money hungry

why does money affect us in such negative ways?
it turns us into corporate zombies (bad or good thing?),
makes us buy lottery tickets with dreams of
being the lucky soul (out of millions),
makes us completely disregard others' lives (steal, extort & kill),
and invest in the sticky webs of get rich quick schemes
that make us do crazy things like sell the house
that we have made our home to invest.

its actually sounds a bit like we can't do without it.
for some people, keeping up with joneses is the bane
of their existence.
some people work to make life better for those who come after them.
some people just want to go through life without having to worry
about not having the basics.

of course its never as black and white as that.
i'd just say i'm not money hungry.

pat⋅tern

pat⋅tern –noun

1.	a decorative design, as for wallpaper, china, or textile fabrics, etc.

2.	decoration or ornament having such a design.

3.	a natural or chance marking, configuration, or design: patterns of frost on the window.

4.	a distinctive style, model, or form: a new pattern of army helmet.

5. a combination of qualities, acts, tendencies, etc., forming a consistent or characteristic arrangement: the behaviour patterns of teenagers.

i love patterns just as much as i love a nice solid colour.
often made through repeating one or more single aspects,
or sometimes many unique aspects that complement each other.
sometimes it just requires taking a step back to see the pattern
of the bigger picture.
sometimes a step forward so we can see what we are missing.

you can find a pattern in almost anything,
and the same is true for our lives.

just smile

ever found that someone's pleasant
demeanour just made your day that
much better?

i designed this using a quote by janet lane.
'of all the things you wear, your expression
is the most important.'

keeping a positive attitude makes the day
so much easier and not just for others either.


quote by janet lane



one of my fav happy quotes is
'A laugh is a smile that bursts'
~Mary H. Waldrip

zombies

gents, please pay attention!

the mr. recently got this advice from
a married friend who told him to make
this his mantra {for the future}.

apparently repeating this mantra makes
married {cohabitual} life easy.

i found the thought of men hypnotising
themselves quite funny so i made a lil
design for the future and present
zombie husbands {life partners}.

chant it loud and chant it proud!

freedom

sometimes in the hustle and bustle
of life, you take the things for granted.

most likely to...

click image for bigger view

the above is very subjective.
someone who really enjoys
their job might have different thoughts
but the above is mine...for now anyway.

i had named the days for my friends but
some of these statements might leave
me a friend or two lighter.

in my school's yearbook we didn't have a
'most likely to...' and i have no idea what
would have been mine but i took a shot
at this.

it doesn't really describe what my days
are like, because sometimes i have pretty
awesome tuesdays and thursdays.
its more of me giving a personality to the days.

success

aahhh...that elusive road to success.
so many different roads lie ahead,
don't u wish that the right road
was painted in a bright magenta or
had success written all over it.

that would take some of the fun/heartache
out of life.

climber

hope you're not one of these!

could getting to the top feel
rewarding after taking credit
for someone else's hard efforts
or however else people use
others to get ahead?

not my style.

today...

'the ties that bind...'

i thought about the various aspects
that come to together to form a large
part of the life that we live.

these are all things that we are
defined by, whether we like or
not.

i'm pretty sure almost every war
or conflicts was sparked by one or
more of these. with the exception
of drunk bar fights.

tgif, hope you enjoy the wkend!

something to think about

- henry ellis

the pomengrate

what would be your ideal all in one device?
check out the pomegranate here and be
sure to check out all its features and save
looking at the release date for last.
the flash on the site was eggcellent, loved it.

i'm not an all-in-oner. i dont mind the
separation as much as others, maybe because
i'm not willing to compromise some features.
so i always have my blackberry, ipod touch and
my underwater camera. until someone makes
my ideal all in one device.

happy 420!

curly or straight?

i don't mean to generalise but
i find that people are usually
not satisfied with what they
have.

you have curly hair and you
style it so its straight or you
have straight hair and you
perm it so its curly.

poor people want to be rich
and while rich people certainly
don't want to be poor, they do
want to be richer.

maybe its just human nature

or maybe we just like to shake
things up every now and then.

some change aint so bad.

daretoknow

some time ago my mother was telling
me that latin was a language option when
she was in high school.

so of course i got curious and started looking
up latin phrases and what not.

three stuck with me, the other two i will
share in later posts.

sapere aude (dare to know)

having done some philosophy courses
at university i know that Immanuel Kant,
a purporter of freedom, used this message
to encourage people to see outside what
they know... or something like that.
i know it was something more political,
but that's not really the interpretation i'm
going for here.

i'm all for looking and living
outside of the box and i'm
definitely against people living
like drones following the
ant queen's every wish.

now i'm not saying to rise up
and start burning buildings
because you're disgruntled
with how the economy is,
but as citizens of whichever
country you're in,
you (should, hopefully) take
the initiative to be informed
and knowledgeable.
the government is there to
serve the people, when its the
other way around, there's always
a history of conflict.

on a non-sociopolitical point, i'd also
encourage taking interest in other
random things...learn a language,
learn to knit, if it won't take away from
you, then why not?

thoughts

"maturity does not come with age,
and common sense isn't so common"

this is what is on my mind right now.

the situation i may or may not
expound on in a later post but
i found myself reminded today
that although traditionally the
older you are, the more mature
people assume you to be, it is
not always the case.

"sound practical judgement that
is independent of specialized
knowledge, training, or the like;
normal native intelligence"
(common sense)
i dont know...maybe
common sense is really something
that is subjective and individualistic
and the name is just contradictory.

sometimes people really just
surprise me.

how we see what we see and why

These two postcards that I picked up
in a bar in Amsterdam show one thing
but three very different ways that it can
be described, based on how you perceive it.

I got to thinking today about just how
terribly WRONG we can sometimes be
in a situation when we perceive something
or someone to be what they are not.

Making judgements is human,
I will be the first to say that I have
passed judgements on people and
situations and although I usually keep them
to myself, it does affect my thinking and
therefore sometimes my actions.

And there have been those occasions
where I couldn't have been more wrong.
Friends who were not friends...
people who I thought undependable were
the ones keeping me going through rough patches...
and the list goes on.

But its those times where I was right
that keeps that thought process going.
Getting out of a situation because
something...just didn't seem right...
only to have the situation explode.

Anyhow...I'm not a person for
the 'what ifs', life requires you to
roll with the punches and sometimes,
its just more fun that way.

P.S. I'm curious, what would you tick on the postcard?
Does it have to be one or could it be all three?

Random 'me' fact:

I don't sing in the shower...I dance