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This rolled into my inbox today:

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Hmm. My problem is I’ve been planting weeds for a very long time. Look what I have to show for it now.

Today I’m trying not to pay too much attention to all the romantic stuff flying around on places like facebook or twitter or on the radio. I got just what I asked for, which was to be alone. I thought it would be a much more fulfilling, happier place, instead of how I actually feel. This is what I get for thinking I actually understand myself, heh.

Today I’m also going to see a therapist. The last time I tried therapy I got to feeling so much better about myself that I ended my marriage after 24 years. Go, me. Of course, there is much for me to figure out. I think the roadblocks and landmines I have placed everywhere could be insurmountable, yet for some reason I’m not ready to give up on trying to sort things out.

I wonder what will happen this time.

Dear Red, If you’re reading this, you’ve gotten out. And if you’ve come this far, maybe you’re willing to come a little further. You remember the name of the town, don’t you? I could use a good man to help me get my project on wheels. I’ll keep an eye out for you and the chessboard ready. Remember, Red. Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. I will be hoping that this letter finds you, and finds you well. Your friend, Andy Dufresne.

and how can you not read that in Morgan Freeman’s voice?

compare that to Marvin:

Life! Don’t talk to me about life.

Titty sprinkles.

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Thor’s Day

Yes, we rented Thor last week and it was decent, I thought.

whip it good

I may finally be stumbling toward the weekend. Today has already had a couple challenges for my son and therefore myself as well. My evening is already planned – laundry, and maybe grocery shopping. With any luck I’ll get to watch Big Bang Theory, too, my guilty pleasure for the day.

Quote for today:

“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.” – Herm Albright

cool change

My daughter proclaimed yesterday “It’s FALL!” The wind was out of the north.

For the first time in like, ever.

She proclaimed and then she did cartwheels all over the yard.

We spent the day yesterday at my brother’s new house, my first visit to family since moving out on my own. We had driven out Saturday afternoon. We had only been planning the trip for about a week, his kids birthdays are close together so they had one party for everyone. My kids, of course, just wanted to see their cousins and maybe have a chance to visit Buc-ees again. I admit I was nervous, not sure how they would see me now, not sure how the kids and I would get along. I shouldn’t have worried. The birthday party (Saturday evening) was a blast, my family was happy to see me, my kids couldn’t have been better behaved (much).

I ate too much, drank too much (oy), slept on an air mattress (not my favorite place but not bad), and we had our first-ever In N Out burgers before driving home.

And yes, they got their Buc-ees.

Rarely sleep?

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What shall we use to fill the empty spaces
Where waves of hunger roar?
Shall we set out across the sea of faces
In search of more and more applause?
Shall we buy a new guitar?
Shall we drive a more powerful car?
Shall we work straight through the night?
Shall we get into fights?
Leave the lights on?
Drop bombs?
Do tours of the east?
contract diseases?
Bury bones?
Break up homes?
Send flowers by phone?
Take to drink?
Go to shrinks?
Give up meat?
Rarely sleep?
Keep people as pets?
Train dogs?
Race rats?
Fill the attic with cash?
Bury treasure?
Store up leisure?
But never relax at all
With our backs to the wall.

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