I love art,
but not “Art Now”
“This is who and what and how”
Don’t get me wrong,
Don’t think I’m fake,
I enjoy the art I make.
I can’t help but fall asleep,
My attention she can’t keep.
I try to listen and be real good,
but I just can’t be understood.
How can I trust this woman I see?
If she refers to Pinocchio as a boy-donkey?
A woman who looks like Parker in Hocus Pocus,
These are big strikes for her, I call bogus.
I love art,
but not “Art Now”
Tip me over like a cow.
I can’t wait to graduate.
<3 siempre,
AristoKat
So I’m broadcasting live from Jillian’s casa, and I totally love it, it feels like old times. Just talking about what’s going on in our lives and thoughts that we are having. It’s really nice to have someone to talk to in this crazy time in my life.
I’m really worried about money and paying my debt and school for the next two semesters. I don’t think I’ve ever been this afraid for the future. Despite this, I am definitely looking forward to growing up and finally getting out of debt. It’s so hard but like I told Jillian a few minutes ago, I definitely know that I don’t have it that badly. If anything, it’s made me realize that despite everything I really care about myself and my friends.
Jillian is really a strong source of help for me. Thank you so much my beautiful, beautiful friend. For your kind words, strong opinions and wise judgement. I don’t know where I would be if I didn’t have you to rely on. I can’t wait to see you walk down your isle.
I love you my Capitan 
<3 siempre,
AristoKat
So these shootings at Virginia Tech have really really had an impact on my life. I look around more, try to pay more attention to my surroundings.. . but it’s personal. This senseless violence has struck home so unexpectedly. I’m so angry, and sad, and confused, and it makes me queasy because I can’t get a full grasp on my emotions.
It’s not just that it happened in Virginia, and it’s not just that it can happen anywhere that makes me sick. But it’s personal, I think everyone has felt it. This week, this country came together. People who may have never known anyone from VTech at all gave their support, people wore the colors, attended vigils, we cared. I knew then that my theory that mankind is generally and inherently good, is true. That gave me hope.
On my way home today I really looked around, there have been candles lit on my street in a memorial.. I thought it was just for everyone. Then I looked closer, there was a pattern to these candles. So my mom and I followed them.. there, they led to a house that’s about a fifteen second drive away from ours. That’s the home of Mary Karen Read, one of the victims shot and killed on Monday the 16th. There was a picture of her, and a request for all to share thoughts and memories at Mary’s tree, which is in front of their house. As we drove by it slowly, looking at the candles and pictures of her.. I saw someone move in her house in the window.. It broke my heart, to think that their daughter will never return home again.
She was 19 years old for god’s sake, her biggest worry should have been how to handle a bad hair day, or how to manage to stay awake for an all nighter. She was so young, it was so senseless, and it’s so awful to think that these things happen, and can happen all the time. I’m so sorry Mary, and to all the other victims as well. I’m so sorry for everyone at Virginia Tech, who may feel afraid, or who have been traumatized by things they saw. I’m sorry for everyone, because if anything this has shocked us into a state of fear, that we aren’t safe anywhere. It’s these times where I hate feeing helpless, where we all wish we could go back in time.. but we can’t. All we can do now is to nourish the beautiful memories of the people that died on Monday. All we can do now is love, and continue to love, that’s the best way to keep their memories in tact.
I love all of the victims and their families, but tonight, for one second, I think I felt like I truly knew Mary.
Rest in peace, angels.
<3 siempre,
AristoKat
P.S: If you want to leave a flower, or a note on Mary’s tree, it’s on the street I live on. Wakefield Chapel Rd. in Annandale, it’s a beautiful and touching site to see. Just follow the path of the candles..
In light of all the awful events happening as of late, I figured a little laughter would be appreciated. Here’s some of the absolute funniest series of commercials I think I’ve ever seen.
Enjoy!
<3 siempre,
AristoKat
I had tons of things I was going to write about, but after the news this morning about the shootings in Virginia Tech, obviously none of it was important anymore. I’m still alive, thirty-two people aren’t.
It’s insane to me that.. well I guess that’s it. It’s insane. How can you think that you have the right to take someone’s life away? You not only ruin that person’s life, you ruin their family’s life, you ruin the lives of the children and family they could have had down the line. You take away something that was never yours, and there’s never a good reason. I’m sick of hearing stuff about how they were loners and people were mean to them. You know, there comes a time where you have to grow up. Killing people because you hate your life or are pissed off is insane and unbelievably hurtful to so many people.
To see these men and women that are my age, running so fearfully for their lives is heartbreaking. Is it possible then that we are not even able to go to school without having to worry about danger? Is there any place left where we don’t have to worry?
This is the world we live in, and it’s heartbreaking.
My thoughts are with the families as well as with the ones who died, who got hurt, or who are now left to the hands of fear after being attacked in a place where we are supposed to feel safe and have happy memories. I may not know you, but I love and care for you.
It’s insane that we’re never really safe.
<3 siempre,
AristoKat
Filed under: Thoughts
Time to get back in the swing of things, bad things happen every day to every one and still life goes on. I’ve made up my mind to not become depressed because that doesn’t help anyone. It’s a pretty nice outlook to have on life, I suggest it to everyone
SO, I’m very excited that this semester is almost over. I don’t think I’ve ever been so absolutely ready for school to end as I am now. I’m starting to plan for my solid future now that the end is so close. I’ll take a couple classes in the summer, one or two in the fall and that’s it. I think I may want to move out next year, maybe in January or February. My parents said they would help me out so that I can buy a condo as opposed to just wasting money on renting. If it’s going to be too much for me I think I may look into possibly getting a roommate for a little while.
Something I definitely wasn’t planning for was getting a new car. I’ve been quite happy with my little car but I think it hates me now and I’ll find out on Monday if I should just get a new car. If I do, it’ll probably be a Solara, hopefully the car payments won’t be too high compared to what I pay now.
I’ve gotten back into dancing, I work out a few times a week by just freestyling moves to different kinds of hip hop / latin songs. I really enjoy it, I have two true passions in life and that is my art and my dancing. I just love that place that you go to when you’re creating moves to coincide with a song. I’ll never stop dancing again, it makes me way too happy. I’m really proud of my graphic design work, I really have been putting my all into everything, really trying to think of new and fresh ideas. I look at the potential paper and try to break the space up in innovative ways and I am really proud with what’s coming out. I think more than anything I’m happiest when I’m just designing or dancing, I can be at work, at home, at school, but when I get in that zone it all disappears and it’s just me, my vision and my work, and that’s my most favorite place in the whole world.
<3 siempre,
AristoKat
