Still digging Hall & Oats. "You make my dreams come true..."

Well, I'm feeling much better than I was previously this week. I think it's because I finally have made some money and don't feel so poor. I got to work a double on Wednesday because my coworker got a tooth pulled and was puking up blood, so I covered for her. It sucks that she didn't get to make the money, but it rocks that I did because I've been anxious about it. So now I have moneys in the bank and a pay check to deposit. So maybe I can pay off some bills? Who knows.
I did do one thing though with some money I've been making. I changed my hair color. Hehehe! Lightened up for the warm months! Hells yes!
So now I'm putzing around on the computer at the library before going to work. Trying to message people I miss and all that jazz. I'm so uninspired though. Hopefully I will be able to follow through with it.

• This is a pretty funny look at interview-ees.
• "Your surrender means something, but your defiance means even more."
• I'm super intrigued by this woman and her office.
• I also think this is a funny mockery of her work.

"Once, when my sister was living in Cuzco, Peru, I went to visit. We went to a
bar, and she was wearing some vintage paint-splattered army pants. Her Peruvian
friend Henry looked dismayed; we asked why and his answer was, to translate and
sum up, "Why do you want to look poor?" That is the question I have for anyone
who buys these fucking overalls."

You make my dreams come true...

I've decided that I cannot be bothered with being a grump today. Everything will work out in the end and it is such a joy to be alive. So I'm going to list some amazing things on this wonderful friday and remember why it's good to be here, now.

• I took this picture when taking a cross country trip with my BFF from High school, and I love middle America.
• I'm going to get coffee today, and I haven't had coffee in a few days so I'm really excited to get to have it again.
• I get to go work, which means I have a job! I mean, in this economy that's a pretty rocken' thing.
  

• The Natural Female Form: This is a rad tumblr that is hopefully a good reminder to all that we come in more shapes and sizes than you even know!

• My dear friend Youdhi has a deviantART and likes to put up pictures of his amazing work. He's a bit abstract, but he's been moving toward human figures recently and his style is completely amazing, just really fucking good. (He did that horse-like pic up there!)

• It's Hans Christian Andersen's birthday, and without him there would be no Steadfast Tin Soldier or Little Mermaid.

(Credit)

• Why is it a good day? Hall and Oats, You Make My Dreams Come True.
• My old roommate has a New Blog, which may or may not last but while it does I will read.
• I got to go to not one but TWO movies this week. They were both excellent, one being Repo Men, the other Remember Me. I highly recommend both films, although Remember Me made me cry so it might make you cry. And Repo Men has tons of blood and gross things and action and a twist! These movies are stuck in my head!
• This blog is so fricken cute. I especially wish I had written this one.
• This Chick has some very good stuff, really interesting and things I wish I knew better.

"Whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it's very important that you do it. Because nobody else will. Like when someone comes into your life and half of you says you're nowhere near ready, but the other half says: make her yours forever." - Remember Me

I rise hard and fast, like a twelve year old's dick.

I'm pretty sure that there's some sort of constitutional thing that we as Americans get to do as we like when we like and all that. I'm really a big fan of this, I'd even fan it on Facebook if it weren't such a gay thing to do. I am a young woman who gets to buy cigarettes, porn, lottery tickets, alcohol, and whatever else I choose. And yet, for some reason, it's been my impression that others find me to be a naive and silly young girl. Money issues? Got em. Lots of em. I'm working on it and applying to jobs, using what I can to do what I can. License? If I have no car I cannot take the test or even get to the building. My friends and play time? I'm pretty sure I'm not a drug addict and I have very few people in my life who are important enough to speak to on a regular basis. And there are very few who have decided I make their list of important enough people, so when there's a symbiotic relationship I care more.
I'm not trying to tell anyone else what to do. I don't want to be intruding on their freedom, and I don't want to judge. We all have our path, this is an idea that I have found solace in. This is how I try to live my life in regards to others, and while I believe (unrealistically) these things I would in no way attack someone for living in a different way, at least not unless they deserve it.
We all have a path, each one is different and our own. We are not coming from the same places and we won't end up in the same places. Our paths can merge or follow the same trail, whatever. But this is not permanent, and the only way to keep our connections is to put effort into it. The only way to create healthy connections is to turn to people with an open mind and heart, because we all have been places we aren't proud of, and we all have done things we don't want to live up to. The consequences of our actions may be severe or non-existent, but either way our human connections should be based on safety and healing. We should be able to provide others a little bit of hope and happiness instead of providing more pain.
I think that I'm at a point where I'm tired of so many different voices telling me how to live and so few of them actually caring about me. I don't think you can tell someone what to do just to make yourself feel better, it's not always your place and it doesn't always come out in a supportive way. I guess I'm just too idealistic to handle other people.

“No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.” — Henry Miller

In Your Face.