Big Dreams

Wow wow wee waa. Some weird dreams last night. Maybe I shouldn't eat a whole pizza for dinner next time. But at the same time dreams are so much fun. I would liken my dreams to the closest I'll ever get to being a Hollywood actor. The dream is my movie and no matter what happens, I wake up to find it didn't. I will share an excerpt from last nights film:

Hanging out with random people from high school, well actually I never even really knew them they were, three years younger than me but yes I'm hanging out with them in... I guess an airport like building except it had no gates or planes. Just big and... well it reminded me of an airport. We're standing around when the police show up. I figure they're after some other troublemakers but this guy who looks straight out of Reno 911 looks straight at us and fires his gun with a loud thud, not a crack like a bullet. I turn to see the projectile, in an Iron Man, Jericho missile style, shoot up into the air then split apart and down comes this massive net right on top of us. I was standing fairly far away from my "friends" by now and the net only manages to catch one of my legs under it. I considered myself lucky tho, because about every foot there was a massive hook that ate into the ground, and that really would have sucked if it landed on my leg. Anyways, they arrest us, I know I didn't do anything wrong so I thought it was just my friends or something, and then they accuse me of being a drug dealer. Yeah so I'm in deep dookie.

I get put into the police car and I start spilling about how I'm innocent. It was kinda weird tho because I was in the passenger seat, and when i turned to see who was driving, it was definitely Miley Cyrus. She's a very understanding girl. She thought I might have been drunk when i was arrested but I told her I don't drink so she was like... oh wow. So then we get out at some other place, and it turns out she wants me to be in one of the scenes of her next big hit movie so i walk down the hall and enter this room with her and theres a rock climbing wall. She gets to the top and I start climbing up... and then i woke up. So I try my hardest to fall back into my dream but it seems like its just going on without me so I stopped trying.

I love dreams, except for the leave you hanging aspect.

Sorry for the length but I like writing down dreams when I wake up.

Have you had any sweet dreams recently?

Joaquin?

So after following the news articles about his retirement, hip hop aspirations, hoax... and finally the Letterman interview, I'd have to say Joaquin Phoenix is officially the coolest actor ever for this "character", or he definitely needs help. I really hope it is all in jest somehow though, because I like the guy and it would be sad if he never did another movie. This is no big issue but if anyone ever finds good stuff explaining this stuff, gimme some notice.

My 25 random things.

I didn't feel like tagging people so I'll post this here. I was a little bit bored, so of course I attempted the big 25. Now I really feel accomplished.

1. My childhood crush was on Maid Marian, the fox from the Disney cartoon Robin Hood. Something about those eyes…
2. I think and speak better when I’m walking. At home whenever someone calls I walk in circles around the dining room table and usually don’t notice for a few minutes.
3. I wish women gave birth to puppies instead of babies. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a baby as cute as a puppy, and in fact, the only cute baby I have ever seen was… me.
4. I enjoy standing on top of high(er) things. Chairs, heating radiators, stacks of pillows, naaature.
5. I have a Febreze vanilla bean air freshener in my room and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
6. For some reason I like dark, smoky atmospheres, especially during concerts.
7. I like to sleep with a teddy bear, just because I like to hold onto something when I’m trying to get to sleep. If no teddy is available I can use a small pillow, jacket, or bag of rice.
8. Unless I’m in a public restroom, I always sit down when I go potty. Call me a girl, but I’d rather relax and not have to clean up the seat and floor afterwards.
9. I still don’t have a cell phone.
10. Clowns hold a special place in my heart. I had a video on how to become a clown when I was a child and it really left a positive mark on my life. I think all clowno-chondriacs should be forced into watching it as therapy. I think it could change the world.
11. I don’t do naps. When I wake up in the morning, no matter how early, I’m up for the day and won’t sleep until night time.
12. I like to do nice things for people without telling them. The next time something nice happens to you and you don’t know who did it, just remember that.
13. I clean the toilet every time before I use it when I’m sharing it with anyone but my family.
14. I’m color blind so please don’t ask me if your clothes match.
15. My family was having a new home built and I went over to explore when they just had the frame and stairs up. I went into what would soon be my room and wondered why the workers had left a half full lemon-lime Gatorade bottle out in the open. I didn’t realize until I smelled it that it wasn’t Gatorade.
16. I really dig mechanical pencils. 0.5 lead only.
17. The book I most remember from my childhood is “Scuppers the Sailor Dog.”
18. I actually enjoy throwing up. I don’t do it often so don’t call me bulimic but when the occasion does arise I’m not disappointed.
19. I don’t like any dressing on my salads. Just give me straight veggies.
20. I use Gillette dry skin hydrator + body wash and you should too. That stuff lathers like no other.
21. When I was younger and my sister had a horse I used to play on gigantic hills of horse poop. I think one time I actually pushed Adam Covell down and he got it all up in his clothes.
22. Sometimes just hearing a word can trigger me to totally get distracted and lose myself inside my head right in the middle of a conversation. I’m so sorry to anyone that I do that to… mainly Laura… but I promise it’s not because I don’t care about what you were saying.
23. I used to want to be just like Davey Havok.
24. I think I might be starting to get tired of chocolate. Maybe not.
25. I really love my friends and family. Every one of them.

What a Show

I've been incredibly nostalgic lately, actually I've almost wished I was born 50 years ago. The TV they had was so much better. Honestly when black and white can entertain me more than almost anything we have today, you know it was good. It was on a totally different level from what TV is today.

I'd have to say Tom and Jerry were my favorites in the cartoon department. I think they trump the roadrunner and Wiley coyote anyday, although Looney Tunes had a ton of great ones.

I think I've just gotten fed up with all the "comedy" these days. Don't get me wrong, I can get a laugh out of pretty much anything where people are trying to do ridiculous stunts or charades, but I can't remember the last time I actually laughed my way through a movie. They either have to curse so much you laugh just because its so flippant and honestly pointless, ooooor they have to throw a ton of trash into it.

I'd take a good ol' Three Stooges any day.
I Love Lucy was great, Leave It To Beaver, McHales Navy, Gomer Pile... so many good shows.

I wish we could make movies and shows with the same kind of class that they had years ago. I leave you with what I think is some of the best representation of the good days gone by. If you've never seen it, I hope you can take some time and appreciate it. Its from Dean Martin's Celebrity Roast. A gathering of the greats to commemorate other greats. There were a ton to choose from but I only put one on here, so if you like it, there are a ton more linked to it. Thanks for reading my blithering. Adieu.

Male Incompetency

I so enjoy cloudy yet warm(er) days. Yesterday was a drizzle fest and cold... yet no snow so it so wasn't worth it.

This morning as I watched television, I decided to start a list of things that I thought everyone and their mom knew, yet I find every day that my fellow dude friends are clueless. I'm not meaning to offend anyone, and (even though probably only 2 people read this), feel free to leave any habits/quirks that you can think of even if its me and I just don't know it yet. Or, if you agree/are disturbed/think I'm a sissy for listing something, let it be known. I'll keep this going for awhile each day I come up with something, but for now I leave you with three:

-Placing the toilet plunger in the shower after using it.

-Making a grilled cheese sandwich, by toasting two pieces of bread in the toaster and then sticking a piece of cheese in the middle.

-Completely ignoring the expiration date on the milk jug when purchasing. (Sometimes even I have trouble finishing a gallon in 2 days.)








And with that, I will start my work for the day. Good tidings be to all of ya'll.

Here's To Her

Yesterday morning, my mom's best friend in England died. I guess I can't remember her age but she was up there and she lived a great life. I only ever spoke to her twice a year usually and then had the occasional visit but Mom talked with her every few days. It was sad to lose someone like her, and it was worse for my mom, but the kind of life she lived made it a whole lot easier for everyone to say goodbye, I think. I guess you could call her my godmother, my parents met Edna a few months before I was born and my mom's mom died a few months after I came about, so Edna really was Mom's adopted mother in a way. Edna lived through World War II as a child, hiding in bomb shelters as the Nazi's bombed London. I'm sure my mom knows a lot more personal stories of Edna's life but I never had the time with her that she did. I do know that Edna was an awesome painter. Most of the pictures hanging in my house were done bye Edna. Always bright and colorful, usually floral or some other landscape. Matched her personality. She was so bright and loving. Just one of those people that even though you talk to them... once in a blue moon, they encourage you and motivate you to live your life with love every day. It was always so hard to complain when you thought about Edna, who had no other family from the time we met her to the time she passed away, lived a simple life but full of joy for the Lord. The kind of person I only wish my children could meet one day, because there are fewer and fewer of their kind left in this world. I know she's in a better place now... which also makes it easier to say goodbye.

Then I compare her life to the girl in my IT audit class that was killed two days ago. She just came over from China to get a graduate degree in accounting, and for some reason not yet known, some guy she knew just killed her in the Graduate Life Center. I saw her once, it was a small grad class so you notice everyone, but not so small that you get to know everyone the first day. I have no idea what her life was like... but yet again it reminds me that life is so uncertain. The only certainty is God and His love.

I'm not going to make any other real spiritual applications of all this, but I felt like introducing these two events, to let them be known, first of the life of joy and fulfillment, and second of a life that any of us would call too short.

Alice

Tomorrow begins a new episode in American history, a monumental moment that no one will soon forget, yes... classes at Virginia Tech begin once again. In the midst of playing around with some different myspace things, I somehow stumbled upon this:



Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter?
Hmmmmm.

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