rule for life #91

when you're hung over, the rules of a diet do not apply.

i feel that

word of the day

today at work i used the word MOXIE in a sentence. i think it may be my new favorite word (no offense, dapper).


and i couldn't have done it without Target. if not for those silly old Choxie commercials, i might never have heard my new favorite word and then had the moxie to use it in a professional discussion.


moxie.

nietzsche says...

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

but i miss you sometimes

And I thought of all the bad luck
and the struggles we went through,
how I lost me and you lost you.
What are all these voices outside love's open door
that make us throw off our contentment
and beg for something more?
I'm learning to live without you now,
but I miss you sometimes.

one of my absolute favorite songs for years, but it's back in heavy rotation on my playlist, in 2 versions, after a friend recently put india arie's cover on a mix tape for me. it's fantastic, though nothing will ever beat the original, preferably a live version.

don henley has some kind of magical gift; he can bring back torrents of emotion with just a few chords on his guitar.

philosophy

to some people, a career means spending your life working, except when you're not.

to me, a career just means spending my life not working, except when i have to.


maybe that's a problem.

yes

all things new

a christmas miracle

i did something right for a change.

moreover, she admitted i was right. first time ever?


...and just like that, i didn't hate my job.

well said, savage

dear dan savage,

your latest sassy rant has been the highlight of my day thus far. you're always entertaining, but i most enjoy when you start fuming and swearing and name-calling. mostly because a lot of nasty republicans/bigots/christianists read your site for fodder for their own arguments, culture war tactics, and Fox News programs. i can't wait 'til you crack and start screaming like this on CNN.

anyway, i just feel compelled to share:

Someday you're gonna realize that giving us everything we want is the only way to make this issue—marriage equality—go away. Seriously. Giving us what we want won't stop gay marriage (duh), but it's the only way to stop gay marriage from getting so much airtime and press. Oh, you fuckers can win one at the ballot box and slow the progress toward justice and equality for all families. But we're going to keep pressing for our rights regardless. We're not going anywhere and we're never going to give up. We're going to go on fighting you and fighting for our rights and we're going to wear you fuckers down and you're going to lose and we're going to win.

The only question is just how much of your time and money you're going to waste on your losing effort to stop us from achieving our full equality.

And our equality isn't going to deprive you of anything. The coming of legal same-sex marriage will not result in "traditional" marriage—opposite marriage—perishing from the face of the earth. That's seriously not our goal—heck, most of us are products of "opposite marriage." Once we've achieved full marriage equality you can go right on having your "traditional" marriages while we enjoy our "non-traditional" marriages. You can have your opposite genitalia, we can have our matched sets. You can have your vulgar church weddings, we can have our dignified civil ceremonies (and some of us will have church weddings too, of course, but only in churches that support marriage equality).

And you can go right on teaching your children that gay marriage is wrong and that gay people are sinful, while we teach our children—most of whom will be straight when they grow up—that love and marriage, gay or straight, are beautiful things and that it's too bad some hateful, clueless bigots out there can't see that. And we're going to live our lives openly and without shame to give hope to your gay children.

And we're going to keep suing and marching and organizing and electing homos and demanding our rights until we've got 'em. Prop 8 didn't end or settle anything. It ain't over until we say it's over. And we won't say it's over until we've won.

Have a nice day.

amen, dan.

xoxo

M

this song stopped me in my tracks

...don't you love it when that happens?

all those arrows you threw, you threw them away
you kept falling in love, then one day
when you fell, you fell towards me
when you crashed in the clouds, you found me

Please Don't Go - Barcelona

shameful crush

i know, i know.



i just...

my morning smile

rule for life #421

Some love stories aren’t epic novels, some are short stories… But that doesn’t make them any less filled with love.

-satc. carrie.

a beautiful day

nothing but thunderstorms and rain in the 5-day forecast?

sweet!


in all sincerity, that comports perfectly with my plan to spend my birthday supine, watching television and movies, drinking vodka, and ordering several different ethnic cuisines to be delivered to my door throughout the day.

that is my version of heaven.*


just gotta make it through 3 days of work first.

*in other news, if you Google image search "heaven," you'll see some really freaky ish.