Big thanks to Papi Chulo and Secret Agent Scotch for the amazing tickets!
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1. If you feel a burning need to tell someone to shut up more than three times in one day with ANY consistency....get out.
2. If you have to resist rolling your eyes twice a day with ANY consistency....get out.
3. If you find yourself adding a "...but" after any complement you give someone...get out.
4. If you're more preoccupied with what others THINK you are feeling rather than being sure yourself...get out.
5. If you spend 25% of your time pretending you aren't angry when you are...get out.
6. If your friends have to remind you or offer you compelling reasons to not get out....get out. (And get new friends)
7. If you feel a need to explain or justify your s/o's behavior to get that appalled look off of your loved ones faces or feel alright with your circumstances...get out.
But be warned about taking my advice. I'm a chronically single woman. Perhaps I have no earthly clue what I'm talking about, or I'm the most intolerant person on the planet.
At a two day management off-site. My favorite parts are the personality tests.
Color me yellow, mostly. Except for the jelly beans. With those, I like the black licorice ones best.
The bad things:
- The sweating
- The things at the back of the cupboards
- Self-deception
- Breaking up is hard to do
- Heartburn and other forms of indigestion
- Sleep shortage
- Negotiating, particularly with an attorney involved
- The proliferation of homeless people
- Schizophrenic in the showers at the gym, having loud arguments with herself
- Anorexic/ skeletal girl changing at the gym to whom I would like to feed ice cream
- Missed deliveries
- Phone books
- Sun and thunderstorms
- The Oregon Coast
- mint.com
- Cute bird who wants her head scratched
- Guided by Voices
- Morning Pages
- The sunlight in my living room
- Flex-time
- Health insurance, for free
- Chocolate Chunk cookie from Dahlia bakery
- New laptop @ work - no more carrying mine back and forth
- Powell's books
- Yoga
Seattle is HOT after 6months of 40 degree cloudy drizzle, it is a nice change. Sadly for me, heat makes me groggy and cranky and, well, pretty useless. Combine with that the fact that the relationship I was in for the last 9 months or so just ended (amicably but heartbreakingly), and I could not sleep much at all over the weekend, and I ate a hotdog that made me almost throw up from acid reflux, and the movie I was planning to see tonight isn't playing tonight, and I accidentally deleted about 1,000 words of my memoir... well, I'm pretty much not having fun. I could use a happy surprise of some kind.
I blogged about one of our great weddings over on my other blog, and forgot to post about it on Vox, whoops!
I've been feeling a wee bit sorry for myself, for no particular reason other than a confluence of life's regular up and down stresses and a need to remind myself to focus on what I have to be grateful for.
When I get like that I tend to make myself feel better by buying things and so last week I opened my Amazon Wishlist and one-clicked ordered a couple of new lens for the camera; a telephoto * and a macro **. I haven't played around much with the telephoto, but yesterday I took a few shots with the macro just to start to learn the settings.
I'm feeling better already.
* Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 IS
** the Canon EF-S 60mm f 2.8 Macro USM
