interplanetary spaceflight

Julia and I ;-)

A trip to outer space was had last night with me and three of my friends. If you need an idea of what it's like to blast off, take a listen to Libella Swing, preferably as loud as possible. Oh yeah. Under the right circumstances, you'll be on another planet in no time.

My friend Lizzy was saying how when she backpacked in Spain they played music like that at the clubs over there and it's one million times more intense. I definitely need to go to Spain. Austrian DJ swing/house music is sexy as hell.

Bonfires & Outer Space Dreaming

The other night I went to my friend's friends house who lives on a huge piece of land with forest and beautifulness and he even sells organic produce! Anyway we went for a bonfire, some music and a good time. It was pretty cool. People were playing guitar and bongo drums and lots of singing and the best part was the super awesome conversation I had with a cool Robert Plant look-a-like guy :P We just talked wonderfully about yoga and philosophy and holistic health and Oneness and the Universe and speaking of the Universe...

The other night, for the second time ever, I dreamed I went to outer space. Just like the first time, it was so real and so damn COOL!

IT WAS AWESOME!

Myself and various people were in a very small capsule-shaped spaceship on a 3 day trip to Planet X. At one view of the dream, this capsule spaceship was extremely crammed and you had to either sit or bend down to fit. But from another view of the dream, the inside was a giant gymnasium with the walls painted pictures of the Earth and geographical layouts.

I was nervous travelling on this 3 day trip because I was worried the spaceship would break down or fall back down to Earth and we'd all die. But the trip was fine and we flew through the blackness, amongst the stars with perfect views of other planets we passed by. We arrived on Planet X, and I remember it was very quiet and beautiful and I hoped the rest of the population of Earth wouldn't come because then it would become busy and loud.

Anyways! Today I went and got the moldings for my retainer, oh boy oh boy oh boy!! My braces will be off in only 2 weeks!! I'm also seeing Sam Roberts in concert this Friday at Massey Hall in downtown Toronto! Can't wait!!

High Vibes~

~Mango Banana Coconut Raisin fruit salad

Hello hello hello hello hello hello hello!

Last night I posted a post, but for some reason it did not post. Except now it magically re-appeared...

Anyways... I feel GREAT today! I am having a marvelous, splendid, amazing day. Want to know why? Of course you do.

Firstly, as I had posted in this mysteriously non-existent/magically reappearing post from last night in which I just deleted (it's probably cursed because it is Friday the 13th), I have decided that I want to start getting up really early in the mornings. I read some tips on becoming an early riser and basically you should go to bed only when your body is tired, but wake up at the same time every single day. Even on the weekends. I decided I want to start getting up around 5-5:30am for a few reasons. I've really, really tenderly beautifully magnificently wanted to start getting back into my yoga practice. It has been a while I must say. The mornings yield a spectacular opportunity for peace and solitude, as it is such a quiescent time of day. Most everybody is asleep and all that is animated are the birds, rising sun, dew on the grass and crisp, sweet air. Mmmm. So I want to start getting up early to just Be. To just breathe and observe life as it unfolds in the morning, before the busyness begins. I want to go for walks while it is quiet outside and the sun is just beginning to shine on the Earth.

So today I actually did wake up, sit up and stretch at 5:00am. But then it was really dark outside and I didn't know what to do so I, not without mental conflict, fell back asleep until 6:40am. I was a bit disappointed but still happy because that is a lot earlier than usual! I'll work on it though. So that's one of the reasons why I'm in a good mood today.

Another reason why I feel excellent is because I have been eating ALL RAW for like two days! Oh yeah! That's what I'm talkin' bout! The photo I posted is my breakfast :) Sliced yellow mango, sliced banana, a handful of raisins, a drizzle of flaxseed oil, a sprinkle of organic shredded coconut, a spoonful of hemp seeds and a dash of cinnamon. It was extraordinary.

I'm also just feeling extremely connected to myself. In more ways than one. I lied down on my floor and drew and doodled a bit last night... I've really been feeling the lack of art in my life these days so that really lifted me up a bit. Plus this lovely yoga I've been doing more of and I just feel so contemplative and philosophical these days about the Universe and outer space and life and love and beauty and wonderfulness, especially since my brother and I took his ginormous telescope out the other night and viewed the big bright beautiful moon and little wee far away Saturn. Sometimes I envision myself, let's say, floating on a lost rock up in the mysterious, cold, pitch-black nothingness up there in space; gazing down at the Earth amongst the moon and stars. The thought comforts me somehow, in an eerie sort of way. We are little wee organisms floating and spinning in Nowhere Land! Free your mind and soul and spirit and just live! Break those invisible chains that govern us!

My insides feel so jubilant and effervescent are iridescent because I'm off for like an entire week and it's so warm out today and I feel so great and awesome and AHHH!

Where are we?

I am blowing my mind right now. I'm reading about the Universe and the Big Bang theory, among others, and looking at photos and diagrams of galaxies and blackness and space.

Where are we?
We are atomic, imperceptible, insignificantly minuscule microscopic teeny tiny life forms. We are not just in our house. We are not just in our town or our country. We are not driving down the street on this planet called Earth. We are floating around in the middle of fucking nowhere. We are drifting about in a super-colossal, monumental, massively astronomically enormous unknown place.

You know how the cells and atoms in our bodies are so incredibly small compared to, lets say, planets? Well I like to think of our Universe as a mirror of the microscopic life that is all around us. Things orbit in space just as things in our bodies do. I bet just one atom is a Universe in itself. And humans and all living organisms on Earth are like, ribosomes in a cell. If the Universe did begin from the Big Bang, then I wonder what exactly the explosion was. Do little explosions happen inside of us? I'd like to know. Because if so, then I bet the Big Bang was just an explosion that happened inside of... something. Some living thing. And these things go on and on and on forever.

This photo here blows my mind also. When I read the name "Ursa Major" I just imagined that being a woman who is so incredibly significant and much, much more important than little beings on earth. All of the names that are given to clusters and stars and galaxies sound so important. And the Milky Way is only one teensy little galaxy out of bajillions and bajillions of much greater galaxies.

All I want to know is why, what, how, who and where are we?

I'm Going to the Moon Tonight, You Should Come

Last night I had one of the coolest dreams I think I've ever had. I dreamed I was in outer space.

I was in a rocket ship with an astronaut. At first I didn't think he had legs, but I looked over and he was working his leg muscles on a treadmill (like they have to do to make sure they don't lose muscle mass). I was sitting by a little window looking out at all the blackness and stars and we flew passed the moon! The astronaut had to hook his suit up to something on the window for some reason, and when he did, the window began to crack and then it smashed open. Then it was really windy in the rocket ship.


Then I was flying around in a rocket ship with my dad and my older brother, who was steering. We were flying all around the blackness of space with stars all around, and I think this is when it started to get a bit scary. We were trying to land on the moon but my brother flew passed it and then we got lost and couldn't navigate our way back to where the moon was. So we landed on a planet. The planet was just like Earth - there were houses, towns, streets, trees. It was nighttime. We got out of the rocket ship and walked around a bit. Then I ran in to my old friend. She asked what I was up to. I asked her if she wanted to come to the moon with us. I said something like, "I'm actually going to the moon tonight, I seriously am, you should come!"


For a short time I was lost with somebody in a swamp. I was trying to jump over the water onto dry parts of dirt but kept falling in a bit. I think I went inside some sort of cabin.


And then I was back with my dad and brother and we were by a house in a neighbourhood. We looked up to the sky and found the moon! So we got back in our rocket ship and flew back off into space.


I almost always remember my dreams from each night; they are always quite vivid. I actually have myself a dream journal where I record dreams I have. I'm really into dream interpretation. Dreams are only replays of your thoughts and experiences, so I'm always interested to know how I'm subconsciously feeling.

According to my dream book and dreammoods.com, outer space represents a metaphor that something has just come out of nowhere. This makes absolute sense seeing as I have actually said to myself how it seems like I went from needing a job to finally getting two of them and it all came out of nowhere. Stars in a dream means you will receive good news, which gives me shivers because I was actually offered the job I really wanted today. Interesting.