YESSS

"Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it."
—Maurice Sendak

The point of blogging

What do you blog for? Is it because you're "Itching to get stiching?" Or maybe you want to "Stamp with Elizabeth?" While browsing through other peoples blogs with titles no more original than Weaving Spirit, Bumpy Beads, and Baking at Home... other than the one blog titled "Kelly Loves Whales"; this blog really had no purpose whatsoever, which was refreshing :) It hit me though, why are all of these thousands of people blogging everyday and rambling aimlessly on subjects such as sewing? Yeah, sewing's fun I'm sure, maybe not my thing... but definitely a good hobby. What I'm curious about however, is why people aren't using that free time to do whatever it is that they love? In this case... sewing.

This is one of Barbara Blundell's new bags.
Bet you're interested aren't you?

What I'm saying is what in the world motivates us as humans to set aside time to talk about ourselves? Are we all arrogant, cocky, self-centered jerks? Or is there something else? If this were the case I would have absolutely no hope for our world, nor our future as a society.

However, I do not believe that is the case. Humans have a need for a sense of community, as well as fellowship with people similar to themselves. Social networking today has become some what of a mandatory practice. People rely far to heavily on the internet. Did you know they actually have counselors for people who own computers that have crashed and they lost all their data. Some people litterally go into depression after losing their computers and social networking, that is how bad our society is.
All these crafty blogs also made me feel hobbiless... I believe I was just pressured by a website. Hmm... Anyways, this was just my two cents on humans, our culture, and sewing. Short, sweet and to the point.
In order to make myself feel like I have a hobbie of any sort, Im going to be posting pictures each week on friday to keep you all up dated without spending my whole life writing on this thing :) I shall call it Fantastic Photo Friday :)



By the way, this entire Blog Post is hypocritical and true, yet I do wish I could sew well.
Probably should've warned you.
-Chantelrose

Day Three in Malibu

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Third day in Malibu! We had the caribay... if I spelled that even kinda right. Me and the girls in my cabin are getting super close. We went kayaking after the caribay and tipped all the boats over, I paddled standing up :) This place brings back some awesome memories from last year. The water olympics were today... I lost all my events... lame-o. Once again, I miss Brocky. I keep thinking about the day before I left for Malibu, he's so sweet, he cried when I left. I think it's sweet how sensitive he is. I wanted to cry but I had to be his rock ;) I miss him a lot, I think this will be really good for our relationship. Whenever we're away from each other I appreciate our time together so much more... I feel like that's bad because I should appreciate all about him all the time.. and I so do, but I don't realize how much I need him until he's gone. Anyways, I'll stop moping now and try to enjoy this amazing ismas full of fun and activities :) haha. I've been taking picture of the moon every night to show Brock that I've been watching it with him. Right now me, Mariel, and allisen are at the coffee shope all journaling while waiting for dinner. I'm starving right now.. Hm.. anyways, dinner's starting, ima go get me some grub :)

Day Two in Malibu

Alright guys, since it's been a while since my last blog we have much to catch up on! Given that it has been a long time, I hope you don't expect me to lay out my whole life story from the last month or so in one blog. Honestly, I believe you would enjoy that much less than myself due to the fact you'd bore to death. So, on that note, let's begin with Malibu. I was in Canada on this lovely ismas called Malibu club for ten days. It was WAY out of cell service and we had no computers... so, no blogs, sadly. Instead, to catch you all up on where my life and heart is I'm going to transfer my journal entries to blog form. :)

Monday, July 26th, 2010

It's the second day in Malibu and everything's gorgeous like I remember. There's something about this place that's so inspiring, as a person and artistically. I feel so at peace here. So I've decided to try and be the person I seem to be. I want to be the nice, honest, wholesom person I act like; and I wish I didn't have all the history and secrets that I do. I wish I wouldn't have made the mistakes I've made, but then again those mistakes have made me who I am. I want to be better though.

I miss Brock. It's been two days and I'm already becoming reflective. I keep thinking about how close we are, how we're best friends but madly deeply crazy in love with eachother at the same time. This is amazing here, but I wish I could share the experience with him.

Today was fun, we had the Volleyball tournament. I'm not sure what we were supposed to be, cheerleaders?... With green bows? Anyways, club will be starting soon. Just wanted to check in and express where life is taking me currently. I'm in my happy place.

Dear Blogger and Blog readers,
Tremendously sorry that is has been so long! Life's been too good to keep up with. I'll update you on EVERYTHING within a week, you have my word :)

Till then,
Bye :)

Let me clarify...

This photo is remarkably true.
Thought I should point out to any confused guys that wonder why it takes so long...
...it's a complicated process.

Flappers the Penguin.

Meet Flappers the Penguin. Brock and myself? We're old news. Flappers is the most recent addition to our little family of ducks, scorpions, and teddy bears. Brock William Pine, being the gentleman that he is, took me to Oaks park for a lovely date to kick off the summer fun. Full of testosterone and the image of a fairy tale date straight out of a movie he was determined to win me a teddy bear off one of the rigged, money stealing, unfair carnival games. Here are the rules... 5 bucks for 3 balls. Knock down the three pins with your 1 ball you win any prize in the stand. Sounds easy huh? Except what the money lusting carny doesn't tell you is that all the pins are heavily weighted and the ball is very light. So even if you do have the coordination to hit the ball rather than missing, you have to hit it in JUST the right spot or else they'll slide, or even better yet, you'll only knock down 2 pins, or even BETTER YET... you'll hit 'em dead on, but you lack the strength to hit one of those 7,000,000 pound pins over. There goes 5 dollars you could've spent on 5 ice cream cones.
So, Brock being the determined man he is bought 3 balls-didn't win. Bought 3 more balls-didn't win. Bought 3 MORE balls-didn't win and was extremely irritated at the taunting carny. Bought his last three balls, stole a good luck kiss from his woman, and chucked the ball at the pins with tremendous force and aggression.

OH GLORIOUS DAY HE WON!

I picked out a 20 dollar penguin which we named Flappers, he felt like a man, and we both went home happy. Day well spent.

Summer shouldn't began in the middle of July.

So this weeks been lovely. As Oregon hasn't exactly cooperated with my ideal terms for living in this cold, rainy state (being that i get 3-4 months of strict 90 degree weather) I've had to make do with less than ideal weather throughout all of June and a great deal of July... but do not fret, Oregon received a stern talking to. After doing so, Oregon shaped up and showed me the ball of blazing fire that I hold so dear to my heart.

We celebrated by going to the St. Paul Rodeo... and though I was not able to take as many pictures as I wanted to due to excessive fun having, I just had to take a picture of this clown preparing to jump over long semi-truck on a motorcycle. Which in fact kill on average 3,000 people a year in the U.S.... when they aren't jumping over long semi's that are pulling trailors, just sayin.

July 4th. I spent this blessed day with my amazing boyfriend of 10 months Brock, my fantastic best friend since birth Tessa... her boyfriend Andrew, Miranda, and Eli. All and all an awesome day plainly based on the folks I spent it with. Our day consisted of touring fire trucks, receiving awesome Jr. firefighter stickers, walking aimlessly, standing in lines aimlessly, and without a doubt... there was much mechanical bull riding. This very well may have been the most exciting 4 seconds of my entire weekend.Yes, I'm very aware of the fact that I suck at mechanical bull riding, no need to rub it in my face like you think you could do any better cause it really is a lot harder than it looks... thanks.

I know this blog is basically just a bunch of little pictures with captions and descriptions, however, it was a very memorable weekend and i would not have wanted to spend it any differently than I did, and with whom I did.
I realize more and more every day what the important things are, who the important people are, and ways to show them they matter. Life is dang short, and I've only tasted but a little sliver of it, I looked forward to trying to conquer the rest of that big funfetti cake until the day I become sick of it and die. Which at that point will go to heaven to meet my heavenly father who will soothe my tummy ache with heavenly Tumz. (<--is that spelt with a Z? Okay well now it is.) And that's the best analogy I can come up with to describe my confusing, yet positive opinion on life at the moment. :) Channy must sleep, Good night world.

For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

Romans 8:6

First Blog!

My lovely sister Elisha has inspired me without knowing it. My mother has been continuously showing me my sisters blogs, and regardless to my hesitancy to read them, I ended up getting sucked into a blog she wrote about involving marriage. Her insight on the complex subject that even scholars have a difficult time grasping boarder-line shocked me. This subject challenged me to think deeper and more intimately on the worlds "Typical" subjects. Such as...

• Love. (who decided it should be fairytale esc and lovey dovey? What can love really mean... is it all that it's hyped up to be? Is it more? What's it look like? Ect.)
  
• Family. (how important are they really? Is it bad if the dynamics at home aren't typical?)
• Politics. (hahahhaha. We'll see about this subject...)

• And generally the adventures of the day to day.

We'll see where this takes me. :) As for now... all blogging credit goes out to my Lisha whom I love dearly... thanks sis!

• OH! @Nd p30P|e wH0 T@llLlLLK L!k3 tHH!$ (That will be a long angry post)

Lets see if anyone follows me ;)
Chantelrose..