Unsorted Mail

I discovered a blog that is fantastic - Unsorted Mail. Here's my favorite one so far:


Dear Dignity,
Where were you last night? Missed having you around. Don't worry though, Common Sense wasn't able to make it either.
Love,Dee

It would only be funnier if I had written it.

Pirate name

Dread Pirate Bonnie

"Like the famous Dread Pirate Roberts, you have a keen head for how to make a profit. You can be a little bit unpredictable, but a pirate's life is far from full of certainties, so that fits in pretty well."

Speaking of pirates - has anyone discovered the Pirate language option on Facebook? It's fantastic. Check it out and then scrawl on my plank, matey!

Procrastination is a bad, bad thing

My amazingly relevant post just went MIA in cyberspace. Ugh.

The short story is that I missed a great show at the Ryman in Nashville last night. There were many INCREDIBLE guests - Allison Krauss, Steve Earle, Robert OMG Plant, Delbert McClinton, Sam Bush, Billy Bob Thornton... the list goes on.

The reason I did not attend? I had to write a paper for class tonight. FYI, said paper was written between noon and 2:30 pm today.

Lesson Number 1 - do not put off what you can do today because tomorrow there may be a really kick ass opportunity and you won't want to miss it.

No regrets

I have this quote posted in my cubicle at work:

Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Pray about the one's who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason... If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.

I think I may need to print it up in a bigger font, on a bright colored sheet of paper and put it in a very prominent place.

That said, I'm going to try to focus on the positive for a little while:

5 things that make me happy:

1. Friends - they check in on me, make me laugh, help me get motivated to study, and care about me in many ways.
2. Being in grad school - maybe not the work but the fact that I'm learning a great deal and on my way to a better career.
3. Canada Dry Ginger Ale - It is the ONLY brand of Ginger Ale!! And it reminds me of my grandmother's house.
4. Memories - I have a lot of good one's from the past two years with TH. We really did some great things together and had a lot of fun.
5. Possibilities - The future is wide open and I need to keep reminding myself of that.

Oh, there's a big football game this weekend and I have divided loyalties. I'll be stressed out for the whole game!!

I don't even know what to say

I find myself wanting to say so much, but not able to articulate anything. A door is closing and I've still got one foot in there trying to keep it open. I'm having a really hard time on the whole moving forward thing and am way too focused on what I should have done differently. When can you look at a relationship and see it in its entirety - the good and the bad - and know that you're in a better place because of and in spite of it?

Be careful what you wish for

Sometimes you get the change you wish for. And then you realize that you're not so sure it's really what you wanted. Yes, it may be what you need in the long run, but definitely not what you wanted. Then you second guess everything you've done, you wonder if the change really is for the best, and you mourn the loss of something that wasn't perfect, but had some pretty good moments. It's like a death of sorts and the grieving sucks.

A Season of Change

They always say time changes things,

but you actually have to change them yourself.

- Andy Warhol

picture stolen from here

Everyone is talking about change in a global sense - the upcoming election, the war in Iraq, the economy. I'm talking about personal change. As in it's time for me to make some changes in my life. Time to stop being afraid of the unknown. Time to stop being afraid even of the known. Time to do something instead of waiting for something to happen. Time to be accountable. Time to not look for the easy way out. Time to realize there is no ledger system in life. The good doesn't always outweigh the bad. But that doesn't mean that you give up on the good. You just work harder for it.

Real Simple is talking about making changes too.