Speak kindly.  
Talk gently.  
Think peacefully.
Walk softly.
Hear completely.  
Listen intently.  
Care fully.  
Love unconditionally.

talking to myself and feeling old
sometimes i'd like to quit
nothing ever seems to fit
hanging around, nothing to do but frown
rainy days and mondays always get me down
what i've got they used to call the blues 
nothing is really wrong
feeling like i don't belong
walking around, some kind of lonely clown
rainy days and mondays always get me down

funny but it ( Read more... )

Random and wonderful quotations from the last 24 hours:

Me: Don't worry. I'll take your clothes off.
Nathan: 50 cent is kind of like...a prophet.
Daniela: I was looking up the word "money" in Italian, and I ran across "mother fucker" and it made me think of you. So I called.
David: Yeah. I have the best foot and ankle bones for x-rays.

things i loved about today:
totally nailing The Prayer in church this morning.
accidentally saying "prostate" instead of "prostrate"
buying boy soap that smells delish.
getting shampoo that makes my head not be ouchy.
cleaning/vacuuming my car
wearing my black yoga pants, cowboots, and wife beater to fred meyers, and then catching an old guy do a double ( Read more... )

my boy has this theory.
that girls can't throw good parties.
so i threw a party to prove him wrong.
and maybe it's true that girls can't throw good parties.
but I certainly can.


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here's the deal. guess which number you are. some of the people i'm writing about aren't people who have livejournals; i'm just writing about people i care about.

1.) You. Where do I begin with you? I know you already know I'm talking about you, because you know you're always on my mind.  If I think back to before we met, and who I was, it doesn't ( Read more... )

it's insane to think about where i was 5 years ago...2 years ago...1 year ago...6 months...3 months...
and it's all brought me here.
good, bad, everything in between, smiles, crying, fighting, yelling, hating, loving, it's all brought me here.

cristina's advice for the day: write down 50 things you are thankful for. and put it somewhere you see it ( Read more... )

forget what we're told,
before we're too old,
show me a garden that's bursting into life.

i don't know where,
confused about how as well,
just know that these things will never change for us at all.

if i lay here, 
if i just lay here,
would you lie with me, and just forget the world...

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if you tell yourself you're a victim, you will be ( Read more... )