thoughts of the day...

~I know I've needed to be getting more sleep for awhile, but it's a little disturbing when I'm foggy for both the drive too and the drive from work.

~Why would anyone EVER name something Mullet (besides the haircut)?

~I feel accomplished...I managed to make calls to half the dealerships I have left and have added over 100 Top 100 nominations to our running spreadsheet.

~Why am I only motivated at the END of the week, when all the people I need to deal with are exceedingly busy?

~HOORAY for Thirsty Thursdays!!!!

~I really wish we had two antennas. But since we don't, I hope I get to catch A LOT of CSI reruns.

~Why do mean girls always come out on top? (that's not actually true, they just sometimes do).

~I would love to run a marathon some day. I don't even know if that's a possibility any more.

~I'm going to try to re-read the DaVinci Code before the movie comes out. Whether I'll be able to find anyone who wants to go see it with me is a whole other ball game.

~PRAISE GOD for free/found/forgotten money!!!

~I cannont wait for summer hours.

~This housing stuff is sort of making me nervous.

~What to wear as a girl invited out for desserts with her friend who's a boy and his parents (and another girl friend)?
~How awdward is that?

~How I wish for no money worries.

~I've had a lot of crazy dreams lately, one of the weirdest being one where my family and I were roaming around church and my mom started yelling, "The Nazis are coming, the Nazis are coming!" The Nazis, apparently, was a massive bull who came tearing through the church. He was about to lampoon my mother with one of his horns when I woke up. This is not the first time I've dreampt about a bull attacking my family. The funny thing is, we don't even keep bulls.

Happy day!

controversial topic of the day...

So today I went to Minnesota Magazine Day downtown with a handful of my coworkers (all but one male, and we met her there). I, being generally quite and usually only piping up when I feel I have something to add to a conversation, tend to be ignored or forgotten occasionally and I am always amused to listen to conversations between groups of guys when this happens. On the drive to the hotel where the event was happening, the conversation turned to children. The two married men in the truck wives' are both expecting their second children. When one of the guys asked whether they would have any more, one came back with "They [meaning the women] seem to be in charge of that, don't they?" An interesting thought and a difficult issue. If one spouse wants more or fewer children than another, how do you resolve that without one person being disappointed. I don't know for sure, but I'd be willing to bet that in general, women want more children than men. I find it disgusting that some women think it's okay to get what they want (another child) anyway by going off of birth control or what have you without their husbands knowing and then getting pregnant. That's no way to build a healthy family. I suppose the flip side shows up too...there was that one episode of Grey's a couple weeks ago where the husband was angry the wife got her tubes tied after child 7. I find his actions equally disgusting. I guess you just have to pray for flexibility and compromise, going into your marriage having discussed some of these things ahead of time. Maybe someone who thought they only wanted two children will later decide that four is the perfect number. Or someone who wanted a large family to be perfectly content with just one child. It's tricky business bringing a child into this world, after all.

Disclaimer: I have no, nor have I ever had any, children, although I would like to have some, at some point.

oh the humanity!

You would not believe my life right now. And I KNOW you would not want to live in my house. Things are utterly crazy. Just a week ago I had one doctor's appointment...I went back today and I don't think I can even remember all the drama that has transpired between then and now. There has been yelling, crying, one break up, two (two!!) car accidents, too many late nights, not enough booze, one bridal shower, deadlines, a new futon, a bridesmaid dress lost in the mail, random people in and out of the house, a tender ankle, a roommate back from study abroad, an anniversary party to plan, more apartments mentioned than I can remember, three trips to Rochester, one day in a hairdresser's chair, one long ass night at Target and spending money that I shouldn't. Oh, and a ton and a half of rain. I'm so incredibly happy and blessed that I haven't been at the very center of any of this stuff, but my goodness...it's managed to wreck havoc on my life anyway. Will things continue on this way until the middle of June?