SNOW!
just in time for christmas..... i woke up this morning and there was snow on the ground! granted, it's not MUCH snow, but it's snow still yet. makes it feel a little more like christmas around here. it was 66* just 2 days ago, and i was not feelin' the christmas spirit!
so anyway, thanks for your thoughts on the ol' boy situation. i feel a lot better just being able to talk about it. me thinks i won't need to fret about it. a truth i learned years ago -- everything works out as it should.
speaking of truths ..... i watched 'closer' this weekend and thouroughly enjoyed it. it got mixed reviews, but wow -- what a great movie. to enjoy it, you have to have experienced some hard-core relationships, so i recommend it only to those over the age of 25 or so. there were some teenagers behind us, and i don't think they really got the movie at all. anyway, there is a line natalie portmans character says when asked to tell something honest. she replies, "lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking off her clothes." hmmm. i don't so much agree with that, but it did get me thinking. there are a lot of people out there that lie on a daily basis. some, that have lied so much - they start believing those lies as truth. why is it we feel the need to lie about things - much less ourselves. has society become so obsessed with perfection, or how people are "supposed to be" that we feel we must meet a certain status? i know people who lie so much, you can't distinguish the truth when they're talking. i know those that don't really lie, but exaggerate the truth so much that it becomes distorted. don't get me wrong -- i've lied a thousand times. especially when i was younger, and often when i was out. i've given out false names, false ages, false occupations, etc.... but that was all fun and games, really. i never expected to see half of those people again, so why not have a little fun? usually, lies sound so much more enticing than the truth. one time, i met a guy out and thought it would be fun to throuw in an english accent. i had never seen him before, and thought i'd never see him again - so it was extremely fun (and entertaining to my friends) to speak this way to him. of course, when i decide to do this -- i pick the guy in the bar that i would see around town for the next few months. to preserve my dignity, i would always have to remember to speak in that silly accent when i ran into him. eesh - what a pain in the arss. one night, i was a bit too intoxicated to care .. and when he came over to say hello - i revealed the truth. thankfully, he laughed ... but geeze i learned my lesson. now, i always tell the truth, as boring as it may seem. when i was in the 3rd grade, my teacher had a sign up in her room that read "you never have to remember the truth." i didn't really get it back then, but oh how true that is. once you start lying, you have to remember what you told so-and-so and it just becomes a big ol' mess.
yeah, not sure why i just went off about that.
anyway, happy wednesday!
so anyway, thanks for your thoughts on the ol' boy situation. i feel a lot better just being able to talk about it. me thinks i won't need to fret about it. a truth i learned years ago -- everything works out as it should.
speaking of truths ..... i watched 'closer' this weekend and thouroughly enjoyed it. it got mixed reviews, but wow -- what a great movie. to enjoy it, you have to have experienced some hard-core relationships, so i recommend it only to those over the age of 25 or so. there were some teenagers behind us, and i don't think they really got the movie at all. anyway, there is a line natalie portmans character says when asked to tell something honest. she replies, "lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking off her clothes." hmmm. i don't so much agree with that, but it did get me thinking. there are a lot of people out there that lie on a daily basis. some, that have lied so much - they start believing those lies as truth. why is it we feel the need to lie about things - much less ourselves. has society become so obsessed with perfection, or how people are "supposed to be" that we feel we must meet a certain status? i know people who lie so much, you can't distinguish the truth when they're talking. i know those that don't really lie, but exaggerate the truth so much that it becomes distorted. don't get me wrong -- i've lied a thousand times. especially when i was younger, and often when i was out. i've given out false names, false ages, false occupations, etc.... but that was all fun and games, really. i never expected to see half of those people again, so why not have a little fun? usually, lies sound so much more enticing than the truth. one time, i met a guy out and thought it would be fun to throuw in an english accent. i had never seen him before, and thought i'd never see him again - so it was extremely fun (and entertaining to my friends) to speak this way to him. of course, when i decide to do this -- i pick the guy in the bar that i would see around town for the next few months. to preserve my dignity, i would always have to remember to speak in that silly accent when i ran into him. eesh - what a pain in the arss. one night, i was a bit too intoxicated to care .. and when he came over to say hello - i revealed the truth. thankfully, he laughed ... but geeze i learned my lesson. now, i always tell the truth, as boring as it may seem. when i was in the 3rd grade, my teacher had a sign up in her room that read "you never have to remember the truth." i didn't really get it back then, but oh how true that is. once you start lying, you have to remember what you told so-and-so and it just becomes a big ol' mess.
yeah, not sure why i just went off about that.
anyway, happy wednesday!
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