Hello Lovelies,
For almost three years, you've all known me here at AGOB. However, I've had many other blogs in that time, many other sites I'd run, all aimed at different audiences. All of them were a genuine part of me, but none of them were completely me. I'd have different parts of me on different sites and everyone knew a slightly different Sarah. My real life friends knew me as one Sarah online, some online friends knew me as another Sarah, and others knew me as yet another Sarah.
I've decided that this isn't how I want to do this anymore. It's exhausting trying to figure out where I'll post a certain thing and where I won't post another. I want to be integral. I want to be the same person here as I would be anywhere else. I don't want people to know different versions of me.
Which I why I've decided it's time to move. It's time to move from having four blogs to one. It's time to be real wherever I am. So I'm moving to a site called Meraki, the definition of which is "the soul, creativity, or love put into something; the essence of yourself that is put into your work".
I want to put all of me into my work, not just parts. So what I've done is I've taken posts from different blogs and compiled a selection of them on this new blog. That'll be the blog I'll post on from now on. The only one. So if you'd like to keep in touch, and I hope you do, come over and follow me there!
It's been an incredible journey with you all and I'm definitely going to miss the security and comfort of AGOB, but I know this is what I need to do.
So for the last time here at least, this is Sarah signing off on A Glimpse of Blue.
Saturday, September 24, 2016
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
The Professor Man
His dirty blonde hair is long and he has part of it in a ponytail behind his head. There's a big, bushy beard on his face. He's wearing a blue Hawaii shit.
He really isn't much to look at. The hair isn't very well groomed. He's probably in his sixties. He walks with a stride that has seen many years.
It's his eyes that are captivating. Behind the slightly brutish appearance, he's got beautiful, intelligent, deep, sensitive eyes. He's quiet and walks with a slight slump.
Maybe he's a teacher. He looks like he could teach. The wisdom wrinkles on his face are clear to see and I wonder how much he's seen. How much happiness. How much love. How much pain. How much despair. He could be a university professor. He'd teach philosophy of course. He'd be the one that everyone loved. You know, the kind one. The smart one. The sensitive one.
He's all alone and I can just hear his voice as he orders a potato skin stack over the chatter of the carnival stalls around me. It's soft and smooth and suddenly I can picture him with a guitar, singing songs about suck lock and driving a pick-up truck.
The lady behind the stand hands him the deep-friend potato stack and he walks away with a crooked smile on his face. I can hear him chuckling a bit.
So, to the man with the old eyes, I hope you enjoyed your potatoes.
He really isn't much to look at. The hair isn't very well groomed. He's probably in his sixties. He walks with a stride that has seen many years.
It's his eyes that are captivating. Behind the slightly brutish appearance, he's got beautiful, intelligent, deep, sensitive eyes. He's quiet and walks with a slight slump.
Maybe he's a teacher. He looks like he could teach. The wisdom wrinkles on his face are clear to see and I wonder how much he's seen. How much happiness. How much love. How much pain. How much despair. He could be a university professor. He'd teach philosophy of course. He'd be the one that everyone loved. You know, the kind one. The smart one. The sensitive one.
He's all alone and I can just hear his voice as he orders a potato skin stack over the chatter of the carnival stalls around me. It's soft and smooth and suddenly I can picture him with a guitar, singing songs about suck lock and driving a pick-up truck.
The lady behind the stand hands him the deep-friend potato stack and he walks away with a crooked smile on his face. I can hear him chuckling a bit.
So, to the man with the old eyes, I hope you enjoyed your potatoes.
Monday, February 8, 2016
52 Thoughts I Had While Rewatching Disney's Pinocchio
Hello Lovelies!
I'd like to start this post off by saying that I hadn't seen Pinocchio in over five years when I watched it... it's a little different than I remembered it. So, without further adieu, here is my train of thought during Pinocchio.
1. Why does Jiminy Cricket have a hillbilly accent? Isn't Pinocchio German?
2. Why did Geppetto give Pinocchio no mouth?
3. Ahh, he's painting on the mouth. Never mind.
4. Ooh, the fish and the cat don't like the name Pinocchio.
5. Geppetto really needs some company.
22. The dolls are hanging by their necks and the lightning keeps flashing on their smiling faces. This is creepy. How is this a children's movie?
23. Poor Geppetto. He's all alone in his bathrobe in the rain trying to find his son.
24. How does a puppet blow his nose? What does he get? Splinters instead of boogers?
25. Ooh. Pinocchio's in trouble now. The Blue Fairy wants to know why Pinocchio didn't go to school.
26. How did his nose grow birds? Maybe he gets birds instead of boogers.
27. Ooh. His coins are bigger than the show runner/director's. Take his, fox people.
52. Awww, Jiminy's got his gold badge. Good for him.
Well.
That was something.
A little different than I remember.
Okay, a lot different than I remember.
Moral of the story: Stay in school kids.
Up next: Bambi
I'd like to start this post off by saying that I hadn't seen Pinocchio in over five years when I watched it... it's a little different than I remembered it. So, without further adieu, here is my train of thought during Pinocchio.
1. Why does Jiminy Cricket have a hillbilly accent? Isn't Pinocchio German?
2. Why did Geppetto give Pinocchio no mouth?
3. Ahh, he's painting on the mouth. Never mind.
4. Ooh, the fish and the cat don't like the name Pinocchio.
5. Geppetto really needs some company.
6. How is the fish so pretty? It's not fair, she's a fish!
7. Ah yes, an alarm clock where the alarm noise is a child screaming while his mother spanks him. Lovely.
8. That pipe is literally as long as your arm, Geppetto. I'm concerned.
9. The cat is me. I am literally this cat.
10. I'm pretty sure the Blue Fairy is just Snow White with blonde hair.
11. Geppetto, go back to bed.
12. How are two foxes walking around and no one notices? Yet people notice Pinocchio is wooden...
13. I'm convinced the cat wants to be human and that's why he's jealous of Pinocchio.
14. For being a conscience, Jiminy's not very noble or good.
15. Lol, the cat/lion/fox/human thing is so stupid.
16. Yeah Pinocchio, don't be an actor. There's no money in that. Go to school.
17. How has Pinocchio become so famous in like 30 seconds?
18. Poor Pinocchio. All these girls want him and he looks terrified.
19. The show runner just locked Pinocchio in a cage!
20. And now he's twerking. This is not good.
23. Poor Geppetto. He's all alone in his bathrobe in the rain trying to find his son.
24. How does a puppet blow his nose? What does he get? Splinters instead of boogers?
25. Ooh. Pinocchio's in trouble now. The Blue Fairy wants to know why Pinocchio didn't go to school.
26. How did his nose grow birds? Maybe he gets birds instead of boogers.
27. Ooh. His coins are bigger than the show runner/director's. Take his, fox people.
28. Did the man just say he's collecting stupid little boys?
29. This is so not a children's movie.
30. Let me get this right. He's collecting stupid boys to take to a place called Pleasure Island where they never come back as boys. Please tell me I'm not the only one whose mind is going some place it shouldn't.
31. Pinocchio! Don't go to Pleasure Island; you won't be able to go school... I'm sensing a theme here.
32. So Pleasure Island is basically a big carnival with free drinks and cakes.... can I go to Pleasure Island?
33. "Come here and smoke your heads off!" Who decided this was an appropriate movie for children?
34. "You buttered your bread, now sleep in it." I don't think that's how that phrase goes Jiminy.
35. The stupid-boy-collecting man is turning the stupid boys into donkeys. Okay. That's not what I was expecting.
36. The real question is, why are there no girls here? Answer, because girls aren't this stupid apparently.
37. Oh, we're in trouble. Pinocchio's turning into a donkey.
38. This is horrifying.
39. Finally. Go home Pinocchio.
40. Where's Geppetto?
41. Oh, he was swallowed by a whale. Of course. I should have seen that coming.
42. Pinocchio's going to drown himself to find the whale at the bottom of the sea. Right. That's logical.
43. Now he's dragging the rock that sunk him around with him. Is this supposed to be symbolic?
44. Aww, the sea horses are so cute!
45. "I never though it would end this way. Starving to death in the belly or a whale." I can't imagine many people would think it would end that way, Geppetto.
46. They're literally making a fire in the belly of the whale just for the purpose of making it sneeze so they can get out. How stupid are these people? Why is the whale not burning on the inside? So many questions!
47. Oh. The whale's having a sneezing fit. This isn't good. The whale's the size of the hotel.
48. "Oh no! Now he hates me!" Well if you wanted him to like you Geppetto, maybe you shouldn't have set your boat on fire in his belly. Not the best way to make friends.
49. No! Pinocchio's dead (although I'm a little confused as to how. Can't he breathe underwater?)
50. Oh please! You're going to save him? He hasn't been selfless, brave or true! He's been a brat.
51. Yeah, yeah, Pinocchio's alive. We get it.
Well.
That was something.
A little different than I remember.
Okay, a lot different than I remember.
Moral of the story: Stay in school kids.
Up next: Bambi
Friday, February 5, 2016
The Disney Month
Hello Lovelies!!
So as you've probably read, I've finished high school (yay), and been accepted into a five-month program starting in March (yay 2x).
However, as you may notice, it is only February.
I don't start the program until the 7th of March, which gives me almost a month of no school or work (gasp).
Now what could I do with a whole month....
DISNEY MOVIE MARATHON!!!
About halfway through January, I decided that one of things I wanted to do this month before I left home, was to watch all of my favourite Disney movies in chronological order of when they were released. Now, I started to make the list and realized that it was just way too long for me to finish in a month. I like too many movies. Oops. So I had to narrow it down to movies released 2000 or earlier, and they all had to be cartoon.
And then I thought, "How can I make this into a blog thing? Because this really feels like this could be a blog thing." And I came up with the idea to do a "30 (or 40, or 50, doesn't really matter) Thoughts I Had While Watching ___________" post for each of the movies I watch, complete with gifs if I can find them. I'll scatter these with other posts as well, otherwise I think you and I would both go crazy.
- Pinocchio (1940)
- Bambi (1942)
- Alice in Wonderland (1951)
- Peter Pan (1953)
- Lady and the Tramp (1955)
- 101 Dalmatians (1961)
- The Jungle Book (1967)
- The Aristocats (1970)
- Robin Hood (1973)
- The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)
- The Rescuers (1977)
- The Fox and the Hound (1981)
- The Little Mermaid (1989)
- Beauty and the Beast (1991)
- Aladdin (1992)
- The Lion King (1994)
- Pocahontas (1995)
- Hercules (1997)
- Mulan (1998)
- Tarzan (1999)
- The Tigger Movie (2000)
I hope you all will join me in rewatching some of the greatest cartoon movies of all time. What are some of your favourite Disney movies? Did I include them on my list?
So as you've probably read, I've finished high school (yay), and been accepted into a five-month program starting in March (yay 2x).
However, as you may notice, it is only February.
I don't start the program until the 7th of March, which gives me almost a month of no school or work (gasp).
Now what could I do with a whole month....
DISNEY MOVIE MARATHON!!!
About halfway through January, I decided that one of things I wanted to do this month before I left home, was to watch all of my favourite Disney movies in chronological order of when they were released. Now, I started to make the list and realized that it was just way too long for me to finish in a month. I like too many movies. Oops. So I had to narrow it down to movies released 2000 or earlier, and they all had to be cartoon.
And then I thought, "How can I make this into a blog thing? Because this really feels like this could be a blog thing." And I came up with the idea to do a "30 (or 40, or 50, doesn't really matter) Thoughts I Had While Watching ___________" post for each of the movies I watch, complete with gifs if I can find them. I'll scatter these with other posts as well, otherwise I think you and I would both go crazy.
Here's the list (in order because it's me, so of course it's in order):
- Pinocchio (1940)
- Bambi (1942)
- Alice in Wonderland (1951)
- Peter Pan (1953)
- Lady and the Tramp (1955)
- 101 Dalmatians (1961)
- The Jungle Book (1967)
- The Aristocats (1970)
- Robin Hood (1973)
- The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)
- The Rescuers (1977)
- The Fox and the Hound (1981)
- The Little Mermaid (1989)
- Beauty and the Beast (1991)
- Aladdin (1992)
- The Lion King (1994)
- Pocahontas (1995)
- Hercules (1997)
- Mulan (1998)
- Tarzan (1999)
- The Tigger Movie (2000)
I hope you all will join me in rewatching some of the greatest cartoon movies of all time. What are some of your favourite Disney movies? Did I include them on my list?
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Moving On
Hello Lovelies!
I have returned.
(Do y'all like the new theme? Still not sure if I'm happy with it. Be prepared; it may change. Ten points if you can name where the background image is from)
I am officially done high school. Forever and ever. Amen. That was exhausting.
I am officially done high school. Forever and ever. Amen. That was exhausting.
And I got early acceptance to one of my back up Universities.
And yesterday I got an interview to one of my first choice Universities AND I got accepted to a 5 month school I'm doing from March to July this year.
And I only have 33 more days before I officially move out. Like out of my house. To do.... adultly things.
Wow, that sounded much more inappropriate than I meant it too.
A month. That's really soon.
I'm excited and slightly terrified. But mostly excited.
Eep.
I'm just looking back at posts like Looking for a House in Neverland and realizing how far I've come. I'm an adult now. Like a legit, proper, legal, age of majority in Canada adult.
Wow.
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
I'm Still Here!
Hello Lovelies,
I don't have much time (read: none) to write a huge blog post right now, but I wanted to let you all know that I do still exist here on this blog. I'm still alive! And I miss writing on here a lot.
As anyone who's finishing up their last year in high school will tell you, January/February is an insane time, because, not only do you have the exams that will ultimately determine if you're going to get into University or College, but those pesky post-secondary applications are also due at the same time your exams happen. And if those applications are to an artistic program, you're also expected to submit a portfolio. Who decided this was such a genius idea? I mean really, are they trying to kill us.
Anywho, just wanted to let you guys know that I'm still alive and I haven't forgotten about this blog, and I am fully intending on returning to writing here (more) regularly in February. I'll be finished high school in a week.
Until then!
I don't have much time (read: none) to write a huge blog post right now, but I wanted to let you all know that I do still exist here on this blog. I'm still alive! And I miss writing on here a lot.
As anyone who's finishing up their last year in high school will tell you, January/February is an insane time, because, not only do you have the exams that will ultimately determine if you're going to get into University or College, but those pesky post-secondary applications are also due at the same time your exams happen. And if those applications are to an artistic program, you're also expected to submit a portfolio. Who decided this was such a genius idea? I mean really, are they trying to kill us.
Anywho, just wanted to let you guys know that I'm still alive and I haven't forgotten about this blog, and I am fully intending on returning to writing here (more) regularly in February. I'll be finished high school in a week.
Until then!
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