December, December!

Hello friends!

I realize this is my first blog post since September. Consider it getting to know me better. I have a habit of getting really excited about things, starting new projects, discovering new passions, etc. Which are all really great individually! However when matched with my live-in-the-moment personality they can tend to overwhelm me, or to be honest, I forget about them!

I am not down on myself about it though because I realize I am only 21. This was a great realization. Who has truly accomplished everything they wish to accomplish or master at twenty? You can have a handle on some things of course, but becoming truly accomplished is a journey. I mean, Mr.Darcy cannot boast of knowing more than half a dozen in his whole range of acquaintance that are really accomplished.

"I cannot boast of knowing more than half a dozen, in the whole range of my acquaintance, that are really accomplished.”   -Mr.Darcy

Personally I think Mr.Darcy can be a tad prideful, and even at times a little prejudice. Whatever it is, I'm curious about what the world would define as accomplished these days.

Would it be a successful career? A body fit for the runway? A house in a ritzy neighbourhood?

Status is so very important to people these days. I overheard a conversation on the street the other day in passing and one girl said to her friend, "So, last night there was this hot architect dancing with us...". This really amused me. I'm sorry. If he were a mailman or a maintenance worker would that make him less hot?

"So, last night there was this hot garbage man dancing with us...".

Yeah, no. Doesn't happen. People are hung up on "status". What are we looking for in a marriage? Life-long love and commitment? Or life-long Escalades and designer hand bags? (Are we even looking for marriage?) It shouldn't matter what he does, you should be looking for a man that is gonna treat you like gold, not one that will assure you get your monthly supply of it.

I'm not saying that having nice things is bad. I've met people with big incomes who have very happy and loving homes, but I've also witnessed families who have little that are so full of joy it's contagious. I've also had a chance to work closely with the poorest of the poor in India, and did they ever teach me a lesson in happiness. You don't need very much to be happy! Ask them!

 I've come to realize that its the order in which I place things in my life. Sometimes I get discouraged if I can't afford the clothes that I would like to wear, or I get jealous when other people's circumstances seem more desirable. But if my happiness depends on "things" then I will always be waiting for the next best. I have found that my happiness very much depends on the order my priorities are in.

I know from experience that I am so content when I am making time for God in my life. I know from experience that I feel amazing if I'm exercising and eating things that are the colour green. (As opposed to my diet of various shades of white and yellow). I also know from experience that 8 hours of sleep does wonders for my attitude and my energy. And finally, time spent with people rather than things is so much more fulfilling, and life giving!

Personally, I would feel truly accomplished if I could simply master those 4 things. Heck, I would feel accomplished if I could do at least one of those on a daily basis! So, that is what I'm going to try to do! Sounds simple enough right?

I will keep you updated. Have a lovely day!

( P.S I could be happy living in a cardboard box, 

as long as I have Matt I never have a reason not to smile!)

Curiouser and Curiouser

Hello my faithful readers. If you are reading this I consider you faithful, due to the fact that this is my first blog post. 

So...if you continue to read to the end of this post, you are great! Thank you! (Or you are one of my friends or my mom, and I called you up to tell you about my new blog and that you should read it...) And, if you like it, you are in luck because there will be more where this came from. If you don't like it, I don't mind, but you risk a long and lonely fall into the ranks of unfaithful reader...

What I'm trying to say is welcome! I am very excited to have a blog, and hopefully one day I will learn more and have a more unique blog and less of a chose-one-of-the-six-template's type of blog. I can dream!

You are probably all thinking, "Why on earth did Amanda choose the name 'curiouser and curiouser' for her blog? Doesn't she know there are a million blogs with that name?" or  "Good luck spelling curiouser and curiouser correctly more than once." or "Curiouswer and cwuriouswer..."

Well, you would be mostly right! There are several blogs with this name, and I can barely spell it let alone say it! But, once it was in my mind, I decided that it would be a perfect name for my intentions for this blog, and there was no turning back.

It all started with the movie Ondine...it is a movie that I watched recently, and I enjoyed it quite a lot actually! It's a mysterious movie, with a magical storyline, beautiful scenery, and a particularly enjoyable soundtrack. Long story short,  there is a cute little girl, and while the story was unfolding, with it's different twists and turns, she would say, "Curiouser and curiouser.", an Alice in Wonderland quote.

I am not an avid Alice in Wonderland fan, I watched it when I was little, but that is the extent...(sorry to my 'blog name share-er's who are avid fans that I am offending with the previous comment...) the point is, I found great significance in this quote.

Alice says this when she is first in Wonderland (I'm assuming! haha), while she is walking through this strange strange world and seeing strange strange things. And her comment, as she gets further and further is, "Curiouser and curiouser." In my own life, I find that I have many of those moments. Our world is getting stranger and stranger, and I find it very...curious. But also very curious! (The first curious was very quizzical and the latter was very excited!)

For example:

 "Why on earth is it acceptable to be nude in music video's on daytime T.V.??" (Quizzical)
             
   and "There is so much beauty and good to be found, even in Toronto!!" (Excited)

And there you have it, I will be taking note of the many adventures, findings, questions, challenges, and joys that happen in my daily life, and writing my thoughts on them! 

I hope you are as excited as I am,

Amanda

Remember that particularly enjoyable soundtrack I mentioned? Here's one I can't get out of my head, just for you: Braille by Lisa Hannigan