Have You Heard about This?
Edward to Drop Out of Race
I am utterly stunned about this, though I guess I cannot be surprised. The superstars are getting the money, and realistically, who can outdo Oprah? What is the lesson that we've learned today, boys and girls? It might be who you know more than what you know because who you know knows what you know.I patented that. Okay, okay. I copyrighted it. I'm just saying that you better quote me when you tell someone else!
(And that might have been the shortest post I have on my blog, so you better show me some love! You know how much I can talk!)
Labels: Humor, It Really Happened, Thoughts
Update on My Birthday
So, I was sitting around moping, and the girl who asked me to do all of that work came and asked me if i wanted to go to WalMart. Oh yeah. That is the perfect place to go to end my birthday. I decided to turn my frown upside down. I was going to take my camera to make an event of my going to WalMart for my birthday.
We go to our friend's car and an old friend walks by. He gives me a birthday hug and tells me that he's going to a club with another friend of ours. At that moment, I was torn. I knew the girlfriend wanted to boost my spirits, but I think the guy friend stood there for a moment as a subtle invitation...come on, Gina, it'll be fun. On top of that, you don't have to look at the blue-vested people and try to feel some modicum of joy...
I looked back and forth between him and the car. I made my move. I looked at the girlfriends in the car and said, "I'm going with him." Now there's more to the story, but I have to do some work before class. Safe to say that I had fun, though!
Labels: Humor, It Really Happened
Happy Birthday to Me. Yuck.
Well, guess what the heck I've done for my 42nd birthday. Let's just say that I'm sad. Instead of going out and having some fun with some people that I may never see again, much less see next year, and instead of going to work for some extra chump change, I did someone a favor. Someone who I know beyond a shadow of a doubt would not do the same for me. Why? (Mind you, I really want to curse and kick something--maybe I'll kick my teddy bear--this is a family blog, so no cursing. Asterisks are another story all together...) I guess the best answer would be because I am a sucker. A doggone sucker.
I woke up this morning and the first thought that came to my mind is, "I hate my life." I decided to swat that sucker right out of my head. I went to work, decided to go to lunch where someone sang "happy birthday" to me, went back to work. I thought I was going to do something fun, when not only did I discover that I that I was not going to have fun, I was also going to be politely removed from the place I went to to have some fun. I can't explain it.
In the meantime, I missed going to a party for not just me, but for three of us who has a birthday today. So I came back to campus to pick up a friend. She didn't tell me that she was going with someone else. Now here's the kicker. I go to someone else's room, and they need me to write something for them. As someone else. What do I do? Write the letter. Took me 90 minutes to make the letter look great. What does she ask me to do? "Gina, I will pay you five dollars." Uh oh. In the year and a half that I've known this woman, I've seen her pull out money ONCE. "Ten dollars." Yeah, right. What do you want... "Would you write my letter for me?" I told her that it was enough to write a letter as one person, now you want me to write a letter for two? I added that I would clean up the letter after she wrote it. "I can't put down what I want to write in my head." Uh huh. Neither can I.
I came to my room, burst into tears because it's my 42nd birthday and not one single present from anybody. I guess I should count one present: God gave me this day.
That was too dad gum sappy. SCREAMING!!!!!
Labels: It Really Happened, Screaming, The Negatives, Thoughts
Ten Things This Tuesday
So, two days away from my 24th birthday...okay, okay! So what if the numbers are backwards! I only look a little older than that! Mwahahahahahahahaha! So what will my TTTT be about? Hmmm... I got it!
Ten things I'm thinking about now that I can no longer ignore that I'm actually a forty-something cougar without the cougar body.
1. Eight years until fifty.
2. Eighteen years from sixty.
3. Twenty-one years from the age my mama passed away.
4. I'm going to have a Bachelor's degree in 115 days.
5. Seventeen Saturdays from graduation.
6. Seventeen Mondays from being out of school and unemployed if I don't get a gig shaking and baking!
7. Oh my good googly woogly! Seventeen Saturdays! That's seventeen Thursdays! One hundred fifteen tomorrows!
8. Why is my heart racing?
9. Because I'm going to be sick.
10. Nope! Because I'm going to get my dream in 115 days!
Labels: Calls for Response, Feel Goods, It Really Happened, Ten Things This Tuesday, Thoughts
Back to School Again
Well, I am back at school. I'm tired already. How did that happen? And I want to go to sleep right now, but if I do that, then I will be so far behind in my work that it'll make me want to cry.
I was in a car accident. Stupid idiot ran into me when he just backed up into my car. I'm so freaking passive. When he said that he had no insurance, I felt the minuscule dent and scratch that is on there was so irrelevant, I let him go. Then I got stiff as heck. I bought some Percogesic and Tylenol. When I got home, I drugged myself, and it felt so good, that I've been taking two of them every night since. Too bad that I took two last night at one in the morning.
I set my clock at six. I got out of bed at six. I turned off the alarm at six. I got back to bed at six. I got back up. And I thought I could do it, but I ended up crashing in my last class between 2:45 and 4.
I gotta tell you what happened to me when I woke up and started to unpack my car.
Labels: Humor, It Really Happened
Ten Things This Tuesday
Yeah, so what! I pulled a cheapie on you! Like the four of you care. Ha! Take that! And Happy Freaking New Year to You!
Ten quotes that have nothing in common:
1. "What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day."- Phyllis Diller
2. "There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew."- Marshall McLuhan
3. "Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable."- Lord Chesterfield
4. "Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing."- Robert Benchley
5. "Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve."- Joseph Joubert
6. "A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B."- Fats Domino
7. "No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck."- Frederick Douglass
8. "The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."- Oscar Wilde
9. "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."- George Bernard Shaw
10. "My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head."Rita Rudner
Labels: Ten Things This Tuesday
Well, I Wanted to Write Something
I thought I wanted to write a "Much - Not So Much" post, but I found this quote and got inspired.
I do this sometimes, try to pay off bills and neglecting things I really want. Heck, I can't remember the last time I bought some clothing that I could wear to church. I won't even tell you how many pairs of shoes I have. Let's put it this way: I am the one person whose shoe collection you can browse in 17 seconds. Probably less.
Oh, wait! I knew it was something I wanted to tell you--all five of you. (I bet you thought I didn't include myself in those five people, huh. Well, I have to type it, so I have to read it. Hee hee!) I got a boost of confidence New Year's Eve! My male cousin told me at the gathering his girlfriend had at her house that I still "got it, and you know you got it. Look at these men trying to get your attention!"
I shook my head. I'll have to put up a pic with what I did on Christmas break. Yup, after three weeks of stressing and barely putting my own fingers much less a comb through my hair, I combed it and then some. I look gorgeous.
Not that I'm saying that, mind you.
I swear, that's what I've been told! "Gina, dahlingk, you look absolutely gorgeous!" Hopefully, I will successfully drive someone crazy with--woops, almost forgot, this is a family blog. I can't say anymore than that (but you know what I mean).
I took a picture of myself on my phone (I got it cheap and probably won't buy another one until this one falls apart or when I get a job). I looked at it, and darn it! I have to agree with these people! Dare I say I was surprised! I'm strikingly adorable!
I'm getting long-winded. I haven't forgot about the thing that I'm going to start doing on here. Keep looking for it, I'll start next week.
Labels: Feel Goods, Humor, It Really Happened, Thoughts
I Had an Epiphany
"Every Communist must grasp the truth: 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun'." - Mao Tse-Tung
So, this is what I did tonight. I procrastinated by calling a few people. They must have seen my number on the Caller ID and decided to not pick up. You're probably laughing, but with my St. Louis area code, it threw off the last person I called. After confirming that I was speaking with her, she said, "What are you doing in St. Louis?" I told her that I had always had this phone number. Can you believe she said (like so many other people after I don't talk to them in a while) that she did not know where I was. Now I know that she knew. Then she said that my cousin had called and that she called. I told her that I spoke with my cousin. Would you believe it? I swear I'm going to write this in a book whenever I do, definitely in a short story. This woman said that the cousin told her that she hadn't heard from me.
"Well, I guess I'm lying." Geez!
"No, no. I didn't say that you were lying. I'm just telling you what she said. Don't put words in my mouth." Come on. I told her that I did talk to her, and she so much as said that I didn't because she said that I didn't. Good grief.
Digressing.
I got off the phone, read this book (Oh, if any of the five of you who are reading this happens to want to read a book on Black history, and how some of the mentality of white racists came about, you have got to pick up White over Black: American Attitudes of the Negro from 1550-1812. Very interesting book) that I am having in a class of mine next semester for nearly 90 minutes. I had to go to the bathroom (yup, don't we all do that? Saying that doesn't make me a bad person, does it?), picked up this book called The Nature of Literature: Writing on Literary Topics when it hit me.
Yup. this is the epiphany.
I could go to my school for one more year to get my teaching license, teach while I go to grad school to get my master's in Library Science, and become a librarian as I go to school for English or Creative Writing! Is that not a serious plan or what???? I like it. I figured that I would stop studying--stop everything--and write this down: my master plan. It sounds pretty solid to me. What do you think? Be honest with me. Inquiring minds want to know. Okay, not inquiring minds, just my mind.
Labels: Calls for Response, It Really Happened, Thoughts
Ten Things This Tuesday
So what if it's freaking New Year's Day. I was writing about something else, and thought, well shucks, I should do a Ten Things This Tuesday! The people in my head agreed with me. Here goes...
Ten things I will not resolve to do for 2008:
1. Vote for George Bush. Never did. Not gonna start now.
2. Gain weight. I might end up holding myself to that one. Egad.
3. Lose weight. No sense in lying to myself either.
4. Stop smoking. Never started.
5. Stop drinking. I might if we happen to have Prohibition again. I'm the type that always gets caught doing wrong.
6. Get a passport. Y'all are going to have to help me on this. Man, spending $100 on a passport just seems wrong. I'm going to try, but not going to bet the farm on that one.
7. Get published. I've got to learn how first. It seems that there is a protocol to it, and you guys know how confident I am about my writing. Sheesh. I gotta get over that.
8. Become more self-confident. Remind me to tell you what happened to me New Year's Eve. It was so inspirational, and I'm feeling pretty good about myself because of it.
9. Not think of more t-shirt slogans. Thought of one yesterday: "I can lose weight. You can't lose ugly."
10. Stop wishing for horrible things to happen to George Bush. I blame it on the people in my head. I swear I don't think it all by myself. Admit it: you're thinking what I'm thinking. I'm not going to put it on here because I don't want anyone hunting me down as the person who thought it was about time for an assassination attempt.
I didn't say that.
Labels: Ten Things This Tuesday
Interesting...
I'm not the type to go to reading horoscopes until around my birthday. For some reason, I get hung up on seeing what the rest of the year is going to hold for me. So I go to Daily OM, clicked a couple of times, and I got this message. The cool thing about horoscopes is that you can read them all and you will eventually find some good advice. It's how I see horoscopes--12-part advice columns! Anyway, Maybe you will find this a good piece of advice. I do have a lot of things going on in my head, and I'm trying to decide which way to go. If it works for you, good. If not, well, it's only advice after all. Enjoy!
Energy Like A Laser
Capricorn Daily Horoscope
You could enjoy a sense of optimism and feel upbeat about your activities today. Your outlook might also be very positive as you look to the future with excitement and eagerness about the possibilities that exist for you. Whether you are considering new hobbies and creative pursuits or you are making plans for beginning a new career, you could use the power of focus to be more decisive with your actions. Your positive attitude will help you see that there are many options out there for you to pursue. Focusing on one opportunity at a time could help you make the most of every opportunity that will benefit you. You might want to take time to consider your desired outcome before taking any action today, so you can know which steps to focus on first.
Focusing our energy in specific ways gives us the power and insight to create the exact circumstances we desire in any area of our lives. We often allow our excitement to carry us forward, and we end up acting hastily without considering the consequences. While spontaneity does have its rewards, we can increase the effectiveness of our actions by first mentally and verbally specifying the outcome we wish to create. We then have a clearer idea of which actions we need to perform in order to bring what we want about, and we can then focus our energy in specific ways. Combine the power of focus with your optimistic mind-set today, and you will be infusing your efforts with the power of your intentions.
Labels: Daily OM, Feel Goods