This epiphany was much more eco-friendly than the final one.
I had one other epiphany. You’re in all probability considering, “Wait, didn’t she simply have an epiphany like two days in the past?” The reply is sure. Sure I did. Then, at present, I had one other. In order that makes my epiphany depend two for the final week. Spectacular, no?
Anyway, I used to be speaking about how a lot I like penning this weblog and the way marvelous my readers are once I realized that we actually don’t know that a lot about each other. I plan on rectifying that at present. What follows are the should know information about aka me.
1. My favourite actor is Alan Alda. I like him with my entire coronary heart. Comedy, drama, writing. The person is a real legend.
2. My favourite writer is Kurt Vonnegut. Though, you in all probability already knew that.
3. I may eat Italian meals on a regular basis of my life.
4. I follow yoga twice a day. Morning and night time. I’m SO zen.
5. I like hand-written playing cards or notes.
6. I miss Uganda each single day that I’m not there.
7. I’ve two canine. A boy named Hansel and a lady named Liesel.
8. I like frozen yogurt.
9. If I had a cagillion {dollars}, I might spend my total life touring the world and writing about it.
10. My favourite guide isn’t by my favourite writer. My favourite guide is Shadow of the Solar by Ryszard Kapuscinski.
11. I completely love the Ricky Gervais present “Extras” and watch and re-watch the episodes on a regular basis.
12. When I’ve a extremely really horrible day, all I need to do is watch Disney motion pictures.
13. I re-read all 7 Chronicles of Narnia each December. I used to be given the field set of the books once I was 10 and have been studying them each since. The most effective Christmas items ever!
14. My favourite shade is inexperienced.
15. I drink tons and many tea.
16. I try and make each factor I say a tune lyric. That features singing it. One other little recognized reality is, my sister completely hates that I do that.
17. Irrespective of how spicy one thing I’m consuming is, I add Tabasco.
18. My favourite piece of furnishings is a brown rocking recliner. My Popsie used to rock me in it once I was a child and once I was 20 and going by means of one of many hardest occasions of my life, he gave it to me. It’s each comforting and cozy. Additionally, so retro.
19. When at a Starbucks, I at all times order a non-fat chai tea latte. It’s my drink.
20. I actually desire a chia pet.
21. I’ve at all times wished to put on a tuxedo.
22. Within the case of a zombie apocalype, I believe I’m screwed.
23. Nobody ever expects it of me, however I’m a HUGE American soccer fan. I additionally love soccer aka soccer with an equal ardour. If it’s known as soccer wherever on this planet, likelihood is I LOVE it.
24. I may play board video games all day lengthy.
25. I actually actually love marshmallows.
I really feel like if I write greater than 25 information down then I’m simply being self-indulgent so you’ll simply should study the remaining over time. What I might love to listen to about now are some little recognized or well-known (completely as much as you the way recognized you need your information to be) information about you, my darling readers. Please share! I’m in fairly a sharing temper at present.
I went to Starbucks the opposite day. I walked in, I stood in line. I observed that folks had been kind of smiling at me in an indulgent way- the best way you have a look at a toddler when they’re telling a lower than amusing story however you need to encourage them to proceed so that you simply smile and attempt to observe alongside. Then, I noticed one thing. They weren’t smiling at me indulgently, they had been smiling at me uncomfortably. All of the folks in line at Starbucks had been very uncomfortable. And it was due to me. What may I’ve accomplished, you would possibly marvel, to make all of those folks (and there have been lots of people in there) so uncomfortable? At first, I had no concept, after which I noticed one thing. I. WAS. SINGING. I used to be singing out loud. I used to be singing at loud at Starbucks. Granted, it was an awesome tune I used to be singing- and actually they need to thank me for exposing them to such stellar music. All the identical although, I can perceive why they had been uncomfortable. I imply, being round people who find themselves clearly bonkers might be awkward. I settle for that- I simply by no means realized that what I actually wanted to just accept was that I used to be the one who was bonkers. However clearly, I’m completely mad. I used to be singing in public and didn’t even understand it. Once more, it was an awesome tune, however nonetheless.
I’m unsure if that is the worst half or the most effective half, however I wasn’t all that embarrassed. I simply kind of shrugged, ordered my espresso, and went my merry means. At the very least some folks obtained an excellent story out of it. However , I’m questioning, if sooner or later, I ought to be anxious as a result of this incident all by itself is hilarious and innocent however coupled with final weeks “dancing” I’m beginning to query my sanity. Am I turning into extra Mad Hatter and fewer Alice? When folks confer with me as “eccentric” (which I’ve at all times taken as an immense praise) do they actually imply “insane’?
My Mother says no. She says that it’s nice that I’m so uninhibited. I’m considering that possibly I ought to get some inhibitions. Then, my Mother jogged my memory that I had sufficient inhibitions in center college to final me a lifetime. The woman makes an excellent level.
The Mad Hatter and Alice weren’t all that completely different anyway. All the identical, I actually hope they let me weblog on the asylum.
Satan chicken.
I used to be simply sitting in my fourth ground workplace, working away just like the little employee bee I’m when all the sudden an enormous scary face appeared in my window. My coronary heart skipped a beat, I jumped a couple of mile within the air, and an virtually inaudible screech escaped my lips. I used to be startled to say the least. Fortunately, cause quickly returned and I noticed shortly it couldn’t be a face within the window- I work on the fourth ground. Until somebody has jumped a couple of steps in evolution and is now able to flying there is no such thing as a means a face could possibly be in my window. Or , I suppose it may have been a window-washer however flying makes for a significantly better story. Anyway, I suppose it doesn’t actually matter because it wasn’t an individual in any respect, I’m simply saying a flying particular person can be cool.
What that scary face really was, was a satan crow bent on my destruction. That chicken was so scary it really scared the hell into me as a substitute of out of me. And it simply saved coming again and flying proper at my window and terrifying me. This chicken was like tremendous good/evil. It was utilizing my peripheral imaginative and prescient towards me. It’s just like the satan crow knew I may solely catch a fast view of it and that I’d misread that fast view as one thing like an evil floating face, or ghost, or evil sprite. Which, by the best way, are all actually cheap conclusions to leap to when photographs of issues seem in your window. And the satan crow knew this. It knew me. It knew all my ideas and fears and hopes and goals and was attempting to make use of them towards me. Like Freddy Krueger makes use of goals towards folks to kill them. That’s Freddy Krueger proper? I don’t actually watch scary motion pictures as a result of my creativeness is already fairly overactive and slightly twisted and I don’t actually need so as to add extra issues to freak myself out with. The purpose is that the satan chicken was some sort of evil genius chicken that for some cause unbeknownst to me was hell-bent on scaring me to dying. And possibly possessing my soul. I’m not too clear on the main points.
The worst half was the satan chicken introduced buddies. Increasingly evil birds flew at my window. And now I believe I’m cursed. I imply, that many satan birds outdoors your workplace window means you’re cursed proper? I’m completely cursed. These birds need blood. My blood. Aw geez. That is unhealthy you guys. Loss of life by killer satan birds.
Not even Alfred Hitchcock may work out a means for me to get out of this. I’m doomed.
This rock and I’ve rather a lot in widespread.
Who knew I had a line? Not me.
So, I’m writing some posts and simply kind of spouting off and never enhancing myself (not that I ever edit myself as a result of belief me, I don’t). Once I learn again over what I had simply written and it was one thing alongside these traces, “possibly, when you learn my weblog, you’re feeding a ravenous baby.” And as I learn that and realized that I had really written it- I believed “Okay opposite one, ravenous youngsters jokes cross the road.” after which I believed in response to that, “Wait, I’ve a line???” I imply, I by no means say issues that basically offend folks (like discriminatory issues) however I’ve usually been heard saying issues that one would possibly consider as “off-color” , like issues that aren’t offensive however are nonetheless inappropriate or cringe-worthy. Often issues which were known as “harsh” however boy oh boy once I learn what I wrote about ravenous children- I needed to step again and re-evaluate my life.
I’m not going to weblog about what I discovered once I re-evaluated my life as a result of I don’t need to freak you out. I imply, normally I’m not anxious about whether or not or not you’re freaked out- however the brand new could be very anxious about freaking you out. As a result of I freaked myself out slightly bit. There may be lots of loopy stuff on this head of mine. You solely get a small dose of it. Oops, I’ll have simply freaked you out. Okay- the brand new new goes to attempt actually exhausting to not freak you out. In all probability. Though my attempting exhausting would possibly imply I’ll attempt exhausting till I overlook about it. Which could be tomorrow. Or sooner. Sorry.
So, simply so we’re clear. Ravenous youngsters jokes completely cross the road. Please make an observation of that. As a result of studying this weblog doesn’t feed any youngsters. It doesn’t even feed me.
It is similar to this- solely sooner
Precisely one week in the past at present, I used to be Freshly Pressed. I used to be really astonished. Fully taken off guard. And above all overjoyed. I felt giddy all day lengthy, I couldn’t imagine the variety of visits I used to be getting and I actually couldn’t imagine the quantity of feedback. It was a real running a blog excessive.
However with each excessive comes a low. Probably not that low of a low however a low nonetheless ( I imply prefer it’s decrease than the excessive however not by that a lot). It was exhausting to observe my stats fall the subsequent day and the subsequent and the subsequent. And though my weblog remains to be receiving extra views than ever earlier than (and belief me I’m grateful for each one among them) I’m feeling lots of stress (self-imposed) to proceed writing Freshly Pressed worthy posts. And that’s exhausting. And you must marvel, does WordPress hate my weblog? As a result of it looks like WordPress ought to learn about all of the stress that comes with being Freshly Pressed. And possibly they placed on you Freshly Pressed to completely burn you out in order that they by no means should see your weblog that they hate once more. After which I’ve to marvel, am I being neurotic and ridiculous? And the reply to that’s sure.
The factor concerning the Freshly Pressed roller-coaster is that it’s actually quick however it’s also like the most effective roller-coaster ever (since you actually keep away from that abdomen in your throat feeling). So that you need to journey it once more. And once more. Nevertheless it isn’t as much as you- simply since you just like the roller-coaster doesn’t imply you get to journey it once more. It’s a must to earn it. Nevertheless it’s exhausting to foretell what’s going to earn it and what gained’t. So I suppose the ethical to this story is that being Freshly Pressed is sensible however you want an increasing number of of that brilliance and you might actually screw your self up working to get extra of it. So don’t screw your self up. Maintain cool, write what you write, and do you to the fullest (I heard a extremely douchey man say that when however I can’t assist however repeat it on this occasion, forgive me). Additionally, that is all recommendation I’m giving myself (as a result of if I write it after which have a look at it later will probably be like another person is telling me after which possibly I’ll take the recommendation.) however I hope it helps different folks too (as a result of I’m actually beneficiant and well-meaning).
And now I’m realizing that this submit isn’t very humorous and humorous is what obtained me on Freshly Pressed. So it’s like I’m writing a submit about attempting to take care of a sure commonplace and that submit is definitely beneath the requirements I’m writing about. Balls. Irony sucks.
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I’m attempting very exhausting to not say the phrase “completely” anymore. Why? As a result of I had a uncommon second of readability the opposite day and realized I sound just like the film Valley Lady. This film is totally splendidly terrible. A traditional. And although I’ll take pleasure in watching it, I might quite lose my voice completely than sounds like several of the ladies on this film. Listed below are some examples of the issues they are saying…
” Like, completely.”
“Completely to the max!”
“Gag me with a spoon. Completely.”
Discover a development? It’s the phrase “completely”. And I’ve “completely” been saying “completely” means too usually. I don’t know the way it wormed it’s means into my speech like a language parasite nevertheless it positively did. The entire sudden I’m emphasizing the whole lot I say with the phrase “completely”. It’s like my sentence doesn’t imply as a lot if I don’t have a “completely” in it. Horrible. Shameful. Ridiculous.
I noticed this embarrassing reality about myself at work once I was in a gathering with a consumer. The entire sudden it hit me that I had simply used the phrase “completely” 3 occasions in the identical sentence. Gag. I couldn’t even imagine what I used to be listening to myself say. The extra I talked the extra I noticed I sounded just like the world’s most ridiculous girl on this planet. I used to be, like completely, humiliating myself to the max, ya’ll. Actually.
It’s not that I’ve an issue with the phrase completely per se. I simply suppose it’s overused and abused within the the English language. I simply don’t need to sound like a highschool cheerleader as a result of (shocker) I’m not a highschool cheerleader. I’m a grown-up (okay I can hear you laughing from right here…) I’m at the least a someway grown-up so I ought to try to communicate like a someway grown-up. Proper? Truly, the extra I give it some thought the extra I understand I sound little or no like a grown-up more often than not. Huh. I’m having one other lightbulb second……
Okay- new aim is to not eradicate “completely” from my speech on a regular basis, simply from my consumer conferences. Overlook being a grown-up I need to be a highschool cheerleader! (I actually don’t need be a highschool cheerleader)
You see how I modified my thoughts in the course of this submit? That’s why they name me opposite. And so it’s.
I’ve a principle on life. It’s actually sensible. It’s known as the Dory principle. It goes slightly one thing like this- “simply preserve swimming, simply preserve swimming, simply preserve swimming…”
When you didn’t get the Discovering Nemo reference then I don’t know why you’re studying my weblog. You in all probability don’t belong right here when you haven’t seen that film. Or possibly you do. Perhaps you want my weblog for that very cause. Who’s to say? Go forward and preserve studying.
In life, you simply should preserve swimming. When you cease swimming you’ll die, like sharks. I don’t understand how you you’re feeling about it however I believe dying like a shark might be within the high 10 of worst methods to die. I imply, they will breathe beneath water they usually nonetheless drown- after which they only float there after which killer whales eat them after which killer whales poop them out after which fish eat the killer whale shark poop after which these fish poop out the shark poop and plankton eat the shark fish poop. Dreadful. And unhappy. Poor sharks. I’m sorry to get so graphic however I actually wished to emphasise how essential it’s to maintain swimming.
Perhaps, if you’re a mermaid this doesn’t look like such a tough factor to do. Touche mermaid- you will have some extent. For these of us who aren’t mermaids (and I’m simply guessing right here however I believe nearly all of us aren’t mermaids) we have now a more durable time of it. I believe what makes it so exhausting is that it doesn’t contain precise swimming- I imply it may when you had been like shipwrecked and in the course of the ocean since you would positively should be actually swimming in that scenario- however what I imply actually is to maintain going. Maintain dwelling even when it appears unattainable and you’re overwhelmed by the whole lot. I suppose my motto could possibly be “simply preserve dwelling” however that sounds lame and isn’t metaphorical and doesn’t have a tune related to it.
And generally issues are actually terrible and also you simply need to keep in mattress all day watching actuality TV (which, let’s be sincere makes the whole lot worse) and consuming ice cream. However you may’t do this. I imply certain, possibly if it’s like a weekend then it will be okay however on Monday you simply have to begin swimming once more. Why? I don’t know as a result of that’s life. As a result of I mentioned so? Perhaps. Not satisfied? Yeah, I’m doing a reasonably unhealthy job of explaining it.
What I imply is that when you preserve swimming- preserve dwelling as finest you can- then issues will get higher. I promise (in a non-binding kind of means). That isn’t to say nothing unhealthy will occur, I do know unhealthy issues occur on a regular basis and generally they occur to me however I simply sing the simply preserve swimming tune to myself and keep on. As a result of on the very least, when issues suck, you at the least get a tune out of it. In truth, possibly I ought to change my motto to “simply sing a tune.” That works too.
Okay- so to recap, it is best to simply preserve swimming and sing songs. This can be the most effective life motto ever. And I’m giving it to you totally free. Which I believe makes me certified for sainthood once I die.
Saint .
Actually that is Saint Dympna. Patron saint of the mentally ailing, incest victims, and runaways. I’ll go to hell for this.
