Am I really as neurotic as I feel?

Happy New Year!!

Be safe and happy!!

Posted by: greeneyes at 10:25 | link | comments (1)

So excited!!!

I'm so excited I can hardly contain myself.  I've hardly eaten the past couple of days, and it doesn't take much to fill me up.  Why?  Because when I get excited/stressed/anxious my stomach kind of goes on hiatus.  So even when I'm hungry, I hardly eat.  But I don't care.  Why?  Because I'm going to Florida!!  For the bowl game!!  Woo freaking hoo!!

I leave home at noon today with a stop in Capital City to have a late lunch with my CC boys (and girl) and then I'll be stopping at my friend's place because our friend B is coming down for the weekend because B's boyfriend is being a jackass and doesn't know if he wants to stay together or break up, so he's doing the whole vague thing about her coming up to visit (he lives a few hours from her) and this of course leads to suspicions (which are valid, after hearing the whole story) so I spent much of yesterday talking to her and giving her advice (some unsolicited, which I warned her about) and pretty much empathizing with her, because what she's going through now is quite similar to what I went through this summer on many levels.  So after that, I'll be heading to my parents' house.  Then tomorrow morning...

WE LEAVE FOR FLORIDA!!!  FOR THE BOWL GAME!!!

I was so excited last night I couldn't sleep, so I had a cosmo.  That did the trick until about 7:30, but I was too tired to actually get out of bed until about 9.  I have my CDs in order, my CD player, headphones (I have a tendency to forget those when I fly, which is why I have 3 pairs, not including my office pair), most of my clothes are laid out, my camera, I need to get batteries, phone charger, toiletries, and that's about all I need, I think.

I got the new Chris Botti CD/DVD (it's a dual-sided thingy...one side is CD, the other is DVD...oooooh) and it's really good.  Paula Cole has such an awesome voice, and Michael Buble makes an appearance on one of the songs.  He's such a cutie...if he showed up at my door I'm pretty sure I'd swoon, at leat a little, because he has such a smooth voice.

I could ramble on a little longer, as I tend to do when I'm excited and/or tired, but I need to finish getting ready.  So I can go to the BOWL GAME!!!   WOOO!!!

Catch y'all next year!

Posted by: greeneyes at 10:16 | link | comments (5)

I am now soliciting for traveling advice

I absolutely cannot believe that I'll be leaving for Italy in 2.5 weeks.  Holy freaking crap!!!  Two and a half weeks!!!  Italy!!!  If I actually stop to think about it, I stop breathing and tense up because I get so excited (one of those neuroses I mention in my profile).  So I'm trying not to think about it.  We watched Primetime tonight, and it was about Pope Joan (Johanna)...was she real?  Just a myth?  Way cool; I'm a big fan of religious conspiracies.  Anyway, they showed Rome and the Vatican, and I'm sure I annoyed my roommate because I kept saying "I'm going to be there!  In two and a half weeks!  I'm going to see that!!!!!"

*Breathe!!!*

So I ask you, my fellow motimers, to shower me with advice.  What to pack, what to do, where to go, what to see, what phrases will be most useful, places to eat, places not to eat, how much is too much to pay for something, anything and everything you could possibly think of.  I don't care if it's mundane or just the tiniest bit of advice...I'll take it!  I'm flying Lufthansa through Frankfurt to Florence, so feel free to give advice about the airline and airports as well.

Grazie!!  (See, AdventureSpice?  Still practicing!!! )

Posted by: greeneyes at 22:57 | link | comments (2)

Your mom goes to college

I love Napoleon Dynamite.  I think I laugh at it more now than I did the 2nd time I watched it (since the first time you watch it you have no idea what the hell's going on and you wait for something to happen, but it doesn't, but you're left with this feeling that you have to see it again after Kip and Lafawnduh get married and ride off on the horse).  I think I might like it more than I did when C, D, D's friend, and I performed the Napoleon Dynamite dance in front of about 60 or so Navy guys in the Bahamas (complete with suddenly stopping and running of the "stage").  I get such a kick out of it.

What caused me to bring this up, you ask?  Well, other than it being my movie of the week at bedtime...

I tested out my roommate's new treadmill (it's sitting right there, so of course I'm going to use it ) and afterwards I took a shower.  My hair is short, like a few inches long.  So when I get out of the shower and towel dry my hair, my hair kind of looks like Grandma's hair in Napoleon Dynamite.  During the commentary, they say her hair was styled like one of the 5-year-old neighbor boys.  So my hair looked like a 5-year-old boy's last night.  And I got such a kick out of it, I had to share.

Such is my exciting (and rather odd) life. 

Posted by: greeneyes at 09:56 | link | comments (1)

Merry Christmas!!

Travel safe and eat lots!!

Posted by: greeneyes at 13:33 | link | comments

Merry Christmas, barkalot!

Posted by: greeneyes at 13:38 | link | comments (6)

I really need to write thoughts down as I have them, especially when I'm at work and actually have the option of writing them down, because I had a lot of good ones this evening and I can't remember a damn one.

Wait!  I just remembered one...and lucky you guys, it's the funny one (well, I think it's funny).

I hate the fact that when I try to come up with a beginning line of a poem, and the first thing that pops into my head is always--ALWAYS--the opening line of Total Eclipse of the Heart.  Is it the, say, Air Supply version?  Oh, no.  It's the Dan Band version.  Not familiar?  Let me fill you in.

Turn around
Every now and then I get a little bit lonely and you're never coming round
....
Every now and then I see the fucking look in your eyes
...
Fucking every now and then I fall apart
...
I fucking need you more than ever

Invariably, this turns into Ashlee Simpson's Boyfriend.  WTF??  I turn the station as soon as that song comes on.  But yet it gets stuck in my head...at work...with no music to listen to...for an hour.

I do think that was the worst that happened to me today, so that's good

Posted by: greeneyes at 22:57 | link | comments

***The Keys to Your Heart***


You are attracted to those who are unbridled, untrammeled, and free.

In love, you feel the most alive when your lover is creative and never lets you feel bored.

You'd like your lover to think you are loyal and faithful... that you'll never change.

You would be forced to break up with someone who was emotional, moody, and difficult to please.

Your ideal relationship is lasting. You want a relationship that looks to the future... one you can grow with.

Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment.

You think of marriage something you've always wanted... though you haven't really thought about it.

In this moment, you think of love as something you thirst for. You'll do anything for love, but you won't fall for it easily.


What Are The Keys To Your Heart?
http://www.blogthings.com/keystoyourheartquiz/

Posted by: greeneyes at 01:16 | link | comments (1)

I will be 31 the next time I renew my license.  I wonder where I'll be living at that time.

Posted by: greeneyes at 11:41 | link | comments (2)

It's interesting what you learn after the fact...what people tell you, what they actually think, what you realize.  I was talking to a friend a while ago, and she said that after she and her husband got divorced, her mom said, "Yeah, we didn't even like him anyway...he didn't really fit in with us."  My friend was like "You could have told me that before I got married to him!  Or at some point in the last 10 years!"  But sometimes you just have to go along with it for someone else's sake and hope they'll figure things out for themselves...if you tell your friend none of you likes her boyfriend, she'll just get closer to her boyfriend and spend less time with you, so you hang out with them anyway and put on a happy face.  Same with parents and children.  And it's harder to see things for what they are when you're in the situation; it's much easier to see what's going on from the outside.  But sometimes I wonder, how often people put on a face for the sake of someone else, and if the world would be better or worse if people were more upfront about things.

Posted by: greeneyes at 11:07 | link | comments (4)