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2 Comments Published by Oh Wayward One on 28 November 2006 at 11/28/2006 07:27:00 pm.
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Yes. Having all those hours to drive made me think of the good things. I knew there were more than 4.
5. Tofu salad. I needed to have SOMETHING in my cooking reprotoire to be able to do with tofu, other than Alan & Auds' hot and sour soup. I mean I can't really consider a few cubes thrown into a soup actually a "tofu recipe". Look, I don't even like tofu but I want to be able to make EVERYTHING, and that includes tasteless hippy food. But I digress. crazy sarah gave me a kickass recipe for said tasteless hippy food and I made it and not only did I like it, but the Mr. liked it too, and that was totally unexpected. But appreciated! And happiness abounds.
6. Kid Rock and The Boobs are splitsville!!! Really there's nothing else to say but that. It was funny how the last post I made about celebrity divorces, I was nearly about to make a category for "divorces I hope come through this year", and that one would've been at the top of the list. But I reckoned at the time that the entry was long enough and dwelled far too much upon my celebrity romance fixation already. Now if he would just get down off this overly-patriotic, republican, country-bumpkin-from DETROIT high horse, I'd be back to putting him right back up there on the pedastal along with Mick Jagger, Steven Tyler, Tom Petty, and all those other nasty rock stars that I'm the only one who fancies. (OK obviously except for some nut job yarn-spinning blonde in columbia, MO but that's beside the point)
7. I still have my mantra. Ray's old friend Mark told me once, when I was acting quite the stress-puppy: "If there's nothing you can do, then do nothing." There's a lot of things about Mark that I dislike intensely, and there's many unfortunate reasons that we'll probably never speak again, but that is one thing I took away from Australia with me and it's something that I've held so dear in my mind ever since that time he said it, that I'll never forget him for giving it to me. Especially in these days of uncertainty where we're forced to fly by the seat of our pants for at least the next 2 months and to not have the comfort of knowing exactly what lies ahead of us, due to our own choice to live a seriously dynamic life, I really get focus and perspective from that little mantra. There was more issues with the puppies' export drama tonight, actually, and it is not good- but this is the "highlights" list, so I won't waste time explaining. Basically: I'm much more at peace with these difficulties when I get ahold of the "cross that bridge when we come to it" mentality, followed up by the "If there's nothing you can do... then do nothing." And just let go. Even if it's for just as long as it takes for "doing nothing" to bite you in the ass. But that rarely happens, and furthermore, you get just a few more bonus minutes of peace credited to your life for that brief moment in time. Which is great when you really do live each day like tomorrow you could get hit by a bus.
So there. Time to move on from making lists.
Yes. Having all those hours to drive made me think of the good things. I knew there were more than 4.
5. Tofu salad. I needed to have SOMETHING in my cooking reprotoire to be able to do with tofu, other than Alan & Auds' hot and sour soup. I mean I can't really consider a few cubes thrown into a soup actually a "tofu recipe". Look, I don't even like tofu but I want to be able to make EVERYTHING, and that includes tasteless hippy food. But I digress. crazy sarah gave me a kickass recipe for said tasteless hippy food and I made it and not only did I like it, but the Mr. liked it too, and that was totally unexpected. But appreciated! And happiness abounds.
6. Kid Rock and The Boobs are splitsville!!! Really there's nothing else to say but that. It was funny how the last post I made about celebrity divorces, I was nearly about to make a category for "divorces I hope come through this year", and that one would've been at the top of the list. But I reckoned at the time that the entry was long enough and dwelled far too much upon my celebrity romance fixation already. Now if he would just get down off this overly-patriotic, republican, country-bumpkin-from DETROIT high horse, I'd be back to putting him right back up there on the pedastal along with Mick Jagger, Steven Tyler, Tom Petty, and all those other nasty rock stars that I'm the only one who fancies. (OK obviously except for some nut job yarn-spinning blonde in columbia, MO but that's beside the point)
7. I still have my mantra. Ray's old friend Mark told me once, when I was acting quite the stress-puppy: "If there's nothing you can do, then do nothing." There's a lot of things about Mark that I dislike intensely, and there's many unfortunate reasons that we'll probably never speak again, but that is one thing I took away from Australia with me and it's something that I've held so dear in my mind ever since that time he said it, that I'll never forget him for giving it to me. Especially in these days of uncertainty where we're forced to fly by the seat of our pants for at least the next 2 months and to not have the comfort of knowing exactly what lies ahead of us, due to our own choice to live a seriously dynamic life, I really get focus and perspective from that little mantra. There was more issues with the puppies' export drama tonight, actually, and it is not good- but this is the "highlights" list, so I won't waste time explaining. Basically: I'm much more at peace with these difficulties when I get ahold of the "cross that bridge when we come to it" mentality, followed up by the "If there's nothing you can do... then do nothing." And just let go. Even if it's for just as long as it takes for "doing nothing" to bite you in the ass. But that rarely happens, and furthermore, you get just a few more bonus minutes of peace credited to your life for that brief moment in time. Which is great when you really do live each day like tomorrow you could get hit by a bus.
So there. Time to move on from making lists.
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice.
Hey, what about when I told you, "There's a certain peace in knowing you're completely fucked"? (Not totally the same... but still in the same happy vein!)