Week 1

This week, I have two characters... cheating already. Hmm
Peters - he's just mortgaged his wife's cottage off so that they can tear it down, and make a new one thats ecofriendly. I learned about mortgages this past week. They're very scary things. If anything slightly goes wrong, they could be spending the next 30 years trying to pay it off. Peters idea is to rent the cottage out once it's done so's they'll be able to pay it off in just over a year.
And Eco-friendly! Wow. Solar panels, geo-thermal energy, they're recycling as much of the old cottage as possible. Soo awesome. I'm proud of them for being daring and taking initiative. Yay.

Jill unknowingly touched me yesterday. She said I reminded her of a girl in a song, this song:

KT Tunstall - Suddenly I See

Her face is a map of the world
Is a map of the world
You can see she's a beautiful girl
She's a beautiful girl
And everything around her is a silver pool of light
The people who surround her feel the benefit of it
It makes you calm
She holds you captivated in her palm

Suddenly I see (Suddenly I see)
This is what I wanna be
Suddenly I see (Suddenly I see)
Why the hell it means so much to me

I feel like walking the world
Like walking the world
You can hear she's a beautiful girl
She's a beautiful girl
She fills up every corner like she's born in black and white
Makes you feel warmer when you're trying to remember
What you heard
She likes to leave you hanging on her word

Suddenly I see (Suddenly I see)
This is what I wanna be
Suddenly I see (Suddenly I see)
Why the hell it means so much to me

And she's taller than most
And she's looking at me
I can see her eyes looking from a page in a magazine
Oh she makes me feel like I could be a tower
A big strong tower
She got the power to be
The power to give
The power to see

Suddenly I see (Suddenly I see)
This is what I wanna be
Suddenly I see (Suddenly I see)
Why the hell it means so much to me

Obviously a huge compliment, but that isn't all. First, the fact that Jill likened me to someone who people look up to for being independent, original, interesting, kind ("her face is a map of the world," etc.) is HUGE. That sort of person is definitely the sort I want to be. If Jill thinks I'm getting there, well, thats a good sign. And secondly, most importantly, the lines that I bolded are very important to me once I listened harder to the music. "Oh she make me feel like I could be a tower, A big strong tower"
The name Madeleine means Strong Tower. AWESOME
So Jill made me feel very loved, and now I have a song to live up to.

Character of the Week

I was going to name this blog "Hero of the Week," thinking I would mooch around to find a hero each week, but they wouldn't let me use that name.. guess its already been done. So I got to thinking, why does it have to be a hero? And why a live person? I read a lot, and every week I am not necessarily going to come across a GREAT hero. So why not make it Interesting Character of the Week?
So that is what I did. This blog is about the characters in my life, not about me.