The Woodlands Biotch

for years i saw the opening stanza, and yet had never tracked down the full text by max ehrmann before now. i’m glad i did. it speaks to me… see for yourself:
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be [...]

and when, at just a little past 4 pm, i recieved an email that no one else in the world was expecting or would ever think to see coming arrived, the first thing that popped into my mind in regards to it’s original intended recipient was: maybe, just maybe, you should have thought to worry [...]

rarely do i get nostalgic for the days of my youth. but as an avid reader of the cheezburger, the hotdog, the lolparazzi, graphjam and all things lolz, i felt the need to come up with at least one thing i could wax nostalgic about and get people to vote for.
i came up with three.
and [...]

you may have noticed a large uptick in signal lights around the woodlands. they started installing them months ago and you would think that would help.
help, what – exactly?
well, help the flippin’ idiots that, once a signal light starts flashing red instead of going through the cycles, instantly forget how to drive.
i swear. [...]

so here’s the thing; yeah, i missed a few days. not that i wasn’t around. i was. seriously! i just didn’t post. (duh)
but here’s the thing – what the #$%@ is with you people?? well, not you people, but all the freakin’ republicans around here? holy bejeezus. this is a moment in freakin’ h-i-s-t-o-r-y, people. [...]

one of the many little joys the boyfriend gets out of having a home-office is that he gets to watch tv while he works. as one can imagine, this means he sees more than the average amount of commercials. needless to say he truly dislikes certain spokespeople like tom tynan, billy mays, and vince “shamwow” [...]

i’ve tried to explain to people what i think it must look like in my head; the words jumbling and tumbling about, bumping into each other, churning and twisting and going round and round.
this genius figured out how to let you see that. all i can say is, daaaayumm!! well, that and, you know, “thank [...]

for once, something mom forwarded me actually struck a nerve. no, not a rant-inducing nerve. a sensative nerve. one that, maybe, at least partly, taught me something.
oh, it’s nothing i didn’t already know, mind you. just something that will for a while anyway, make me stop and think before i launch into another tirade about [...]

the people over there at microsoft would like you to believe they do not hold a monopoly on your pc. they want you to think it’s really you that chooses to let everything on your pc be microsoft.
i beg to differ.
take, for example, the wonderment that is the “windows update.” first of all, before i [...]

in addition to all the greatness that was my birthday, my mom sent me flowers. sweet of her, really – i usually send her flowers, which i know she loves, and she got to return the joy this year. thing is, she sent them to my old address. and i was like…. ehm….so….
cause it’s not [...]