tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45774644700960601702024-02-19T07:13:37.725-05:00Life Lessons 101Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077438939282635021noreply@blogger.comBlogger388125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4577464470096060170.post-86872196940902401472013-11-12T12:01:00.003-05:002013-11-12T12:01:24.701-05:00Time for a funeral - Part 1When I was a senior in high school, I had an excellent english writing teacher. There were several things about her that I truly admired and have tried to emulate as an adult.<br />
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First, she had a way of quieting the volume level in the room that I truly admired. If members of the class were being particularly obnoxious and talking with one another rather than listening to her, she didn't shout or make a loud noise or call the offenders out in any way. She simply stopped talking. It was genius! She would stop whatever she was doing and simply stand there looking at them. She didn't scowl or glare at them. She simply stood patiently until they stopped. Most of the time the offenders would notice and stop on their own, but if they didn't, other members of the class would do her dirty work and tell them to be quiet. It was so simple....and so effective!<br />
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She also had a way of teaching a lesson in a way that made it stick in our minds. For instance, apparently there were quite a few members of our class who thought that "alot" was a word. So one day she came into class dressed all in black with a black lace veil. She cued up a tape of a funeral dirge and proceeded to tell us that that day we were having a funeral for "alot". She eulogized "alot" and everything. It was great. To this day, 20+ years later, I ALWAYS remember that "alot" is not a word and, in fact, I believe she improved my writing as a whole because I never use "a lot" if I can substitute something else that is more descriptive.<br />
<br />Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077438939282635021noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4577464470096060170.post-35347292640666732982013-06-21T00:33:00.001-04:002013-06-21T00:38:50.580-04:00Maybe it was Plan B all alongDriving home this evening, Colbie Caillat's remake/remix of The Script's Breakeven song came on the radio. This was maybe the third or fourth time I'd heard it. I remember the first time I heard it, I was completely mesmerized. I loved it from the first second. I loved it in a <i>put-it-on-repeat-until-the-record-breaks</i> kind of way. Yes, I'd heard the lyrics and tune before, but somehow THIS version spoke to me in a way that the original hadn't.<br />
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This made me think of the Dixie Chick's remake of the original Fleetwood Mac "Landslide". It was another song that I was surprised when I loved the cover more than the original and the original is an amazing song. Once again, something about the Dixie Chicks cover spoke to me.</div>
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As my mind continued to wander, it occurred to me that maybe sometimes life is like that. After all, some people believe that The Godfather II was better than the original.</div>
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On the cusp of my 40th birthday, I can't help but think this life that I'm leading was most definitely NOT the first version of my plan. In Plan A, by the time I was 40, I would be well-established and well thought of in my career. I would be witnessing life through the eyes of my teenage child as they experienced all of the teenaged angst as I once did. I would curl up at night next to my partner, my rock, my husband.</div>
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Instead, my life has become Plan B. Not only do I not have a teenager, I have no children at all. I stopped taking exams long ago and have settled as a data analyst rather than a full-fledged actuary. The only thing curling up next to me as I nod off at night is a dog. And that's only on her terms ..... if she's cold.</div>
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On the other hand, Plan B has a lot to recommend it. Outside of my work commitments, I have lots of freedom and answer to no one. If I want to take off for a ride on my motorcycle or spend a whole Saturday playing bridge, I can do it. As long as the dog gets walked and the bills get paid, my time is my own. A few weeks ago I bought a new car. I did my research to make sure I was making a good purchase, but other than that, I consulted no one. I didn't ask for anyone's opinion and it didn't occur to me to do so.</div>
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I often times also think that if I was knee deep in Plan A, I wouldn't be the person I am today. I can imagine that with my upbringing, I would have simply followed the herd and done what everyone else does. The sad thing is that it never would have occurred to me to STOP following the herd and figure out who I really am. For me, this journey to self-discovery is best undertaken all by myself. My inner voice is awfully quiet and if I wasn't able to get away from it all, I might never hear what she has to say.</div>
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So maybe some day when I am old and gray, I will look back and realize that Plan B was always the song that spoke to me.</div>
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* 8 hugs a day for maintenance.</div>
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* 12 hugs a day for growth.</div>
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Growing up, I don't remember a lot of hugging going on in my family. My mom didn't really tuck me into bed at night because she was usually still at work. I didn't witness any spontaneous hugging between my parents. Even to this day, my dad is one of the most awkward huggers I've experienced. I think it comes from the fact that HIS family weren't huggers. The only time that there was much of any hugging in my house growing up was when family came to visit for holidays. Then it could be heard, "Heather, come give your aunt and uncle a hug before they leave."</div>
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I remember wanting more hugs.<br />
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There really is very little that is better than a really great hug. Whether we are each huggers or not, we all KNOW what a good hug feels like. And what a less than ideal hug feels like.<br />
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I hate one-armed huggers. I'm not referring to those people who have had to experience an amputation, but those people whose attempts at hugging are half-hearted at best. And you can tell. They think that just swinging one arm around for 1/2 a second counts as a hug. It doesn't.</div>
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I think a real hug only occurs when your arms are emptied and your hearts are filled. A real hug involves two people sharing a moment of contact with one another where they exchange the heat of their bodies and the warmth of their hearts.<br />
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There is a young man at the church that I go to who is a blue-ribbon, gold-medal, 5-star award-winning hugger! During the "passing of the peace" when others are greeting one another with a nod or a handshake or a "Peace be with you", he is hugging. He hugs his family and his friends. He hugs acquaintance and people who are first-time visitors.<br />
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I know that we all need hugs and most people want hugs, but I still find myself afraid of that wretched possibility of rejection. There's the possibility that someone could say, "I'm not a hugger." If they do, should I take it personally? Is it that they just don't want to hug me?<br />
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I swear I shower every day and brush twice a day, but I seem to have this affect on other creatures, human or otherwise.<br />
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I often overhear people complaining about their dogs who ALWAYS have to be near them and are constantly wanting to be petted. Oh, how I wish for this problem. <a href="http://growingplacesnow.blogspot.com/2009/09/dogs-days-of-summer.html" target="_blank">Sasha</a> is literally the only dog I've ever met that has zero interest in being petted. At least by me. One of my cats occasionally comes out of hiding long enough to rub up against my leg, but then only lets me stroke her once or twice before running off again.<br />
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On a recent trip to visit my family, as I was getting ready to leave, I asked my 2 1/2 year-old niece if I could have a hug. Her response was an adamant "NO!" I tried not to let it break my heart.<br />
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On an average day, according to the 4/8/12 hug standard, I am coming in well below survival status. With no husband, no one that I'm dating, no roommate and no family around, I literally can't remember the last time anyone hugged me.<br />
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Maybe it's because others have that same fear of being rejected.<br />
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So, how do we turn this around? How do we make sure each of us is getting enough daily hugs for growth?<br />
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* Every day after that, make sure you get enough hugs to grow.</div>
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Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077438939282635021noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4577464470096060170.post-58699428458670051972013-04-25T09:23:00.000-04:002013-04-25T09:23:02.882-04:00Happy Birthday, Ella!Today would have been the 96th birthday of the incomparable <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Fitzgerald" target="_blank">Ella Fitzgerald</a>. Here's to you, Ms. Fitzgerald!<br />
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If I should suddenly start to sing<br />Or stand on my head or anything<br />Don't think that I've lost my senses<br />It's just that my happiness finally commences<br /><br />The long long ages of dull despair<br />Are turning into thin air<br />And it seems that suddenly I've<br />Become the happiest girl alive<br /><br />Things are looking up<br />I've been looking the landscape over<br />And it's covered with 4 leaf clover<br />Oh things are looking up<br />Since love looked up at me<br /><br />Bitter was my cup<br />But no more will I be the mourner<br />For I've certainly turned the corner<br />Oh things are looking up<br />Since love looked up at me<br /><br />See the sunbeams<br />Every one beams<br />Just because of you<br />Love's in session<br />And my depression<br />Is unmistakably through<br /><br />Things are looking up<br />It's a great little world we live in<br />Oh I'm happy as a pup<br />Since love looked up at me<br /><br />(bridge)<br /><br />See the sunbeams<br />Every one beams<br />Just because of you<br />Love's in session<br />And my depression<br />Is unmistakably through<br /><br />Things are looking up<br />It's a great little world we live in<br />Oh I'm happy as a pup<br />Since love looked up at me</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Wait, do you see my heart on my sleeve?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">It's been there for days on end and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">It's been waiting for you to open up</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Just you baby, come on now</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I'm trying to tell you just how</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I'd like to hear the words roll out of your mouth finally</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Say that it's always been me</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">That's made you feel a way you've never felt before</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">And I'm all you need and that you never want more</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Then you'd say all of the right things without a clue</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">But you'd save the best for last</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Like I'm the one for you</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">You should know that you're just a temporary fix</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">This is not rooted with you it don't mean that much to me</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">You're just a filler in the space that happened to be free</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">How dare you think you'd get away with trying to play me</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Why is it everytime I think I've tried my hardest</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">It turns out it ain't enough cause you're still not mentioning love</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">What am I supposed to do to make you want me properly?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I'm taking these chances and getting away</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">And though I'm trying my hardest you go back to her</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">And I think that I know things may never change</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I'm still hoping one day I might hear you say</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I make you feel a way you've never felt before</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">And I'm all you need and that you never want more</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Then you'd say all of the right things without a clue</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">But you'd save the best for last</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Like I'm the one for you</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">You should know that you're just a </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIfqAKiNAZ0#" id="_GPLITA_1" in_rurl="http://i.trkjmp.com/click?v=VVM6MzA5OTc6NDp0ZW1wb3Jhcnk6M2E1NDEzMDcwZjE2YmQ5NmM3NGM4YzY0ZmE0ZDk1Njk6ei0xMzIyLTExODUwODp3d3cueW91dHViZS5jb206MjgyMzU6NDFmY2YwZDkxNThmOTg0OTc4NDhjOTAzNDA1YmZjZDQ" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #438bc5; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="Click to Continue > by Coupon Companion">temporary</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"> fix</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">This is not rooted with you it don't mean that much to me</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">You're just a filler in the space that happened to be free</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">How dare you think you'd get away with trying to play me</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">But, despite the truth that I know</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I find it hard to let go and give up on you</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Seems I love the things you do</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Like the meaner you treat me the more eager I am</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">To persist with this heartbreak and running around</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">And I think that I know things may never change</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I'm still hoping one day I might hear you say</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I make you feel a way you've never felt before</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">And I'm all you need and that you never want more</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">And we'll say all of the right things without a clue</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">And you'll be the one for me and me the one for you</span>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077438939282635021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4577464470096060170.post-31580067778286302962013-02-22T10:12:00.001-05:002013-02-22T10:13:35.781-05:00Weekend Showoff<div style="text-align: center;">
I'm participating in the Weekend Showoff over at Ladybird Ln! Check it out!</div>
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Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077438939282635021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4577464470096060170.post-22352911477533782982013-02-22T05:41:00.001-05:002013-02-22T16:21:38.587-05:00Lent Project: #3 Baby Ballistic Vest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sometimes my mad sewing skills go unrecognized. Other times, I am called upon to fill requests by friends and family members. Lent Sewing Project #3 is most definitely the latter.</div>
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Earlier this week, my sister-in-law sent me a message via Facebook with a special request. She and my brother are attempting to get my niece potty-trained and apparently they told her that if she would wear big girl panties, she could have her own <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletproof_vest" target="_blank">ballistic vest</a>. Her daddy (my brother) is a police officer and he wears one. She wants to be just like her daddy!</div>
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So, it's Aunt Heather to the rescue! When they made this somewhat odd request, I knew exactly what I would use. Black pre-quilted fabric was the only logical choice. It gives that quilted kevlar look and weighs next to nothing. Score!</div>
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<li>Pre-quilted black fabric (cotton)</li>
<li>Black double-fold bias tape</li>
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Total cost: just under $10. (And I still have some letters and about 1/4 yard of fabric remaining.)</div>
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I started with Miss Madi's measurements and it just worked out that if I folded the fabric in half, it was the perfect length to go from her neck to her waist. Yay!</div>
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Once I had folded it half, I cut it evenly on each side to be the right width and I used a saucepan lid to cut the neck hole in the center. Hey, you use what you have, right?</div>
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I can't wait to see it on her and to see her reaction to it! I'm so excited and I'm thrilled with the way it turned out! I might just have to make one for myself for my Halloween costume this year!!<br />
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To see the whole list of Lent projects, go <a href="http://growingplacesnow.blogspot.com/2013/02/lent-project-1.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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Project #2 on my <a href="http://growingplacesnow.blogspot.com/2013/02/lent-project-1.html" target="_blank">Lenten Sewing To Do List</a>: A black and red fleece "no sew" throw.</div>
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Although I'd heard they weren't difficult, I'd never actually tackled one of these fleece blankets that you tie. Difficult? No Time consuming? A bit. I picked up this blanket on clearance at Joann's a few months back for a little less than $16.00. I chose to "weave" the edges together rather than tie it and I like the way it turned out. I simply pinned the edges together all the way around so that all of the edges would match, snipped a fringe that was about 4 inches deep and about 1 inch wide, snipped a slit in the middle of each fringe and then alternated weaving the black fleece part and the patterned fleece parts. It ended up making what sort of looks like a braided edge.</div>
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For my next feat of creativity, I will do another no-sew fleece blanket. This time it will be pink and brown for my bedroom and I think I'll do the traditional tying of the edges. Stay tuned!<br />
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To see the whole list of Lent projects, go <a href="http://growingplacesnow.blogspot.com/2013/02/lent-project-1.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Anyone who really knows me knows that music is very important to me. Whether it's <a href="http://growingplacesnow.blogspot.com/2009/10/fabulous-friday-finds-cari-ray.html" target="_blank">on purpose</a> or not, I am constantly on the lookout for musical artists that move me in some way. Most of the time, I stumble upon them through friends who know of my interest or by going to some show in a small, poorly lit bar. It is not often that I come across a group that I really enjoy that is on the verge of going mainstream.</div>
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So imagine my surprise when I was awestruck by Alabama Shakes on Saturday Night Live this past weekend! They are most definitely my current obsession. I love the lead singer's raspy voice and the lyrics are amazing.</div>
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I grew up in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutheranism" target="_blank">Lutheran</a> church and because the denomination originally branched off from the Catholic church, many followers give up something for the season of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lent" target="_blank">Lent</a>. In the past, I've given up chocolate, soda, complaining, etc etc etc. In some years I've also added an activity (prayer, exercise, etc) to each day. </div>
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Although I now consider myself more spiritual than religious, some habits die hard. At this point, my life and schedule has become so hectic (as evidenced by my virtual MIA status on here) I think giving something up would be easy. Instead, I've decided to challenge myself by adding an activity to my schedule.</div>
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I'll use the time that I spend on that activity in a sort of meditation in the way I've heard many people do with household chores they don't like. I'll give my thoughts during that time up to the universe and ask that she bless the work of my hands and the results of my actions.</div>
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So, what activity am I adding? Sewing. I enjoy sewing quite a bit, but I've bitten off quite a bit in the last 6 months and it's time to start whittling down that To Do list! My plan is to spend at least 20 minutes each day sewing. Wish me luck because at this point, there are some days where finding 20 minutes to eat is a struggle!</div>
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<li><strike><a href="http://growingplacesnow.blogspot.com/2013/02/lent-project-1.html" target="_blank">Old sweater to new pillow</a></strike></li>
<li>Napkin pillows (X 4)</li>
<li>T-shirt quilt - Haley</li>
<li>T-shirt quilt - Erin</li>
<li>T-shirt quilt - IU</li>
<li>T-shirt quilt - Car emergency blanket</li>
<li>Charity quilt</li>
<li>Crown Royal quilt</li>
<li>Brown/pink lap quilt for bedroom</li>
<li>Brown/pink fleece tied blanket</li>
<li>Red/Black lap quilt for living room</li>
<li><a href="http://growingplacesnow.blogspot.com/2013/02/lent-project-2.html" target="_blank"><strike>Red/Black fleece tied blanket</strike></a></li>
<li>Comforter fix/transformation</li>
<li>Car seat covers</li>
<li>Xmas gift for Chris #1</li>
<li>Xmas gift for Chris #2</li>
<li>Madi's quiet books (X2)</li>
<li><a href="http://growingplacesnow.blogspot.com/2013/02/lent-project-3-baby-ballistic-vest.html" target="_blank"><strike>"Ballistic vest" for Madi</strike></a></li>
<li>Cover wire-framed "baskets"</li>
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True to my word, I got started promptly on Ash Wednesday. Last night I finished up the first project. Yay!</div>
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I had a black cashmere sweater that is so soft and that I LOVED. I bought it about 10 years ago and basically wore it until I discovered a hole under the arm a few months back. I was crushed!!</div>
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I try not to be a hoarder, but I decided that rather than get rid of it, I would keep it and see if there was anything I could do with it. A few days ago, I was thinking about pillows for my living room. The room has black furniture and red walls and I thought that a cashmere pillow would make a lovely addition to the room.</div>
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Since I already had pillow forms at my house, I cut off the offensive holey sleeves, stitched up the bottom, sides and top, added a piece of fabric that I already had laying around as a little bow and popped the new addition on the couch. Doesn't she look so pretty? Total cost? $0.00. Yay!</div>
Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077438939282635021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4577464470096060170.post-7849355882404622542013-01-23T10:31:00.000-05:002013-01-23T10:31:00.453-05:00Dar Williams - Farewell to the Old Me<span class="line line-s" id="line_1" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">[Click <a href="http://www.kovideo.net/farewell-to-the-old-me-lyrics-dar-williams-270082.html" target="_blank">here</a> to play the song]</span></span><span class="line line-s" id="line_1" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><span class="line line-s" id="line_1" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><span class="line line-s" id="line_1" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><span class="line line-s" id="line_1" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><span class="line line-s" id="line_1" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">"Farewell to the Old Me" - <a href="http://darwilliams.net/" target="_blank">Dar Williams</a></span><span class="line line-s" id="line_1" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><span class="line line-s" id="line_1" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">How can I ask love to hold the mystery</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_2" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">When just look at me</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_3" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">It's all push and pull collateral</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_4" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">I don't want to be the one who gets the next surprise</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_5" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">I'll plan it out this time</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_6" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Though I used to think that things were meant to be</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_6" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="line line-s" id="line_7" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Farewell to the old me</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_8" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Farewell to the old me</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_9" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">My life is working better now</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_10" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">It's always changing anyhow</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_10" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="line line-s" id="line_11" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">I danced a lot of nights until the grass was wet</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_12" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">It wasn't over yet</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_13" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">'Round 'bout 3 am you made a friend</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_14" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">And I followed a lot of vital crazy thoughts because</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_15" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">It's where the meaning was</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_16" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">And I tried to find it every other way</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_16" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="line line-s" id="line_17" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Farewell to the old me</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_18" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Farewell to the old me</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_19" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">My life is working better now</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_20" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">But always changing anyhow</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_20" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="line line-s" id="line_21" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">But I can turn on the charm</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_22" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">And show them nothing more</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_23" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Than what I've done before</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_24" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">It's nothing much new</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_25" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">But it'll do</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_25" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="line line-s" id="line_26" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">'Cause I don't wanna be the one</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_27" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Who makes you laugh out loud</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_28" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">I wanna make you proud</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_29" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">And you always said you knew what I could be</span><br />
<span class="line line-s" id="line_30" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">So farewell to the old me</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_30" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><span class="line line-s" id="line_31" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Farewell to the old me</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_32" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Farewell to the old me</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_33" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">My life is working better now</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_34" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">But always changing anyhow</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_34" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><br />
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$100 win from a $1 ticket. Not too shabby. I guess I get to cross that off of the list!</div>
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Happy Friday, ya'll!</div>
Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077438939282635021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4577464470096060170.post-70585539413327582762012-12-21T16:40:00.000-05:002012-12-21T16:40:57.814-05:00Sometimes there are no words....<div style="text-align: left;">
Sometimes there are no words.</div>
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Sometimes it's too hard for me to express all of the things in my heart and on my mind.</div>
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Sometimes there is a smile on my face and a tear in my heart.</div>
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Sometimes my heart feels ready to burst from the love that I feel.</div>
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...Thank goodness there always lyrics......</div>
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I know all the lines to say<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />The part I’m expected to play<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />But in the reflection I am worlds away<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />As I put my costume on<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Eyelashes one by one<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Been doing this so long I can tie the knot<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Behind my back<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />And everyone’s waiting<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />But it’s getting harder to hear what my heart is saying<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Cos everyone’s waiting<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />"Just swallow and breathe," she says,<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />"Remember this ain’t for you it’s for them<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />And all of those painful lessons you’ve had to learn<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />You gotta use them now or never"<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Cos everyone’s waiting<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />But it’s getting harder to hear<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />What my heart keeps saying<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Turn it off, I wanna turn it all off<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />When everyone’s waiting<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />It makes it harder to hear what my heart keeps saying<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Turn it off, I wanna turn it all off<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />But everyone’s waiting<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I hear that answers appear when you just stand still<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />But make it all, how do you make it all stop<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />When everyone’s waiting?<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Everyone's waiting.</div>
Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077438939282635021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4577464470096060170.post-44358385256762089032012-12-21T08:00:00.000-05:002012-12-21T08:00:10.221-05:00"The Last Day on Earth"<div style="text-align: center;">
In honor of the Mayans and all they have to say about today, it seems only appropriate to share this today:</div>
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<span class="line line-s" id="line_1" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><u>The Last Day on Earth - Kate Miller-Heidke</u></span><span class="line line-s" id="line_1" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><span class="line line-s" id="line_1" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Look down</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_2" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">The ground below is crumbling</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_3" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Look up</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_4" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">The stars are all exploding</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; text-align: left;" /><span class="line line-s" id="line_5" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">It's the last day on earth</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_6" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">In my dreams, in my dreams</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_7" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">It's the end of the world</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_8" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">And you've come back to me in my dreams</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; text-align: left;" /><span class="line line-s" id="line_9" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Between</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_10" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">The dust and the debris</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_11" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">There's a light</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_12" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Surrounding you and me</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; text-align: left;" /><span class="line line-s" id="line_13" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">It's the last day on earth</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_14" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">In my dreams, in my dreams</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_15" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">It's the end of the world</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_16" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">And you've come back to me in my dreams</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; text-align: left;" /><span class="line line-s" id="line_17" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">And you hold me closer</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_18" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Than I can ever remember being held</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_19" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">I'm not afraid to sleep now</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_20" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">If we can stay like this until</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; text-align: left;" /><span class="line line-s" id="line_21" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">It's the last day on earth</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_22" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">In my dreams, in my dreams</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_23" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">It's the end of the world</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_24" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">And you've come back to me</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; text-align: left;" /><span class="line line-s" id="line_25" style="border: 0px; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="line line-s" id="line_25" style="border: 0px; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">In my head I replay our conversations</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_26" style="border: 0px; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Over and over 'til they feel like hallucinations</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_27" style="border: 0px; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">You know me, I love to lose my mind</span><br style="font-size: 12px;" /><span class="line line-s" id="line_28" style="border: 0px; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">And every time</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_29" style="border: 0px; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anybody speaks your name</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_30" style="border: 0px; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">I still feel the same</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_31" style="border: 0px; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">I ache, I ache, I ache inside</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_32" style="border: 0px; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><span class="line line-s" id="line_39" style="border: 0px; display: block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">I ache, I ache, I ache inside</span><span class="line line-s" id="line_40" style="border: 0px; 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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane -</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn -</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">world serves its own needs, regardless of your own needs. Feed it up a knock,</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">speed, grunt no, strength no. Ladder structure clatter with fear of height,</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">down height. Wire in a fire, represent the seven games in a government for</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">hire and a combat site</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">. Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry with the furies</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">crop. Look at that low plane! Fine then. Uh oh, overflow, population,</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">common group, but it'll do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">own needs, listen to your heart bleed</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">. Tell me with the rapture and the</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">reverent in the right - right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">light, feeling pretty psyched.</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">It's the end of the world as we know it.</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">It's the end of the world as we know it.</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">Six o'clock - TV hour</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">. Don't get caught in foreign tower. Slash and burn,</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">return, listen to yourself churn. Lock him in uniform and book burning,</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">blood letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate. Light a candle,</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">light a motive. Step down, step down. Watch a heel crush, crush. Uh oh,</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">this means no fear - cavalier. Renegade and steer clear! A tournament,</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">a tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">and I decline.</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">It's the end of the world as we know it.</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">It's the end of the world as we know it.</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">The other night I tripped a nice continental drift divide. Mount St. Edelite.</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">Leonard Bernstein. Leonid Breshnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">.</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You symbiotic, patriotic,</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">slam, but neck, right? Right.</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">It's the end of the world as we know it.</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">It's the end of the world as we know it.</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine...fine...</span><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Vernada, Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;">(It's time I had some time alone)</span></span></span></div>
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Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077438939282635021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4577464470096060170.post-13570247719312378422012-12-14T15:14:00.000-05:002012-12-14T15:14:03.175-05:00Maybe it's time to ....Begin Again<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">Took a deep breath in the mirror</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">He didn't like it when I wore high heels</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">But I do</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">Turn the lock and put my headphones on</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">He always said he didn't get this song</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">But I do, I do</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">Walked in expecting you'd be late</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">But you got here early and you stand and wave</span><br style="background-color: white; 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text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">I've been spending the last 8 months</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">Thinking all love ever does</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">Is break and burn and end</span><br style="background-color: white; 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color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">We tell stories and you don't know why</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">I'm coming off a little shy</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">But I do</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">And you throw your head back laughing</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">Like a little kid</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">I think it's strange that you think I'm funny cause</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">He never did</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">I've been spending the last 8 months</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">Thinking all love ever does</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">Is break and burn and end</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">But on a Wednesday in a cafe</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">I watched it begin again</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">And we walked down the block, to my car</span><br style="background-color: white; 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line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">And I want to talk about that</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">And for the first time</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">What's past is past</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">And you throw your head back laughing</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">Like a little kid</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">I think it's strange that you think I'm funny cause</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">He never did</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">I've been spending the last 8 months</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">Thinking all love ever does</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">Is break and burn and end</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">But on a Wednesday in a cafe</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">I watched it begin again</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">But on a Wednesday in a cafe</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.399999618530273px; text-align: left;">I watched it begin again</span></div>
Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077438939282635021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4577464470096060170.post-35332137847461627772012-12-04T14:30:00.004-05:002012-12-04T14:30:59.563-05:00A Little Bird<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold;">A little bird told me late last night</span><span style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold;"> </span></div>
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If I hold my breath and do everything right </div>
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You might come back </div>
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If I colour my hair and I wear it down </div>
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And I make you laugh like a circus clown </div>
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You might come back </div>
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And a little bird said with a wink of an eye </div>
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If I beg real hard and I do not cry </div>
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You might come back </div>
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If I keep my opinion under my breath </div>
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And I only bring it out when the master says </div>
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You might come back </div>
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Chorus: </div>
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But I don't want you that bad </div>
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No I don't want you that bad </div>
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Well a little bird told me as plain as day </div>
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If I change my name and I change my way </div>
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You might come back </div>
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If I sell my soul for the greater cause </div>
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If I burn my records and I listen to yours </div>
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<span style="color: #3c3c3c;">You might come back</span><span style="color: #3c3c3c;"> </span></div>
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And the little bird said in the middle of a dream </div>
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If I shut my mouth and I don't make a scene </div>
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You might come back </div>
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If I cross my fingers and I curl my toes </div>
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If I look like the other girls everybody knows </div>
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You might come back </div>
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Chorus </div>
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But I don't want you that bad </div>
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No I don't want you that bad </div>
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No I don't want you that bad </div>
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No I don't want you that bad </div>
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Well a little bird told me </div>
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A little bird told me </div>
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A little bird told me </div>
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A little bird told me </div>
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A little bird told me </div>
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A little bird told me </div>
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A little bird told me </div>
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A little bird told me</div>
</span>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077438939282635021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4577464470096060170.post-46580746051822328312012-12-04T10:40:00.000-05:002012-12-04T10:40:21.498-05:00Nothing at all<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">One was the light in a candle</span><br style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Two was the colour of the rain</span><br style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Three was a fall in deeper</span><br style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Four was a cry and shame</span><br style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Five was a shiver in the winter</span><br style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Six was a losing card</span><br style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Seven was the hope I would never fall too hard</span><br style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">One was a breath under water</span><br style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Two was a crash and burn</span><br style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Three was a ghost of the lover</span><br style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Four was a lot to learn</span><br style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Five was the livin' in a cradle</span><br style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Six was a mercy cry</span><br style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Seven was the hope you would never say goodbye</span><br style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">You win</span><br /><span style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">I lose</span><br style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">You leave with nothin' to prove</span><br style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">You rise, I fall</span><em style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #555555; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;"><br /></em><span style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">I leave with nothing</span><br style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Nothing at all</span><br style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: #b8bcad; 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color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Four was the last to believe</span><br style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Five was a break in the weather</span><br style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Six was back to the start</span><br style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: #b8bcad; color: #3c3c3c; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Seven was the hope it would never go this far</span><br style="background-color: #b8bcad; 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Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077438939282635021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4577464470096060170.post-72511340077722911722012-11-13T15:46:00.002-05:002012-11-15T13:58:16.319-05:00Life lessons from Doctor Who<br />
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I've recently been enjoying watching the rebirth of the british television series <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who" target="_blank">Doctor Who</a> introduced to me by a friend at work. I noticed an uptick in Doctor Who apparel this year at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gencon" target="_blank">GenCon</a> and I wondered what all the fuss was about. This friend is a big fan of the series and he's graciously shared his DVD collection of the series with me. So each weekday afternoon, I heat up my lunch, grab my DVD and sit down for an episode of The Doctor.</div>
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I was a bit unsure in the very early stages, but I have to admit that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Eccleston" target="_blank">Christopher Eccleston</a> drew me in as my first Doctor. When <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tennant" target="_blank">David Tennant</a> took over at the end of Season 1 (the Doctor doesn't ever die. He just regenerates), I was crushed and swore my eternal allegiance to CE, but now I love DT. Sigh. A girl can be fickle, right?</div>
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Along with the Doctor, there are also the Doctor's companions. The first companion that I was introduced to was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Tyler" target="_blank">Rose Tyler</a>. She was a somewhat simple shopgirl from London. She was fun, but a tad clingy and always dumping her on-again-off-again boyfriend, Micky, whenever the Doctor glanced in her general direction. She ended her run with the Doctor scratching and clawing trying to get back to him, essentially.</div>
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His next companion was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Jones" target="_blank">Martha Jones</a>, a medical student and a woman with her own mind. Her run with the Doctor only lasted one season with him and I most definitely related to her closing lines as she left the Doctor standing in his Tardis setting out on his next adventure:</div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="color: magenta;">Martha Jones</span></u>: I
spent a lot of time with you thinking I was second best, but you know what? I
AM good.... Are you gonna be all right?<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div>
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Yeah.<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>….’Cause the thing is….it’s
like my friend Vicki. She lived with this bloke. Student housing. There were
five of them all packed in and this bloke was called Shawn. And she loved him.
She did. She COMPLETELY adored him. Spent all day long talking about him.<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div>
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…’Cause he never looked at her twice. I mean, he liked her. That was it. And
she wasted years pining after him. Years of her life. Because while he was
around, she never looked at anyone else. And I told her…I always said to her…time
and time again, I said, “Get. Out.” ......So this is me. Getting out.</b></span></i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077438939282635021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4577464470096060170.post-81971003204863297762012-10-05T08:51:00.001-04:002012-10-24T15:25:56.344-04:00"As it seems"<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/0rz0HcvnkH0" width="420"></iframe><br />
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Well in this life you must find something to live for, cause when the darkness comes a callin' you'll go back to where you were before. Cause this life is as fragile as a dream, and nothing's ever really as it seems...</div>
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As it seems</div>
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As it seems</div>
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As it seems</div>
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Well I lost my innocence when in I let him dive, but the way that he looked at me made me feel alive. And now I know nothin' at all, but the release that comes when you're in mid fall...</div>
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In mid fall</div>
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In mid fall</div>
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In mid fall</div>
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Cause in this life you must find something to live for; cause when the darkness comes a callin' you'll go back to where you were before. Cause this life is as fragile as a dream, and nothing's ever really as it seems... </div>
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As it seems</div>
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As it seems</div>
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As it seems</div>
</span></span></span>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077438939282635021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4577464470096060170.post-13348780006681063052012-10-01T12:00:00.000-04:002012-10-02T15:17:11.949-04:00Tristan Prettyman - New album out October 2nd!<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/hZeEJ24RF3M" width="560"></iframe><br />
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<b style="border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">"I Was Gonna Marry You"</b><br style="border: 0px none; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" /><br />
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I gotta go<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Time to spread my wings and fly<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Higher than the blue sky<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Never did me any good<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Waiting around<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Only so much that my heart can take<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />It doesn’t matter what you say<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Wishing for all we could-have-been<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Just so you know just so you know<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I never thought you'd let me go<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I don’t even know the truth<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Yeah we were fine, yeah we were fine<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Then all at once you changed your mind<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />And I was gonna marry you<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I gotta stay<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />As far away as I can get<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Cuz a part of me hasn’t left<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />If I get too close you're gonna pull me back in to<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Thinking everything you said was true<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />But the ring around my finger proved<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />That I was your girl<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />But in the end it wasn’t what you wanted<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Just so you know just so you know<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I never thought you'd let me go<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I don’t even know the truth<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Yeah we were fine, yeah we were fine<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Then all at once you changed your mind<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />And I was gonna marry you<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Yeah I was gonna marry you<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Take all the words you’ve spoken<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />And the promises you’ve broken<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />And throw them all into the ocean<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Just to let it be<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />And late at night<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />When you're lying in your bed alone<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Wishing you were still at home<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />But we both know its too late<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Just so you know just so you know<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I never thought to let you go<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I don’t even know the truth<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Just so you know just so you know<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I never thought you'd let me go<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I don’t even know the truth<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Yeah we were fine, yeah we were fine<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Then all at once you changed your mind<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />And I was gonna marry you<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I was gonna marry you.</div>
Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077438939282635021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4577464470096060170.post-50640220448202289262012-07-25T15:23:00.002-04:002012-07-25T15:24:01.557-04:00Reduce, Renew, Resuscitate<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://everyplaylist.com/pictures/silence-is-golden" target="_blank">source</a></span></div>
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Sometimes silence is golden.</div>
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Sometimes silence is lonely.</div>
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Sometimes silence is just an opportunity to catch our breaths.</div>
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I've been silent on here for a while. This isn't an apology and I'm not going to offer any excuses.</div>
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For me, this blog is at times a diary, a confessional, a scrapbook, a release valve..... It's here for me in a way that I don't have the courage to ask any people in my life to be. It does not judge. It's not too busy. It doesn't care if I call it at 2 in the afternoon or 3 in the morning.</div>
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But sometimes I need a break from even the best of listeners, I guess. So I went away...sort of. In some ways I think I was just trying to find cover until the dust had settled.</div>
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<a href="http://woodlandsevents.com/square" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">source</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://woodlandsevents.com/images/stories/waterway/grandmas-purse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Grandma's Purse spills out Waterway Fountain" border="0" height="161" src="http://woodlandsevents.com/images/stories/waterway/grandmas-purse.jpg" width="200" /></a>Back at the beginning of January when I <a href="http://growingplacesnow.blogspot.com/2012_01_01_archive.html" target="_blank">begrudgingly welcomed in the new year</a>, I complained about this sort of cloud that seemed to cover everything from my physical and financial well-being to the sad state of my bedroom and love life. Little did I know that my world was going to be turned upside-down in the month and a half to come. In that time, many people and possessions moved out of my life. Some I chose to discard. Others were things I would have preferred to hang on to.</div>
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Either way they are things that the universe knows I no longer need for the future ahead of me.<br />
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So I come here now having cleaned out the purse that is my life. There are new people in my life. There is a new <a href="http://growingplacesnow.blogspot.com/search/label/101%20%233" target="_blank">list of adventures</a> to keep me busy and interested in life. There is a new future ahead of me. I have no idea what it looks like, but perhaps it's time for me to stop being silent and to start making noise again.</div>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077438939282635021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4577464470096060170.post-44606657817609638662012-04-24T14:08:00.000-04:002013-01-18T16:38:11.694-05:00101 in 1001 List #3<h2 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><a href="http://dayzeroproject.com/" target="_blank">101 in 1001</a> List #3</i></span></h2>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">04/16/2012 - 01/11/2015</span></i></h3>
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1. Answer 100 questions from <a href="http://proust.com/">Proust.com</a><br />
2. Ask 3 people what their favorite movie is and watch it with them<br />
3. Ask someone out on a date - <i><span style="color: red;"><b>Completed 5/11/2012</b></span></i><br />
4. Attend a family reunion<br />
5. Attend a late night movie premiere<br />
6. Attend a spinning class<br />
7. Attend my 20-Year HS reunion - <i><span style="color: red;"><b>Completed 9/29/2012</b></span></i><br />
8. Attend Trivia night at a pub<br />
9. Build a sand castle<br />
10. Complete 3 incomplete items from List #1 - <i><span style="color: red;"><b>(1/3)</b></span></i><br />
11. Complete 3 incomplete items from List #2 - <i><span style="color: red;"><b>(2/3)</b></span></i><br />
12. Complete a 1000 piece puzzle - <i><span style="color: red;"><b>Completed 7/15/2012</b></span></i><br />
13. Complete a coloring book<br />
14. Complete the <a href="http://100-snapshots.livejournal.com/424915.html#cutid1" target="_blank">100 Snapshots list #2</a><br />
15. Create an inspiration board<br />
16. Crochet a sweater<br />
17. Crochet socks - <i><span style="color: red;"><b>Completed 7/3/2012</b></span></i><br />
18. Crochet something for charity<br />
19. Decorate my bedroom in a way that is totally me<br />
20. Do 3 minutes of stretching each day<br />
21. Do something fun and fabulous for my 40th birthday<br />
22. Do something fun at 12:12 on 12/12/12<br />
23. Do brunch - <i><span style="color: red;"><b>Completed 12/1/2012</b></span></i><br />
24. Do the <a href="http://www.twohundredsitups.com/" target="_blank">200 sit-ups challenge</a><br />
25. Dress up in a homemade costume every Halloween<br />
26. Eat at 10 new restaurants - <i><span style="color: red;"><b>(5/10)</b></span></i><br />
27. Eat no fast food for a month<br />
28. Feed an animal at the zoo<br />
29. Fold <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_origami_cranes" target="_blank">1000 paper cranes</a> - <i><span style="color: red;"><b>(955/1000)</b></span></i><br />
30. Get a tattoo<br />
31. Get asked for my phone number - <i><span style="color: red;"><b>Completed 12/12/2012</b></span></i><br />
32. Get up without hitting the snooze button for one week<br />
33. Give a 100% tip<br />
34. Go on 10 first dates - <i><span style="color: red;"><b>(2/10)</b></span></i><br />
35. Go on 5 second dates - <i><span style="color: red;"><b>(2/5)</b></span></i><br />
36. Go on 2 third dates - <i><span style="color: red;"><b>(1/2)</b></span></i><br />
37. Go on a scavenger hunt<br />
38. Go to a roller derby match - <i><span style="color: red;"><b>Completed 12/29/2012</b></span></i><br />
39. Go to <a href="http://www.burningman.com/whatisburningman/" target="_blank">Burning Man</a><br />
40. Go to the ballet<br />
41. Go to the opera<br />
42. Have $xxx,xxx in my 401k plan - <i><span style="color: red;"><b>(83%)</b></span></i><br />
43. Have a maid service come in and clean 3 times<br />
44. Hike 5 miles of the <a href="http://www.appalachiantrail.org/" target="_blank">Appalachian Trail</a><br />
45. Host a game night<br />
46. Join RPUMC<br />
47. Kiss someone at midnight on New Years<br />
48. Kiss someone in the rain<br />
49. Kiss someone under the mistletoe<br />
50. Lay at the edge of the water on a beach and let the tide wash over me<br />
51. Learn how to decorate a cake<br />
52. Learn to make one really great appetizer<br />
53. Learn to make one really great salad<br />
54. Learn to make one really great entrée<br />
55. Learn to make one really great dessert<br />
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<tr height="17" style="height: 12.75pt;"><td class="xl68" height="17" style="height: 12.75pt; width: 423pt;" width="564">56. Learn to play 3 songs on the guitar<br />
57. Learn to play 3 songs on the piano
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58. Learn to roll sushi<br />
59. Learn to swim under water without holding my nose<br />
60. Make 3 things from <a href="http://instructables.com/">instructables.com</a><br />
61. Make a 100-song play list that I never get tired of listening to<br />
62. Make a list of 10 great things about me and post it somewhere I'll see it<br />
63. Make a pie on Pi day (March 14th)<br />
64. Make a video about a day in my life<br />
65. Make homemade doughnuts<br />
66. Make pasta<br />
67. Meet someone famous<br />
68. Paint a picture and hang it in my house<br />
69. Participate in 4 breast cancer fundraising events<br />
70. Participate in 6 Devour Downtown menus<br />
71. Participate in a mini-triathalon<br />
72. Participate in <a href="http://theproject333.com/" target="_blank">Project 333</a><br />
73. Ride in a gondola<br />
74. Ride my motorcycle across the Mackinac Bridge<br />
75. Sew a dress and wear it<br />
76. Sew a shirt and wear it<br />
77. Sew a skirt and wear it<br />
78. Sew some pants and wear them<br />
79. Spend a day at the beach<br />
80. Spend a day in the desert<br />
81. Spend a day in the mountains<br />
82. Spend no more than $8/day on food for the entire 1001 days ($59/$8,008)<br />
83. Start a birthday tradition<br />
84. Take a 1000+ mile road trip<br />
85. Take a photo in the capital of each state in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contiguous_United_States" target="_blank">contiguous US</a> - <i><span style="color: red;"><b>(1/48)</b></span></i><br />
86. Take a photo of the same place every month for year and then turn it into a calendar<br />
for the next year<br />
87. Take a vacation by myself for at least 2 days at least 100 miles from home<br />
88. Throw a Cinco De Mayo Party<br />
89. Throw a New Year's Eve party<br />
90. Throw a Superbowl Party<br />
91. Throw away all of my underwear and start again<br />
92. Unplug for a weekend<br />
93. Use the Wii once a week<br />
94. Visit 26 cities - one for each letter of the alphabet and take a photo by a sign with<br />
the city name on it<br />
95. Visit 3 National Parks/Monuments/Historic Sites/etc<br />
96. Walk Sasha an average of 20 minutes every day<br />
97. Watch 26 movies I've not seen (1 for each letter of the alphabet) - <i><span style="color: red;"><b>(9/26)</b></span></i><br />
98. Watch the sun rise and set in the same day<br />
99. Win more than $10 on a lottery ticket - <i><span style="color: red;"><b>Completed 1/18/2013</b></span></i><br />
100. Write Madi a note every week<br />
101. Create another 101 List</td></tr>
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Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077438939282635021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4577464470096060170.post-72705445862279783452012-04-17T14:00:00.000-04:002012-04-17T14:07:20.253-04:00<br />
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Kindness</h3>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; text-align: left;">Before you know what kindness really is </span></div>
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you must lose things, </div>
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feel the future dissolve in a moment </div>
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like salt in a weakened broth. </div>
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What you held in your hand, </div>
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what you counted and carefully saved, </div>
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all this must go so you know </div>
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how desolate the landscape can be </div>
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between the regions of kindness. </div>
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How you ride and ride </div>
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thinking the bus will never stop, </div>
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the passengers eating maize and chicken </div>
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will stare out the window forever.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; text-align: left;">Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness, </span></div>
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you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho </div>
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lies dead by the side of the road. </div>
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You must see how this could be you, </div>
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how he too was someone </div>
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who journeyed through the night with plans </div>
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and the simple breath that kept him alive. </div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; text-align: left;">Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, </span></div>
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you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. </div>
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You must wake up with sorrow. </div>
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only kindness that ties your shoes </div>
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and sends you out into the day to mail letters and purchase bread, </div>
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only kindness that raises its head </div>
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from the crowd of the world to say </div>
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It is I you have been looking for, </div>
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like a shadow or a friend. </div>
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<i>—<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Shihab_Nye">Naomi Shihab Nye</a></i></div>
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Today I received an email from one of the HR people in Seattle (the headquarters of my company) requesting an electronic copy of my employee photo for a conference that I will be attending in March. I guess that 10 years ago when I started, the only copies that HR received here actual photos which they then store in paper files. After talking to a few people here in the office, it was discovered that my old administrative assistant had an electronic copy of the photo which he sent off to headquarters. He also copied me on it.</div>
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I remember thinking at the time the photo was taken that I didn't like it at all. I critiqued it and picked out all of my flaws. My face was too fat, my eyes seemed too small and I hated the way my hair refused to curl on the left side. It wasn't a photo I remember being proud of in the least. So imagine my surprise when I opened the file and thought, "Oh my! That is a pretty young woman!" THEN I remembered it was me 10 years ago!</div>
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I remember how I was 10 years ago. I was spending a lot of time on my appearance. I was working out for real for the first time in my life, but the results never seemed to come fast enough or to be enough. I was sad because there were no boys that liked me and more of my Saturday nights were spent home than out doing the fun things I imagined other people my age were doing. I just KNEW there was something fundamentally wrong (and consequently unlovable) about me and it was my job to spend every waking hour ferreting out what that could possibly be. As a result the drill sergeant in my head was very vigilant and always ready to squash the slightest bit of a thought I might have that I was funny or pretty or great to be around.</div>
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Oh how horrible and ashamed (and motivated) I felt when I saw that picture. <i><b><span style="color: red;">I want to go back and tell the young woman in that picture that she is loved and she is worthy and she is AMAZING. I want to tell her that she has wonderful adventures ahead of her and that she will endure pain but she will also know love in a way she never has. I want to tell her to put her chin up and her chest out and to face anything that comes at her with the courage and resilience I know she has.</span></b></i></div>
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But I can't do that.</div>
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What's the old saying? If you want shade from a tree, when was the best time to plant that tree? 40 years ago. When is the second best time? Today.</div>
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I don't want to be sitting here 10 years from now chastising the 38-year-old woman in the second picture above for doing the same thing the 28-year-old woman did to herself.</div>
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So, here's the message the 48-year-old Me has for me today:</div>
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<i><b><span style="color: red;">"You are loved and worthy and AMAZING. You have wonderful adventures ahead of you. You will endure pain but you will also know love in a way you never have. Put your chin up and your chest out and face anything that comes at you with the courage and resilience that I know you have."</span></b></i></div>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11077438939282635021noreply@blogger.com1