Sunday, March 17, 2013

a blast from the past

Well, this week I haven't really had time to write a post, but I wanted to put something up... So, I'm taking my top ten list from my old blog and sharing it with you. I cant wait for spring!! (To see the original post, click here.)

Top Tens of spring



As spring comes to a close, I figured, everybody else always posts lists of some of their favorite things, so why not me? Therefore, dear readers, you are about to learn some of my favorite things about spring.

Top Ten Favorites of Spring
(not in any particular order)

1) The first flowers of the year

2) The smell after a rainstorm

(Unfortunately, people--me included-- don't usually take pictures of others playing in the mud, hence: I have no picture for number 3)
3) Putting one's feet in a nice slick mud puddle or in the dirt of a freshly hoed garden bed or the fresh mowed lawn

4) Having to wash ones feet before bed, due to how dirty one got them while playing outside



5) Actually, just playing outside

6) Lilacs.

7) Changing one's wardrobe from long to short sleeves,

8) Hearing children's laughter, wafting around the neighborhood...laaaaate into the evening,

9) Lying in the grass (or on the sidewalk) watching the birds (especially chimney swifts-not pictured, those are geese!),

10) Smelling the fresh earth and looking forward to summer!


What do you like about Spring? What are you looking forward to in the Summer?

Sunday, March 10, 2013

happy march

Why, hello again!
 
 Happy March! It's beginning to be my favorite time of the year when everything smells fresh and flowers start to poke out of the ground and the temperature is always in the mid to upper sixties. Well, in a perfect world it would be. Anyhow, as spring comes around (bringing with it my koff, koff *less* favorite holiday, Passover) I am inexplicably unable to sit still. I want to do stuff to go places, to play tennis... Which is hard when I have homework.
 
Anyhow, that was all a 'well-you-see-what-had-happened-was' excuse for my infrequent posting. A true excuse  but an excuse... so to make up for it: i am sending pictures of my
 5 things this week.

1. Leonardo DiCaprio

 
It's really all my friend from schools fault. She is a true fan girl and thus, I am too. We obviously have far too much time on our hands.

2. Fresh Flowers
 

 Fresh flowers are self explanatory... and i want some.

3. Cute Dresses

 Springtime makes me crave pastels, chiffon, billows, ruffles, and cute belts.

4. Tennis

 Although I've never actually played (I tried one time and my instructor never showed up...so then I stopped), I have a racket and pink tennis balls. I stared getting spring fever and need to go do something. Why not try tennis?

5. Being 'artsy'

I made this during the winter, but lately, like exercise, I've been craving being artsy and putting my creativity to use. It hasn't quite happened yet... but it will. eventually.


 What are your 5 things? What are you craving?


Thursday, February 21, 2013

life lessons from my history teacher

Today, history class was about something bigger than just history. Today, my teacher was doing straight up life lessons. It began with a teaching about romanticism in art and then became a lesson on being Romantic. Here are 10 things that I learned:
  1. Love is not listening to logic
  2. love is being willing to die for someone else even when that doesn't make sense
  3. everything else is lust or a crush or going to turn into something more
  4. Roses are absolutely cliched... but if that's what she likes, then that's what you get her
  5. Its about the individual (that one might have been about the artwork... it's unclear)
  6. make sure she/he knows that you love them
  7. love is supposed to make you stupid.
  8. you need to really know each other... and don't worry, you won't run out of convos to have
  9. most 10th grade boys don't get their girlfriends flowers. you are a sweetheart if you do
  10. She is always right. the woman is 'the man of the houe'. always
He told us this and many more life lessons much more profoundly and beautifully than I ever could. If you chose to soak up the right things, high school becomes much more meaningful.

 
xoxo,
Ari <3

Monday, February 18, 2013

happy, happy, and a few pep talks

Well... first, I must wish you a happy (belated) valentines day: that wonderful time of the year when one is either extremely happy and hopelessly romantic or sad and depressed, wondering why they are still currently single... or perhaps they are both (aren't we all hopeless romantics at heart?)
 

[INSERT PEP TALK]
 If you are of the sad and depressed variety (which far too many people are), don't worry. The ONE will come along and sweep you off your feet, but sometimes, we must be patient with love. Sometimes prince charming gets lost on his way and (because most boys have that macho factor) refuses to ask for directions. But he'll get there eventually. My favorite quote is: "Stop waiting for prince charming. Get up and find him.The poor idiot may be stuck in a tree or something." So go out there and be your beautiful self, and dont forget to look in every tree... because love is out there waiting to fall (perhaps literally)  just for you!
[END PEP TALK]

Sorry, but we all need the prince charming talk at some point in our lives and i happen to be a true believer in your happiness (and in love). thus. the pep talk.


In addition to wishing you a happy belated valentines day, i must also wish all you Americans a very happy presidents day and as i learned here a happy family day. and now, another one of my very favorite (presidential) pep talks. From Kid president to you:

 

 
so lets dance.
xoxo,
Ari

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

t-straps!

so this is the shoe that i'm in love with...
 


hullo there!

It seems that I am unable to stay away from the blogging world for very long. I had stopped writing  on my old blog because I was no longer home schooled...but I needed somewhere for my creative juices to go (because they most certainly aren't activated nearly enough in high school).
  So, long story short, I'm back!
I suppose I should begin by warning you that I really don't have that I really don't have very much time for blogging. That said, I will do my best to keep you entertained with the stories of my life.
  Can't wait to continue writing!
~xoxo
   Ari
(my nom de plume)