Diane’s World

This band (Brand New) has been a top band of mine since Junior year in high school. The song I chose is called “Jesus Christ” – Click out the lyrics here.(WHICH BY THE WAY – I don’t currently own that CD (it’s called “The Devil and God are Raging Inside of Me”), so whatever sibling/sibling-in-law of mine has my name for our Christmas secret Santa gift thing…. add it to the already long CD wish list I gave you )Ok enough of the music stuff.

2) This week went by very fast.

I’ll have art to show next week – I don’t have anything interesting finished lately. I know, you all are upset. Well get over it.

Let’s just say, I HATE painting eyes right now.

Woah I almost forgot about PANDEMONIUM!

Pandemonium is something the Senior art Majors do every year. We take large sheets of paper and do some pastel drawings in public! Each senior made a different drawing (with assistance of a drawing I student) as we blasted a CD made by our class (everybody got to choose a song. Of course I chose “Nur Ein Wort” by Wir Sind Helden. I didn’t even have to tell people it was my song because I’m the only idiot who would chose a German indie song. ha.) .

The drawings turned out exceptionally well. Here they are!:

…

Guess which one’s mine?

This one! And here’s me next to it so show you how big it is:

And here are all of them together (the other half is on the other side)

3) I can’t believe my favorite little monkey – my dear little nephew, Patrick – is already THREE YEARS OLD!

Way to go Patrick! I love him immensely and I am upset that I am not there to celebrate his birthday with him! Go to my Sister’s Family’s site to see the pictures of the event I had to miss out on.

However, my dear mother is coming to visit me in a week! Mom, I look forward to having you in Iowa for once!

4) Guess what I decided to do the moment my mom leaves me?

I am going to attempt to be VEGETARIAN for a month!

HA!

Actually, no I didn’t all the sudden decide to go PETA. I am not even an animal rights activist. And yes, I actually do enjoy meat. I just want to learn how to live a healthier more environmentally friendly lifestyle. I probably won’t stay vegetarian for long after the month, but I hope that I will learn to make simple choices that don’t put a strain on our earth’s resources.

And, yes I have thought about my iron deficiency. I am just hoping that iron supplements and iron-rich vegetables will be enough to keep myself and alive and active.

5) Laura and I went shoe shopping this weekend. We both needed basically the same kind of shoe. I do believe we went to over 10 stores…

I HAD NO CLUE how hard it is just to find a simple pair of brown semi-casual shoes that don’t cost waaaaaaay too much!

However, after a few hours we both FINALLY CAME UP WITH SOMETHING.

(Mom, remember that pair of shoes you threw away this summer because they were getting too old/smelly? HA! They are back!!!)

DUN DUN DUN!

Yeah. That was basically the highlight of our weekend. Oh and watching Saw with Laura and Jerry. (I am a WIMP when it comes to scary movies – I do believe I had a blanket over my head for over 1/4th of the movie… and this is the second time I’ve seen it.)

OH and we went to the Lacrosse game to see Jerry dance. (muwahah!) But… since I had to babysit the art gallery, we were too late. And now I’m sad that I didn’t get to see Jerry dance. But here is Laura and I at the Lacrosse game:

Here’s Laura dead after the Lacrosse game (I randomly found her lying on the ground of our room):

Jeremiah came to our room later to try and be artistic:

and then tried to be emo. Oh Jerry.

Ok I get it. I can just imagine half of you saying “Shut up, Diane. We’ve had enough of you for a week.”

So therefore, I am shutting up. Have a wonderful week everybody!

The Deeds

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I’ve recently been growing very fond of Bright Eyes – this song randomly started playing on my computer and I was immediately in love.I think it’s funny how I always manage to find a song that seems to be talking about my current life situation. I’m vague… I know it. But my life is somewhere in those lyrics, believe me
Ok I’ve been scolded by both of my parents for being a very lousy blog-updater. Unfortunately, I really don’t have any time on my hands recently. I spent most of today trying to make a drawing assignment look decent, but I’m ready to exclaim to the world that I just happen to naturally STINK at drawing.GRR.I’m a bit exhausted of life right now.I hate that I’m graduating early.I hate that I’m going to a place to start over again with not knowing anyone… or the language that they speak.

I hate how I have become sloppy and unmotivated in my school work because my lack of focus.

I hate how I am going to leave a couple of my closest friends ever in only 66 days (yes, I am counting).

I hate how I am not going to be able to speak at my senior art show, or walk for graduation.

I hate how I’m going to hate myself for hating all these things later when I fall in love with Germany.

The finality of my college days have slowly become more and more of a reality. Soon the days that I formally referred to as “when I grow up” are so close they can kick me in the behind. I still don’t think of myself as an adult – but my age and my parents seem to constantly be reminding me that I am one.

Well, I can attest to the fact that I have mellowed out a bit since high school. While searching through an old CD called “Diane’s Old Computer Junk”, I found this poem that I wrote because… well, read it:

A Last Plea for my Old English Seat.

One of the things I hold very dear,
Is the seat I’ve had since my Freshman year.
But now you tell me to get up and pack,
And move to a seat a little ways back.
Never did horror come in such a flash,
My soul was given the hardest whiplash,
My mouth fell open in such a great hurl,
Too much to bear for so little a girl.
I then hugged my seat and told it goodbye,
Then heaved up my pack, and gave a great sigh.
This little move was the hardest to bear,
Making my day and my life become drear.
So Mr. Bond, I give you my last plea,
Whatever you do, I’ll try to agree.

-Diane Marie Feucht
Oh the good days when my worst worry was Mr. Bond moving me to a different seat in English class. (And I would like to add as a disclaimer that he wasn’t moving me because I was talking – he was trying to move a talker to the front of the class. Yes, I was a good student.)

Anyways, enough of that. Last weekend, Chicago was ok. It was waaaaaaay too hot of weather (I’m thinking that if I said it was in the 90’s it wouldn’t be a lie). But Laura and I did have fun. In fact, we wrote a list of interesting things that happened

***THESE ARE TAKEN VERY OUT OF CONTEXT! IF you want the whole story, you’re gonna have to ask me or Laura

1) We saw lots of dead people

2) We hit 5 bars every night

3) Diane got hit on in McDonald’s

4) Diane made out with Phil Collins

5) We made 3 friends while staying overnight in Waterloo, Iowa. One of them worked at Target, was named Candy, and asked us to pick up a Vanilla Ice CD at the used CD store. (this one is actually true)

6) The Train we were riding on broke. (ok, this one is true too)

7) Laura rode her first train / had her first run in with a toll booth

We discovered the charming (*cough, cough*) town of Dexter, IA

9) Spent 1.5 hours in Barnes and Noble, only buying MadLibs. (This one’s true too)

10) Laura found her love life in the math books for the next three months

11) We drove past the world’s largest truck stop (True!)

Here are some pictures from Chicago (we didn’t take very many.. but here is what I have):

our wonderful stash of nosh:

My view on the drive there… and back. Sigh. :

Laura’s first train ride!

Cheesecake Factory! (Oh shoot, I think we forgot to take a picture with Giordanos. Sorry Sarah and Mom… I wanted to make you both Jealous)

Laura and the spitting fountain.

And finally -Laura and I hosted our Second (and Last ) Annual PUMPKINFEST! Basically, I baked a billion things all with the ingredient pumpkin, and had friends over!

Here is what I made:

Pumpkin Bread

Pumpkin Cake

Pumpkin Bars

Graham Cracker/Cream Cheese Pumpkin Dessert

Pumpkin Pie

Pumpkin *cough* Cookies

Pumpkin Biscuits

Pumpkin Milkshakes (for the brave people)

… and Jerry brought some of the most amazing pumpkin chip dip ever. Honestly.

… and he also brought toasted pumpkin seeds.

And for non-pumpkin lovers, I also made:

Grasshopper Pie

Spiced Cider

and

Chocolate Zucchini Cupcakes. (thanks Dave and Trina!)

Add all that baking to homework and a small social life, and you’ve got one very tired Diane.

Here are some pictures from the event: (What these pictures don’t show are the 24-26 people that we managed to cram in to our room for an hour or more)

Most of the food (some things aren’t in this picture)

A random roommate picture… nice, Kim. Very nice.

Some of the party people. Nice, Laura.

More random picture – Joel, Laura and I.

It was a blast for all, and we enjoyed having so many friends for once. Ha.

Anyways, I should be off to class!

Love, Diane

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First of all, I’ve been in a Phil Collins kind of mood lately. Which explains the Phil Collins song as the song of the week. I am pretty sure that this song brings back more sad memories than any song I can think of. But I still listen.Anyways, I have a series of pictures I want to post. I know it’s earlier on in the week than usual, but this will be a 2-Post week! (woot!)

Lately I’ve been thinking of home. My favorite movie is Garden State. ABSOLUTELY AMAZING MOVIE.

The thing that made this movie go from extraordinary to absolutely EPIC for me was when Zach Braff said these words:

“ Andrew Largeman: You know that point in your life when you realize that the house that you grew up in isn’t really your home anymore? All of the sudden even though you have some place where you can put your stuff that idea of home is gone.
Sam: I still feel at home in my house.
Andrew Largeman: You’ll see when you move out it just sort of happens one day one day and it’s just gone. And you can never get it back. It’s like you get homesick for a place that doesn’t exist. I mean it’s like this rite of passage, you know. You won’t have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for you kids, for the family you start, it’s like a cycle or something. I miss the idea of it. Maybe that’s all family really is. A group of people who miss the same imaginary place“

I watched this movie early Freshman year when it came out in Theaters, and I remember breaking down in tears in the Theater. (Ok, so maybe I’m too emotional… that’s not the point.) It’s only too true – being stuck between moving out of the home you grew up in and longing to someday make a home of your own is a difficult position to be in.

Now back to the reason for this blog… I chose this theme in the first place was because the group of pictures that I wanted to put in this blog all just happened to have this theme: MY HOME.

Starting with what I have dubbed my “Home-Home!”

MY WONDERFUL FATHER recently started a .Mac website and posted a few pictures I hadn’t seen before – from this summer when he and I took a special backpacking trip together. Somehow dad managed to escape the camera, but here’s what he did have.

Next are pictures of what would be my current home. I keep on promising pictures of my living space, and I finally am carrying out that promise.

Here is my bedroom :

My wonderful “I am a technology geek” desk. And my wondeful map of Germany that is constantly staring at me.

My “Nook” that I am very proud of…:

and it’s all complete with a WALK-IN CLOSET! Only my half is shown, but I share this closet with Amanda and it’s way bigger than we’d ever need.

I’m pretty proud of our common room as well:

So yeah, our room has kind of become Diane’s Gallery space.

My favorite paintings to have on the walls are definitely these ones… which were a booger trying to hang up at the same height. Which still isn’t perfect. GRR.:

Oh and I tried to take pictures of the rest of the apartment, but apparently Laura thought that it was “unnecessary”.

Yes indeed… what a wonderful woman she is.

FINALLY is my new “home”. I was given permission to occupy half of Sam Guttierez’s old studio – the other half is dominated by Matt Kunnari (a Dordt graduate who’s art I have admired since I was a wee litttle freshman!)

Here’s a brief description of Matt (haha):

Yes. It’s glorious.

Anyways, my new studio is in a place that not even most senior Dordt students know exists.

Here’s a few clues: do you know where this is?

HINT: this used to be a weight-lifting room! (Hence, we have rubber floors and an attached racketball court. Odd? Yes.)

Well if you see these stairs, and you happen to go up them… you get this:

My studio!

It’s not very exciting yet, but I have many plans to make it cooler. Just wait for a later post.

My next home will be in Düsseldorf Germany. You have no idea how high my blood pressure jumps whenever I think about it. Almost a whole year in Germany – Gott Hilf mich! I am slightly upsetted that I cannot see myself settling down to a permanent home for the next… four years. Oh dear. Don’t want to think about it anymore.

Anyways, I have some issues called homework that I have to get back to. Laura and I leave for Chicago tomorrow, and I will post later this week on how that goes. Hopefully we don’t die.

Have a wonderful week, y’alls. Sorry this post was so long, I don’t have time to shorten it.

D-Marie

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