New Year's Resolutions

Despite it all, I think last year's resolutions were fulfilled successfully. For 2012:

1. Walk again and again
2. Spot yet more critters and beasts
3. Observe the hours of the universe
4. Enjoy apocalyptic visions of a semiperfect nature
5. SLAY THE MONSTER

five months later

really? my, how time has flown.

May Day

I am happy to report that I fell quite spectacularly in the mud today. I am happy to report that I was covered in said squelchy, wet mud from ass to ankles for the next hour. I am happy to report that I sunk to my knees in snow today. I am happy to report that I saw a mysterious head nailed to a tree today. I am happy to report that I came across several large piles of poop today. I am happy to report that the gloom of yesterday is gone, and the sun is out today. I am happy to report that I took advantage of that sun to take a trek on one of my favorite local trails up at the top of Emigration canyon. I am happy to report that it was a lovely trek, even if it took me through some wintry scenes. I am happy to report that experiencing snowy scenes on a fine spring first day of May when you can feel the warmth of sunshine on your face is much, much better than experiencing snowy scenes outside of your window as you cower in despair under the warmth of your covers cursing this long winter of discontent on a cold, gray last day of April. I am happy to report that the clouds were fluffy, and only accentuated the fine blueness of the sky beneath. I am happy to report that I have noticed for the first time how lovely and delicate sage looks against a field of snow. I am happy to report that the mountains are still majestic, and the canyons do not disappoint. I am happy to report for duty in this world, today.

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quote for today

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Franz Kafka

team pie

I can't believe I ate cake on pi day yesterday. Oh well.

cleaning house musical medley

I hope you know that this will go down on your permanent record!
Oh, yeah? Well, don't get so distressed
Did I happen to mention that I'm impressed?
A yellow-headed woman
Brings you nothin' but pain
Take all you give her
She leaves only shame
Flowers on the hillside blooming crazy
Crickets talking back and forth in rhyme
Blue river running slow and lazy
I could stay with you forever and never realize the time
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky
Misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye
Will you think of times you've told me
That you knew the reason
Why we had to each be lonely
It was just the season
If you're in Heaven then you'll forgive me, dear
Because that's what they do up there
If you're in Hell, then what can I say
You probably deserved it anyway
Get the kids and bring a sweater
Dry is good and wind is better
Count the years, you always knew it
Strike a match, go on and do it
Walk with me now under the stars
It's a safe and easy pleasure
It seems we can be happy now
It's late but it ain't never

apparently I joke too soon..

silly dog, you're not a clown

musical medley on a moody day

let me take your hand
i'm shaking like milk
turning
turning blue
People watch me as they move past
A guy wearing plastic antlers
Presses his bum against the glass
My will and self-restraint
Have come to fail now, fail now
See, I'm doing what I can, but I can't so you know
That's a bit too hard to explain
I don't think I told you, I feel terrible
I've been sitting in this chair since Sunday
In the same clothes with unwashed hair
There was four Italian sausages cooking
On the outdoor grill
And they were sizzlin'
I don’t know what’s right and what’s real anymore
I don’t know how I’m meant to feel anymore
When do you think it will all become clear?
Well it ain't that tough
Just more of the usual stuff
One heartache is more than enough
I really should have known
By the time you drove me home
By the vagueness in your eyes
Like an idea
Like an Atom bomb
Sly as a fox and crazy as a loon
Payday comes and he's howlin' at the moon
Oh, experience is cheap
if that's the company you keep
and a chance is all that I need
and I've had it
It ain't that in their hearts they're bad
They'd stick by you if they could
But that's just bullshit
People just ain't no good
Help Me Sing It, Ma Ma Se,
Ma Ma Sa, Ma Ma Coo Sa
Ma Ma Se, Ma Ma Sa,
Ma Ma Coo Sa

Don't let mistakes be so monumental, and
Don't let your love be so confidential, and
Don't let your mind be so darn judgmental
And please let your heart be more influential

ALL causes?

So, apparently the clowns are going to eat me 6 years earlier than they would have. Because of my sweet, sweet diabetic blood.

Birthday Wisdom

It has been a beautiful birthday eve, upon which I share this wisdom:

"The world always says the same thing. And in that patient truth which proceeds from star to star is established a freedom that releases us from ourselves and from others, as in that other patient truth which proceeds from death to death."

--Albert Camus

At A Loss

Things I have left behind/lost this week:

1. my blackberry
2. my keys
3. my purse
4. a folder of important documents for a meeting
5. another document with important signatures
6. the jazz game, big time

Ok, maybe "I" didn't lost the game, but I feel like they definitely picked up on my losing jinx. That game sucked.

New Year's Resolutions

1. Enjoy various kinds of movement
2. Spot some critters and beasts
3. Observe the workings of the universe
4. Lean and loaf at my ease
5. Sound some barbaric YAWPS