Seeing RED

I found this as I grabbed my tray to take my 10 minute break tonight. It put a smile on my face.

I am Hoot...

...and everyone knows it.

Feel free...

Feel free to gaze in wondering awe.

Feel free to admire her beauty.

Feel free to smile in response to hers.

Feel free to love her at first sight.

Feel free to mourn that she lives too far away.

Feel free to feed off the joy that she has brought to this earth.

I know I do.

Scarlett Mecque Bohls

or. or.. or...

So school as I had previously predicted, has pretty much completely and in every way consumed my life. Shocker. However, despite this fact, many new, exciting, and not so exciting things have happened. I could tell you all about my beautiful new car with a split personality, delving into his behaviors and quirks, his unique personality....and analyzing all of this on a deep psychological plane that would have you and all the world in awe. Or I could tell you about my beautiful niece, or my crazy art teachers, or the ice cold shuttle, or the institute dollar lunches, or my nursery calling, or...or...or...or..or. But I won't. Today. This post has a much more incredible story to tell. Here we go.

Once upon a time....yesterday...I was getting into my car to go to school. The time was approximately 11:20 in the a.m. As I sat in my car I had Lady GaGa's "Just Dance" stuck in my head. This, you might say, is completely normal, right? Well..sure. Maybe. If I hadn't listened to Coldplay's "Till Kingdom Come" like a thousand times while I proceeded to get ready earlier that morning. It had actually been a couple weeks since I had even heard "Just Dance", yet here I was, in my car, singing it to myself.

(I'll give you a minute to picture this and laugh....)

As I start to drive down the street, I turn on 96.9. Guess what was playing? Not Just Dance, if that's what you were thinking. No. It was talk. I got halfway down the street to realize that I did not have my wallet. I decided that it'd be a good idea to have it so i turned around, parked in front of my house, locked my door, went into my house, grabbed my wallet, went back outside, unlocked my door, sat in my car, buckled for safety ( of course ), turned on the car...and also the radio. Still talk. How foolish it was of me to even wonder if they'd play it out of the monolith of selection they must have. I pulled forward, making a left 3 point turn, just as Lady Gaga's "Just Dance" starts playing. No lies.

I proceeded to rock out.

(..again...metal picture.......laughs)

I had no choice. They played this song for me. As I waited for the light by the High School, I was definitely enjoying myself. Even as the white Astro Van slowed down and stare as it passed me, just to make sure I wasn't going through some psychotic phase.

No my dear ivory Astro van....I was not suffering a psychotic collapse. I was enjoying my life and the little things that matter most... like hard candies, or a newly sharpened yellow pencil, or dancing in your car.

You should too.

The end of something not too old....And the start of something that is..

School starts tomorrow.

16 credit hours and a 15 hour work week means

my life ends tomorrow.
Too bad, too....it was just starting to get interesting.

I am....on the mainland..

This summer came and went so quickly! I can't believe I am back! I walked in the front door uber early a couple of Saturday mornings ago..like 2am early...and it felt like I had never left. Good? Sure I guess. I'd be adjusting quickly..if I had to adjust at all. But at the same time, sad. I didn't want to adjust. I wanted to keep every part of Hawaii I could, even if that meant that I wasn't "at home" here in AZ.

There is something about those islands. Without even knowing it, they are tying themselves to you. Undetectable ties, that is, until its too late. An believe me, it was too late about 2 weeks into my trip. I'm tied. I miss them in a small but deep part of my being. It is an incredibly difficult feeling to describe...and everyone TOLD me it'd come...it has.

I hope I will be able to keep from doing anything rash.....(Yet deep down, I hope I can't. I want to do whatever it takes to get back........)

The sun will always set..

The last HOORAHS of my adventure are quickly approaching...

...as the sun sets on my summer.

Only 3 days left.

Scratch that...reverse it.

So the title of my last post went something along the lines of "Run with it...it's all you've got". When really it should be "Run with it... you've got it all".

It may get bloody...a little messy at times.

I feel like I am going in circles...

..hanging on for dear life..

or just going downright nuts...

..But I have it all..everything. So I'm running with it.

I've got it all.