“Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.”- Astrid Alauda

I know things are sucking for a lot of people lately. Stress is running rampant. Things are ugly and you feel beyond tired. I understand, and I really feel for you. So that’s why I’m giving you permission to take a break.

No, seriously. Just put everything down and walk a way for a bit. Take any kind of break you need; be it mental, emotional, social, or physical. Sadly, the cause of your stress isn’t going to magically go away. (I’m not that talented.) But, despite your fears it isn’t going to get worse either unless you ignore it for an extended period of time.

What are you waiting on? Oh, maybe you don’t know how to de-stress. I don’t know what exactly will work for you, but I’ll share some of my stress busters.

Music is probably my most used one. I’ll put on a specific playlist and sing till my throat hurts. I focus solely on the music and lyrics. Everything else slides away and I relax.

Watching a movie or reading a book is also a good way to relax. I do think that it should be something you haven’t seen or read before. Because, if you have the stress will creep back in during a boring part.

Sex is often another recommended way to deal with stress. Let’s face it sometimes that just isn’t feasible. I also don’t think it’s a good idea to find a fuck buddy when you are stressed. I mean come on, everyone knows that is for extreme cases of boredom or drunkenness*. But, hell if you have access, ya might as well take advantage of it.

Finally, my second best way to deal with stress is to meditate and go to your happy place. Everyone should have a happy place, and they should make it super fucking slamming.

Until next time, “Oh but it’s okay to breathe your worries away when everything and everyone tries to lead you astray. Hold your own, hold your ground, hold to light when you’re down and always believe that there’s a way back home.”**
autumn

*- Please note, Autumn does not condone casual sex in the cases of boredom or drunkenness. After all her father reads this blog.

**- The until next time is lyrics from Hold by Axium.

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“We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today.  I don’t think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great.  If you’re hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.”- Art Buchwald

So stories are pouring in at Join the Impact, and once they have final counts and everything I will share with you the outcome. The cities that have posted their totals so far are impressive. Seattle alone had an estimation of between five and six thousand. I hope that people look at that to see how united we are over this topic.

Meanwhile, I started learning to play the guitar today and have a new found appreciation for even the crappy music. I mean really, I can’t even get the damned thing tuned properly so far. I’m heading off to try again. Wish me luck.

Until next time, see you thought I was kidding about the dying cat sounds coming from my house.
autumn

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“Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.”- Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, A.D. 524

I was really trying to keep you all updated with everything concerning Prop 8. It turns out that everything is a hell of a lot. I just can’t keep up with it all. I think I’m just going to have to admit defeat with my “l33t” blog reading skills. But, what I can do is point you in the direction of a constant source of information. I seriously recommend Towleroad. I have decided that the writer is a cyborg, or a clone. It’s the only way he can post so much.

There is one specific thing that I wanted to share with you. It’s a great idea. Tomorrow there will be a Nationwide protest. All of the protests are starting at the same time. I’m assuming this is to show unity. You can read all about it, find locations, and any local relevant information at Join the Impact.

I hope everyone who can will participate. Sadly there isn’t one in my city and I won’t be able to make it to the closest one. So I will be lighting my candle, and sending positive thoughts.

Until next time, eventually love will be enough.
autumn

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“Music is the only thing in this world, with the exception of sneezing and looking at the sunset, that takes you to a place that’s above the mundane. Everything else is just bullshit.”- Stephan Jenkins

I don’t necessarily agree with Mr. Jenkins on that statement. There are several things that can elevate a person. Although, music is definitely on the top of the list for me. It is occasionally the only thing that works.

I haven’t been this excited about music in a while. There are tons of upcoming albums, that I can’t wait to hear. My first musical obsession, Third Eye Blind is releasing an EP next Tuesday and is following that up with a full length next year. AFI is currently in the studio recording and they hope to have that album out relatively soon. December is going to bring us new All-American Rejects and Fall out Boy.

Oh and next week, will rock my face off. Nickleback is releasing Dark Horse, Dido gives us safe trip home, and *Squee* David Cook releases his self-titled. If you go to David Cook’s website you can listen to it before it is released Tuesday. Like I have a million times, I’m just saying. There was also something about another David, having released something Tuesday, but I didn’t really pay attention. You’ll have to ask Ethan about that. I distinctly remember something about Idol loser…

Finally if you hear the sounds of cats dying painful deaths next week, don’t be alarmed. I’m just learning to play the guitar.

Until next time, yaaaay new music.
autumn

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This is your blog. My keyboard died and I am blogging by phone. Fucking keyboard. I mean really… emailing myself from the phone and then copy and pasting sucks major ass. grrrr. Oh and this means I am stuck on windows till I replace this bullshit. emailing log-in info and passwords suck more. Fuck.

autumn

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“When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?”- George Canning

So, it’s Veteran’s Day… I started to copy and paste an older post tonight. This one to be exact. But, that’s not exactly fair. These men and women fight for us every day. The least that I can do is write a new post thanking them for what they do.

When I was in highschool we often had silly dress up days during homecoming. They varied slightly from year to year. (I know this story seems off kilter, but bear with me) Sophmore year we had a sixties and seventies day. Being the odd, yet predicitable little girl I was, I naturally went full-scale hippie. Pixie and I made way to many beaded necklaces. I wore extremely large boot cut jeans and a vest full of patches that I thought represented the time. I painted a peace sign next to my eye, and made the most super slamming “Make love not war” sign ever.

I went to school, and was actually having a blast. Then I went to my ROTC class… I was immediately taken into Sgt Major’s office. Now I’m sure you all didn’t have a Sgt Major’s office (or maybe you did) but it’s very much like the principals office. Only with much more swearing, yelling, and horrible garlic breath while you stand at attention and try to avoid the specs of spit going toward your eye. Actually looking back it really wasn’t bad at all. But in a 15 year-old’s mind it was the worst possible place to be.

I was told plainly and clearly that my costume was shitting upon everything that they had taught me in the year and a half of class. It was beyond disrespectful. Then there was more yelling, cussing, and spit. Finally we sat down to talk about it like rational adults. Err… well rational adult to teenager. We talked about all the negativity that soldiers faced when coming home. I explained that the sign to me meant that if we loved everyone then there would be no war, and we wouldn’t have to worry about our loved ones going somewhere to be killed. But, I wasn’t stupid. I realized I hurt his feelings or something akin to the fact.

I threw the sign away, washed my face, and took off my vest. No I wasn’t told to do those things. I could have even kept the sign that started the mess, but I didn’t. Even then, the last thing I wanted to do was be misunderstood, to seem negative to those serving, or to hurt anyone. After all, I was all about the love. I learned several important things that day. Words have more power than you imagine, we often take for granted the sacrifices made by others, and blue eyeliner is a bitch to wash off with school supplied soaps.

So while there are times I don’t support the decisions of the military, I always support those who have to follow those decisions. It’s the only loving thing to do, right?

Until next time, I remember.
autumn

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