Pictures that say something to me

This picture is sending large amounts of spirit our way. Take this in eh? I love how for just one second you can imagine that all these cats aren't on any drugs, or under any influence but that just joining eachother in celebrating the same thing is a good enough reason to jump around and loose your shit. I wonder what they are celebrating? Music, the rain, youth, being toghether? I guess it's left up to us!
LIFE!! goulet.

I like this picture.

I absoloutely love this picture. I'll try and explain it to you because it's one of those, "you have to know them" ones but it justifies these two SO WELL! So while my friend Tal stands infront of my friend Meagan, he is looking pretty captured by her. Well, he is meant to because he is on quite a daily basis. While Meagan is standing infront of Tal, she is looking like she knows what she's doing, and it's not Tal. Back to Tal, he knows this, but is relentless because he is taken back with her confident presence that lacks cockiness. See, Meagan has an excuse to be cocky with this little one if she chooses to be because he gets very touchy and flirty and sure of himself when he goes out at night, and ultimately overdoes it. Meagan sees things differently. She knows how to have fun, she's got a head on her shoulders and she looks like she holds the secrets. She's a bonafide knockout.
I like this picture.

To me, this picture says "What are we gonna do t'night brain? Same thing we do every night Pinky...TRY to take OVER the WORLD!
I like this picture.
narf.

This picture is inspiring to me, and incredibly endearing. I found it one day online as I was searching google images to find pictures of children for an assignment at school. This just popped up along with a million others, but i was drawn to it. Something in this makes we want to burst out laughing when I see it because I see a definate sense of humour in it, but more so, I just see good people. Whoever these guys are, I'd like to link arms with them and skip, and have tickle fights and play leap frog and tag and maybe make a little fort. They look like SO MUCH FUN! I feel like I know these guys through one picture.
I like this picture.
Oh, and one more thing. The second thing that I think of when I see this, is yelling, "LIFE!! goulet." as loud as I can.

This picture is of my greatest friend Sam, and her boyfriend Erik. Erik took this. I wonder if Sam even remembers when he did. Erik is an amazing photographer and takes alot of him and the lady he loves. This picture speaks loudly on how Sam and Erik are when they are with eachother, and captures perfectly the dynamic of that relationship. Sam is stellar, and i love her and is busting with potential, ambition and charisma. I'd wish you all could meet this person. For as long as I've known her, I knew there would be great things happening in her life, and Erik came along unexpectedly, as an admirer from afar with a camera in hand to capture sam in her element. This picture will tell you in the way that Sam is the focus in this picture, and Erik is right there to back her up, proud to claim her, displaying her personality before his own and letting her take the spotlight. It's a mix of such a real relationship, but a love story at that. Erik provides for the world, what all of our friends have seen in Sam for ages, vibrancy.
I like this picture.

This picture is dedicated to Monday morning. My lovely roomate Megan and I took a long walk, stopped to get our coffee, kept walking...and walking. It was an long overdue connection to ourselves and fresh, calm mornings. What I like about this picture, is the connection between the sun and megan in her exact state that morning. The sun doesn't overpower in this picture, instead it offers a warm silhouette of her.
I wan't to work on capturing someone's state and really go with it. Someone's personality through a picture is so subjective, but I think that I could really try and work on drawing in things around them that justify the person's natural state. I want another camera, of some better quality, because I know this picture could have succeeded that much more in high focus.
I like this picture.

thus far

The summer is continuing, in some sickly heat. The latter half of this past month has been pretty amazing! Meagan and I have been talking about looking for a new co-ed choir to join here in the city, and went through some of our old music the other day. Choirs make me feel like I am a part of something beautiful, if I don't already get that after a day with my friends or family. I know that I am, but to hear how so many voices can come together under a composer and a conductor, is something you have to try out for yourself! Aside from the choir hunt, I have been visiting alot of my past this month as well, which has been fun...i guess. I saw Kieran this past weekend with Meagan. I got a good feeling after seeing him because there were like 4 things I had really wanted to talk to him about since I last saw him. Just about the world cup, the T&T vs. England game, his family, his trip etc. We will be hanging out again soon, and I am the most thankful for that! I'm glad we can now just talk and have a chance to hang out minus the whole earth shattering sexual chemistry thing, because he's one of the coolest people I know, and its SO hard when you cant see past your hormones.
We also got our family together, and went through some of my grandpa's belongings and claimed the things that meant something before it was sold.
I want to do something before this summer ends. I was thinking about it last night. I have a weeks opportunity to either spend most of the time in Toronto, Hamilton and Guelph with a few friends, but I want to gather some people, and maybe go on a camping trip, ride our bikes out somewhere near water? Ideas? Takers?

Toronto with Calvin and his friends was WICKED, forgot to mention. I tried to post something after that weekend, but it...never...happened? The Sunday that we went, was a high quality day filled with a new scene, creative minds, good music, and good food. Calvin did cranes'n'cranes and it turned alot of heads although I dont think that was the point, but instead to come to some familiar surroundings, see some old friends and to get into his comfort zone with certain things.
He painted, we watched, then walked, then ate. Avacado salad and spring rolls ladies and gents, with some kick ass home made dressings.
Then after C man was done, we went to his old restaurant and ate some amazing thai food.
The sky was beautiful on the way back.
I took a picture of Avery, and he was drinking the sky.
I love Toronto, and road trips, YAY!

Anyways, I felt I should write something since this little guy has yet to get started.

Calvin, can I mail my cat to you in a cat carrier, and then I'll mail me over after? I will miss you :( WAIT! We still have a month ;)
Okayyy, so bye and don't forget to go see the new will movie, coming to theatres Saturday. Your gonna wanna!
bye byeee

Peace
lauren

oh...the pictures: 1) Calvin at style in progress 2) Avery drinking the sky 3) Meagan and I singing since birth

Just some images thus far.

Helloooooo!

Up top is just a picture we took on sunday night in harris.

So the wise words of my father came through. tomorrow will be a new day. and calvin's advice helped too. yesterday he told me sometimes you need to look at yourself in the mirror and just see yourself as an animal. yesterday wasn't supreme, but i know i will remember it for a long time, and when i went to look in the mirror, i thought of how wierd we look as humans! it made me feel more normal, thanks calvin!!
i woke up this morning and felt brand new, plus i found out that danielle and zack are working for the red roaster. zack is a personable, expert-pouring, ex-army new employee who i remember sitting with at alex p's over a beer, and danielle...well i think you have all seen danielle at one point or another. she's a hot, soft-spoken but blunt hippie that made the most amazing suggestions on her very first day. danielle makes me happy. and her, beth and i are going to enquire more about the markets policy on composting because we thought it was wrong to just keep throwing away old coffee grinds. we want to package them in bullet bags, and offer them free to customers to put in their garden.

So, i don't have much to say on the topic of today. Actually, i have something to say about having nothing to say. I have a problem with my inability to be articulate at the times i need to ask someone for advice. when you are frusterated, could it be termed articulatory suppression? i dunno...anyways, i wan't to be able to sit down with others and describe what's going on....and i'm finding lately i can't. this leads to a whirlwind of frusteration because i wan't to always be able to communicate with other people. if i went back to school and wanted to study other things, i would choose latin literature and ancient roman history. i want to read to dictionary sometimes and find words that can best fit the moments i have in my head and in my heart. if you are a passionate person, i feel its important you promote that through proper english, but keep your slang, because that also paints a picture to how you are feeling at ANY time. the art of passionate expression, YAYYA!...any other suggestions?

tootles
lauren.

a day for the kids

Hello, i am Lauren. i have created this blog to try having a place to post my thoughts, as suggested by a friend. so here we are, me as the author and y'all have the chance to see where im at!
Well, where i'm at can only start by describing today. me and megan found ourselves being kids...we slept in till 12, rolled our asses out of bed and hit the town to conquer it in one. we walked alot, trying to find just the right place to satisfy our growling stomachs, but tried to incorporate more into the hunt by hitting up some places we have never thought to go to. mainly bookstores (because old bookstores are the COOLEST, and creepy) but then we found the burger that is tasters. this restaurant is out of control yummy. we enjoyed our meal while talking to a friend of megans at a neighbouring perfect image. then, megan dared me to get a piercing to toughen my pansy ass up a bit (i think she thinks im too "nice" lol) and i DID IT! AHHH such an adrenaline high. the thing is, i dont really come to sensible decisions, only the ones that make my lips look cool. So i ended up buying a second for 50 dollars, but that has no potential or longevity in my life. i was thinking of that girl in social justice class that always knew how to articulate her thoughts infront of at least 40 highly passionate students. damn thats hard, but i remember thinking that the only way she was doing it was because of her super cool lip ring that paved the road to understanding, so i went and big fat copied her!
yeah no...but now i have to take it out because its not me. pretty expensive experiment.
oh well, i will probably recieve a couple of punches from megan because she wants me to stand up more, but i think ive accepted after 19 years, being humble. i know the reasons i have for myself, and my actions always decieve. so as long as this has been another experience the shear pain of your decisions in the persuit of curiosity only to learn another lesson times, im pretty a o k.

Oh, okay and so back to today. after we left the shop, megan had an urge to go to the splash pad (created by the city of london) at harris park so we decided to go. its this slab of cement that has in-ground spouts that creates large and in charge water sprays from the ground up. kids loose their mind over this shit so we decided to join the fun and try to remind ourselves what it was like if we did it too. warning, not the same time at all. half way through i realized that everyone could see through half of my clothes, and the other kids were making WAY more friends than megan or i.hahahaha, we had way too much fun though laughing at ourselves in the middle of it, and then came to the bench and watched all these amazing innocent beings loose their shit over little games they made up with their new friends they met that day. very refreshing.
it was fun. andy was our new friend. he reminded me of that andy who is 9 years old who has his own show andy. anyone? anyone? bueller? yeah. apparently he was testing out flirting or flat out didnt like us because he kept splashing us. THEN this guy that looked like willie nelson walked straight through the water pad. it was probably one of the funnier things that ive seen because me and megan also went overboard with the "what if it was actually willie" thing, and then we got ahead of ourselves with imagine scenarios, and snapped back to andy screaming at us to play tag.

We sat at the thames later on in the evening with nancy. that was a good choice. we pointed out things like half bicycle's coming out of the water, and how everything was perfect for a good while, then a dirty cup floated by us. GOO! thames. dirty. london, DO SOMETHING. Good sunday all in all.

I think every sunday should be a day where we can relax, but try to enjoy it different ways, like doing uncalled for things for 19 and 20 years of age. for me, they are all still day to day options if i didnt HAVE to work full time now and give in. in fact i wont give in quite yet. they can have my money, but not my youth! i am jealous of all the kids at the splash pad. I want my childhood back. So let's all agree to term sundays, a day for the kids. If you don't have kids, be a kid! If you have kids, take them to other kids and soak in the innocence they radiate while screaming and running at the same time ( a dynamic duo) across the field. It's all gravy. You can sit and watch and give a little to yourself. I think we need to keep in touch with the kid inside of us.
i have alot more to say on this subject. if anyone wants to add, i would love to keep talking about it!

Okay, i am le tired. i am off to dreamland, and up again to dreamworld....right? hahaha

Peace
lauren