ROSE

This is just a picture I took and edited of a little rose in my home.

MUSIC

My music taste is so general.  I like pretty much ANYTHING, minus screamo music. The only two bands that I like with screaming are Foo Fighters and Swell Season.  

Recently, I've been watching movies and then I'll go check out the soundtrack to download.  Today I downloaded a lot of the music from 10 Things I Hate About You.  90s poprock - stuff like Letters to Cleo and Semisonic.  But I also listen to the Beatles, and then John Mayer, and Bob Dylan, and then The Notorious BIG, and a lot of really random shiz. I really just love music.  Maybe I'll start doing music suggestions of the day or of the week. Hmm..

TITANIC 2??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD4OnHCRd_4

This is a really funny Titanic 2 trailer.  It's fake, of course.  But it has tons of actors from random movie clips and it's really great.  So check it out!

HOLDING ON TO SOMETHING REAL

It's a weird feeling being away from the people you trust most, and the people that you put all of your faith into.  All of my closest friends are spread across the world now, let-alone the continental U.S.  Of course I have friends where I am, some who have seen me grow up through my awkward phases.  But sometimes, I wish that I could tell one of my deep secrets to someone who truly cared and listened, someone who not only watched me through those awkward phases, but went through them with me.  Someone who has been there for me for as long as I can remember.  And that is why I love coming home.  I finally get to visit with people that know so much about me and value me for who I am.  I get to have conversations that truly mean something to me, that are just continuations of conversations from earlier in the year.  Real friendships that aren't superficial.  Of course, a lot of this is coming from home-sickness.  But don't get me wrong.  The people I see every day now mean a lot to me.  They've helped me through a weird time in my life, and they showed me how to enjoy myself again.  And I owe them a lot for that.  I just hope they understand that sometimes it's nice to go back to familiar faces and comforting conversations.  Even when that means bringing yourself back to people you never thought you could trust again.  And that's what I think is beautiful:  Some of my deepest friendships are rooted through some of my best and worst memories.  And that let's me know how far I've come with some of my friends.  And all I really have to say about that is I'm glad for it.  Not for the bad memories, of course, but for the fact that my friends survived the bad memories, and stuck with me.  That must mean something, right?

B&J 1

This is a vid of my roommate B and friend J.

Warning:  These people are super silly.  

Video watching may result in minor dizziness.

GETTING TO KNOW ME

I created this uber-emo picture when I was in one of my sporadic artsy moods.  I tend to have those.  I usually will take random pics that I've either taken of myself or of others or of random things in general, and then use that picnik app on facebook.  But I also do a lot of other artsy things besides messing with random shiz on my computer.  For the most part, I like to make jewelry - particularly earrings.  I think my aunt got me into making jewelry.  Ever since I was about ten, I haven't stopped.  I remember in high school I took a jewelry class, and I walked in knowing I would nail the course.  I don't mean to brag - it's just that I already know the tricks of the trade because my aunt knows her stuff - she's a prof at SCAD (Savannah College of Art & Design).  I'm not saying I'm great at jewelry-making, though.  Definitely not sayin that.  But it is a nice thing to know how to do when birthdays and the holidays roll around.  I also like to draw and journal.  I really just love anything craftsy.  But there is another side to me that is more academic.  I love all the core classes you find in school - english, math, social studies, science.  That is, of course, when I understand them.  Especially math.  I feel like that is the type of course that you feel so accomplished with when you get it, and then you feel really dumb when you don't.  Sooo ya...I love understanding math.  That sounds so boring.  "Tra la la, I love math, lala."  If that summed me up, I would despise myself.

One random thing about me is that I love to travel.. I love everything about it.  the cultural change.  the food.  the people.  the different ways of thinking in different countries.  the different languages.  I could go on and on and on...

Another random thing is that I'm obsessed with music.  I sing - it's my main hobby.  I was trained classically and I'm now trying to slide into jazz and rock/pop.  I love listening to music, too.  Every style is so interesting (minus screamo music ...really don't get it).  It's amazing how music can change the mood you're in so quickly.

Okay, enough random facts about me for now.

Time for some serious blogging.

THE VERY BEGINNING

Obviously, this is my first post.  And for some reason, I don't even know where to start!  I've always wanted to start a blog.  I just didn't realize I would become so brain-dead when I finally motivated myself to get one.  But, alas, here I am...with a sorry case of writer's block.

If you were wondering about the name of my blog, well Cherry happens to be my last name.  And no, I'm making that up!  Ruby is one of my favorite colors.  It's very deep, but somehow colorful and bright at the same time.  I feel as though if colors were to have secrets, ruby would hold the most...

Well, here I go!