Halloween!!!!!

So this Friday (tomorrow is Halloween and all my dad can think about is the roofers who did our house and we have now hired to do some of our siding on the house. He could have done it himself but my mom and him decided to hire those people to do it. They ordered the wrong size siding though so my dad is not sure if they are going to do a good job. He is very anal about things and always wants them done right and his way (which is always right). I can't help but focus on school and be in somewhat of a bad mood this week as well just because it happens to be the end of the quarter and so I have a few tests and the always tough Calculus class.

Extended Love Metaphor

The Romantic Side of Sugar

Sugar gives off a plethora of magnificent feelings

So excited you can’t help moving
Constantly fidgeting

A feeling of addiction
Always wanting more because it makes everything better

Anxiety, worried about losing this feeling
Because after it is lost depression and exhaustion are the only feelings left

Exploration based on trying to find the feeling
Whenever these feelings are not present you are constantly searching

These feelings are something everyone desires

Pride

I realized this weekend, or i guess was reminded because I have already had this realization before, that my dad is super proud of me. Even though he always gives me such a hard time, he is proud of me. His sister and some of her family from Arizona were in Minnesota staying with my cousins in Woodbury this weekend and Saturday evening for dinner they all came to our house for hamburgers. It was just a sorta normal and boring family visit, but I did notice my dad talking about me several times throughout the evening, almost always saying something good about me, almost as if he were bragging that he had such a great son. It made me feel really good and also pursuaded me to stay a little past dinner time to play cards before going out to a friends for a birthday party. Overall, I enjoyed the visit.

October 7th

Last week my dad got angry with me because I was really far behind in my online AP Statistics class. I wanted to miss school thursday because it was a shortened day and I had to miss last hour to prepare for coronation anyways. He takes so much pride in everything he does and always is on task getting done what needs to be done and I envy that characteristic, but it also makes him angry when I don't do things on time or put certain priorities in front of others. He didn't understand why I would rather go to my ultimate game after school then go to school during the day. I did what I wanted anyways because I'm old enough to take control of my own life but he wasn't happy. I felt bad but my mom had to give in and call me in for a doctors appointment.... I went back for 5th hour just to feel somewhat justified.

Love Metaphor

Love is sugar

Love is sugar because it generally makes your life happier, but it isn't always good for you. Love is like sugar also in that without it, things are boring and less desirable. When you don't have either love or sugar you want to look for it until you find it because it seems to complete things, either in life or for food in sugar's case. Love is also like sugar in that when it runs through your body you feel energized and go nuts, but afterwards when you lose it you feel terrible and don't want to do anything.

William Johnson Fox

Life Is Love

The fair varieties of earth,

The heavens serene and blue above,

The rippling smile of mighty seas—

What is the charm of all, but love?

By love they minister to thought,

Love makes them breathe the poet’s song;

When their Creator best is prais’d,

‘Tis love inspires the adoring throng.

Knowledge, and power, and will supreme,

Are but celestial tyranny,

Till they are consecrate by love,

The essence of divinity.

For love is strength, and faith, and hope;

It crowns with bliss our mortal state;

And, glancing far beyond the grave,

Foresees a life of endless date.

That life is love; and all of life

Time or eternity can prove;

Both men and angels, worms and gods

Exist in universal love.

http://www.poetry.com/lovepoems/lovepoem.asp?id=557

The theme of the poem is that life really doesn't matter without love. Life needs love to be meaningful and love is all you need in life. The metaphor of the poem, Life is Love, adds to this theme by saying life and love are one in the same thing, because life is nothing without love and love creates life.