and then the chair ate her

well, nothing like a couple of relaxing days away at the cottage to make the world seem like a better place. it was a great time, so nice not to have a tv, a computer or running water to take up your time. well running water could have been useful but i guess not completely necessary. i'm a woodsy girl i can deal with outhouses and days with out showers. i loved fishing, or really just helping other's fish... if i could count the number of times i heard "amanda can you get this fish off my line" at one point i stopped and looked at my outfit. i was wearing a nice black skirt with a nice tank top, ripping worms in half and taking numerous fishies off of hooks... i turned to my friend and said "one day i'm going to make some guy really happy" really what guy wouldn't want a girl who could be all dressed up and have no problem getting a little dirty? really where are you?

inventions

i hear so many people say... "hey i think this would be a great invention" but they never do anything about it. for years everyone was like if your romote had a beeper then if you lost it, you could find it easly.... well i've gone and done it... my romote control, one of four, the most important one of four has mysteriously gone missing.... i can't find it anywhere. its so frustrating. i know i shouldn't be lazy i just have to go to the reciever and change the channel, but it makes it hard to plan what i have to tape becuase i can't see what's coming on later because i don't have my romote. if i had $5 i would pay you to come and find my romote!!!

when caffine becomes redundant...

working tonight my coworker and i were full of energy, but we felt like we needed a treat.... so what do you think we decided on? coffee of course! well if we weren't already doing cartwheels and laughing our butts off we then had this extra jolt of caffine to add to it all... not very bright, so for the rest of the evening we spent time extra caffininated, it was very amusing, especially when my coworker took to taking giant leaps everywhere he went... very amusing indeed.... but i'm not sure if this chain of events would have happened without the caffine, i'm pretty sure the coffee this evening was redundant.... but now i need to go for a run or something to get rid of this excess energy

the best thing about summer

you can wake up freezing in an ice cold enviroment and then remove the shapeless huge sweater as you leave the building making you look 100 times sexier.

the stress of it all

this past weekend i helped two of my friends prepare for their lovely wedding. i helped decorate the church, and on the day of the wedding i helped decorated the hall. i'm so happy for this couple, they had the sweetest ceremony (you can tell it was really good because i cried, and it takes a lot for me to cry at a wedding). the bride look more beautiful than words, the groom was just smitten with his bride, and everyone had the most amazing time. but i have started to think that the stress of getting to that point may be more than its worth. having people in tears at various points during the process, or having things not turn out exactly how you want puts a lot of stress on not only the bride and groom but on the families involved and also the friends too. the people attending the wedding usually have no idea of the problems that may or may not have occured but the pressure on the bride is termendous. this is not the first wedding i've helped with, i witnessed my sister in tears many many times in the days before the wedding. as much as i think i want to get married i'm not sure if i would want this kind of stress. maybe i'll just hire a wedding planner and then i just tell her what i want and let them worry about it, or maybe i'll just elope like i've always said. i would rather be totally relaxed in the days leading to my wedding... i think.... or would i feel cheated that i didn't get the whole stressful package? i suppose it really doesn't matter either way when i haven't mastered finding someone to date yet.... its all about those baby steps.

refocusing is often the solution to... what was i saying?

so i was focused at one point, and then i easily become distracted but that's ok. i have realized i can no longer focus on living up to societies ideas anymore... really i don't conform to any of their ideas in most areas so why would i think i could live up to them in other areas. really if i can't follow the rules for appropriate excetion of gases how do i expect to live up to the standard married by 30 kids by 35? so i'm now focusing on doing the exact opposite so i'm going to hold off on getting married until i'm at least 65 and maybe i'll have kids by the time i'm 80 that way i'll have lots of money and time to spend with them. plus kids always like their grandparents better so if i'm the age of "normal" grandparents, they might like me more.... hmmm this sounds like a great plan... also instead of getting a career i'm going to focus on being unemployed as much as possible so that i have a lot of free time to sit on my couch and buy scratch tickets... see its all about focusing on the right things, life is only going to get better now that i have these new goals to focus on... and in my spare time i can event and perfect helmets for squeeeeerils so that they don't end up brain dead.... life is great!!!!

stalker, i am not

the correct definition of stalker is:

stalker v. tr.
To follow or observe (a person) persistently, especially out of obsession or derangement.

seeing as persistently usually makes reference to more than one secluded occasion, and that there is absolutely no obsession of derangement. although some may argue the point of my derangement but seeing as i do not have a hidden stash of pictures or a shrine it would be safe to say i'm not obessive, derangement may just be a point of arguement. so since i don't exhibit 2 of the 3 signs it wasn't stalking. it wasn't even close to being a stalking, thus i am not a stalker. today was a one off boi so shut it... i am not a stalker!

the best things about summer...

you can buy a coffee, put it in your car, forget you have it and two hours later still have a pipping hot coffee! oh how i love summer.

4am and i'm running?

so i did the walk for the cure last night. this is a 12 hour relay race... or not really race but just walk. i had to work until 11pm so i arrived late but my team was gracious enough to allow me to do this. i was dying at work earlier and didn't think i would last until midnight. but i got into the swing of things and before we knew it, it was 3am... a lot of people were starting to drop off... but me, no way, i just wanted to run... it didn't hurt when i was running, just when i stopped... where did all that energy come from? its a mystery that's for sure. but by 6am i was toast, barely able to place one foot infront of the other... i guess my price to pay. my hips and legs hurt now but i have gotten a fairly good sleep and i'm ready to go!!! yeah out for an evening of fun!

how does one decide

how does one decide if the positives actually do out weigh the negatives to one certain situation? like if the far fetched idea would actually but a feezable idea... or that if you took one huge leap of faith that you wouldn't be completely crushed ifyou gave everything up to find that your plan would go completely sour... and how would one go about picking up those pieces... why must these difficult decisions always seem to make it easier to stay in the same rut that you have always been in?