Your JoshQuote™ of the day:
I’m like, a booger factory.
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Yeah, it’s been a week and a whirlwind. But I was thinking on Monday how sudden and quick it is to come to Louisville and start looking for a new job and to be realistic about it I see it this way:
Sooner or later if you want to make a change in your life there has to come a point where you either go to bed at night or wake up in the morning and something’s changed. You either wake up in a new place, wake up with a new job, wake up married, committed, single, broke, rich or whatever—either way these changes really do just happen overnight. So one can either plan these things out carefully and meticulously or whirlwind and recklessly— regardless of the method, sooner or later, things will change in an instant. So I don’t feel very bad or scared or shocked that I can make this sort of thing happen in a snap, because for the most part I’ve been thinking about getting outta Meijer and outta Michigan for years and years, and I got that final push and so here I am. I remember complaining to my friend Josh back in 2005 (FOUR years ago) about feeling stuck, and I’ve felt that way ever since. Along came an opportunity to get un-stuck, and I knew I just had to take it.
Like I said, change is always sudden, and even if we don’t see it right away some day we suddenly realize that something (or everything) has changed-even if it has taken years-and it seems sudden.
All things being equal (for me at least) finding out that someone somehow for whatever reason “had it in for me” or didn’t like me or whatever the motivation was to try and make things miserable for me at work was what brought me to the decision to just quit, to say enough is enough, to finally realize it was time to take back my life and live it as my own—the same advice I’ve been giving my friends for the longest time. This is my life, these are my words, all that stuff. It was time for a change. Or: Let’s See How Far We’ve Come.
In conclusion (ha! like this is an essay…) 1 day you’ll make a decision, and you’ll execute it, and the sun will pour thru your windows in the morning and things will’ve changed. Slowly or quickly it always happens overnight, whatever that decision might be.
Harper:Tell me what to do, i’m stuck… my heart’s an anchor!
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Harper: In your experience of the world. How do people change?Mormon Mother: Well, it has something to do with God so it’s not very nice. God splits the skin with a jagged thumbnail from throat to belly and then plunges a huge filthy hand in, he grabs hold of your bloody tubes and they slip to evade his grasp but he squeezes hard—he insists. He pulls and pulls till all your innards are yanked out. And the pain! [whispered] We can’t even talk about that.
And then he stuffs them back, dirty, tangled and torn. It’s up to you to do the stitching.Harper: And then get up. And walk around.
Mormon Mother: Just mangled guts pretending.
Harper: Yeah. That’s how people change.
If you’ve ever had a can of coke you may wonder why there’s an outline of the Great State of West Virginia engraved on the top of most aluminum can lids.
Here’s why:
Soft Drink Excise Taxes
Currently only West Virginia levies an excise tax on soft drinks and requires that soft drink packaging visibly indicate that the tax has been paid by the distributor. West Virginia law requires that an outline of the state be inscribed in a 1/4 inch circle on the can end. The State of West Virginia now allows soft drink distributors who are bonded in the state to ink-jet the tax information on the bottoms of cans. The product is in compliance if “WV1″ is ink-jetted on the bottom regardless of the inscribed outline of the state.”
[mystery solved!]
20090310:17:19:26 me: did you guys do anything? or was it just a traditional date?
20090310:17:17:34 him: hot chocolate out
20090310:17:18:05 him: then back to my place, cuddled, watched a movie, cuddled, teased, slept, woke up, fucked, coffee
20090310:17:18:30 me: So it was a traditional date.
“The level of love I have for DMB is coextensive with the level of love I have for hot fratboys.”
The Josh Quote of the day:
“Well all the crumbs are gone but it still smells like Pringles.”
We are going to Traverse City for the weekend since Josh is homesick & I have a car.
