The night whispers something intolerable into the corners of the rusted chambers in your heart.
You tried to blow off the dust like it was a stranger just passing through the streets of your hometown.

But you knew better than that. The dust had settled into a house on your street for awhile now.

It wasn't a visitor, but a resident.

And your heart. You tried to oil it up and make it as good as new. Just like the tin man.

But you knew better. You knew that it would stay behind it's rusted prison bars and that no amount of oil would do the magic trick. There wasn't going to be an audience's applause today. No rabbits coming out of hats.

You tried to sleep but your Vampire habits kept you fidgeting with a thirst and hunger for the drops of a new awakening, a new life.

There you were staring at the ceiling of your tomb.

But you awoke. You awoke. Your eyes no longer tired due to the lack of sleep. Your heart no longer rusted and imprisoned. The dust swept away to the far corners of the earth. A new life, a new hope, dawned, awakened, and manifested in you. You were made new. You were alive. You found the light to keep out the whispers in the night when you found the man at the cross with love written on His side.

 

 

(Quick side note: My blogger has been acting up recently. Yesterday it wouldn't let me post and today, when I was reading through ya'all's awesome blogs, half of the time my comments wouldn't publish. Some did, some didn't. So I apologize if one of yours was one that wouldn't let me comment on. I enjoyed them all though. <3 Have a nice weekend!)

....and drink coffee under the table if you want to

 

 Je ne sais quoi

 

" You know that place between sleep and awake; that place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I will always love you. That's where I will always be waiting."

--Peter Pan.

When I read this quote, I read it and think about it in so many different ways. In one way, that's childhood. Peter Pan is childhood. And childhood is always in between being asleep and awake. And then I think about dreaming. And I think about how this can mean the dreaming where you dream you will meet your true love and ride horses off into the sunset and live a flawless life. Or the dream where you actually dream bizarre and crazy things in your sleep. Or the dream that is a wish your heart makes. And I also sometimes think about the person who is saying, that's where I will always love you and where I will always be waiting and I think about my husband I haven't met yet. My true love. And how he is one of my dreams, and maybe thats where he will love me until I meet him someday. And then he'll love me in every aspect and form of my dreaming. He will become my dream come true.

Basically this quote gives me hope, and happiness, and comfort. And it makes me a kid and it makes me hold out for the guy who can let me be a kid when I want to. And this quote reminds me to never ever settle for a guy less than the guy of your dreams. It reminds me to never compromise myself to be something I think a guy wants or would like. It makes me dream and wish and wish fervently. And I'm not ashamed of that. I love Peter Pan. And I believe in his existence. I believe in childhood. I believe in dream come trues. Do you?

(See how I snuck in my self portrait there? Sneaky Sneaky.)


Oh, also, it makes it ten times better that Peter and Wendy in real life got married. Thats a dream that came true. And it makes me happy because they're perfect for each other and they're still kids, and I love it.

Hello, darlings. My weekend was amazing in case you were wondering. :)

On Friday night, I went to Countryside Mall and got to visit the Disney Store. I found this really cool vintage mickey and minnie mouse tee and I also got an eyore plush. You're never too old for those things. I also went to Tropical Smoothie in the mall and let me tell you, Smoothies and Disney is always a good combo. Saturday, I had to watch my little sister Maria. So we had a spa day and watched Peter Pan. Sunday, there was a superbowl party at our church and we played a football game beforehand. It was awesome.

Ironically, I might be getting the chance to go to Disney World for two days in March. Needless to say, I am beyond pysched. People usually say it's too early to get excited for things like that, but in my mind, it really isn't that far off. I mean in September I thought Christmas was far off and yet those Fall/Winter months flew. And January flew. And I know February will fly too especially with my busy schedule. Therefore, I think I have a right to be excited. In saying this, I will now post some of my favorite Disney photos I've seen and then I will answer your Disney questions. If you've never been to this magical place, go. And if you aren't well acquainted with Disney movies; it's never too late. Trust me.

Hello Dream Wedding Ring.

(Selfie snuck in there.)

 

 

The questions you guys requested my answers for are numbers: 3,10,12, 15, 37, 39,1,5,6, 35 , 26, 13, 38, and 29.

3. That's real difficult because most of the Disney characters seem pretty heroic in what they do. But I guess I'd go with Hercules. Because I mean, who doesn't love him? And he did venture into the underworld to save Meg. And the underworld is sort of really creepy.

10. Peter Pan. :) Though, I have others I adore too like the Lion King or Robin Hood or Fox and the Hound, or Dumbo, or Lady and the Tramp, or or Toy  Story 101 Dalmations or Pinocchio or Monsters Inc. But Peter Pan is my favooorite.

12. Another difficult one. Well, I've always loved; "I Won't Say I'm in Love", "Be Our Guest", " Part of Your World", "Colors of the Wind" , "You've Got a Friend in Me", "Let's Get Down to Business", "You'll Be in My Heart", "Can You Feel the Love Tonight",A Whole New World","You Can Fly, You Can Fly, You Can Fly" and I think those are pretty much the top notch ones. I still have many more I love though. :)

15. Simba's. You may think I'm kidding... but I'm not. ahaha. That lion mane is wicked awesome. As for human hair; Jasmine's. I was always envious of hers.

37. This one is very very difficult for me to choose because that means I have to try to figure out who I'm like. I know I always waaanted to be like Jessie from Toy Story 2 as a kid and in a way I think I was kinda like her because I was so spunky and different. Now, I think I am more like Belle. But I'm not sure. I just know I love to read, and I try not to judge people by looks alone. And I'd never ever marry a guy like Gaston. haha.

39. Fox and the Hound all the way. Two scenes. 1. When Tod's owner drops him off in the woods to live by himself and he has no clue that she's going to leave him when he's sitting in the car ride. 2. When Copper changes and isn't his friend anymore and Big Mama has that talk with him. I may not have physically cried at these, but I wanted to. Like inside, my heart tore up a bit. That and the Hunch Back of NotreDame when the people throw fruit and tie him up because honestly, that's just cruel. I felt so bad for him.

1. Peter Pan. Robin Hood. Aladdin. Jasmine. Genie. Pochantas. John Smith. The Racoon. Rafinki. Nala. Simba. Timothy the Mouse. Belle. Lumiare. Nana. Wendy. Sebastian. Dopey. Goofy. Mickey. Pluto. Eyeore. Tigger. Pooh. Mulan. Mooshu. Shang. Sully. Mike. Jessie. Bullseye. Slinky. Buzz. I think that covers most of my favorites. ahah.

5. Mulan, Jasmine, Nala, Belle, Meg. But I think Jasmine is actually my favorite of the favorites.

6. Aladdin hands down.

35. Tangled's flying lantern scene and flying off to Neverland's scene and Jasmine's A Whole New World scene.

26. The Lion King. I'd love to be the lions and live there. Or once again Neverland. It's just so filled with magic guys!!!!

13. Jasmine and Aladdin, Mulan and Shang, Simba and Nala, Rapunzel and Flynn, Mickey and Minnie, Peter Pan and Wendy(if that counts). But the top ones are Jasmine and Aladdin, and Simba and Nala. This is because a. I just adore Aladdin and Jasmine's characters. They're hilarious and sweet and they seemed to realllly adore each other and I just loved em. Simba and Nala grew up together as best friends and I think that's super cute, how they once were best friends and then they ended up falling in love too.

38. I guess sort of Belle and Jasmine. I'd like to get out more and see the world.

29. To be honest, I have no idea. I feel like we always get what's ever cheapest when we visit Disney. But I can tell you that when I was younger, I always wanted the big huge giant rainbow circle lolipops with Mickey's face in the middle of it and we always would get them for the ride home. So, if that counts, lets go with that. :)

Sorry, this was lengthy, but I hope you enjoyed it.

Day 3 of Self-Portraits.

Hey all. So, I know I usually don't do weekend posts. But I made an exception because I'm doing the self-portait a day February thing. This being said, that's probably all they will consist of. It won't be of much substance. Because the weekends are my breather days, chillaxing, unplugging days. That being said, even though I post these quick little self portrait posts on weekends, I still probably won't get around to reading and commenting on ya' all's blogs till Monday. Needless to say, I love you all and hope you have a great weekend! :) I also will be answering the question numbers from the disney photo I posted and you commented with in this post; http://thewaytimeworks.blogspot.com/2013/02/keep-it-to-yourself-laugh-off-dreams.html .

Also, it's not too late if you haven't commented with a number yet since I'll be answering them on Monday. That's all. <3

Until we meet again!

Keep it to yourself,

Laugh off the dreams.

Shake off the dust we once called;

You and Me.

Feel beautiful, Read a Book, Do Good, Blink Away Your Mistakes and Put Your Hope in Love.

You deserve it.

It deserves it.

I also have decided to take part in this. So, comment with any number/numbers of the questions you'd like me to answer. :) Also, Happy February! here's self portrait of the day # 1.

This may seem like a weird picture, but I wanted to do something different for a change so i used black and white and bright lighting and long time exposure to give a blurry/haunting kinda feel.