Thursday, March 31, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Letter 1 — Your Best Friend
Dear Laura,
Words can't even express how different my life would have been without you.
We met in the 4th grade, I never would have thought that at age nine a girl I met would be someone who would change my life so dramatically. You've taught me so much on what it means to be a friend, why it's important to have a friend you can trust, and how to love someone.
I love how you've never given up on me, no matter how much of a bitch I've been in my life that somehow you're here for me.
I'm going to miss you when you move away, if it's to River Falls or if it's to.... Indiana. I dunno what I'll do without you being close enough for me to bus over to. One of us needs to get a car. Like seriously.
But no matter what I know that you're the one I can always trust in because my love for you is stronger than that of sisters- we're twins. Look it up, there is medical studies showing that twins are closer than siblings. A bond that nobody can explain.
I'll always be here for you, I'm not quite sure how to help you right now, and it makes me feel awful.... but I can promise you, I'll never stop listening to what you feel you need to say.
Love,
Your Twinnie.
Words can't even express how different my life would have been without you.
We met in the 4th grade, I never would have thought that at age nine a girl I met would be someone who would change my life so dramatically. You've taught me so much on what it means to be a friend, why it's important to have a friend you can trust, and how to love someone.
I love how you've never given up on me, no matter how much of a bitch I've been in my life that somehow you're here for me.
I'm going to miss you when you move away, if it's to River Falls or if it's to.... Indiana. I dunno what I'll do without you being close enough for me to bus over to. One of us needs to get a car. Like seriously.
But no matter what I know that you're the one I can always trust in because my love for you is stronger than that of sisters- we're twins. Look it up, there is medical studies showing that twins are closer than siblings. A bond that nobody can explain.
I'll always be here for you, I'm not quite sure how to help you right now, and it makes me feel awful.... but I can promise you, I'll never stop listening to what you feel you need to say.
Love,
Your Twinnie.
30 Day Letter Challenge.
Letter 1 — Your Best Friend
Letter 2 — Your Crush
Letter 3 — Your parents
Letter 4 — Your sibling (or closest relative)
Letter 5 — Your dreams
Letter 6 — A stranger
Letter 7 — Your Ex-boyfriend/girlfriend/love/crush
Letter 8 — Your favorite internet friend
Letter 9 — Someone you wish you could meet
Letter 10 — Someone you don’t talk to as much as you’d like to
Letter 11 — A Deceased person you wish you could talk to
Letter 12 — The person you hate most/caused you a lot of pain
Letter 13 — Someone you wish could forgive you
Letter 14 — Someone you’ve drifted away from
Letter 15 — The person you miss the most
Letter 16 — Someone that’s not in your state/country
Letter 17 — Someone from your childhood
Letter 18 — The person that you wish you could be
Letter 19 — Someone that pesters your mind—good or bad
Letter 20 — The one that broke your heart the hardest
Letter 21 — Someone you judged by their first impression
Letter 22 — Someone you want to give a second chance to
Letter 23 — The last person you kissed
Letter 24 — The person that gave you your favorite memory
Letter 25 — The person you know that is going through the worst of times
Letter 26 — The last person you made a pinky promise to
Letter 27 — The friendliest person you knew for only one day
Letter 28 — Someone that changed your life
Letter 29 — The person that you want tell everything to, but too afraid to
Letter 30 — Your reflection in the mirror
Letter 2 — Your Crush
Letter 3 — Your parents
Letter 4 — Your sibling (or closest relative)
Letter 5 — Your dreams
Letter 6 — A stranger
Letter 7 — Your Ex-boyfriend/girlfriend/love/crush
Letter 8 — Your favorite internet friend
Letter 9 — Someone you wish you could meet
Letter 10 — Someone you don’t talk to as much as you’d like to
Letter 11 — A Deceased person you wish you could talk to
Letter 12 — The person you hate most/caused you a lot of pain
Letter 13 — Someone you wish could forgive you
Letter 14 — Someone you’ve drifted away from
Letter 15 — The person you miss the most
Letter 16 — Someone that’s not in your state/country
Letter 17 — Someone from your childhood
Letter 18 — The person that you wish you could be
Letter 19 — Someone that pesters your mind—good or bad
Letter 20 — The one that broke your heart the hardest
Letter 21 — Someone you judged by their first impression
Letter 22 — Someone you want to give a second chance to
Letter 23 — The last person you kissed
Letter 24 — The person that gave you your favorite memory
Letter 25 — The person you know that is going through the worst of times
Letter 26 — The last person you made a pinky promise to
Letter 27 — The friendliest person you knew for only one day
Letter 28 — Someone that changed your life
Letter 29 — The person that you want tell everything to, but too afraid to
Letter 30 — Your reflection in the mirror
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Saint Patty's Day- the Origin :)
St. Patrick
Feastday: March 17
Patron of Ireland
b. 387 d.461
St. Patrick: Man, Myth & Holiday
Patron of Ireland
b. 387 d.461
St. Patrick: Man, Myth & Holiday
Learn interesting facts and tidbits about the beloved St. Patrick.
St. Patrick of Ireland is one of the world's most popular saints.
Apostle of Ireland, born at Kilpatrick, near Dumbarton, in Scotland, in the year 387; died at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland, 17 March, 461.Along with St. Nicholas and St. Valentine, the secular world shares our love of these saints. This is also a day when everyone's Irish.
There are many legends and stories of St. Patrick, but this is his story.
Patrick was born around 385 in Scotland, probably Kilpatrick. His parents were Calpurnius and Conchessa, who were Romans living in Britian in charge of the colonies.
As a boy of fourteen or so, he was captured during a raiding party and taken to Ireland as a slave to herd and tend sheep. Ireland at this time was a land of Druids and pagans. He learned the language and practices of the people who held him.
During his captivity, he turned to God in prayer. He wrote
"The love of God and his fear grew in me more and more, as did the faith, and my soul was rosed, so that, in a single day, I have said as many as a hundred prayers and in the night, nearly the same." "I prayed in the woods and on the mountain, even before dawn. I felt no hurt from the snow or ice or rain."
Patrick's captivity lasted until he was twenty, when he escaped after having a dream from Godin which he was told to leave Ireland by going to the coast. There he found some sailors who took him back to Britian, where he reunited with his family.
He had another dream in which the people of Ireland were calling out to him "We beg you, holy youth, to come and walk among us once more."
He began his studies for the priesthood. He was ordained by St. Germanus, the Bishop of Auxerre, whom he had studied under for years.
Later, Patrick was ordained a bishop, and was sent to take the Gospel to Ireland. He arrived inIreland March 25, 433, at Slane. One legend says that he met a chieftain of one of the tribes, who tried to kill Patrick. Patrick converted Dichu (the chieftain) after he was unable to move his arm until he became friendly to Patrick.
Patrick began preaching the Gospel throughout Ireland, converting many. He and his disciples preached and converted thousands and began building churches all over the country. Kings, their families, and entire kingdoms converted to Christianity when hearing Patrick's message.
Patrick by now had many disciples, among them Beningnus, Auxilius, Iserninus, and Fiaac, (all later canonized as well).
Patrick preached and converted all of Ireland for 40 years. He worked many miracles and wrote of his love for God in Confessions. After years of living in poverty, traveling and enduring much suffering he died March 17, 461.
He died at Saul, where he had built the first church.
Why a shamrock?Patrick used the shamrock to explain the Trinity, and has been associated with him and the Irish since that time.
In His Footsteps:Patrick was a humble, pious, gentle man, whose love and total devotion to and trust in Godshould be a shining example to each of us. He feared nothing, not even death, so complete was his trust in God, and of the importance of his mission.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Red Riding Hood the Original French Tale
 Illustration by Walter Crane |
A woman had finished her baking, so she asked her daughter to take a freshgalette and a pot of cream to her grandmother who lived in a forest cottage. The girl set off, and on her way she met a bzou [a werewolf].
The bzou stopped the girl and asked, "Where are you going? What do you carry?"
"I'm going my grandmother's house," said the girl, "and I'm bringing her bread and cream."
"Which path will you take?" the bzou asked. "The Path of Needles or the Path of Pins?"
"I'll take the Path of Pins," said the girl.
"Why then, I'll take the Path of Needles, and we'll see who gets there first."
"I'm going my grandmother's house," said the girl, "and I'm bringing her bread and cream."
"Which path will you take?" the bzou asked. "The Path of Needles or the Path of Pins?"
"I'll take the Path of Pins," said the girl.
"Why then, I'll take the Path of Needles, and we'll see who gets there first."
The girl set off, the bzou set off, and the bzou reached Grandmother's cottage first. He quickly killed the old woman and gobbled her up, flesh, blood, and bone - except for a bit of flesh that he put in a little dish on the pantry shelf, and except for a bit of blood that he drained into a little bottle. Then the bzou dressed in Grandmother's cap and shawl and climbed into bed.
When the girl arrived, the bzou called out, "Pull the peg and come in, my child."
"Grandmother," said the girl, "Mother sent me here with a galette and a cream."
"Put them in the pantry, child. Are you hungry?
"Yes, I am, Grandmother."
"Then cook the meat that you'll find on the shelf. Are you thirsty?"
"Yes, I am, Grandmother."
"Then drink the bottle of wine you'll find on the shelf beside it, child."
As the young girl cooked and ate the meat, a little cat piped up and cried, "You are eating the flesh are your grandmother!"
"Throw your shoe at that noisy cat," said the bzou, and so she did.
As she drank the wine, a small bird cried, "You are drinking the blood of your grandmother!"
"Throw your other shoe at that noisy bird," said the bzou, and so she did.
When she finished her meal, the bzou said, "Are you tired from your journey, child? Then take off your clothes, come to bed, and I shall warm you up."
"Where shall I put my apron, Grandmother?"
"Throw it on the fire, child, for you won't need it anymore."
"Where shall I put my bodice, Grandmother?"
"Throw it on the fire, for you won't need it anymore."
The girl repeats this question for her skirt, her petticoat, and her stockings. The bzou gives the same answer, and she throws each item on the fire. As she comes to bed, she says to him, "Grandmother, how hairy you are!"
"Grandmother," said the girl, "Mother sent me here with a galette and a cream."
"Put them in the pantry, child. Are you hungry?
"Yes, I am, Grandmother."
"Then cook the meat that you'll find on the shelf. Are you thirsty?"
"Yes, I am, Grandmother."
"Then drink the bottle of wine you'll find on the shelf beside it, child."
As the young girl cooked and ate the meat, a little cat piped up and cried, "You are eating the flesh are your grandmother!"
"Throw your shoe at that noisy cat," said the bzou, and so she did.
As she drank the wine, a small bird cried, "You are drinking the blood of your grandmother!"
"Throw your other shoe at that noisy bird," said the bzou, and so she did.
When she finished her meal, the bzou said, "Are you tired from your journey, child? Then take off your clothes, come to bed, and I shall warm you up."
"Where shall I put my apron, Grandmother?"
"Throw it on the fire, child, for you won't need it anymore."
"Where shall I put my bodice, Grandmother?"
"Throw it on the fire, for you won't need it anymore."
The girl repeats this question for her skirt, her petticoat, and her stockings. The bzou gives the same answer, and she throws each item on the fire. As she comes to bed, she says to him, "Grandmother, how hairy you are!"
 Illustration by Charles Robinson |
"The better to keep you warm, my child,"
"Grandmother, what big arms you have!"
"The better to hold you close, my child."
"Grandmother, what big ears you have!"
"The better to hear you with, my child."
"Grandmother, what sharp teeth you have!"
"The better to eat you with, my child. Now come and lie beside me."
"But first I must go and relieve myself."
"Do it in the bed, my child."
"I cannot. I must go outside," the girl says cleverly, for now she knows that it's the bzou who is lying in Grandmother's bed.
"Grandmother, what big arms you have!"
"The better to hold you close, my child."
"Grandmother, what big ears you have!"
"The better to hear you with, my child."
"Grandmother, what sharp teeth you have!"
"The better to eat you with, my child. Now come and lie beside me."
"But first I must go and relieve myself."
"Do it in the bed, my child."
"I cannot. I must go outside," the girl says cleverly, for now she knows that it's the bzou who is lying in Grandmother's bed.
"Then go outside," the bzou agrees, "but mind that you come back again quick. I'll tie your ankle with a woolen thread so I'll know just where you are." He ties her ankle with a sturdy thread, but as soon as the girl has gone outside she cuts the thread with her sewing scissors and ties it to a plum tree. The bzou, growing impatient, calls out, "What, have you finished yet, my child?" When no one answers, he calls again. "Are you watering the grass or feeding the trees?" No answer. He leaps from bed, follows the thread, and finds her gone.
The bzou gives chase, and soon the girl can hear him on the path just behind her. She runs and runs until she reaches a river that's swift and deep. Some laundresses work on the river bank. "Please help me cross," she says to them. They spread a sheet over the water, holding tightly to its ends. She crosses the bridge of cloth and soon she's safe on the other side.
Now the bzou reaches the river, and he bids the women help him cross. They spread a sheet over the water — but as soon as he is halfway across, the laundresses let go. The bzou falls into the water and drowns.
Monday, March 14, 2011
Sunday, March 13, 2011
6 confessions
So I suppose that one of my favorite blogs Miss Indie recently did something called 6 confessions.
I figured I'd do it too. Kinda as an excuse to show you all her beautiful blog that I adore.
6. I'm petrified of talking to people when I first meet them. I freak out and then act overly friendly to make up for it which actually tends to set them back.
5. I'm kinda a shopaholic. When I get stressed out I buy things, and I don't eat. I'll give up food for new clothes. It's really bad.
4. I didn't believe in love for real until I was about sixteen or seventeen. Not because I eventually fell in love, but moreso because I just learned what love actually was through God and learned that God's love applies to all love.
3. I actually don't believe Christianity is the right religion. I think all religions are overall the same. They are all the same God and it's just cultural differences that have made the distinctions. When it comes right down to it, Love is the overall goal.
2. When I'm bored, I write love letters. To my future husband whom I have yet to meet. Telling him that I don't know him but I know now that I love him because I'm spending my time working on being the kind of woman he'd like to take as a wife.
1. When I'm REALLY bored. I watch cheesy Dramas. Thanks to recent events I'm watching the entire series of Greek. Do not judge me.
Now I challenge you to 6 confessions!
Make sure you link back to my blog when you do so!
XOXO
Riah
I figured I'd do it too. Kinda as an excuse to show you all her beautiful blog that I adore.
6. I'm petrified of talking to people when I first meet them. I freak out and then act overly friendly to make up for it which actually tends to set them back.
5. I'm kinda a shopaholic. When I get stressed out I buy things, and I don't eat. I'll give up food for new clothes. It's really bad.
4. I didn't believe in love for real until I was about sixteen or seventeen. Not because I eventually fell in love, but moreso because I just learned what love actually was through God and learned that God's love applies to all love.
3. I actually don't believe Christianity is the right religion. I think all religions are overall the same. They are all the same God and it's just cultural differences that have made the distinctions. When it comes right down to it, Love is the overall goal.
2. When I'm bored, I write love letters. To my future husband whom I have yet to meet. Telling him that I don't know him but I know now that I love him because I'm spending my time working on being the kind of woman he'd like to take as a wife.
1. When I'm REALLY bored. I watch cheesy Dramas. Thanks to recent events I'm watching the entire series of Greek. Do not judge me.
Now I challenge you to 6 confessions!
Make sure you link back to my blog when you do so!
XOXO
Riah
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Cute Children
These two videos are super adorable! so cute! Made me smile really bright <3
XOXO
Riah
can I take a moment just to gush about
How much I ADORE (500) Days of Summer? <3
It's my absolute favorite movie of all time!
Perfection. :)
If you haven't seen it
Watch it.
It'll change you.
Perfection. :)
If you haven't seen it
Watch it.
It'll change you.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Morning Coffee
Morning Coffee by RiahRahRah featuring circular scarves
I would love to wear this to coffee one morning :)
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Students 'like a little' online flirting
Have you ever caught someone's eye while walking to class and wished you could get to know them a little better, or had a crush on someone you see around campus and wanted to tell them how you feel? Well, on Jan. 19, the first message on Hamline's Like a Little wall was posted, starting an extensive chain of online flirtation.
Likealittle.com (LAL) is a website designed for students to go online and post a short description of someone they admire, in the hopes that they will see it and reciprocate. Most descriptions include the place where they saw the person, their hair color and their gender. Underneath, students can write a little something about this person or hint at who they are, and people have the option to comment on it. Users can create their own account if they want, so that they can get notifications when someone comments on something they have posted or liked. In the settings after users make their account, they can also follow a certain location, such as Klas or Sorin Dining Hall, and all of the posts that tag that site will appear in their updates section. LAL also has a chat feature, where students can talk to other people who are on the site.
LAL users can easily maintain their anonymity because each time they comment on someone's post or chat with someone, their screen pseudonym is the name of a fruit or vegetable. However, this can pose a problem if they want to find someone again after they've talked to them.
When asked what LAL makes him think about the way students communicate today, Dean of Students Alan Sickbert talked about LAL's similarities to other social networking sites.
"I think it's kind of a carry-on from Facebook to some degree in that, instead of people talking face to face - seeing each other and actually saying things - people rely upon, you know, these social networks to kind of do their work even when it's somebody across the hall or that they pass every day in the library or see in class," Sickbert said. "It's kind of a crutch for a lot of people when I wish they would do it more face to face."
Hamline's page hasn't been around very long, but there are already a lot of posts by people around campus. Although LAL discourages using full names, offensive or sexually explicit posts or other inappropriate language, some of the posts have already become somewhat provocative.
Posts like "I saw you inside the bathroom. Awesome," and "I carved your name into the inside of my wardrobe," suggest that people may already be taking this too far. However, anything users are offended by or wish to delete can be easily taken off the site by clicking the "remove" button under any post.
Other Twin Cities colleges such as St. Thomas, Bethel, Northwestern and St. Cate's have had pages on LAL for a while now. However, the nature of their posts tend to be a little different than Hamline's.
For example, Bethel's LAL page is full of mostly tame, cute comments about people, like "Wish you would notice me more often and be my Valentine. You are funny, attractive, and seem to be a man of God. Maybe by this time next year we'll be something," but Northwestern's can be surprisingly vulgar, with quotes such as "lost: key to chastity belt. jaw sore."
SOURCE: Hamline University Oracle
Monday, March 7, 2011
Delta Tau Sorority!
Just got my pledge pin! I'm going to pin it to my bra and fall asleep wearing it!
It's so exciting to be a sorority sister now :D
XOXO
Riah
It's so exciting to be a sorority sister now :D
XOXO
Riah
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Robin Sparkles - "Let's Go To The Mall" (full version)
Just to be clear, You wanted everyone to go to the mall... Today?
Oh my lord how I love love LOVE How I Met Your Mother!
I've seen every episode! I adore it.
New Episode tomorrow!
XOXO
Riah
Saturday, March 5, 2011
An amazing week.
On Monday, I spent the entire day with Maggie who has become a very close friend of mine over the past few weeks together. We had both been rushing the sorority at our college Delta Tau. We went to the mall on Monday and spent the day browsing around and just talking about girls and life and boys ha ha! On Tuesday she hung out with me and my friends at dinner and we watched Mama Mia in the lounge at at school. Then we went to improv club. After coming back to my dorm after Improv Club my roommate gave me something that some of the girls in Delta Tau had dropped off for me... It was my Bid Card! I'm a Delta Tau Pledge <3 That was pretty exciting
Then After days of awesomeness one after another I saw the play at my school called The Shape of Things and first I saw it with Misia, Alex and Diana along with Chacha who came in to visit, then yesterday I saw it again with the girl who is planning on being my big sis Katie :) Then Maggie came over and spent the night and she and I ate pizza and watched Greek and Sydney White (Can you say Greek theme? lol)
Tomorrow is the pinning ceremony for DT and so I'll post some pictures of things after that tomorrow!
XOXO
Riah
Then After days of awesomeness one after another I saw the play at my school called The Shape of Things and first I saw it with Misia, Alex and Diana along with Chacha who came in to visit, then yesterday I saw it again with the girl who is planning on being my big sis Katie :) Then Maggie came over and spent the night and she and I ate pizza and watched Greek and Sydney White (Can you say Greek theme? lol)
Tomorrow is the pinning ceremony for DT and so I'll post some pictures of things after that tomorrow!
XOXO
Riah
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Song Challenge Day 11
day 11 - a song from your favorite band
What? A Cloud Cult song? Oh, who saw that coming? :/
day 12 - a song from a band you hate
day 13 - a song that is a guilty pleasure
day 14 - a song that no one would expect you to love
day 15 - a song that describes you
day 16 - a song that you used to love but now hate
day 17 - a song that you hear often on the radio
day 18 - a song that you wish you heard on the radio
day 19 - a song from your favorite album
day 20 - a song that you listen to when you’re angry
day 21 - a song that you listen to when you’re happy
day 22 - a song that you listen to when you’re sad
day 23 - a song that you want to play at your wedding
day 24 - a song that you want to play at your funeral
day 25 - a song that makes you laugh
day 26 - a song that you can play on an instrument
day 27 - a song that you wish you could play
day 28 - a song that makes you feel guilty
day 29 - a song from your childhood
day 30 - your favorite song at this time last year
What? A Cloud Cult song? Oh, who saw that coming? :/
day 12 - a song from a band you hate
day 13 - a song that is a guilty pleasure
day 14 - a song that no one would expect you to love
day 15 - a song that describes you
day 16 - a song that you used to love but now hate
day 17 - a song that you hear often on the radio
day 18 - a song that you wish you heard on the radio
day 19 - a song from your favorite album
day 20 - a song that you listen to when you’re angry
day 21 - a song that you listen to when you’re happy
day 22 - a song that you listen to when you’re sad
day 23 - a song that you want to play at your wedding
day 24 - a song that you want to play at your funeral
day 25 - a song that makes you laugh
day 26 - a song that you can play on an instrument
day 27 - a song that you wish you could play
day 28 - a song that makes you feel guilty
day 29 - a song from your childhood
day 30 - your favorite song at this time last year
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