8.31.2008

time is a runaway....

roll your windows down the summer's nearly gone...and only hours stand between you and the cold that's comin' on...Summer leaves you like the girl who gets away. and we sit here stranded in a careless hue. Time is a runaway comin' for you.

I love those lyrics. Isn't is weird to think how quickly life passes you by, and just how fast things change. How people can be completely different in a year- sadly, i wonder if i ever really knew them at all. 2008 has flown by, it's hard to believe the summer is ending...I feel like my birthday was yesterday. When I sit here and actually think about it...I'll be honest, it scares me. To think of all I want to do in life...and I'm already 25! Haha but here's the thing...I love that feeling...i embrace it, that feeling of being scared but excited about what lies ahead, what decisions I will make now that will affect where I am at in 10 years. Its scary but it reminds me that i am alive and that i am the only one who can change my approach to life and my outlook on situations. Living in the moment is amazing for a season but i have done it for too long and now its time to look foward to buying my house, to start making good decisions, and finally taking care of my heart. for when i eventually find a true love, someone who makes me complete, someone who is certain with who they are and what they want, and will love passionately without holding back a damn thing. I cant wait to share that with someone. Living in the moment is fun and definitely a rush, but i have decided is not the healthiest thing for me. For the time being, I do miss planning life WITH someone but alas, it's possible to be completely content planning for and by myself. Being surrounded by new friends, appreciating my family, making new plans, pondering new business ideas, cherishing the little things, and soaking up the positive things in life...

I'm standing on the edge of something good...I can feel it. I hope you are too.

Post scrpit: if you're needing new music look up 2 of my favourite bands
1. Castledoor
2. The alternate routes

8.30.2008

I love her!!

Eating watermelon by the pool is the best way to spend a Saturday...especially when good music is involved, a little josh turner, tom petty, Amos lee, the blow and journey...always journey. Happy 20th bday to my best friend...krys the sis, I love you! Can't wait to see you tomorrow, I hate living very far from you. If the Internet worked at this campground I would record you a facebook video...can't wait for the raspberry dessert! I'm glad you were born!

PS: www.hurley.com launched ecommerce on our site, go check out our holiday 08 clothes and especially the sunglasses, they are slick and I am wearing the red joey ramones ones now! Happy labor day weekend, be safe and make wise choices!

glazed donuts & coffee.

I love going to the gas station. I don't care how much I am forking out...it just doesn't matter. Knowing that i will find a tiny bit of happiness in every gas station experience, I eagerly pulled into a NEW Shell station. I usually go to the station on Brookhurst & Talbert but this morning I was feeling Ellis...I wanted new scenery. You see, I look forward to the few minutes I get to stand by my car and look at the people...take in the sites and sounds of the less fortunate, those who despise getting gas and dread every second of it. Everyone is so cranky and impatient. Filling up always reminds me of roadtrips as a child...the smell of gasoline lingering in the car after we pulled away, mixed with black coffee...always in an army green thermos. It takes me back to waking up the morning of departure, usually 4:30am...I knew this time well because it always smelled like glazed donuts and jovan musk...my dad's signature scent for roadtrips. Funny that I escape to various roadtrips everytime I fill up my tank. I have the urge to run inside, buy a cup of coffee or a vanilla pepsi and some beef jerky.... only to be reminded that I'm on my way to work. Whether it was a roadtrip in Texas, a Hurley bus filled with 6 guys, me, snowboards and surfboards headed to Portland, Oregon or driving throughout the New England states in the crisp autumn weather...I get to go back there for about 5 minutes everytime I pull up to a gas station. I love those times. I hear the songs that we played on that trip, and I remember the smells...and I thank God everytime that He gave me an extra portion of sentimentality and that i am able to find joy in the little things. Goodnight from a bunk bed in a camping trailer.....good times.

8.29.2008

dropping the soap...

she could feel her mind escaping from her body. it drifted above her and sat on the windowsill. her hands still touching her face-washing away the night. She watched as the water droplets danced on her freckled arm every morning in the sunlight, wishing she had her camera. She admired that single beam of warmth on her skin-savoring it, like it was art. All of her best thinking was done in the shower...the bad thoughts swept away in one quick motion. She grabs her towel and gathers the remaining thoughts that are stuck to the walls of the shower. This is where she separated the good from the bad that lived inside of her...this is where she dropped the irish spring.

you have bad manners.

Things I have learned this week and random facts:

I would rather drink hemlock than consume diet pepsi...it tastes very wrong in my mouth. if someone wanted to annoy the crap out of me all they would have to do is wear a veluer running suit while carrying around a tub of red vines and singing mambo number 5.Hooters has very delicious appetizers... And girls in tiny orange panties and tubesocks. I enjoy sniffing screen printing ink, new magazines, Daniel Chesnut, Candies for men. the old winnie the pooh song is overrrrated, the new one's where it's at. I eat a thumbs up roll, eel jalapeƱo tempura, and sashito AT LEAST once a week with the boys. When they start naming the sushi after you...it's a pretty good indication that you eat too much sushi. I will not do so well when I lose someone close to me. zacheus definitely went to his house for tea. buttermilk eggo waffles and donald duck orange juice are mandatory in the morning. biiiionnnnnic arm do do do, yes. I have been proposed to 3 times over the last two weeks. must purchase top hat. paraoxides trilobites. Don't worry about it, I'm studying the pre-Cambrian era in my spare time. a man is taking me out to dinner tomorrow night....I don't know how I feel about this. Maggie. Crepes. Jazz. Yes please. you can now shop the site, ecom launches on hurley.com 9/1 we're all sleep deprived and working 12 hour days, go shop at once!

8.28.2008

when all is said and done...

at what point does life get so bad that you want to check out permanently?

how do you talk yourself into picking up a gun, shoving it in your mouth and pulling the trigger?

why don't people realize that everyday we can choose to love, and sometimes we don't?

what was the last thing that was said to him?

was he alone the night before?

how long did he think about doing this?

did he have people that talked bad of him, that hated him, and constantly tore him down?

what thought went through his head before his finger made that final movement?

why do we take people for granted?

at what point do we stop living for ourselves and start living for others?
Instead we are selfish...concerned about our own happiness. Too cocky and wrapped up in our own petty things to step back and look at the big picture...people are killing themselves and maybe we could've done something to stop it.

8.27.2008

polaroid, gang signs and bar graphs.


hello friends...there are countless weird things that happen to me on a daily basis, numerous funny quotes from coworkers, from friends, the voices in my head etc. I forget half of them because i do not carry a steno-pad around with me (note to self: go to Office Depot). Here is my attempt to recall a few funny things from today...that you will, for the most part, not find to be entertaining in any way..THE NAMES HAVE BEEN CHANGED TO PROTECT THE INNOCENT.

CONVERSATION #1:
anonymous: have i told you lately that you are awesome?
me: no rod stewart, oh wait...yes...we made a bar graph remember?


CONVERSATION #2:
me: my cousin cut off my lashes with safety scissors when i was 3

anonymous: i would have slapped her or him

me: well, i was only three and i loved my eyelashes played with

anonymous: then put gum in their arm pit hair

me: HAHAHAHA...SHE was definitely 5 and didnt have armpit hair

anonymous: she should have

me: you're gross.

anonymous: yeah, well


CONVERSATION #3:

anonymous: i'm sitting at a stop light looking at the word "westside" and i thought of you throwing up gang signs.
me: we're gang members. I have a blue flag hangin' out my backside but only on the left side.
anonymous: you scare me.
me: why cuz me and snoop dogg are tight like JLO's ass?
anonymous: ummmmm
me: yeah, about that.


CONVERSATION #4:
anonymous: "Is it on?"
me: yes, i am gonna go home to change really quick and grab a banana. i'll be there."

8.26.2008

stillness.



it feels good to be happy with life. to be still and focused. to know that i am happy with myself and the choices that i am making for my future. feels good to be needed. it's a good feeling to be financially secure. i am looking forward to decorating MY OWN house with Christmas lights next year. I feel healthy: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. i am excited for this weekend:) Right now I am on my daily hour of "research" at work...at Hurley we are told to take an hour to ourselves to gain knowledge. I am spending my time looking at my favourite photographer and learning more about Illustrator CS3. i love my job.

Check them out: PORCELAIN.

pet peeves.....a list.

1. I strongly dislike those stickers (mostly found on mini vans) of stick figure families representing the people in your own family. People try to get clever and switch it up by having sandals instead of stick figures...but we all know what it means.

2. When people don't say what they really mean and you're just left guessing.

3. When I get a project at the last minute and feel like my creativity is limited.

4. When ugly drunken men in their mid 30's at the pool think they are God's gift to women and assume they can just float over and start talking.

5. When I leave my house without my chapstick, it is really one of the worst feelings. I'm a sucker for soft lips.

6. Drinking and driving. Don't be dumb.

Ps: this morning I got a fresh cup of Russ' sludge (black coffee aka: the sweet nectar from heaven) from the breakroom. I went to greet Blake with a "high five" on the descent his hand went into my cup of coffee, it flew out of my hands and all over the ground. We just laughed and walked off.

8.25.2008

red hair.

today my coworker (who is a PC guru) was on the phone....after he hung up he said, "i bet she has red hair." The rest of us laughed and were confused by his odd assumption based off of one quick phone converstation with someone he has never talked to and will more than likely never meet. I asked him why he thought that...he said he had no idea, "she just seemed like someone who would have red hair." Then we all went on with our projects.

it kind of reminds me of something i do. When I talk to people before meeting them I create a picture of what they will look like in my head. I also do this about what their apt/house looks like, what picture they have on their wall, what color their shower curtain is, what pots and pans they have in their kitchen, if they have those little bottles with oil and plants in them from pier 1, what their car will smell like, if they will like the smell of old books or magazines, or senarios that will take place when i hang out with this person...i plan ahead without even really knowing people. I always have to have something to look forward to and i have always been like this....even if it's a made up plan, it's still fun and the actual plan always ends up being just as exciting and somewhat similar to my fictitious brain plans.

I get to see one of my friends from Florida whom I haven't seen in about 5 years. I already have a picture of what he will look like in my head, what clothes he'll probably be wearing, and I can see us having a BBQ/pool party with our old group of friends reminiscing about old stories from 3rd grade, crushes, tree houses, midnight tag in the park after hopping the fence and singing competitons. I know that it will be good times and it's fun to enjoy those times even before they actually happen:)

life lesson #444....

don't judge people based off of hearsay...get to know them, if you see their true colors and regret it later then at least you made your own choice and you know it's accurate. Sure, take the critics opinions in the back of your mind...but don't let those opinions make up your mind for you. If you find that your own opinions differ from the critics, then gradually take away the negative things others have said.

a couple days ago my friend asked me, "Steph if someone was to have warned you that a situation would turn out badly...would you have listened, or done something different?" I said no probably not, i like to figure things out for myself. If someone else was right, in the end...i will gladly go up to them and say, "i am sorry, you were right...now i know for myself, and now i am stronger."

PS: I wrote a new song, the vid is on facebook...if you have one, check it out.

i had this song stuck in my head tonight.

8.24.2008

lunchtime facts...


a few facts from lunch with the parents at Paul's place:

1. I spilled a cup of black coffee on my gray pants on the way to church. Crotchal region. Hot.

2. My mom was watching a sparrow poop, she was deep in thought and said that's why I like hummingbirds so much, they only pee.

3. When I was little I called hamburgers "hangabones" and lawnmowers "lawnbones" but I fed my dog Petey "dones" not bones.

4. When I quoted memory verses in Sunday school I said " the lord is my shepard I do not want Him." and "surely, goodness and mercy shall follow you all the days of your life"...I asked who Shirley was and why she was following me.

5. Steven Curtis chapman is playing right now on the radio station in my parents car. "sink or swim I'm diving in"...I know someone will appreciate that song with me!

6. Up until I was 6 I thought my name was Stephanie Grant Landscape Services (my dads business).

running = death.

tonight at the gymnasium jamie ran 4.5 miles.
I ran 5....minutes. I am perfectly okay with that because she said she can see my tricep muscle from across the gym.

The only reasons I could ever justify running for a long period of time:
1. if someone is chasing me with a sharp weapon like swords or ninja stars.

2. if a flock of geese or any bird for that matter is running towards me flapping their wings. Gosh I hate the sound of flapping bird wings.

3. Someone said "run 4 miles or I will stick a toothpick under your toenail and make you kick a soccerball."

8.23.2008

That is what she said.

Several days ago I was able to witness one of the funniest "that's what she said jokes" of all time... So epic, in fact, that it had to have a spot on my blog. Let me set the stage, when I go to the pool or beach I don't put any product in my hair, people call it furry or fuzzy and want to touch it and/or tossle it because it looks inviting I suppose? They say it looks like a dandelion, the things that kids (or Steph's) pick from the grass, blow and they get caught in the wind. After one friend said that... the other said, "I want to blow on your head and make a wish". At that point, I lost it.

8.22.2008

6:30am phone conversations...

Sarah Jessica Parker not only got her mole removed but also made it to the very top of Schindler's list. Not to mention, the grocery list..Sarah Jessica Parker, bananas, 'Nilla Wafers, Cap'n Crunch, soup.

Ring the alarm (I'm throwin' elbows up!)

thumb slip 'n slide in bed with your eyes closed. (get your head out of the gutter you dirrrty mut! i was trying to slide my iphone without opening my eyes because i was sleeping.)

i'm off work today...heading to palm springs with a good mixture of music and a good friend.

"you're my imagination come to life."

standing in the sun smoking quiet cigarettes
just before I let you down
funny how a heart shatters all at once
seems like it should make a sound

8.21.2008

the little things...

i found happiness in on the way to work:

1. the Weepies....the new album is incredible. It makes me feel like i am floating on a cloud. you really have to let the words sink deep into your bone marrow. I always have a song on my lips...so it's almost as if there is a soundtrack to my life, like i'm in the movies.

2. overcast morning.

3. zebra mocha

4. talking to people in starbucks and seeing the "old parrot man" everyday on his bike.

5. driving on my "favourite stretch" on the way to work and seeing an airplane taking off... parting the clouds. Sometimes I like just going to the airport to watch the planes take off. I get "the feeling"...that one anxious/excited feeling like you're going on a trip or picking someone up.

reactions and helpful hints.

67% of people react horribly to situations. After a day or two passes they will more than likely regret the way they chose to respond in the heat of the moment. I have gotten really good at not having immediate reactions...I have learned to ponder on things and choose words wisely. sometimes I don't...sometimes my chest gets red, my fists clench and I bite my cheeks. It is much better to think before acting and/or speaking than to live life regreting how you've reacted inwardly or outwardly. If I have learned anything within the past couple of months it is that I will no longer be surprised at anything. Nothing shocks me anymore, and I don't put anything past anyone. Humans are capable of doing some crazy, twisted crap. People will constantly disappoint you with poor decision making skills, lies, mindgames, immaturity and lack of responsibility...do these people get far in life? Sure they do. They are so damn good at mastering the art of trickery...but it only takes one person to figure them out. Ever say to yourself, "I don't get it! What were they thinking?! "I wonder what was going through their mind?" here are some helpful hints as to what they may or may not have been thinking:

1. Defend yourself to the death.

2. Your sole concern is making sure you come out on top of a situation.

3. Don't care who you step on or hurt to get to your next fix.

4. Blame others, always.

5. Lie and twist things to make others look like the crazy ones and make yourself look like the one who's got it all together. When in all reality it was you who caused the craziness in the first place by not being honest and stringing people along in your sick game.

6. Get others on your side before they figure you out.

7. Spy on people to figure out what they know. Or just because you're bored. Justify it by either saying " i need to know what to expect when I see that person next" or "i had a feeling."

8. Turn people against each other to save your own ass.

9. Never deal with things...flip a switch. Start something new. NEXT!

10. Most importantly: never get caught. If you feel like you are about to...play the pity game, say you'll do anything to change when the entire time you know you won't. Say you're destructive and a poison so that people want to help you and be there for you, and love you even when you've kicked them around. Promise things with every intention of breaking them. If you have to tell the "truth" write it in email so people can't catch you off guard or in a lie.

This is in no way to be viewed as an "attack" persay, but rather as simply a warning to those who may one day find themselves in a situation similar to mine. Hopefully you've read this and learned something about yourself... If you don't like what I have to say, click the little x in the corner.

8.20.2008

manners.

Some funny things and facts:

"twister cubed"....make that twister to the 4th power if we find those chips.

"why doesn't Boaz take them to the airport?"
"who is Boaz?!"
"you're grandpa"
"my grandfather's name is Obed"

I will be shooting weddings on the weekends again.

I will be screenprinting tomorrow night after work.

I will be in palm springs by a pool all day Friday with a Malibu pineapple.

I ate a $54 steak tonight.

I watched the fireworks at Disneyland tonight.

1 hour boxing classes 2 nights a week=ouch.

I think I should have stuck with sociology...people intruige me. Figuring them out is awesome! I love humans.

I have lenny kravitz in my head, hmmm...

8.15.2008

a good song for a friday.

new brandi carlile stuff. go buy it.
she does a duet with a band called "Ha-Ash" the song is called "Already Home".

happy friday. enjoy.

people digging holes.

There are dangers all around us. The most danger usually lies in the most unexpected places. We rarely think that a child playing in the sand could be harmful or even deadly. digging endlessly for hours in the sand in not so good of an idea. Many children can dig huge holes or ditches. It is an old phrase that some children will even try to dig a hole to China.

Researchers have found that hole digging can be fatal or cause injury. There have been at least 52 incidents where people were killed or injured due to holes collapsing. A great misconception is about the size of the hole dug. The holes do not have to be very big. A hole of only a few feet can collapse around a small child. It does not take a lot of sand to cause suffocation.

lesson: use common sense...don't dig a hole so deep you can't get out.

8.13.2008

8.12.2008

late night facts.

so...the last 2 days i worked 12 hours. I am just heading out. My eyes burn like the fire of 1,000 suns. I ate 4 bites of Blacktie Cheesecake. I ate thai food and my friend and i balled up sticky rice and threw it around and laughed til we cried (see photo...don't look down my shirt look at the giant rice ball.) i spent all night clipping and cropping ecommerce product shots. i miss going to the gymnasium. i have to be into work early tomorrow so i will make a starbucks run and sing with the barista. this weekend i got asked to be a "hair model" for a Long Beach fashion show...so yeah duh I'm doing it just to tell my grandchildren i was once a hair model. Plus they dress me and do my makeups.

people, cartoons or things...

i have been compared to recently. i think i resemble Goku most...

me:








my personal favourite...a wig...just.

8.10.2008

text messages or phrases...

that wouldn't mean anything to anyone else except for the person on the other end.

1. "hi fatty Warsop! Hope you're swell...I want a pair of turtle doves. You're a James blunt"

2. "Ooooh niggah I'm burnin' up"

3. I'm either going today to buy a boat or a kiddie pool"

4. "You ah looka lika man"

5. "I was just thinking of us singing the butt song today"

6. "you get inside cynthia right now!"

7. "drinking coffee without caffeine is like having non alcholic beer. Pointless."

8. "if you weren't a woman you would totally look like Abraham Lincoln right now"

9. "quit exfoliating my skin with your cactus legs!"

10. "what is a fire and why does it... What's the word... BBBUUURRNNN!?"

8.08.2008

JOHN MAYER OR...

"Just Off Turner"???
so john mayer has this song on his myspace, i found it at the beginning of the year and fell in love with the lyrics...BUT the entire time was like, wow this does NOT sound like JM at all. not one bit. but when you search for lyrics, it says..."john mayer". Search you tube, and you find this. Clearly, not john mayer. But i love it, and will share it.

8.07.2008

umm hating yourself?



from a book i have read twice. this will, once again, be long...but tis very informative, chew on it.

"I was in a desperate need of a big healthy dose of unconditional self-love. The contrary, self-hatred, builds walls around the heart and keeps love from freely flowing in and out. Since, I had those walls, I don't supposed I should be surprised that my relationships crumbled. I can't give away what i don't have. Because I had only conditional love for myself, I had only conditional love for Angela. Not only did this allow the demise of our relationship to become a certainty, but it also limited other close personal relationships in my life. Self-hatred, whether obvious or underlying, ensures that our most intimate relationships will reach only a certain depth, a depth much more shallow than would otherwise be reached if both contributors loved themselves. Self-hatred makes it far too easy to use other people up, tire of them, and arrogantly move on to the next source of surface gratification. Love is neither guaranteed nore limitless unless it comes from God."

funny that i was flipping through the pages of this book and opened it to this paragraph after writing about once having a hardened heart. hmm. kinda ties it all together.

post script: i took this picture while dancing.

stimulating conversation.

"You don't hear the name Don too much"

"No, you really don't"

"My cousin's name is Donald"

"Really?"

"Yeah, he's 19 and goes by Donald"

"oh"

"He looks like a Donald though"

"oh yeah?"

"He's hispanic - Donaldo"

"Donaldo"

"Not really, but that'd be cool"

"Yep"

8.06.2008

compassion.

hi friends. This is going to be long. Stuff is going to explode in my brain if I don't get it out. Stay with me. A hardened heart is probably one of the saddest things to me. Mostly because I have been there. if I see someone else going through it, someone I truly care about... it affects me in a huge way. I used to wonder what caused my heart to get so cold, so stale...and it was a ton of build up that never got dealt with. Years of lies, hurting others intentionally, looking for love in wrong people, temporary fixes, having bitterness live inside of me...my heart was corroding right before my eyes and I did nothing to stop it. Instead I did the opposite and continually fed it with more bitterness and lies until I became numb. Which lead to justification of my actions...which then lead to not taking responsibility and pushing blame onto others without feelings of remorse. What a horrible place i was in. I assure you one day you will find yourself alone and selfish, after carelessly burning every bridge you ever invested time into building. And THAT is when you deal with the path you have clearly demolished behind you...when you can openly admit I am a wreck, I need help.

There was this German pastor, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed...but while he was in concentration camp he wrote something that changed my outlook on things and ultimately made me have more compassion for myself and others. "nothing that we despise in the other man is entirely absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or don't do, and more in the light of what they suffer."

I want to leave a legacy. How will they remember me...Did I choose to love?

the taming of the shrew.

i went into starbucks this morning on my way to work with my friend. we struck up a conversation with the barista (obviii). Basically, because he forgot to put whip on both of our drinks. I had the Carpenters and James Taylor stuck in my head...and if you know me well, when I have songs (or anything) stuck in my head it comes out of my mouth. I was singing James Taylor in Starbucks (Something in the Way She Moves) and the barista said "one time during Christmas I heard a James Taylor song and i wept"...i spoke of times when I wept while listening to songs. Sometimes songs just go straight to your heart and directly into your bone marrow, and you feel them all over. I like that.

i also like when something is stuck in my head while i am designing and listening to KT Tunstall and I have to text a friend to say, "the taming of the shrew"...tell me what you know about this. She explains, then proceeds to call me weird:) okay, back to work.

8.05.2008

Texas to CA...



I will be happy for my friend to visit and for adventures.

plans this weekend:
1. a pair of traveling pants....
2. house of blue sunset strip, porcelain.
3. dancing in LA.
4. dancing in my house in my underwear.
5. slip n slide party for Jordan.

8.04.2008

the chickens.


Tonight, my chicken looks like a pair of pants. Which pretty much makes my dining experience 10 times better. now i just have to dance around in my kitchen listening to classic rock with boy shorts and a tank. This weekend i am home alone, it will definitely happen.

8.03.2008

Random things that I thought about today...

while looking out the Excursion window.

1. December 2006: Maui. Me and about 25 friends that are locals. I get off the plane they make me change into my bathing suit while riding with the windows down in their jeep. We went straight to the waterfalls in Kehei. I jumped immediately then climbed onto a rock in the middle of the ocean. A friend noticed puddle of blood, lets just say I have a huge scar under my toe from that trip:) hiking 2 miles shoeless up in Hana prob didn't help. We got tiny bananas and mangoes and ate them in a convertible while it was raining.

2. I saw a hawk waiting on the wires searching for their next victim.

3. I want to run in sprinklers.

4. In 7th grade we had a gigantic food fight in the basement at Crystal Cathedral Academy...anytime I see angel food cake I immediately think of that day.

5. "Cheese curds" is not a good name if you are trying to make food sound appealing and/or delicious. I felt dirty even typing it.

8.02.2008

August 2nd.

Wow, how time flies...
this is one of my maps.

so i found a torn piece of paper (actually it was a torn placemat from buca di beppo) in the pocket of my guitar case. It had a bunch of notes on it, and i am pretty sure i wrote it about 3 years ago. i will share...in no particular order without changing anything:

1. has musical abilities & loves concerts.
2. not self absorbed or way too needy.
3. respects my independence
4. someone who truly loves god
5. artistic
6. will make me cry from laughter.
7. stylish (scarves/hats/glasses)
8. doesn't watch a stupid amount of television
9. steady job, established.
10. no compulsive liars, or cheaters.
11. is always thinking of making things good for the future.
12. knows what they want in life.
13. genuinely cares about people and their feelings.
14. likes going out and meeting new people.
15. hopeless romantic
16. enjoys traveling.
17. sentimental/passionate.
18. enjoys writing/reading.
19. close to their family.
20. no condescending macho attitude (this made me laugh).

8.01.2008

i laughed way too hard at this.

tonight...we dance. finally:)

Balled Out!

the facts of life, the facts of life.

1. My fingertips on my left hand are completely raw...you know what this means. Guitar. Writing. Yes.

2. My friend asked me how late 24 hour fitness was opened. To which I responded, "oh, probably 24 hours but I'm just guessing."

3. Today we locked IT during work hours so we could have freestyle battles. At one point my coworker said the words "allegory and stabbed in the abdomen" all in one breath. All while wearing a white golfing glove on his right hand.

4. The way certain people choose to handle adult situations is really disappointing to me. Are we in middle school? If you think I am talking about you...then yes, it is probably you. grow up. If this is not you then carry on my wayward son.

5. Does anyone want to go to Europe next year with me...? I am going no matter what, I need a travel buddy:)