Saturday, February 28, 2009

A treasure


So, for quite some time I have been thinking about this sticker that a friend had given me in a birthday card. In the card she had written that it reminded her of when she and I would sneak off to my mom's bar in between classes in college. For years I was thinking, "I need to go get another copy of that sticker...but it won't be the same."


A couple weeks ago, when I started going through my trunks I found all these old greeting cards, and one was from my friend NEECOLE, and low-and-behold, the sticker was still sitting in the card. I'm still trying to decide if I'll keep it for another 10+ years, or if I'll just bite the bullet and use it.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Wiener Pig

OK, so here are my two favorite animals. Yes, that is a piglet suckling on a wiener dog momma. I think I might cry.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Pardon the piles, I'm finding myself

A while back I posted about the "Magnum PI" assignment we were given in my Career Counseling class. From that assignment I got that much of my life has been "boxed up". A couple weekends ago, I started un-boxing my life while in the midst of another assignment. This particular assignment came from a book I was reading for said class; Minerva Rules Your Future, which is basically a woo-woo version of the many self-help career-finding books out there (which is right up my alley). The assignment really had nothing to do with un-boxing my life, but it got me started, so who's counting?
During the "Magnum PI" assignment I also learned that "unless I can finish a project right away AND do it 'perfectly', I am inclined not to do it." Well, I have to say that this is not a one day project, but on a happy note, I have not abandoned it-I realize it will take time and many steps to complete.
So, I am slowly but surely un-boxing myself...which has put me in a slight identity crisis, but I know I am on the right path...I just have some slogging to do.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

What is your super hero power?

This is a Jeremy-ism. Big J as my ex dubbed him is one of those quiet fellows who likes to ask questions that go a little deeper...he is not a "how is the weather?" kind of guy. One thing I got from Big J is the idea of 'what is your super hero power?' For example, one of his friends' super power is that the server always brings the check exactly when he is ready to pay. I started thinking about this again yesterday as I was hunting for a new box of Kleenex for my office. As I was hunting, I remembered that as with my current counseling clients, many of my massage clients got a good cry out of our time together. So, it appears that my super hero power is making people cry. I usually don't make children cry, but I often lie and say I do so that I won't be forced to hold someone's child.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

More on gay marriage

Sorry everyone; Chris and I still haven't set a date. We are thinking perhaps a late June Commitment Ceremony, and then a trip when it is convenient to the East Coast for a real Marriage Ceremony. For those who don't know, Domestic Partnership came up in NM. It passed the first round but during the second round Bernadette Sanchez walked out leaving the issue deadlocked for the time being.

Here is the funny thing...Even though people frak around with my rights, if I had the chance to vote on christian straight peoples' rights, even though I don't agree with their ideas, I would never, never vote to take their rights away. That is what it means to have "Family Values".

Thanks to CJ for the following link:

http://vimeo.com/3089746

This, btw, is post number 200. Woo-Hoo!

Monday, February 2, 2009

Long live the nerds




One of the recent projects for my class was to find three people, ask them to tell you things they like about you for 3 minutes, then tell them the things you like about them. Sometimes the touchy-feely crap gets to be a bit much, but on the positive side, Chris and I agreed that we like each other cuz we're both nerds.