TAG - You're it!

Actually, I'm it.
I got tagged and now I must confess 16 secrets that people may not know about me. Are you ready?

1) I am envious of people who rarely use their cell phones.
2) I want to learn guitar. And then I want to be able to sing whilst playing the guitar.
3) I love the word "whilst" (don't use it too much around me or it will lose it's flare)
4) When I feel really down, I do something ridiculous to make myself laugh out of pure absurdity.
5) I don't like eating in the dark.
6) I randomly get Spice Girls stuck in my head. It's REALLY random!
7) My toes curl when I'm excited or happy!
8) I don't like chocolate frosting.
9)I have a scar on the tip of my second toe on my right foot. Sometimes it hurts.
10) I like shaving my legs. . That's about it though! And I could do without having to shave my knees. I always seem to miss hairs on my knees.
11) I LOVE playing dress up (shocking, I know)
12) Sometimes I wish I were in the 50's. I feel my desires would be more socially acceptable. . and would feel more realistic.
13) When I was little, I wanted glasses and braces. . . I got both.
14) I used to have a tooth in the roof of my mouth. I would get sandwiches with mayonnaise or peanut butter, and jolly ranchers stuck between that tooth and the back of my upper teeth.
15) I don't like yogurt with chunks, but I do my milkshakes (so long as it's not fruit. It's the soggy fruit I can't handle. BLECH!!)
16) Sometimes I . . .
Hey - I can't tell you all my secrets!

New Year!

As the year rounds off and the new year fastly approaches, I am finding myself surprisingly excited. I don't need to fully recap 2008, but it was the kind of a year that makes me throw out my calendar in November. I did a lot of growing this last year and I know there is more to come, but now that I got the ball rollin' and the bulk out of the way I think the rest is just ironing out the wrinkles.

I have a few personal goals but will keep them to myself as I feel it may be easier to keep them and less dissapointing should I not fully succeed.

As was the case for this last year, I may be distant here and there but please bare with me as I learn to iron out the wrinkles of life!

I have high hopes and a good feeling about this next year and can't wait to see what it brings!!

Take with salt

A few years back I wrote a few poems about people I knew. I really only wrote about four of them, but I just found two:

My hands are mostly germy
My nails are hardly there.
I should take a shower
And maybe wash my hair.

My face could use a washin'
Perhaps a little shave.
I'm sure by now you're thinking
I just crawled out a cave.

My arms could use a work out
Perhaps deoderant.
I didn't know that moldy shoe
Was not the hot new scent.

My hair could use a brushin'.
My breath smells like old clam.
Hello, it's nice to meet you.
My name is Pee Hand Sam.

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You hair is too frizzy
Your nose full of snot.
Tall, blonde and blue eyed
is something you're not.

Your frame is so short;
A ridiculous height.
You skin; pre-baked pastry
Is unnaturally white.

You pierce your whole body
To look just like swiss cheese.
When ever you shave
You leave hair on your knees.

Your lips are shaped funny.
Your hands are too dry.
At the drop of a hat
WATCH OUT!!!!! She might cry!!

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Weren't those lovely?

It's Finally Here!!

It's Finally CHRISTMAS!!!!!

Of course, it's been Christmas for awhile now, but some of you don't recognize Thanksgiving and sometimes Halloween as Christmas sublet holidays . But now Thanksgiving has come and gone. It is now December. It is FINALLY Christmas! So whip out that holiday spirit and spread that Christmas cheer!

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

I'm not really sure what got me thinking about this, but I'm fairly certain it came while I was at church. I got to thinking about peoples actions. Their words. Their justifications. I got to wondering if people would act the same if what we did, was viewable not only to us and our close circle of those we surround ourselves with; but what if what we did suddenly became something for all to see.
What if one Sunday morning you pour your cup of coffee. You sit down in your oversized chair and grab the paper.
You begin to flip through: Sports. No thanks. Weather. Rainy. Obituaries. Engagments. Anniversaries. Affairs. Murderers. Rapists. Liars. Manipulators.

What if you were flipping through and you saw what you thought was your well hidden secret, right there in print. Page 34D of your local newspaper.

Would you find yourself in shock? In regret? Would you feel ashamed? Would you rush to call the paper to report how you are justified?
Would you still feel justified? Would a new perspective have been put on things? - Maybe you did whatever you did just for some cheap thrills. Maybe your mission wasn't yet accomplished and now that you see your plan in print, you are awakened and free to find a better use of your time with little repercussion.

It is easy to think that if my actions and words were put on a more public display I would be a little more cautious as to my behavior. Then I hear that little voice inside me. Reminding me that they are. All we do is viewable.We are always being watched (by God.)
Perhaps it would be easier to keep ourselves in check if we knew that if we slipped, we'd run the risk of being tomorrows reading material for some one flipping through the paper while they drink their morning coffee.

But maybe, as you flipped through your own paper and saw a part of your life before your eyes, you didn't feel anything. Maybe you just sipped your coffee and continued on to the Sunday comics.

Something a little special! ;)

I love dancing. I can't say I am good at it, but I love doing it. Sometimes when I am listening to my ipod on the bus or walking to/from the bus stop, it takes everything in me not to start bustin' a move for the world to see. Dancing makes me feel better. Often times when I am feeling down, I just need to pump up the music and and do a little groovin' to perk myself up. I just love music cause it makes me dance. And I love dancing!
I turn my music player on and up whenever I can. I especially love to have it going while I'm getting ready for things. I like to have it on in the mornings while I get ready for work, and I like to have it on at night while I shower and get ready for bed.
This weeks feature is a 90's mix. It really gets me going. Tonight I had that playing while I was in the shower. And just as I was lathering my hair (before rinsing and repeating, of course) a very special song came on. A song that really touched my heart. A song that I'm sure has touched hearts all across America, if not all across the world.
This song came on and I stopped my lathering. I laid my hands out in front of me. And I did a little something I like to call...
The Macarena
Yes. I Macarena-d in the shower. But not only did I do that, I STOPPED what I was doing to macarena!! (though I tried to rinse during the parts of the song it wasn't necessary for me to use my arms).
I macarena-d my little heart out. And it was fun. Good. Clean. Fun. (Get it?) I highy reccommend you try it. You'll feel better. You'll feel happier. You'll feel like you did when you were a kid. Ah, what fond memories. Remember that time when some one decided it was a good idea to make a song that no one understands 95% of the lyrics too? It's called Macarena. And it's time you dance:




And incase you aren't sure how to do it (cause they totally didn't even do it right in that first video.. amatures!):

Update - Ooh a game!

This is just a short update on life. I know it's been a little bit but a short update is better than none at all right? Right. So for this update, I would like to invite you all to do a little exercise. For this exercise, you will need 4 cotton balls, a small hammer, a snack, and a teaspoon of molasses (snack, optional.)
I'll wait here while you go get those things.
. . . . .
Ready? Great. So first, you take two of the cotton balls, and you put one in each of your ears. "What's that?", you say. . Precisely!
Next, Take just one droplet of molasses and stick it up in your nose. Just one nostril will do. This should create a nice slow 'runny' effect. Now, take the remaining cotton balls, and go ahead and shove one up in each nostril.
You might be wondering why I'm having you block your molasses with a cotton ball. The answer to that is easy: Who knows why these things happen.
Ready for the next step? Good. Go ahead and pick up that there hammer.. Yep. Just pick 'er on up.. And find your left temple. I want you to go ahead and give your temple a little tap with the ol hammer. Be real gentle now. You don't want to bruise or break anything.
Once you've done that, you should feel a pain in your head. If you are not feeling a pain, try again.
If you brought a snack, I want you to try to eat it. If you feel like you are either a) suffocating due to lack of oxygen intake through your nose, or b) looking like a complete fool chewing and throwing your head back trying to get air in past the food (because you can't breathe through your nose) then you have done the exercise correctly and are now update on how I am doing.
If you would like to go for extra credit on the assignment, take the remaining molasses and swallow it. - This should be equivalent to the thickness of my saliva (though in all fairness, it has thinned out, so you may drink water until the molasses has dissolved.)
I hope you enjoyed the exercise - and the update!

I highly suggest everyone take vitamins (I'm partial to Flintstones), eat properly, and get plenty of rest. I also recommend washing your hands frequently. Washing your hands is the number one way to prevent spreading germs.