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Vintage Quotes circa June 9, 2006

I found this post hanging out in my drafts folder, and it brought me racing back to the summer of 2006. That was a good year. [reminiscent sigh]

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"ROFL, I totally love how you make it sound like it's the bug's fault. Do you realize how FAST that bug would have to be traveling to be vindictively CHASING the motorcycle, PASSING the motorcycle, and then FLINGING itself at Ron?" - Me

"Welcome to Waffle Hou... I mean, Cold Stone!" - random guy working at Cold Stone

"You have verrrrrry slow thumbs." - Tony

"If we can put a man on the moon, we can put a man on you." - Jason

"It's like a... like a... FLOCKING OF THE GENIUSES!!!!! Or something. That would be a cool band name." - Me

"I don't speak Knittish." - Bekah

"Snot is gross." - Melysa

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*nods sagely* Yes indeed, Melysa of 2006. Yes. Indeed.

Friday Felicities

Welcome to Friday Felicities, a meme created by Nattie - now a resident of heaven! This meme is all about creating a list of things that make you happy, because Nattie knew that when you concentrate on your blessings - your sorrows are not as overwhelming.

• NEW JOB!! I start on Monday, and I was really anxious about it at first - but I went to the new building to see my work space, and my new supervisor gave me a big hug and expressed several times how HAPPY she was to have me there!!!! I'm really excited to start the new venture. I'm sad to leave my co-workers, but it was just time..........
• NEW CAMERA FLASH!! I got an SB-600, and seriously I am peeing my pants happy about this thing. It came with its own manual the size of my CAMERA manual - so it's fancy, with lots of bells and whistles... but if I'm pursuing this photography thing professionally, it's definitely a great investment for my business.
• NEW DOG!! My Mom and Sisters adopted a hound-mix dog about 10 months ago.... she's a GREAT dog, but they have such limited space where they are. I have been thinking and praying about getting a dog recently - and the timing just seems right. Izzie is already house trained, and will be a good companion for me. She's going to come and stay on a 30 day trial basis to see how we'll do, and I'm excited!!!! She'll be here this weekend.....
• NEW TEETH!! I have written about this in other places, posted pictures, etc... but I didn't blog about it. Shocking, right? Well - I got my braces taken off!! It's still such a shock to me to look in the mirror and see sparkling white STRAIGHT teeth. SUCH a blessing. I was really worried that when the braces came off - I would have chipped, yellow teeth... but they came through just fine. With it... I've got a whole new confidence.
• NEW FOOD!! I haven't shared this publicly or talked about it much at all - but I have completely overhauled my way of eating. Food is entirely different to me now, and my body is already acclimating to the new diet. I'm on Phase 1 1/2 of South Beach. I say that, because I'm about 90% Phase 1, but I have incorporated some Phase 2 foods as well. I've been on the plan for about 6 weeks, and have lost 17 lbs so far. But truly - the BEST THING IN THE WORLD is how much BETTER I feel. Physically and emotionally - I just feel FREE.
• NEW HOUSE!! Officially moved into the new house on August 1st, and it's so wonderful. I mean, sure it has its quirks (my room only has ONE a/c vent - so it's stifling hot) - but it has been such a blessing. We needed room to spread out and have our own space, and this house provides that. I'll post pictures once we get all settled in.
• NEW SEASON!! It is almost autumn..... I can feeeeeeeeel it. Even though the air is still warm, it really WANTS to be crisp and cool. It told me so.
• NEW INSPIRATION!! I'll be blogging more. Yeah yeah - I know. You've heard THAT before. The thing is? I HAVE been blogging - behind the scenes. I haven't made anything public, though. I think I just got way too hung up on what people might think about what I had to say. Which is so stupid - because, isn't that kinda..... the point??? To get people thinking about what you have to say?? Whether it's good or bad - whether provoking meaningful introspection, or accidental pissiness - at least it would be a catalyst for thought. Right? *shrugs* So.... beware.
• NEW WEEKEND!! We've never had a weekend on August 15th, 2008. It's brand new - still has the cellophane on it. Let's tear it up!

Grief.

Sitting in a graveyard. We are blocked in. Believe me: the irony is not lost.

When sushi goes bad.

I had a little soy mishap over lunch today. I have smelled of wasabi and high sodium concentrate all afternoon. And i cant say that i haven't somewhat enjoyed it.

Happy Full Moon-Eve

I seriously think the gravitational pull of the impending full moon has sucked every sane fiber out of my brain, through my nose, and sprayed it onto the mirror in which I find myself gazing with an increasingly critical and unforgiving eye. I had a piercing revelation today, and it has rocked me to my core. I feel shaken. Alone. Like the child who has slept under the delusion that her blanket will keep her safe from harm, my soul is kept no more safe by my morbid miscalculation of the level of disdain that people feel when they look at me.

People hate what they fear and judge what they don't understand. But the thing is.... I'm the chief among them. I am the bully in my head.

Dropping a Load

... off of my brain, that is.

This is going to be one of those posts in which I attempt to purge all mental thought without the encumbrances of punctuation or spell check wait I wonder if I spelled that right well not really so much wonder as not care but going forward I would like to say that this has been one mighty mighty heavy week I mean you know it's not a good start to the week when you have to begin it in the wee morning hours of Sunday by apologizing to your friend via email for being such a jerk but you know it all came out okay in the end I just think that we needed some time to breathe but we barely caught our breath before the next wave of INSANITY hit which is what REALLY sucks about being a Mercy you know that not only do you feel your own stuff but that ability to experience some of what the other person is going through too which would be fine if I did the appropriate thing with those feelings like prayerfully and thoughtfully support the other person but all in all I think that I do well most days just to get out of bed and I know that sounds selfish because it is but at least I recognize fault when I see it and am not out to justify my behavior by means of manipulating scripture to sleep better at night man oh man I can't believe it's Friday again I guess that really means I need to like stop avoiding stuff and do it but it's hard to do when every five seconds I'm popping myself in the face with stupid rubber bands that are SUPPOSED to go on my braces and it makes me wonder what it's really accomplishing or am I yet again blindly trusting the  leading of others without merit or cause which leads me to believe that I absolutely one THOUSAND percent believe it is very very very very good that I have remained single for so long although to say Hi I'm twenty-seven years old is very different than seeing the number 27 in the age field I mean it's just so dangerously close to 30 and sad but no offense if you are 30 because I think 30 is a slammin' age as a matter of fact one that I can't wait to reach myself but for today I'm just 27 sittin on the bed now with two minutes into the 30th of May two-thousand and eight and evidently it's the only one we get so let's make the most of it shall we?

Ah, life.

With the strong history of skin cancer that runs in my family, I have become increasingly cognoscente of the state of MY epidermis. Two weeks ago (as many of you who have not been living under a rock already know) I had a very enjoyable holiday on the North Carolina coast. As a result - my surf and turf got a little crispy in the blazing almost-summer sun. So, THIS week I have slathered smothered and covered my skin in aloe and lotions - to prevent the inevitable peeling process that typically begins after you have scorched the first layer of skin.

Today I was examining my chest, and noticed some brownish spots. For a brief moment I panicked. Freckles? Sun spots? Weird melanoma moles? Upon further inspection - the spots began to flake away as I rubbed them. They were merely wee spots of dried-foam from my morning Cafe' Breve.

Heh.

Ohhhh, sure. There are more important things I could have written about. Like our escapades at the beach, or the fact that my baby sister graduated high school, or that I've had to share my birthday month with no less than 3 other greedy Tauruses, or that I got to hang out with all the cool kids last night at a minor league baseball game, or that my new umbrella is the COOLEST EVER, or......

Well the point is - I didn't. I instead chose to write about dried-foam-on-skin. Why? Because strangely amusing, and sticky though it may be - it's quintessential me. And I feel like I walk around most days barely taking notice of the interesting minutia - so, I share what I can here. The other stuff sits in my dusty drafts folder, waiting for its turn to be made public.

It's like a bloody Blogging Triage.