December 2008
93 posts
“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”
–
Lewis Carroll (via reluctantbuddha) (via kari-shma)
Appropriate for the new year. 2008 was pretty good (it kicked 2007’s butt - the worst year EVER). I have learned a lot of hard lessons and made some drastic changes over the last two years, and now I’m looking forward. 2009 will be...
“The only thing Canada is good for is keeping the glaciers from hitting the U.S.”
– ~ Coworker
(Please don’t hate me if you’re from Canada. These aren’t my sentiments. I went to Toronto once. We were lost, and some nice EMTs offered us a ride in their ambulance. But then they got an emergency call and we had to get out. We ended up in the middle of a dark...
I'm so proud of you!
Normally, this is how I would expect CC&C to pack up and transport her things if left to her own devices:
But instead, she drove this ALL BY HERSELF! (if only for 10 minutes)
What a little grown-up, independent woman she has become! I’m impressed!
“BC, speak my language… please.”
– The infamous CC&C
“I am grateful for what I am and have.
My thanksgiving is perpetual…
O how I...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via lickystickypicky)
What a crazy (cold) world.
When I got home from Oklahoma last night, I discovered that my furnace was broken. I called the property manager who came out and confirmed that it was, in fact, broken and turned it off completely. It was frigid when I woke up this morning, so I stayed under the covers as long as I could and then scurried around to get ready before the repairman came. I actually sort of looked forward to getting...
Just saying.
If my 22 year old little sister says one more time that her “childbearing years are numbered,” I’m going to do something to make that a reality even sooner than she expected. Just saying.
Reason #67 that I feel old:
A boy I used to babysit got engaged yesterday and is graduating college this year. Seriously, how is this possible?
Yes, we are related.
LDC: Pride and Prejudice? How can you not like Pride and Prejudice??
Me: I'm not a huge fan of Jane Austen. I respect her accomplishments as a woman during a time when only men were being widely published, but that is as far as it goes.
LDC: BC. I think you mean Keira Knightley.
>>>long, silent pause
LDC: What?
Watchnechamaelle:branduponthebrain:
SNL: Chris Farley as Matt Foley the “Motivational Santa.”
“You don’t like your job, you don’t strike. You go in every day and do it really...”
– Homer Simpson (via kari-shma)
Why the World Needs Asteroid Insurance →
“But unlike the dinosaurs, we can do something about a rogue asteroid. Late last month, the Association of Space Explorers (the professional society of astronauts and cosmonauts) and its international Panel on Asteroid Threat Mitigation submitted to the United Nations a proposed NEO response plan two years in the making. The report, “Asteroid Threats: A Call for Global...
Let's go to the mall...TODAY!
complicatedshoes:ohtrouble
List of classic blunders (ranked by popularity)
Never get involved in a land war in Asia
Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line
This idea
“In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it...”
– ~Dave Barry, “Christmas Shopping: A Survivor’s Guide”
“There are only two things I’m afraid of: red heads and midgets.”
– Coworker
“When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the...”
– Corrie Ten Boom (via) (via vasta) (via beckypierson)
LDC just got a job - let's celebrate!
Confession: I have a big problem with authority.
Seriously. The Man is keeping me down everywhere I look. The only solution for me is self-employment.
kari-shma:
Damien Rice - Blowers Daughter
For...
“First we’ll make snow angels for two hours, then we’ll go ice skating, then...”
– Buddy the Elf (via complicatedshoes)
“You’re trying to find parts for an Infiniti? Good luck. Around here, you...”
– Rufus (the Pep Boys guy) to Tracy (the Pep Boys girl) on finding rotors for my car Saturday
A Toast I Made to My Older Brother
ryanpurtill:
Cj has always been there for me there has been countless good times but I remember the rough times too.
I remember riding big wheels to the top of the street and before I knew it we were fighting. I called him a jerk face and he called me a poop head and we both went home crying.
But Cj would always email me from work the next day to apologize.
I’m still laughing at...