Skip to main content

Friday Vari-e-tay: Inside My Head

Clearly, daily blogging is a wishful thought.

Other thoughts from today:

Salt-water solution up the sinuses: uncomfortable but effective.

How can I stay inside and out of the rain today? And tomorrow? And the next day? Or I need to buy rain boots. I think it's time I bought rain boots.

What if I put it in my suitcase? Does it count then?

I was awake at 3am on Wednesday night with that song in my head...what was it again? Oh yeah.

Thanks, Sarah for bringing it at karaoke!(don't tell me you don't want his shirt!)

My desk is a disaster.

I need to write thank you cards. And a letter. And watch I Am Legend.

I double booked myself. Again.

When it rains, it pours. Literally. And figuratively.

Oh!! I am way behind on TV. Bones, The Mentalist, The Office - I haven't seen any of them this week. And am I going to keep watching Better off Ted and The Big Bang Theory? I think that five shows is too many. Something's gotta go. I'm a better person when I watch less TV.

I think my nose piercing is gonna go. I gotta call an end date on this sucker. Sigh. No piercings, too chicken for a tattoo...I'll completely lose my "badass" edge.

It's 10:30am. This is not being productive.

Comments

  1. MLW2:02 PM

    Ah this blog brought me laughter! I relate to a number of things. Right now I wonder if my blogging will happen even weekly. What is it you are thinking of putting in your suitcase and what would it count or not count against? Yes, buy rain boots ... then it willl stop raining! Isn't that how is works?

    ReplyDelete
  2. mellamovaca2:28 PM

    OMG! i had that song in my head already as i started reading your blog!!!!!! crazy. (and i never say "OMG" so this is big.)

    ReplyDelete
  3. Beth5:19 PM

    mlw - glad it made you laugh. :) the suitcase comment was regarding money & how much you're legally allowed to transport without claiming it

    vaca - this is clearly some sort of sign. what sort of sign, i do not know...

    ReplyDelete
  4. MLW11:20 PM

    Would you please post a picture of your new boots? I am interested to see what you chose. Thanks.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Rhianna4:29 AM

    Why are you losing the piercing? And so soon?

    ReplyDelete
  6. francy1:32 AM

    I remember when I ditched my eyebrow piercing.
    I just woke up one morning, looked in the mirror, and decided it was time.

    I want to get tattoos, but I fear I'll have that same moment with them. Stifled.

    Everybody wants to see your rubber boots ... including me. GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT!

    ReplyDelete
  7. Beth1:49 AM

    rhianna - remember that bubble of irritation? well, it's not gone...i am giving it one final chance before i pull the plug. i want a nose-piercing, not a nose-growth.

    francy - the permanency of tattoos is indeed sobering, and the sole reason i do not have any. well, that and the pain part.


    rain boot photos are coming. today was a SUNNY DAY WITH A HIGH OF NINE so there was no reason to take them out.

    ReplyDelete
  8. Rhianna4:36 PM

    I think nose growths are sexy...

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The ROM, The Earth & Procreation

Disclaimer: This post is intended to generate discussion and a sharing of many opinions. It is NOT intended to judge or condemn anyone's life choices. I had an unexpected moment at the ROM last month. C and I were listening to a presentation for kids on wildlife conservation (or rather, I was listening, and C was eagerly anticipating what live animal would come out next), when a statement caught my attention and still hasn't let go. For most of history, the earth could provide enough resources for the earth's human population. But today, our population is growing rapidly, increasing by 250 000 people every day... Forty years from now, it will require 2 Earths to provide sustainably for our survival as a human species. But we only have 1 Earth. 250 000 people. Every day. That is roughly twice the size of my hometown. In one day. So I did a little math. (First, I rounded down to 200 000, just in case the figures were inflated or failed to account for some sort o...
27 comments
Read more

The Trip to Tanzania (don't read this post)

I think a bunch (most) of you know that I am going to Tanzania for a month this summer. If this is a new fact to you, or if this is a fact you don't particularly care about, or if you have any other reason at all, please feel free to skip this post. Because this is a post in which I ask for help. And I don't really like asking for help. I'm happier to have you skip this post and feel free of any sense of obligation or guilt than to read this post and then wonder if I'm secretly judging you for not helping me (I won't be). The only reason I'm writing this post is because multiple people asked me if I would be writing a support letter, and could they support my trip to Tanzania. The answer, in the typical sense, is no - I cannot get you charitable receipts in exchange for money given to a "sending organization," and I have no plans to send glowing prayer reports of the great "ministry work" I do while I'm gone. But the actual answer is ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Simone Weil: On "Forms of the Implicit Love of God"

Simone Weil time again! One of the essays in Waiting for God  is entitled "Forms of the Implicit Love of God." Her main argument is that before a soul has "direct contact" with God, there are three types of love that are implicitly  the love of God, though they seem to have a different explicit  object. That is, in loving X, you are really loving Y. (in this case, Y = God). As for the X of the equation, she lists: Love of neighbor  Love of the beauty of the world  Love of religious practices  and a special sidebar to Friendship “Each has the virtue of a sacrament,” she writes. Each of these loves is something to be respected, honoured, and understood both symbolically and concretely. On each page of this essay, I found myself underlining profound, challenging, and thought-provoking words. There's so much to consider that I've gone back several times, mulling it over and wondering how my life would look if I truly believed even half of these thi...
1 comment
Read more