Memories

i finally gathered all the ticket stubs, a couple napkins -- yes napkins; paper, not linen -- and other select mementos from the past decade or so of my life and made a scrapbook. i'm surprised that i have some of these things still.

1. junior prom/senior ball tickets
2. the sticky plastic cd seal (which is nearly IMPOSSIBLE to get off without nails) from my miles davis kind of blue cd -- a gift for my 18th birthday
3. numerous a's, movie, concert, museum and yoshi's tickets (i still have my TITANIC ticket stub!)
   
4. ALL of my aacf banquet place cards
5. a check for 2 dollars from gary ho...
6. a business card from the restaurant where i had my first date

life is funny. and a 2 dollar check is weird. well, it's funny too. =)

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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Edward de Bono

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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Michel de Montaigne

that's unfortunate. and ironic.

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I Remember You, Diana Krall
Do You Remember, Boyz II Men

Thanksgiving

i am thankful for the people who make me laugh when i need it the most (among other things).

1. "do you LOVE it?" O.O
2. joodybooty@gmail.com
3. Ole's Waffle Shop..."hola!"
4. protecting your leather car seats with wife beaters to make sure it stays classy
5. "it's really hard for me to be a nerd"
   
6. a towering oak
7. "what are you sinking about?"
8. "i don't want to sit next to her"
9. "do you think i can use tiger balm as lip balm?"
   

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Somebody, Depeche Mode

Quotable: Sabrina

sabrina is my car.

Amy: she's my baby
Vince: =D
Amy: more reliable than any guy
Vince: *ahem
Amy: and gets me where i need to go
Amy: she's pretty
Amy: and sings
Amy: she does what i tell her to
Vince: does she roar or purr?
Amy: purr
Vince: haha... so is that your image of a dream guy?!
Amy: NO
Amy: maybe
Vince: pretty sings does what you want and goes wherever you want to go
Amy: actually
Amy: hahahaha
Amy: hm....
Vince: LOL
Vince: good luck

nah, i'd go wherever he'd want to go.

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...I used to kick myself around quite a bit in my head...I always needed more and then I resented the fact that I needed more because, well it is such a needy thing to need more, and so I lived inside this conflict.
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...[but] I would not let myself receive love from myself, from others, or from God...It didn't feel humble, and I knew I was supposed to be humble...If it is wrong for me to receive love, then it is also wrong for me to give it because by giving it I am causing somebody else to receive it, which I had presupposed was the wrong thing to do.
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God's love will never change us if we don't accept it.

Blue Like Jazz, Donald Miller

hm.

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Can't Help But Wait, Trey Songz

Listening To...

A Lesson in Romantics

(they have the most interesting song titles)

When I Get Home You're So Dead

If You Wanted a Song Written About You, All You Had to Do Was Ask

Champagne's for Celebrating (I'll Have a Martini)

You Be The Anchor That Keeps My Feet on The Ground, I'll Be The Wings That Keep Your Heart in The Clouds

Twelfth Night

Viola/Cesario:
Too well what love women to men may owe:
In faith, they are as true of heart as we.
My father had a daughter loved a man,
As it might be, perhaps, were I a woman,
I should your lordship.
Duke Orsino:
And what's her history?
Viola/Cesario:
A blank, my lord. She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought,
And with a green and yellow melancholy
She sat like patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed?
We men may say more, swear more: but indeed
Our shows are more than will; for still we prove
Much in our vows, but little in our love.

William Shakespeare

word.

Hair Care

talk about daunting. i was at target today looking for hair serum, because nancy had introduced the idea to me. well. who knew there were so many hair products at TARGET alone?! i stood in front of the shelves very confused. serum. leave-in conditioner. cream. sprays. color-enhancers. detanglers. anti-frizz. LOTIONS? i dono, but those all sound pretty similar to me. do they need so many names? they had squirt bottles, sprays, pumps, gels, and even those mustard bottles, where you have to twist the top in order to squeeze the stuff out. it was all very eye-opening. i must've walked up and down the aisle for 30 minutes trying to figure out what those things did to my hair. and to think i've been going all these years with just shampoo and conditioner. but NO, apparently i need anti-frizz, cream, detanglers and serums... go figure. anyway, i ended up with a "leave-in moisturizing mist with repairing serum," one of the very first products i looked at. despite the confusion and time taken, the whole process was very educational...i suppose.

Quotable: P.S.

at the end of an email alan sent me:

p.s. hope your computer is doing well!

the subject of approximately 40% -- if not more -- of the conversations i have with my brother include computers.

but i shouldn't be talking (literally), because i talk to inanimate objects...
like linus
and sabrina.
sometimes.
hey, cars are people too.
maybe.
if you think about it, they're kind of animated, right? =)
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sabrina.

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Apologize, OneRepublic & Timbaland

Listening To...

Top 10: Driving Songs

1. Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Cyndi Lauper
2. Vertigo, U2
3. Because of You, Ne-Yo
4. Traveling, Utada Hikaru
   
5. Extraordinary, Liz Phair
   
6. Love Shack, B-52's
7. When I'm Gone, The Click Five
8. First Time, Lifehouse
   
9. Toxic, Britney Spears
   
10. California Love, 2Pac

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I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use.
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If loving people is a bit of heaven then certainly isolation is a bit of hell, and to that degree, here on earth, we decide in which state we would like to live.

Blue Like Jazz, Donald Miller