Why am I still awake?

Tired of feeling like Dr. Doolittle's Pushmi-Pullyu.

Just call me Graceful....

Slipped on some hardwood stairs at work today and hit my lower back on the way down. Survived, but I'm walking kinda funny, and it's going to be one of those nights when I wake up every time I roll over. I can't even sit with my back against a chair. There's a 6-inch round area in the small of my back that's swollen and bruised. Yeehaw. Such a simple thing walking down stairs.... too bad I messed it up.

Eat | Pray | Love

I was watching the movie this weekend, and this quote stuck with me. Not because it's healthy to be this way, or it's who I want to be, but because I have been this person in the past, and I know exactly what she means.

“I disappear into the person I love. I am the permeable membrane. If I love you, you can have everything. You can have my time, my devotion, my body, my money, my family, my dog, my dog’s money, my dog’s time — everything. If I love you, I will carry for you all your pain, I will assume for you all your debts (in every definition of the word), I will protect you from your own insecurity, I will project upon you all sorts of good qualities that you have never actually cultivated in yourself and I will buy Christmas presents for your entire family. I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check. I will give you all this and more, until I am so exhausted and depleted that the only possible way I can recover [my energy] is by becoming infatuated with someone else.”

From Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Randomness

So I've developed a habit of making notes in my phone when I want to remember a clever thought or something someone said that caught my attention, but I'm tired of having them all in my phone and decided I would just blog them, lol.

If they don't make sense, too bad. They did at the time. Haha.

"The purpose of a lighthouse is not to blow a horn - it's to shine." -Doug Batchelor

Overheard at the hair salon: "Imagine if there was such a thing as an out of context motivational speaker." (And the context for that comment was people who try to sound smart by using long phrases/big words, and yet in reality have no idea what they're actually saying.

Overheard at the airport returning from a cruise: "Let me describe cruises for you - you eat your way around the Caribbean." (In reference to the over-abundance of free food on ship.)

Pickup line of the day: "Do you have a quarter?" "Why?" "I told my boyfriend I would call him when I found someone better."

Feeling shipwrecked at the moment.

(If you don't get it, read the quote for my blog.)