Nana

Nana. The best picture I could take of her. The pictures that are taken head on now make her look awful. She has Alzheimer's and spends her days sitting in a chair falling asleep or staring out the window or staring at walls. It's painful to watch because she used to be so independent and amazing and now she doesn't even say a word. It's scary because I'm pretty sure Alzheimer's is genetic. Better keep up with those crosswords, I suppose.

Things in my bed...

So, I have this habit of using my bed as a desk, a table, a dresser, a bookshelf, and a place to sleep... Some of the things in it tonight:

- chocolate covered peanuts

- watch

- water bottle

- three pairs of socks

- loaf of bread

- camera

- cellphone

- macbook

- assorted sweatshirts

- comb

- notes to myself that include lists of Things To Do and Songs I Should Download

- people magazine with Ryan Reynolds smirking at me upside down from the foot of the bed

- Cross Country Canada calendar with one day left and a year's worth of events catalogued

- two posters for the West Side Invitational in May (don't ask me how I ended up with two...)

- bottle of soho lychee liqueur (unopened and deliciously waiting for me)

- copy of Billy Joel's Piano Man, The Very Best Of

- St. Ives Creamy Vanilla moisturizer (which, apparently isn't available in B.C. so I had to bring it back from Tbay with me. Go figure.)

Yeah, it's weird. I'm okay with that. I have a queen sized bed and I'm not sharing with anyone so there's enough room for all my stuff and me. I'm small and don't move when I sleep so there's no chance of strangling myself with headphones or the yarn I'm knitting a scarf with in the middle of the night.

That's it.

Quote du Jour:

"Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive." - G.K. Chesterton

Modernism

Technical difficulties

Always get in the way.

Damned if you do,

Damned if you don't.

Life goes on

In a different direction

Even if you're holding tight

To the wheel.

Maybe

You should've grabbed

The mast instead.

Cliches are cliches for a reason.

Doesn't mean you gotta believe em.

Wary, weary traveller, wary.

For the path is not always lit.

But Maybe

That's half the fun.

Don't know me.

Don't know you.

How can I validate "we?"

They tell you to "seize the day"

But "don't run too fast"

You're gonna hurt yourself

Tumbling and tripping

Stumbling on with wanting

And bruising by mistake

Shocked but not surprised

You gotta keep stumblin' on

Stared into the light to kill all my senses

Kill all the pain away

Because my bruises are fresh

And my wounds are raw

I keep feeling the salt rub

As if I'm supposed to be

Learning something.

Ella Fitzgerald - Dream a Little Dream of Me

Oh hear the drums...

I've always wanted to play the drums but don't think I could multitask that well...

1. Stevie Wonder - Superstition

2. Arkells - Tragic Flaw

3. Radiohead - The National Anthem

4. Paul Simon - 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

5. Against Me - Stop

6. Blur - Song 2

7. Jack Johnson - Good People

8. Almost anything by the Foo Fighters

9. My Morning Jacket - One Big Holiday

10. Neutral Milk Hotel - [Untitled]

11. Bloc Party - This Modern Love

12. Ben Harper and Restless7 - Fly One Time

13. Beck - Loser

14. Blink 182 - Dammit

15. The Bravery - Time Won't Let Me Go

And who could forget Phil Collins' In The Air Tonight?

Oh, and the Buffy theme song by the Breeders. :)

Start

"If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is."

- Charles Bukowski

Technical difficulties

Always get in the way.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Life goes on in a different direction

Even if you're holding tight to the

Wheel.

Maybe you should've grabbed the mast instead.

Cliches are cliches for a reason but

Don't mean you gotta believe 'em.

Wary, weary traveller, wary.

For the path is not always lit.

But Maybe

that's half the fun.

UFOs

This was also on Postsecret this week... hilarious.

"Going up the Country"

Aha! Embedded. haha

Love love love.

Caution

This one's for Corey (congrats on the engagement :) ):

"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."

- Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness.