Random Truths

1. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.


2. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.


3. There is great need for a sarcasm font.


4. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?


5. Map Quest really needs to start their directions on #5. I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.


6. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.


7. Bad decisions make good stories.


8. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work (and at home for me) when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.


9. "Do not machine wash" or "Do not tumble dry" means I will never wash this - ever!


10. I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello?), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What did you do after I didn't answer, drop the phone and run away?


11. I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.


12. I keep some phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer.


13. Sometimes, I'll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what the heck was going on when I first saw it.


14. I would rather try to carry ten, over-loaded plastic bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring in my groceries.


15. The only time I look forward to a red light is when I'm trying to finish a text.


16. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.


17. how many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear or understand a word they said?


18. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front.


19. Is it just me or do high school kids get smaller and smaller each year?


20. There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.

I could use a good fart joke today...

and this one is my favorite!

Have you read a good book today?

(Is anyone else singing or humming the Reading Rainbow theme song? He he he)

I just finished reading the very thought provoking "The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth" by Henci Goer. I have a stack of books I should read, I even have another stack of books I've been wanting to read, but none I'm actually motivated to read.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Anything at all. (Except my husband who is not allowed to suggest anything Star Wars)

Belly badge light!

Saturday morning Heavenly and I were watching cartoons with my nephew Coco. I was excited when Heavenly told me They were watching Care Bears. I'll admit they don't look the same, graphics have come so far and yet, new Care Bears look much less like bears. Is it a difference in graphics, or could it be that cartoonists now are much more concerned about the quantity of work they produce to trifle with quality?

Aside from my annoyance at the lack of detail put into the new age excuse for Care Bears, I had a much bigger problem. Instead of the classic and irreplaceable "Care Bear Stare!" they work together by saying "belly badge light!" and I'm thinking, what's up with that? Who is it that grew up wanting to be a cartoonist, inspired by the classics, and thought it would be a good idea to ruin every cartoon I hold dear? Who does that?

At least the REAL shows are coming to DVD so I can enjoy them in all their vintage splendor.

Everybody's workin' for the weekend!

Today is my Thursday, tomorrow is my Friday. It's not that I don't like my job, I love it, most of the time. I'm just really excited for my weekend. I have no plans. None. And that makes me really happy. Maybe I'll get some cleaning done, maybe I'll get more unpacking and organizing done. Or maybe I'll just hang out and do nothing. That sounds delightful!

I am a child of the 80s

What's with the red square?

Heavenly and I recently bought a new house, and in our new formal room there is a solitary red square/rectangle. Heavenly and I, along with Brandon our real estate agent had a grand time coming up with our own ideas why someone would paint a single solitary rectangle of red on the wall without finishing the entire wall.

Here are some of our top reasons:
1. Testing the color before they painted the upstairs bedroom
2. Leftover paint after painting the bedroom
3. Wanted to paint the whole wall, but decided they were too tired after painting an entire bedroom
4. Frame for a picture
5. They thought a red circle would be too weird

Here's the deal, it was fun coming up with our ideas, but I want to know what you think. Leave me a comment and let me know why you think the previous home owners would have painted a solitary square instead of finishing the entire wall.

Up to snuff...

I used the phrase "up to snuff" in my last post, does anyone know what this means or more to the point, where it came from? Maybe it's something like a group of guys passing around a can of snuff and they were "up to snuff" if it was their turn for the can. Who knows.

Missing another me

For some reason an apartment popped into my head. It's across the street from the Cathedral of the Madeline in SL, and it had no corners. Seriously, all the would-be corners where walls and ceilings met were completely rounded. It was a little creepy at night and quirky and beautiful in its own way. It belonged to my friend Annie. Whatever made me think of those rounded corners made me think of Annie and made me miss her fiercely.

I don't regret being married to Heavenly, I'll never regret that, how could I? I sometimes miss being single just because I miss my single friends. What I want is to have both worlds, to have my adorable, hard working, spoils me rotten husband and everything that he brings to my life.... and have it somehow fit nicely with my fun-loving, go anywhere, do anything, sometimes wild and crazy single friends.

I'm afraid I've been a bad friend to Annie and maybe that's why I miss her so badly. She used to call when she was in town, but I guess after so many excuses of why I couldn't spend time with her she decided to stop calling. So I miss the freedom that goes along with the single life, where I don't have to coordinate my schedule with anyone else's and I don't have to consider anyone else when I decide how I'll spend my time. I miss the freedom that I would never trade for the security and different freedom I have now.

I wish those two versons of me could co-exist. I wish I could find out how to be married and spend every waking moment with my husband because even that is never enough; and still have time for my friends and playing like I used to do.

Ode to a dark dispatch center

When I enter the light hurts my eyes,
I wait amid blinding fluorescence,
until midnight and salvation come,
and as the light lovers go I follow,
and flip the switch that with it brings,
a darkness that embraces me
like a familiar, welcome friend.

On the road of life...

take frequent bathroom breaks!