:) :( ;) :p :D 8) :o :s :'(

WARNING: some may be deeply offended by this post. but just remember you choose to take offense.

with that said, in my opinion, text messaging is the lowest form of communication (besides yelling)...yes, i'm a hypocrite because yes, i do text. what i do not do, though, is use emoticons. i HATE emoticons. i don't want to hear your reasoning on why they can be useful. if you're worried about someone interpreting the wrong "emotion" you probably should not be texting them. emotion is much more easily interpreted through voice, or better yet, in person.

here is the dilema. sometimes, i use acronyms. i think they're better than emoticons. my sister would disagree. so i'm leaving it to you. i don't want your explanation. just a one word answer (i have an inkling i'm going to lose on this one):

emoticons or acronyms?

on a positive note, i love justin vernon and i want to play that piano part...if only he had graduated from my high school....

peace+love

i used to have dreams about oscar

when i was in jr. high/high school i wanted to be a film director. i dreamed of being the first American woman to be nominated and win an Academy Award for best director. true story. but that's not the point of this post.
i saw avatar last night.
it was really beautiful. if i could live in a fantasy world it would have to be Pandora. so green and colorful full of crazy bugs and plants, and really graceful people. plus i could ride a sweet dinosaur-like bird. and wear feathers in my hair. feathers were everywhere.

i understand why it is nominated. it has a pretty blatant political agenda (very anti-bush administration...there's even a line from the "bad guy": "preemptive strike is our only way to protect ourselves"...or something along those lines), and respecting mother earth (greenhouse gases and global warming anyone?). and let's face it, movies are like music- to say what you want to say without actually saying it.

but if it wins...well, that would be sad. within the first five minutes i thought i was watching Pocahontas. i even called that she'd be betrothed to some warrior already and her father was "chief". there's even a "grandmother willow". any second and i was sure Neytiri was going to bust out "Colors of the Wind". it was almost comical. then there was a Jurassic Park scene, a Braveheart speech, and a lot of Last of the Mohicans meets Saving Private Ryan. Really just unoriginal .

Hollywood, it's time to come up with something new.

i hope UP wins. or Blindside.

what movie do you want to/think will win Best Motion Picture?

peace+love

you make me smile like the sun

one time i did a pageant. this is the good that came out of it. (sydney, the blonde). sometimes chance leads us to our funnest moments in life. (full story here)
i miss you, sydney!sorry sydney, for whatever weird reason this is the only picture i have of us on my computer...but i tried.

peace+love