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sometimes girls eat coleslaw late at night with a side of grated cheese instead of doing their dishes.

sometimes in order to save my cat from certain death i feed her soft food, then it stinks up my kitchen.

bren and i have been talking recently about how life has a way of bring along just what you need/want if you wait long enough. she used the example of needing a new backpack for her kid, and specifically wanted a MEC bag because they're good quality, but she kept putting it off, and before she got the chance to go to their website to order one, she found one at a garage sale for something like 2 bux. i know that's nothing grand or meaningful, it's just a backpack, but it's a good reminder that sometimes it's more a question of when as opposed to a question of if. this has led to big questions in my mind. and the one i keep going back to is "what do we do in the meantime?". i know in the past i've belly ached and whined about stuff, and at other times i've pulled up my bootstraps and made the most of the "meantime". the meantime can be scary, because there's no certainty that things will for sure work out. i actually think that the "meantime" is worst part, because waiting doesn't come naturally to me without a distraction. from now on i kind of want to ask you all to ask me next time i'm worried or anxious "what if it all works out?", if nothing else it will make me think.

YAY! HURRAY! YAY! HURRAY! YAY! HURRAY! YAY! HURRAY! YAY! HURRAY! YAY! HURRAY! shanno and i are going to cuba! i would like to thank the house famous... God the creator of cuba... my beautifully bearded boyfriend... shanno's mama + papa... and most of all shanno, for making this trip possible :D hurray! par•tay!

holiday...
celebrate...
if we took a holiday,
took some time to celebrate,
just one day out of life,
it would be, it would be so nice.