Showing posts with label stress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stress. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

today

you remember that movie the gremlins?

and the whole day/night that happened as a direct result of that idiot teenager giving into a "cute" animal just because it batted its eyelashes and promised him wealth beyond his imagination? (okay, that last part was made up.)

exhibit a:





yeah.
the chaos and terror of that day doesn't even begin to describe my day.


as i was driving home after this day from hell, i got stopped in one lane traffic on one of the main roads in ogden. the other lane was blocked off by a bunch of orange cones with seemingly no actual construction going on. (utah...)

i then began deciding how much damage would happen to my car if i decided that there really was no construction and ran over every one of those cones.

you know, one probably wouldn't do damage. two, even. but i don't think a whole flock of these cones is going to be nice to my car.

this then led to an image of my car being jammed with those orange cones and some major wreckage happening.

by that point in the thought process, the traffic was gone.
needless to say, stella was spared and the flock of cones (that should be a cover band name for flock of seagulls) won this battle.

but it won't win the war....

(p.s. don't google movie stills from gremlins. especially when you're home by yourself. just don't do it. and then don't feed those stills after midnight. you'll regret it later.)

(p.p.s. bad movie "joke" in that last sentence. it's been a long day.)

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

public service announcement (a.k.a. note to self)

get sleep. seriously.
you're already an emotional girl.
take sleep out of that equation
and you might as well write yourself
(and everybody else who comes in contact with you)
a death sentence.

not a joke.

Thursday, April 1, 2010

obituary

i think my brain has just reached the end of its existence.

in the immortal words of rory from gilmore girls, "i distinctly heard a ping in the back of my brain."

it was there.
too many essays in a concentrated amount of time.
too much to think about.

life. work. school. pride and prejudice. looking-glass. life. joie de vivre. essays. art. life. powerade. pancakes. life. scales (not the weight kind). phone calls. life. patience. oh, and did i mention
life? the word looks foreign to me now, because i've spelled it a lot and stared at it for a while.

so, fare thee well, brain. you've served me devotedly for 20 plus years.
i wish you the best.
actually, no, i don't. because without you i'm going to be sitting in this blue chair, at my desk, in my room with audrey hepburn pictures and a bing crosby one somewhere in there for the rest. of. my. existence.

not moving. because without you, i can't move.

stupid brain. why'd you have to give up on me?