How amazing the power of speech is. It can momentarily stop someone in their tracks, make someone smile, make someone feel the deepest anguish, arouse certain ideas that otherwise wouldn't have been conceived, and become the most beautifully lethal weapon. I hope that I'm not the only one afraid of it sometimes.

I'm getting sick from allergies. I don't like it and I greatly dislike the fact that I have so much down time right now and need to spend it while sicky, icky, icky.....yay movies and books ( Read more... )

Danced at the Russian on thursday ( Read more... )

I came home from working, gasing up, and grabbing my groceries. I sat down and melted into a comforter chair. Erin and I started watching Blood Diamond while people came home and started packing away their food and talking noisily. I turned up the volume to show that I was watching a movie, an already noisy one at that, with someone, even though ( Read more... )

I went to the Swing Summit dance in White Rock and danced for an hour with the leads from Abbotsford that I'm used to and new people hadn't arrived yet so I couldn't have danced with them. But! During that hour I wasn't following my usual following way, meaning I wasn't me normal dancing self. So my solution was going upstairs to the bar and ( Read more... )

I was told that I don't live a very extravagant lifestyle. It was in the kind of tone where a friend says "Aw, honey, your mascara is running." "Rose, sweety, you don't live very extravagantly ( Read more... )

I feel so good. I had a huge breakfast. I wanted to make my Mom's biscuits and gravy so I grabbed her recipe and this morning I went out and got my ingredients, came home and got to work. I started in on the biscuits first and then Adam got started on cooking the meat portion of the recipe. All in all there was a pan's worth of sausage and gravy ( Read more... )

I will smile because I damn well want to ( Read more... )

In a crooked little town they were lost and never found
fallen leaves, fallen leaves, fallen leaves, on the ground

Getting back into the habit of this, we'll see how it goes.