep; ³¹ those who use the things of the world, as if not engrossed in them. For this world in its present form is passing away.

           Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

There is a time for everything,

    and a season for every activity under the heavens:

² 

    a time to be born and a time to die,

    a time to plant and a time to uproot,

³ 

    a time to kill and a time to heal,

    a time to tear down and a time to build,

⁴ 

    a time to weep and a time to laugh,

    a time to mourn and a time to dance,

⁵ 

    a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,

    a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,

⁶ 

    a time to search and a time to give up,

    a time to keep and a time to throw away,

⁷ 

    a time to tear and a time to mend,

    a time to be silent and a time to speak,

⁸ 

    a time to love and a time to hate,

    a time for war and a time for peace.

James 4:14

¹⁴ yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

Elucidation.2

Plot twist: Sometimes you have to lose multiple times to win.

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You find a lot interesting things while researching for your NaNo.

For example, have you ever needed to survive a 35,000ft plummet from the sky? Or have any of your relatives been diagnosed with FFI (Fatal Familial Insomnia); a disease that kills its victims by making them slowly deteriorate from a complete lack of sleep?

My poor characters. They are about to have a very rough time.

If any of you are die hard fans of BBC it is likely that you will sit up and point with exclamation, shouting: "THAT'S THE KID FROM MERLIN!"
Okay, so it is. What have you to say?

I've found it is a help to find a visual of your fictional characters. Some sketch theirs, while others tend to surf Google, questing to find their interpretation of protagonist A, B, and C. In my opinion, it makes the story come to life.

I like snails.
In fact, I ate one once, shell and all, at age three. I do not advise picking things up off the sidewalk and swallowing them.

And that is all.

An airplane carried me to bed, Where I slept above the coast, And dreamt I had become a ghost...

Blueprints

Sometimes trusting God to do all of his work in us to the full can be painful. He never promised it would be easy or comfortable. But he hears our suffering and lets us know that it will all turn out beautifully in the end. But for now, all we can do is trust in his plan and know that someday our eyes will be opened.


Pslam 34:18 (message)
If your heart is broken, you'll find GOD right there; if you're kicked in the gut, he'll help you catch your breath.

John 13:7 (message)
Jesus answered, "you don't know what I am doing now, but it will be clear enough to you later."

Pslam 56:8 (message)
You've kept track of my every toss and turn through the sleepless nights, each tear is entered in your ledger, each ache written in your book.

* * *

“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”

― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Evil Eyes and Airplanes

I wonder when people started to use the figure of speech "fish out of water". I guess it's just "one of those things".
Which, of course, causes me to wonder when that figure of speech originated. =P

Anyhoo, I write now to talk about writing. Doesn't that just sound like the funest thing?! I'm still wondering about this whole NaNoWriMo thing. In fact, what I really want is for you to give me something to write about. I'm kind of tired of thinking up my own things (never thought I'd ever say that). As of this exact moment I just want someone to give me a fun and interesting novel substance, then give it a thirty day shot. If you'll just wait for a minute though, my mind will switch and decide that I can do it ON MY OWN.

I'm very much an ON MY OWN sort of person, don'tcha know?

More of my writerness if about to get used for other things (not including lab write ups) as well. I'm strongly considering trying my hand out for a low-key essay contest (there is a pun in those last words that only one person who will ever read this can find), as well as speeches for a government class that I'm taking. Being a lobbyist if fun stuff, but my speech writing is soon to be tested for the first time.

Those are the three:
NaNo
Essay
Speeches

Can I knock 'em all down? And if I attempt, should I go with the left hook or the right? Maybe I should just become a kick boxer and work on my evil-eye.

Speaking of.

Okay, before you ask me why I'm going all creepy "emo" on you, lemme assure you, I am not about to go and shroud myself in black and walk swiftly and silently throughout the night, all alone with an evil glint in my eye (quite literally). 

I just had lots of fun on Picasa photo editor today! =D

Finally! I've discovered the advantage to having deep brown eyes! They edit very nicely into crimson. I often sit back and wish that my so-called pudding eyes had SOME sort of color in them, but for right now, I think it's cool how they can come out in the edits! 

 Also, I've kind of decided that I'm going to put a watermark in the center of my pictures (like the first one there) whenever I can. In digital art class we talked about copyrights and other neat things in relation to that and I realized how lazy I've been with making sure my work still stays my own.
---I know, I know, the watermark is annoying, distracting, and will probably steal your Captain Crunch when you aren't looking, but I'll try to keep it as transparent as possible, 'k? If you want a copy of a non-watermarked version, just let me know in a comment and I'll work on getting it to you.

This week our homework for digi art was to design a logo and tagline for ourselves/our work/our company/etc. Since I didn't want to use this

and was supposed to make something new, I decided on this simple lil' design:

The K and K stand for "Kreative Kompositions", which I've chosen for my tagline as well. And as for the paper airplane?

I s'posed it was just an easily identified object that shoes ingenuity, creativity, and an admiration for flight. After all, what Kismint doesn't love the sky?!

'Tis all.

K-Minty