the fate of "A" students

okay - gretchen relayed this quote to me today. sorry if i misquote - i'm notorious for that.

"'A' students end up teaching. And B students end up working for C students."

there is so much truth to that! haha - i thought that was great. except, to be honest, it doesn't really make me look all that good. i'm not a teacher right now - but i've considered doing the art teacher for little kids thing. boy, i'm sure i could really bring in the dough doing that.

this life is not all about the dough - even though i like dough. (snort snort)

you're a holiday

i just realized that i've been misunderstanding - or not hearing correctly - one of my favorite lines in a song. haha - don't you hate it when that happens?

"there's something about you - that makes me fly
you're a holiday - just the kind i like"

okay, that's my version. but, this is what it's actually saying:

"there's something about you - that makes me fly
you're a heart attack - just the kind i like"

i think i like my version better

my first real mural job!!! 

g-ville cont'd 

g'ville 

paul takes a pic of greenville from the coolest lookout point in downtown - the top floor of the parking garage. 

gas station romance

today, a man gave me a red rose at a gas station.

hahahaha - its true. ya know - i always knew i would find love at a gas station.

okay - so they were giving every female a rose because it was a grand opening, but still - it was nice.

a perfect day for a picnic - and for getting lost in the woods 

separated shoes

i stopped back by the goodwill store on wednesday with the lonely shoe. the ladies there looked very sad when they saw it after i had explained the situation. they said the other shoe had been thrown out yesterday. that's crazy! people just throw away perfectly good shoes even if they don't have a pair. these really were good shoes - i just never wore them because they had such a high heel and i'm clumsy.
wouldn't it be cool to work at the goodwill donation place though? think of all of the cool stuff you could rescue. you could have collections of all kinds of stuff. yeah i know - i'm an american - what can i say.

so there it is

welcome to the world of interior design - the profession with the most opportunity to make mistakes! oh, and also the profession with the most opportunity for people to royally screw you over. (okay- maybe doctors have it worse...) where everything is your fault. where you have to communicate with ten different people and make all ten of those people happy simultaneously. where you are expected to be an expert in every aspect of design, materials, construction, installation, and pricing of all of the previous items. oh, and not to mention psychology.

okay - so maybe i'm going a little overboard. but then again, maybe i'm not. am i in the wrong profession or in the wrong field? or is this the real world and i'm still too young to get it? i hope its the former, because i can't take much more of my cup being half empty. it's just not me. or at least i don't want it to be me.

i try not to blog about my job too much - but tonight, this just had to be released into the wonderful world of the blogosphere. so there it is. and now i feel better.

cuz ya know, a lot of people in this world didn't have anthing to eat tonight. and people are dying in a war right now. and then you have people who are stressing out about not getting there cabinets in on time - something's really wrong here.

tuesday ramblings

i am very excited because i found out last night that WE is playing felicity reruns again on weeknights. the episode is usually over by the time i get home, but the thought still excites me!

i dropped off some clothes at goodwill tonight. i realized when i got home that one shoe had fallen out of the bag. so i'm gonna go back by there tomorrow with the lonely shoe. i hope that it is reconnected with it's pair.

is j.d. salinger really still living? gosh, imagine the literary treasures that will hopefully be released to the public when he passes. hmmm - that sounded really morbid. but every now and then i think about that holden caulfield and i just want to write him a long letter. then i realize he's fiction.

more than anything else

He tells us...

"i know what i'm doing. i have it all planned out - plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for.
when you call on me, when you come and pray to me, i'll listen.
when you come looking for me, you'll find me.
yes, when you get serious about finding me and want it more than anything else, i'll make sure you won't be disappointed."

jeremiah 29:11-14

the future that i hope for...

can i climb up in your lap

Another rainy day
I can't recall having sunshine on my face
and all I feel is pain
and all I wanna do is walk out of this place,
but when I am stuck and I can't move
and I don't know what I should do
and I wonder if I'll ever make it through...
I gotta keep singing
I gotta keep praising your name
you're the one that's keeping my heart beating
I gotta keep singing
I gotta keep praising your name
it's the only way that I'll find healing..........
can i climb up in your lap
i don't wanna leave
Jesus sing over me

mercyme

"The LORD your God is with you,
he is mighty to save.
He will take great delight in you,
he will quiet you with his love,
he will rejoice over you with singing."
Zephaniah 3:17

dream records, cont.

i had another flying dream last night. whenever i'm flying, it always seems like there are lots of people around. usually they're on the ground looking up and talking loudly. but in this dream, a lot of people were in the air with me. it was like we were all skydiving and doing all kinds of crazy stunts. i specifically remember making a very forceful diving motion towards earth at one point. it was a very unsettling dream - as most of my dreams are.
i could go into a really long discussion right now in explaining what that dream meant, but i will spare you. but i will say - if dreams really are symbolic, then i think i'm in for a change - and a much needed one at that.

on the way home from the grocery store 

a plug for a bro

check out whoisbenbrown.com

if you hover over the multimedia tab, his song titles will appear in white boxes below it. if you then doubleclick on the song title, and if you have itunes on your computer, you can hear the song. its pretty rad.

Hot Snot

a quote taken from a very entertaining storyteller

"you think your hot snot on a silver platter when you're really just cold boogers on a paper plate!"

looks like i'm going to brazil in june!

slavehouse - oil - painted in 2002 

a sweet song

"I wish I had what I need
To be on my own
'Cause I feel so defeated
And I'm feeling alone

And it all seems so helpless
And I have no plans
I'm a plane in the sunset With nowhere to land
And all I see It could never make me happy
And all my sand castles Spend their time collapsing

Let me know that You hear me
Let me know Your touch
Let me know that You love me
Let that be enough

It's my birthday tomorrow
No one here could know
I was born this Thursday 22 years ago
And I feel stuck Watching history repeating
Yeah, who am I? Just a kid who knows he's needy

Let me know that You hear me
Let me know Your touch
Let me know that You love me
And let that be enough"

Switchfoot

a forced blog

i tend to be really negative when i'm at work which is understandable but stupid and i need to stop.

being negative that is.

i went to the gym tonight. i hadn't shaved in a few days so i was a little prickly. i was down to crappy clothes in my gym bag so i was wearing my woodruff high school gym shorts, my teens for christ t-shirt, and a very old sports bra that i have decided has got to go. HAH. yeah - rough. but i was like - oh well, who cares. then as i'm walking towards the elliptical, i spot my crush who is about to bench press like 200 pounds. perfect. HAH. what's worse is, after being there about thirty minutes there was a small period of time when it was just me, him, and my dad. "shake your booty" comes on the radio and my dad walks by me singing with the chorus - shake shake shake...shake shake shake - and loudly too. thanks dad - really.

when i have a place of my own - it must have a balcony. no, just some type of big porch.