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Living life one dream at a time.

Words of the Wise

"What after all is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean."
-Christopher Fry, The Lady's not for Burning

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, 'I'll try again tomorrow.'"
-Mary Anne Radmacher

"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
-Erica Jong

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the World. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won’t feel unsure around you...We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us; It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. As we let our own Light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
-Nelson Mandella, 1994 Inaugural Speech

"Until this moment I had believed forgiveness to be a special virtue, a beneficence God expected of good people. But it wasn't that at all. Forgiveness was an instinct, a desperate impulse to stay connected to the people you needed, no matter what their betrayals."
-Monica Wood, My Only Story

"If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days."
-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

"The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them—words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried when you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for the want of a teller but for the want of an understanding ear."
-Stephen King

"Have you even been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like 'maybe we should just be friends' or 'how very perceptive' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love."
-Neil Gaiman, Sandman: The Kindly Ones

"Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine which, being balanced people, they cannot supply."
-Sylvia Ashton-Warner

"What I need is someone who will make me do what I can."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson


"You know, when you crawl that far down into the abyss, you really shouldn't bring stuff back up with you. Some things are meant to live in the dark. Your blog is like one of those fish with no eyes. Only slightly more disturbing."
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Oh, I'm funny, Jerry!!

8:39 PM | Posted by Christine | Edit Post
I was politely informed by ms peas this morning that my blog has gotten a bit too dark. I am, therefore, bound to try to be funny (I think).

We will, therefore, pull out the great random conversations of the week.

A and I, hanging out tonight...

A- "Man, that was awesome crack!" (after cracking his back while sitting on the couch)
Me- "And here I thought I could put off rehab for at least another five years."
A - "Hey, I can quit any time."

Text message conversation with M this morning (at, um, 6:14 am, kinda)...

Me- I really don't get you morning people. At all. Ever. The end.
M (7:49 am)- very nice...a text from you complaining about 'early birds' that actually woke me up!
Me- Wow, I really am a bitch.

an IM conversation with peas after work yesterday...

Me- "Just got home from Portillo's...yum!! Also got my new glasses. Yay!"
peas- "WHAT?? PORTILLOS???? YOU SKANK BITCH FROM HELL"
peas- "I mean hi, how are you?"
A (enters room, reads screen) - "Man, that woman is funny. And yet so mean. It's like chocolate and peanut butter, they go together perfectly!"

at work this afternoon...

D- "Where have you been lately?"
Me- "Out. Client meetings constantly. I'm exhausted."
D- "Well, maybe if you weren't sleeping with all of them, you'd have more energy."
F- "Right. So then she could sleep with us, too!"
Me- "And this, my friends, is why I still come here every day."
F- "Hey, remember the first rule of office flirting. It's only sexual harassment if you don't enjoy it."
Me- "If you leave a puddle, I'm leaving NOW."
D- "Damn it man, don't ruin it for the rest of us!"
Me- "I swear, this is like flirt-fight club. Without the fun parts."

at a client meeting this morning...

Client- "C, I meant to ask you. Do I need to do that thing we talked about?"
Me- "Hm. You mean the thing, at the place, with the people and the stuff?"
Client- "Um, yes. I suppose so."
Me- "No, I took care of it. You're all set."
Client- "That's good, because my brain just leaked out of my ear."
Me- "Yeah, I tend to have that effect on people."
Client- "God help the person who speaks your language, my dear."
Me- "No, God prefers to stay out of it."
Client- "Good plan. Want a cookie?"

Life is too short. Remember to stop and appreciate the funny :)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

And you told me last night you couldn't think of anything amusing to blog about. Liar.

January 16, 2008 at 5:47 AM
Wes said...

I'm both sad and glad that blogs were not around during our big hanging-out days in the late '80s.

Sad because those wonderfully zany conversations we had are lost and no one else will ever get to experience them.

Glad because that means all the evidence is gone. ("Senator Flinn, in 1989 you said...")

WF

January 16, 2008 at 2:56 PM
Christine said...

Oh, Wes. I still have pictures.

You're never getting elected.

:)

January 16, 2008 at 8:14 PM
Christine said...

I think I left some of my brain behind last time I was there..

January 18, 2008 at 6:27 PM
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