Get off YOUR high horse

To all those people who write stupid things about being offended by "You're" "Your": CALM DOWN. So somoene made a mistake. What of it?  I'm sure you make a million but no one makes a pinterest image or a someecard about it.   Sometimes, nay, frequenlty I type "nad" when I mean "and".  This is far more problematic. Nad is another word for ball. They use it often in Beavis and Butthead. But not one freaks out at me about that embarassing mistake.  I think they just want to seem superior - but honeslty- you're just spelling a simple word.  It doesn't make me cringe to see things spelled wrong. I do cringe a bit at the "4" used as for. But I don't go around parading my anxieties. I realize I need to accept them.  Life goes on, and it goes on beautifully.

Andecdote:

Last night I posted a picture of the decorated Christmas mantle on Instagram  (the best part of having an iPhone).

 I wrote "Coco's stalking" and clicked enter. Immediatley I realized that I meant "stocking" not "stalking". I turned it into a funny joke.  But had I not re-read my post and left it - no damage would we done - no harm befallen the world as we know it.

Calm down with the You're/Your images on Pinterst.  Unless you are correcting someone out of care, it's probably best that you just accept the fault and go along your merry way.

In the past 2 years I've had a the strong desire to part my hair down the middle.

I always have residual bangs from haircuts past. These make it difficult to achieved the desired look.

I think today - it finally kinda worked. I didn't do my hair, I just rolled out of bed, put on yesterday's church outfit and went to work. My hair just kinda looked fabulous which was unexpected since I did not realy like how it looked yesterday. With the small amount of dirty that is there - oily but not too oily to look bad - it stuck really nicely in a center part.

Ta Da! Hopefully I can replicate it more often and it will soon just become my usual look. that's what I'm trying to make my new glasses - just the norm, the usual. Not as much of a converstaon piece.

shamefull, yes, but this 10 year old trick is my main inspiration as of late

 

I Steal Mustard Packets

For lunch I've been really into these healthy little wraps I make.

WRAP

Tortilla

 80 calories and 12 g of Fiber

I don't have to worry about fiber causing problems
I've got a stomach of steel

Cheese

35 calories

I always see these at the grocers not in the fridge
and it freaks me out
what kind of cheese doesn't need to be in the fridge?!
but it's so easy to spread so i just learned to forget the freaky fact

 I take this bad boy spreadable cheese and cover the entire tortilla. Then I put the smothered tortilla in the toaster oven. I get a warm, crispy, melty beginning to my wrap.

TOPPINGS

Turkey

50 calories

 1/2 Roma Tomato

bought a paring knife for the office
makes tomato consumption a dream

Spinach

I microwave a big handful of it for15 seconds

it's warm but not limp

i splash it with salt

and i top it all off with the stolen mustard packet.

It all started by using a mustard packet that I found in the knife drawer

It needs just that small packet sized amount of mustard -

not enough to justify buying an entire mustard bottle

and they are just there at hamburger joints

so i stuff a few in my purse

i'm such a freak

i love it

Marathon & Complain

so. my best friend mallory always joked about her desire to run a marathon. i said poo poo! that goal if far too lofty.
i ran 2 half marathons. i felt done.

sunday oct 30, 2011 i took the dog for a walk. on walks i think of ludacris things and makeup alternate life senarios in my head. on this walk i thought, i should run a marathon.
i ran 3 miles the next day. 3 difficult miles. happy halloween.

well yesterday i ran 4.4 and it was not bad.
today i made a excel spreadsheet of my training schedule.

what the what! am i really gonna do it - i don't know. but it's keeping me running 5 times a week and binging in halloween candy. especially frozen reese's.

now my complaint. ahhh i forgot whatever it was that i felt like complaining about. yay for private blog therapy.

oh i remembered-  i hate that spotify writes all over my facebook wall the embarassing things i'm listening to - like glee cast radio. but it's okay. life goes on.

I hate those Keep Calm Posters

I read half of the book The Hunt For Red October. I need to finish it because I won't allow myself to see the movie until I've finished the book - and my lover Indiana Jones' dad (Sean Connery) is in it.

this is my signed copy i just scanned in, btw
didn't just find this on google images
ps I'm a pathological liar

Today I was reading some article about Isreal, Iran, Germany, Russia, etc etc and nuclear weapons. It's totally scary isn't it, to think about how they are spending $700 billion on war heads, $70 billion on cruise missle systems.

But, I'm not even worried.

I'm more worried about the fact that I forgot to get an itemized reciept when I bought my contacts, which I need to get the rebate. I'm hoping if I stop by the doc's soon they'll be able to print me up one. that's what I'm worried about.

I wonder if anyone else worries about all the scary big picture things.

Good Movies with Better Soundtracks

Until last night, I hadn't seen Shrek since it came out in theaters. That was one of the best family outings of my life. It's a cute movie and I really like.

But my mom, who owns less than 7 CDs, did get the soundtrack and always had it in her truck.
Our choices while being driven about were the Shrek soundtrack or Gloria Estefan. I think she also acquired Faith Hill and the Black Eyed Peas by the time I graduated from High School. We had a limited yet wide variety.
The Shrek soundtrack is outstanding. The movie is great, but the music absolutely definietly outshines.

Another movie in the same boat - My Best Friends Wedding.  Cameron Diaz is the only link between the two but I think it's an arbitraty thing to consider.
It's a good movie. I love to watch it every now and then. The soundtrack though, the soundtrack is a treasure.

Any other movies with this same situation?

On the Contrary

I love contradictory descriptions.

This helps explain my life-long complete adoration of Oscar Wilde.

"The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to some one else, if she is plain."

The Importance of Being Earnest.

I recently watched The Picture of Dorian Gray.
A movie made from my favorite book with one my favorite actors (Colin Firth).

They used that line and I still don’t know what I think about that.
Wrong Oscar Wilde work – but it’s still delightfully cheeky to incorporate it in…. anyway that’s a side note.

Back to my love of contradictory descriptions. Everyone has heard Crazy by Gnarles Barkley. I inexplicably came into ownership of the entire album, St. Elsewhere,
for free.
I fell truly madly deeply in love.
Here are some of the lyrics that make me go weak at the knees:

Basically I'm complicated
I have a hard time taking the easy way…..

….It's deep how you can be so shallow
And I'm afraid cause I have no fear

-Who Cares. Gnarles Barkley

When J.R.R.Tolkien describes Samwise’s first sighting of the oliphaunt I about died:

“To his astonishment and terror, and lasting delight….”

I mean come on…. 

I think I’ll send out a mass text questions asking “what two seemingly contradictory adjectives would you positively relish in being described as?”

My answer: Ethereal and Down-to-Earth.