Merlot, Aimee Mann...let the thoughts begin! I think there is no way around being an adult once you've turned 25. My car has been in the shop for 2 weeks now, with a list of things wrong with it as long as my entire body. So, I am officially a 25 year old, knee deep in newly acquired credit card debt to get it fixed. The morning the car guy called to break the news, I laid in bed weighing my options. I could: A. tell them to keep the damn car, slip into a bitter depression and stay in bed until I had a few bed sores (definitely the option I am most inclined towards) or B. be "an adult" get my ass out of bed, go to work, and then find a second job. I chose the latter. So today I left the house, with my resumes and the Help Wanted section in hand, and my grandma yelled to me (while she was working her crossword), "Good luck honey. Stay off my corner!" My grandma is one of the funniest people I know. I dread the thought of working 2 jobs, and going to school....but I guess we all trudge along in our own way.
I gotta tell you guys; life is messy. my room is messy. my head and my heart are messy. But I get by. Some cheap Chinese food, a diet coke, a cloudy day, Happy Hour with the girls from the office on Fridays , a good laugh with my grandma...I get by. I hope you are all well and blessed this Christmas season.
Rosie's Russian Quote of the Day: "A true act of love is hard and forbidding.....a true act of love, requires hard work and patience, and for some it is a whole way of life." Father Zosima. The Brothers K.
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rosie-
now that is what i like to see. no stale quotes. no stale posts. stale cars, maybe, but we don't let it get us down. now rosie, this is what i want you to do: a) keep posting on your blog. the only sure-fire cure for depression is connection with other human beings, albeit computer based and therefore not quite human but close enough connection. b) don't sweat the small stuff. there was a book that came out in the mid 90s by the same name. don't buy the book. just don't sweat. seriously. because sweating is gross. c) listen to the clash. "straight to hell." because that is what i am doing right now, and it is doing me well. d) DO NOT invest any of your money (or that of your grandmother's) in Internet Explorer. if you have already avoided this pratfall of the investment world, consider yourself lucky. perhaps, "predestined." e) know that somewhere, perhaps not as far as you might think, there are people who want the best for you. want you to succeed. want you to dance. to madonna, in the middle of the night. without anyone looking. this is good for the soul.
and now, quotes from russia:
"strange it is, all this, Karamazov, such grief, and suddenly pancakes; how unnatural everything is in our religion!"
-f. dostoyevsky
i don't have any quotes from Russia (although my sister is practically Russian and I have all sorts of weird things that she says) - but I just want to say that I love reading your blog. and I hear you, Rosie. Its been a long year, my friend, so here's to the next - and whatever mind-numbing, character building hurdles she has to offer.
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