Secret and Lies

Mood: Incredibly Content
Music: Love Song - 311
Date: Wednesday, July 29th, 2009/9:32 AM

Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty good questions. - Woody Allen

The interactions of men and women have always fascinated more than I can express without you thinking I'm any stranger than you already do.
I find the things we say and do...amusing.
But not just amusing, it's the stuff of life. These are the things worth recounting, worth remembering, and in my golden years: worth reminiscing.

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The Devil's in the Details

Mood: Perturbed but Happy
Music: Oil and Water - Incubus
Date/Time: Monday, 27th July, 2009/9:40AM

Time for an update on my peeping tom situation.
After Thursday morning's incident (see previous entry titled Peeping Tom), all was well until Friday evening. I went around the back to the clothes line to get something I left on the line on Wednesday.
While returning to my apartment I saw a block under my bedroom window.
I returned to my apartment and got my phone to take photos.

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Peeping Tom

Mood: Perturbed but generally happy
Music: The Runner by Kings of Leon
Date/Time: Friday, 24th July, 2009/5:51AM

Those of you who follow me on Twitter and Facebook will know by now that I have a peeping tom problem.
Last week I heard a noise outside my window, when I opened the window I saw a man standing out there. I asked him why he was outside my window and he said some stupid excuse about being out there to "pick the medina".
I eventually went out there this week, thinking that perhaps a weed plant had sprung up outside my window and he had been picking it. Keep in mind that I had heard the noise before and previously thought it was either lizards running in the grass, the gardener who comes from time to time, or a neighbour just walking behind my apartment.

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Love and Happiness

Mood: Happy
Music: Caribbean Blue by Enya
Time/Date: Thursday, July 23rd, 2009/2:41AM

I am not perfect, I admit this freely. Ask the right person(s) and they will tell you some instant of me being a bitch to them - it's probably true - but ask me and I'll tell you why. With this caveat in mind, I ask you the following question:

Have you ever met someone with a nasty personality that is rude to most people, disregards basic social behaviour, is arrogant, a show off, a bully, and treats those who can do nothing for him in life poorly?

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Chasing Wanderlust

Mood: Chasing Wanderlust
Music: Africa by Toto
Date/Time: Wednesday, 22nd July, 2009/6:21AM

...memories of you and I are like a song stuck in my head.
I dance this line, toeing between pleasure and melancholy.
I rock to the rhythm of you and I, hours lost in bed.
Lovers to the end, lost in folly.

I am in love with a man that I cannot be with, and it is torture.
For all the reasons I wish to be with him, I can find a reason to not be with him - and I am sure he can say the same about me.

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The Foolish Traveller

Mood: Incredibly Content
Music: My Skin by Natalie Merchant
Date/Time: Tuesday, 21st July, 2009/ 6:10AM

I'm currently watching a manga turned anime recommended by an old friend from high school. The anime is called "Fruits Basket" and actually not bad.

This is a story from episode 11, told by a young boy making a comparison between the persona in the story and the lead female character of the show.

I found the written text on a blog titled Phosphorescence, complete blog credit at the end of this entry.

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Life

Mood: Happy
Music: American Morning on CNN Date/Time: Monday, 20th July, 2009/5:42AM

Life is a funny thing, it often takes you to unexpected places - and sometimes back to places you never thought you would revisit.

Lately, I've been making amends with things from my past. Making amends with people, and just healing. I like healing.
My birthday is in a month, and I feel like I'll be going into 24 a better person.
That is a great feeling.

I know I haven't been writing much, but I have been dealing with life.
And at the end of the day, life is more important than this blog.

Love,
Ally.

Photo Credit: Allison VS The Mango; Monday, 20th July, 2009

Gray skies and butterflies

Mood: Musing but happy
Music: Another Cloud by Della Manley
Date/Time: Friday, 10th July, 2009/6:59AM

"I cried too many tears, through the years I could have smiled
Spent too many moments wishing, when everything was fine
Now I'm forgetting time spent regretting, now the water tastes like wine

I think I feel another cloud passing by
Yes, I think I feel another cloud passing by
Every day I'm looking for that silver lining
If it's...
Gray skies and butterflies, it's another great day just to open my eyes
Gray skies and butterflies, it's another great day to open my eyes"
- Another Cloud by Della Manley

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Mood: Musing
Music: Runaway - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Date/Time: Tuesday, 7th July, 2009/8:56PM


I have discovered something about myself, that if my attention isn't consistently held, maintained or stimulated - that I lose interest easily.
This applies to both people and things - tangible and intangible.
It's sad really, that my short attention span boils over from my activities/interactions into my personal life.
Sad isn't the word, no...it's worrying.

Why is it that few people or things cannot hold my interest if I am not constantly reminded of my interest in them?
It's something to consider. Something to investigate, or at least passively observe.

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Like a Penny with a Hole in it

Mood: Pensive
Music: Around you - Ingrid Michaelson
Date/Time: Friday, 3rd July, 2009/4:08AM

Hi, my name is Allison and I am a hopeless romantic.
It's true. At heart I'm a poet, and I like extending romantic gestures as much as I like receiving them.

My first love, would buy me cards and hand write little love notes to me. Presenting the card with my favourite chocolate - half of which he would eat just because he loves chocolate as much as me.
He was kind and gentle, and one of the ways he showed his love was cooking every single meal when we were together. I always loved that, except for the time he almost killed me by serving me something I was allergic to.
I was upset then, but in retrospect I have to giggle whenever I think about it.

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