"The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Monday, February 26, 2007

Oscar Party!

Last night was a blast!!!
Thanks to everyone that came!!!







Friday, February 23, 2007

Bono: God Part II

Don’t believe the devil
I don’t believe his book
But the truth is not the same
Without the lies he made up

Don’t believe in excess
Success is to give
Don’t believe in riches
But you should see where I live
I…I believe in love

Don’t believe in forced entry
Don’t believe in rape
But every time she passes by
Wild thoughts escape
I don’t believe in death row
Skid row or the gangs
Don’t believe in the Uzi
It just went off in my hand
I…I believe in love

Don’t believe in cocaine
Got a speed-ball in my head
I could cut and crack you open
Do you hear what I said
Don’t believe them when they tell me
There ain’t no cure
The rich stay healthy
The sick stay poor
I…I believe in love

Don’t believe in Goldman
His type like a curse
Instant karma’s going to get him
If I don’t get him first
Don’t believe in rock ‘n’ roll
Can really change the world
As it spins in revolution
It spirals and turns
I…I believe in love

Don’t believe in the 60’s
The golden age of pop
You glorify the past
When the future dries up
Heard a singer on the radio late last night
He says he’s gonna kick the darkness
’til it bleeds daylight
I…I believe in love

I feel like I’m falling
Like I’m spinning on a wheel
It always stops beside of me
With a presence I can feel
I…I believe in love

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Thursday, February 15, 2007

congrats!!!


***a HUGE congrats is in order for my great friends Josh and Kamryn on getting engaged last night!!!
good luck to you guys! love ya~!

hummmm......

eff valentine's day.

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY EVERYBODY!!!!

low maintanance

i am one of the most low-maintanance people ever.


i don't wear makeup too often. i don't shave my legs too often. my hair is straight enough that i don't have to do anything to it ever. i don't love buying clothes. pretty much i don't care what people think i look like.


the thing is, i am horrible at waking up early. so my project for the last three days has been trying to streamline my morning routine so i can look presentable in ten minutes flat.


i have my shower routine down to a little more than 5 minutes. i get in, wash my hair, rinse, put conditioner in, soap up and rinse the conditioner out of my hair, wash my face real fast, and get the heck out. i comb my hair enough so is not all knotted up, and brush my teeth. the end.


i want to get 12 plain tshirts in 12 different colors. then get a pair of shoes i won't have to wear socks with. i have one pair of jeans that i love to wear so i can start wearing the same jeans everyday, and wear a different tshirt and my sockless shoes. i won't have to take time to figure out what to wear. i won't have to find a pair of socks, or smell a bunch of socks to pick out a clean pair. i will never ever have to think about clothes again.


i am the champion. i am super-efficient. i am a getting-ready machine. all you suckers, taking 20 minutes to get ready, putting gel or some crap in you hair. YOU ARE SUCKERS. THAT IS TIME YOU WILL NEVER GET BACK. if you shave ten minutes off your getting ready thing, at the end of the month you will have THREE HUNDRED MINUTES. you could knit a scarf or paint a picture. you could exercise for ten minutes every day instead of picking some zit or putting lipstick on (which nobody notices anyway), and that would give you YEARS more time, since you won't die when you're 58.


me, i am just going to use that time to sleep an extra 15 minutes.

Monday, February 12, 2007

a billion dollars

i just saw an advertisement for this new contest pepsi is having. its one of those look-under-the-cap things, only if you win, you get to go on this game show and compete to win a billion dollars.


isn't a billion like a thousand million? jeez, louise.


anyway, i drink more soda than anyone i know, and a lot of people have told me i drink more soda than anyone they know, so i think the odds are in my favor.


trampoline, gold teeth, and devo hat, here i come.

Thursday, February 08, 2007

cable TV

when i lived in my first apartment and was really really poor, i did not have cable.


i don't really watch tv that much. i'll watch the simpsons once in awhile, but usually it doesn't occur to me to turn it on.


so a year or so later, i called some place to get DSL, and they had this deal where i could get DSL and cable for some absurdly low price. like, i would be stupid to not spring for the cable. so i got that shizzle hooked up, and in the first couple days i think i watched about a gazillion hours of tv!


this is what i learned:


1. I WILL NEVER BE AS COOL AS MISSY ELLIOT. she is freaking cool as hell. i am usually not all about choreography in videos, but i could watch her dance around all day. and i like her fuzzy hats. i need to get one of those.


2. IT IS QUITE POSSIBLE TO WATCH LAW AND ORDER ALL DAY LONG. when you don't have cable you can only watch it 3 times a week, but when you do have cable, you can watch it more times than that in ONE DAY.


3. FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS IS ON EVERY WEEK NIGHT. funniest home videos is one of my favorite shows. back in the day it was on the WB or some other second-rate tv channel, and as soon as i figured out when it was on exactly, they cancelled it. then i went without for a very long time. now i can watch it at 11:30 every night.


4. IF YOU ARE SUPER-LUCKY, MTV2 WILL PLAY AN HOUR-LONG BLOCK OF GRUNGE ROCK VIDEOS. you will think it is real awesome for a second, then they will just play all the videos from the singles soundtrack, and not play any dinosaur jr or sonic youth or breeders or anything. then you will change the channel.


5. MISSY ELLIOT IS STILL REALLY AWESOME. grr. i am telling you. cool as hell. in a perfect world, i would have a fuzzy hat and dance around. either that or i would be kim deal.


thank you

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

grrrrrr....

i can't think of a darn thing to blog about. i've been sitting in front of my computer for about 2 hours now.

i was thinking that i wanted to blog about how my boyfriend josh thinks that i'm in "my own little world" all the time. (as he puts it)
i would tell some cute funny little story about it. but the truth is...he's right.
there's nothing funny or cute to say, except that i AM in my own world.
it's awesome!!
at any given time if you were to ask me what i was thinking about, if i told you you'd probably think i was crazy because it is usually so off the wall!

josh likes to laugh at me because i could sit in a room and entertain myself. i crack myself up laughing all the time!! i love it! it's so true and weird to hear the truth about how i REALLY AM coming out of someone's mouth for everyone to hear.
there's something different when it's said out loud.

anyways......back to "my world".......

Saturday, February 03, 2007

water, trail mix, pen

I've often wondered what I'd do if I were faced with an animal attack on myself or a loved one--or total stranger. I'm still not sure. However, it appears that this 65-year-old woman knew what to do while when her husband was ambushed by a lion while the couple hiked in a northern California park last week.

As I started reading about the attack I wondered how this granny chased off the cat. With the machine gun she had nestled next to her Patagonia fanny pack? No, a pen. She used a pen to save her spouse. Apparently, she pulled a pen from her husband's pocket (at his request while being attacked) and gouged out the animal's eye. I've been wondering how on earth did she could have mustered the courage to make it happen. A pen! She also grabbed a large log and clubbed the cat in the nose until it backed away. I'm absolutely blown away by her bravery.

So this brought me to some pondering about whether or not I'd respond so well to an attack as such on my own partner. One seriously has to get it together, dig in and go on the offense. I'm still marveled that she got as close as the eye--let alone the head or body. Do you need to have taken a self-defense class to have your brain and body in that place? Do you have to read "The Power of Now" or is it pure love that makes us to apt to save our beloved during these frightful moments?

Apparently, it's just teamwork, according to a statement she gave to a reporter:


"We fought harder than we ever have to save his life, and we fought
together," she said.


The collective. The we. The together. That's the answer. I can almost believe it. Pens are useful though, I suppose.

Happy almost Valentine's Day.

now that's some good breakfast!