Things I'm thinking about

The Story of Stuff
Hoping my parents' packrat and hoarding tendencies are not hereditary. This is not to say the house has things piled to the ceiling with narrow tunnels to get from one room to the next, but we do have a lot of stuff.

Getting Things Done
About
How
Feasibility- GTD seems really stoic and sterile. I think that we as humans need instructions and guides like this because we tend to get distracted from what we initially deemed important priorities. I'd like to say that I'm able to make goals and stick to them, but I wonder if I would be more efficient of I thought more like a machine--cut out the fat, eliminated the excess, focused on the tasks at hand, and attacked my new to-do lists with precision. But I like my distractions. Stopping to smell the flowers has been what keeps me going. *sigh* What to do, what to do.

I'm going to get rid of some no-longer-needed things in my life.

Borrowed

The spaces between my fingers

Vanilla Twilight

Xmas wish list

There is always at least one friend who asks me what I want for Xmas, and I am always stumped because I am put on the spot. So before it happens again this year, I am offering to the world a peek at my letter to Santa.

Dear Santa,

This year I have been a little naughty but mostly nice. I have enjoyed working on the ambulance. I don't get to do a lot of 911-emergency calls, but I have been able to talk to a lot of patients during inter-facility transports. Doing both full time school and full time work has been hard, but I'm still smiling. I hope this list isn't asking too much.

Hoodie thing - my brother John's friends make this really awesome cold-weather accessory.

Guitar bag/case- my brother Chung bought me a guitar but I don't want to take it out of the house until I get a bag/case for it.

Lens Crafters Gift certificate- There are two pairs I have my eye on. One is a really artsy, hipsterish cat-eye style and the other is a half-rim Oakley frame.

Wallace and Gromit set - They are my favorite and some of the few movies that I remember enough to randomly quote. I think I already bought this for myself once but it was probably lost in a break-up. I already have "A Matter of Loaf or Death."

iPod docking station - There are two places in my life where music is desired but lacking: the kitchen and in the shower. It would be awesome to not have to bring my laptop into the kitchen just to listen to music while I cook.

The "Yeah-Right" section
Tiffany Somerset ring - I've loved this ring for the longest time. Size 6 or 7.

New windshield- my 2007 Honda Civic hybrid has had a crack in it's windshield for over a month and have not been able to get it replaced.

Tinted windows- to protect the interior of my car from extreme summer heat
S-factor classes- The closest location to me is Costa Mesa.

Sincerely,
Kimi

. . .

Oh, I'm gonna be wounded
Oh, I'm gonna be your wound
Oh, I'm gonna bruise you
Oh, you're gonna be my bruise

Question / Rhett Miller

"Question"

She woke from a dream
Her head was on fire
Why was he so nervous
He took her to the park
She crossed her arms and
Lowered her eye lids

Someday somebody's gonna ask you
A question that you should say yes to
Once in your life
Maybe tonight
Ive got a querstion for you

She'd had no idea
Started to cry
She said in a good way
He took her by the hand
Walked her back home
They took the long way

Someday somebody's gonna ask you
A question that you should say yes to
Once in your life
Maybe tonight
Ive got a question for you

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Sometimes I feel like my timing is bad, my cartography's off, and my standards are messed up. The prospect is probable and depressing that I will find another person who has his own thing going on with no room in his heart or life for me. The former is not what I worry about, but how it plays out is where I get screwed. Throwing them out the window is an option but then what am I left with? My values and expectations are what keep me from picking the good from the bad. The potentially successful relationships from those that are doomed.

Lately I've been thinking that it would be nice to be in love for real before I really lost sight of what that really means.

I'm a cheeseball