The Sims 3

Two minutes ago, I learned some tragic news. The release date for Sims 3 will be delayed. Apparently EA is "evaluating the launch window" of Sims 3 and have delayed it for another four months. The new release date is June 2, 2009.

Bad news: I have to wait another three and a half months before I can play this game.

Good news: It'll be the summer so I'll have plenty of free time to play Sims 3.

Sigh....

Yearning

Sometimes I feel like I want too much from life. There are way too many things to do and such little time to do them in. It's as if I look forward to life but no matter how far I stretch, my fingertips don't seem to even brush my aspirations. I'm too inhibited, emotionally, financially, physically, etc. My bucket list just seems to never end. I want to travel the earth and know, not just believe, that the earth is round. I want to go to so many art museums- the MOMA, London Gallery of Art, Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Louvre. I feel like my expectations are too high, that bar I set for myself far beyond my grasp. So many things, so little time. I guess I just have to focus on what's important in life and to me that would be family, education, and religion. I have to focus on all that I have instead of what I don't have. I have to be patient, I can't have everything at once. I guess like every other person in the world I want to leave a mark on this earth. It doesn't have to be a big one, it doesn't have to impact millions of people. I'm ok with being a watermark, something that is behind the big picture. I don't want attention to surround me but I would like to be somewhat important. Just goes to prove that "we all seem so different but we're just the same." (Kudos to whoever can tell me what song that's from except Clayton.)

Jackson Pollock

He is my current favorite abstract expressionist painter. At first, I guffawed at the idea of some guy dripping paint across canvas and people calling it incredible art. Then I started researching him. I discovered that it's not what he made but how he made it. The above painting, called Autumn Rhythm, is one of my favorites by him. It's 8.75 feet high and 17.25 feet wide and was painted in the 1950's. He dripped paint across a canvas on the floor and the way he spread it is the most interesting to me. He used knives, trowels, and sticks to spread the paint across the canvas. To me, it's just so different and when I look at it it reminds me of different flavors of coffee spilled across the canvas.

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day. What a joke, what a slap in the face to all other holidays. Well maybe it's not as bad as a slap in the face but it's a horrible holiday. I mean, we celebrate it because there was this Roman, named Valentine, who decided to break the law and illegally marry young Roman soldiers. So technically we have a holiday that celebrates someone who broke the law. There is just nothing really special behind it...I feel like someone was desperate for a holiday and established Valentine's Day. I dunno.....

So I just took this test to find out what religion I am and here are my top ten:

1. Mormon (real shocker there)
2. Jehovah's Witness
3. Orthodox Quaker
4. Baha'i Faith (what is this?)
5. Mainline Christian/Protestant
6. Mainline Liberal Christian Protestants
7. Orthodox Judaism
8. Sikhism
9. Liberal Quakers
10. Seventh Day Adventist

Hmmm...I feel like I could have predicted the majority of those without taking a test.