perfect...

Edith Hamilton observed: "When love meets no return the result is suffering, and the greater the love the greater the suffering. There can be no greater suffering than to love purely and perfectly one who is bent upon evil and self-destruction. That was what God endured at the hands of men."

my only resolution

Can anybody spot me the cash for these beauties? Pretty please?

i need a storm

I had someone tell me once that they were waiting for that bolt of lightning to strike them so that they knew what to do in their life--when it came to me being a part of their life in particular. I've had countless conversations with friends who knew of people in their lives that were waiting for that bolt of lightning to hit them so they would know which direction their life should go.

I thought it was ridiculous that someone actually believed that they would have a moment like this happen to them that would help them make decisions. After a conversation this morning with a friend whose life is about to be affected by a bolt that struck her boyfriend, I realized that:

I
am
one
of
those
people.

I have been waiting for a bolt of lightning to strike me. To shake up my life. To rescue me from the mundane. To tell me what to do. To shape me into what I am destined to become.

And shortly after being struck with that thought, I was struck by another:

That's
not
how
life
works.

All I'm doing is waiting. And I'm going to miss out on everything I desire most.

p90x

Yeah yeah yeah. I hate resolutions. So working out is NOT my resolution. But I thought it would be fun to try the P90x workout. So I got myself a copy of the DVD's. And I got myself a pull-up bar. And I got myself a workout buddy. And guess what else?

I got myself sore. Really, really sore.