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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."
Thursday, October 30, 2008

Another edition of...

3:57 PM | Posted by Christine | Edit Post
"...What Have We Learned?"

  • Sunday night will always be Hot Single Guy Night at the grocery store.
  • I will never remember this before leaving the house for the grocery store on Sunday night.
  • Karma dictates that if you even think about calling someone stupid, you will immediately do something monstrously inane, thereby making the other person look like a frickin' genius.
  • Algebra really doesn't stick in your head for 20 years. You may have breezed through it in high school, gotten a solid A, and proclaimed yourself a mathematical hero. But you don't remember it as well as you thought you would. You will look like an idiot trying to help your kid simplify equations. Deal with it.
  • Being on a diet always sucks worse than you remember.
  • Seeing a gorgeous sunrise is always way cooler than you remember.
  • Making improvements to your home is a dangerous addiction. It's always just one more thing. Maybe two. Then I'll be done, I swear. Right now, I'm promising myself that after I get new carpeting and doors, I'll quit. Oh, except for the lighting and shelving in the kitchen. And maybe new seating at the dining table. Or an organizational system for the garage.
  • Children are meant to be seen, and not heard. Just like financial markets are meant to be boring. Both work well as concepts on paper, but neither actually applies in real life.
  • If you've been on a diet for weeks, and have been eating mostly healthy things the entire time, do NOT splurge on a Chipotle burrito (complete with hot salsa) and a bottle of beer. Just trust me on this one.
  • Twelve year-olds are a lot more fun than they're cracked up to be.
  • Presidential politics will, eventually, be the end of us all. We have two choices - 1.shorten the amount of time in which they are allowed to campaign, or 2. shoot ourselves in the head and get it over with. I don't care which it is at this point. Just make it stop.
  • Linens and Things is going out of business. I need to figure out how to get banned from their stores until they are completely gone, so as to avoid having to file for personal bankruptcy after snatching up every deal on every useful thing I find there on sale.
  • Pie is way underrated.
  • Sugar cookies are way underrated.
  • Ice cream is way, way underrated.
  • Did I mention I've been on a diet? I've lost nine pounds. Unfortunately, unless I start to really exercise a lot, it's just like the home improvements thing. Maybe if I just lose 20 more pounds, my tummy will be flat. Or maybe 50. Okay, 100, and that's my final offer!
  • I would kill you for a donut. Don't lull yourself into thinking I like your company enough that I wouldn't do it.
  • Okay, I love you. Now give me a frickin' donut.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Other countries put a limit on their campaigns. Two months. I'd LOVE to see that applied here, but people would bitch about free speech or some incorrect bullshit.

Also, mark my words: The next campaign begins on November 5. The losing party is going to do as much as they can to marginalize the other as possible, as quickly as possible. And this makes Broken Finger Jesus very, very angry.

Also, no donut. Treats a-plenty, but no donut.

October 30, 2008 at 10:28 PM
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