But there’s a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begins.


“Mom?”
It’s just a sound really, a hum interrupted by open lips. But there are a zillion words on this planet, and not one of them comes out of your mouth the way that one does.

- Mitch Albom, For One More Day

Today my brother sent me this comment in an email, concerning the election and general annoyances with the campaigning:

Basically I'm tired of hearing "My opponent removed his baby on board sticker from his car last week, he's a baby hater. We don't want a baby hater in office. Vote for me, I've got a secret plan to fix the economy that I've been keeping to myself the last 12 months."
- David Pettengill, Jr.


I think it's BRILLIANT.

Also, I already didn't like Christine Gregoire much, but now I can't stand her. Purple and Gold Day? SERIOUSLY? How about Crimson and Gray Day, lady?!

Oh, and Baby News: I'm dilated to two centimeters and 50% effaced. Which means that I could pop any day!

Does anybody else find this quote amusing?

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
- Anonymous

From an interview with a member of The Fray:

"As I was leaving, I asked (Springsteen) if he had any advice on how to stay married in this divorce-ridden industry. And he said, 'If Mamma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.'"

Bruce Springsteen is a smart man.

Dancing on Thursday!

Apparently I was supposed to post the following yesterday. Crazy notepad files. They just get lost on my desktop.

Registered at Macy's and Target. Wedding registries are fun! And CRAZY!

Found a quote I like:

"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be eaten. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or gazelle - when the sun comes up, you'd better be ready to run."

This is HILARIOUS and brilliant. A panty-thief, here in Pullman! I almost wish I'd been a victim, I'd love to talk about "that time in college when this weirdo stole my undies".

Craziness: I have now found two alcoholic drinks I actually like. St. Patty's Mochas from Rico's Pub are nice (mocha, whipped cream, Bailey's, and Kahlua), and I had a Mango Martini from Applebee's and didn't gag. According to everybody else who has had them, they don't really count as alcohol, but whatever.

Also, I like this quote from seventyeleventy (congratulations!):

"The corner of 11th and Hennepin in downtown Minneapolis has a good place to rest one knee.

And she said yes."

... haha, I just noticed my mood theme icon. Tsk, tsk. I totally didn't think that using icons from "The Notebook" would be so sexy.

So I'm browsing online for editorials to refute for a paper that was due a month ago that must be in by tomorrow or else I fail a class. I decided to find one on PETA, since it'd be so damn easy to refute (PETA is just about the most ignorant, crass, hypocritical organization in the world - and there are facts to support that if you don't believe me).

Anyway. Found a blog of somebody who was proud to have thrown raw meat and splattered blood and paint on somebody wearing fur. And lots of other people were congratulating this [expletive] on a job well done. I was getting angry just reading these responses (how is throwing raw meat any better than actually using it for nutritional value?)... But anyway. I was getting annoyed until I saw this comment:

"I would strangle a dolphin for a tuna fish sandwich right now."

And that made my night. Couldn't stop laughing for five minutes. Trolls can be so entertaining when they're in the right.

I'm going to bed now, hopefully I will wake up early and write that paper.

"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it."

- Mary Wilson Little

I am a Domestic Diva.

Today I got together with Diane McDee (for the first time ever - after two years we've finally spent time together!).

We made:

Two lemon meringue pies, apple pie (with a lattice top), peach pie (with a crumbly top), banana bread, and pecan pie.

Oh, and a pudding cake.

We giggled, we experimented with recipes, we ate roast beef not in sandwich form, we drove in the hail, and we pestered my kitty. Oh, and we made plans for Thanksgiving Turkey Tuesday. =) I'll post pictures next week, after we've experimented some more...

Now it's time for cleaning, and later David and Eric will be coming over and we'll eat junk food and watch Stargate. I'm so happy.

Memorable quotes of the day:

Diane: "So that's why you should never have sex in water. Want more peaches?"

That one had us in stitches for quite awhile.

Diane: "So I think it's weird that people get so upset over dead baby jokes -"
Shelly: "-probably because they have dead babies."

It was highly inappropriate, but Shelly's deadpan delivery just gave us the giggles for a good ten minutes (during which we proceeded to tell more dead baby jokes). There was another quote that we all forgot, though, which sucks because it was amazing.

"There are some societies where cannibalism is the greatest honour you can do the entree."
- Richard Taflinger

I have the coolest professors.

The Black National Anthem is stuck in my head.

I don't mind. 


Lift ev’ry voice and sing,
Till earth and heaven ring.
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise,
High as the list’ning skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
Let us march on till victory is won.

Poem by James Weldon Johnson, set to music by John Rosamond

"My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them."

- Penn Jillette

Dove Promises are nice.

"When two hearts race, both win."

"You're allowed to do nothing."

:D

"Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences."

- J.K.R.

(i don't know, i just like it)