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misty_rain
Cheap dates in general - Subscribe
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Go to the local big box everything store and have shopping cart races on the far end of the parking lot. Don't scratch any cars. Go to a nursery / garden center and pick out one small live plant. It is very romantic. Go to the local river forks at dusk while the lights of the city come on. Snap a few photos, but be ready to jet out of there. Not very nice local usually. Find somewhere with a ping pong table for free, bring your own rackets and balls. Frisbee golf. Food court !! Local college or university has a geology collection / display. Bring your cafe purchase to a local park. Stroll by a duck pond... feed the ducks. Bazaars. Hikes in nature. Often hiking trails are available near you. A park near us hosts a night when people with telescopes drive out of the city and set up, and people without telescopes can chat and ask for turns looking through the telescopes. The dollar theater lives on !! If you live in a different state than where you went to college, find out which sports bar in town hosts all the games of your alma mater, and mix in and cheer with like-minded alumni. Bring a couple extra bucks to buy a t-shirt, if they're selling them. Go to your local town hall or visitor's bureau, find a chatty lady, and get the scoop on free plays in the park, free concerts, free fireworks displays and free children's events. Battle re-enactments and airshows. |
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Mood: capricious Random Thought: Or pick out a nail polish together. That's really sweet too. |
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misty_rain
Aw-Ready Oct 30th, 2009 11:38:10 am - Subscribe
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"So," I said to Sean. "What do the kids say now a days:" Sean squinted. "What?" "What do the kids say now a days?" I persisted. I say something is cool and that works for everybody forty and above. They know exactly what I mean. But if I say that to a teen or twenty-something they pull a face." "They what?" "You know, they look at me like I just said 'Neato, ain't that the bees knees.'" Sean laughed. "Well," he said, "you could say, 'that's tight, yo,'" I said I wasn't going to be saying "yo" anytime soon. So Sean said, "or we say Aw-ready." "OK," I said. "Like All ready to go? "No," said Sean. "Like I AW-Ready know." |
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misty_rain
Miserly Tips - Save a Few Bucks Oct 29th, 2009 4:59:25 pm - Subscribe
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1. Buy the cereal in a bag brand, then "cut" it - mix in 1 minute quick oats. 2.(How many times have I done this?) Color in scuffs on your shoes with a marker. (The night before if you don't want the smell to tell on you.) 3. When grocery shopping, keep an eye out for the pink "WIC" stickers. These foods are usually a good buy. 4. When grocery shopping, note the price per ounce of the item you are buying. For instance, ice creams vary between 4 cents and 30 cents per ounce. 5. Five dollar jewelry is usually thirty dollar jewelry that has been linked wrong. With a tiny pair of beading pliers, your personalized adjustment to your jewelry can make it look like sixty dollars. 6. Avoid buying gas from a station near a highway since they charge more. 7. Shoe polish your leather shoes for Christmas or Easter, oil the leather any other time you want to look neat. You won't smell like polish, and the leather will look smoother and more expensive. 8. Updating your wardrobe with accessories is cheaper than updating your wardrobe with clothes. 9. Utilities on an apartment is usually much cheaper than utilities on a house. 10. When you buy new clothing, check the care tag to see if it is machine washable. |
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Mood: awestruck Random Thought: Shopped the local thrift store for beads and found pearls (no joke). |
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aleaffalls
Lost Oct 4th, 2009 1:55:50 pm - Subscribe
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I was in the middle of writing a post. Then I realized that it didn't make any sense at all. So I deleted it. The point that I was trying to convey? I have become someone that I don't even recognize. You changed me when we got together. You changed me for the better. But now that you've left me, I can't even get back to the person I was before I met you. Sure, she wasn't the best and the brightest, but she had more motivation and direction than I do now. It's not that I feel like I don't have a purpose in life now that you're not around anymore. It's just... I don't know HOW to live without you around. I grew dependent on you and your presence. And then you left without a warning. ...and took my drive to succeed in life with you. You know my address. Will you send it back to me? Thanks. |
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misty_rain
I thought I was boring Sep 29th, 2009 3:50:02 pm - Subscribe
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And I was right! whoo hoo !! There's this lamp I want to get rewired. And nobody cares. And that's how it should be. I wouldn't even care, if I didn't have a mental picture of how nice the living room will look once it's set up. Work today went ok. I made more phone calls than usual. I finished updating four files, and I got a rebate from the office supply store. However, the rebate was made out in my name and not the company name! This seemed to concern my boss considerably. My traditional thing to do with rebates when I worked in uptown was to spend them on copy paper. That way I was not really tempted. But it does raise questions. Does it look like the office supply stores of America ARE in fact trying to get kickbacks to the, let's say, *secretaries* who do the shopping? Hmmmm. |
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aleaffalls
You're Awesome Jul 31st, 2009 12:02:44 am - Subscribe
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Thank you for giving me a green check mark. I really appreciate it. And everything else you've done for me since I've met you. You're amazing. And what you said to me when you gave me my present? That just made my whole summer. =D to the max. |
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aleaffalls
Blank// Jul 25th, 2009 10:58:47 pm - Subscribe
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I don't know what to say anymore. No coherent thoughts, no justified emotions or sane plans. I don't know what I'm doing or who I've become. lost.confused.unmotivated.SCARED. I don't like it. comebacksoon.lovemeagain. .makeitokay. please? |
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misty_rain
Singing the Tune When Nobody Listens... Jul 20th, 2009 7:22:22 pm - Subscribe
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My grandma called me. "I'm watching the fireflies," she said. "I wish I was there," I said. I'm eating a chocolate-covered graham cracker," she said and then paused, and laughed. "I guess life is pretty good," she summarized. I set Twitter up to my phone tonight. I thought about what I would have to say. I don't want what might be termed googlemania, spot-smart data, or lurkers anonymous to know how my day goes. Sometimes I used to wish someone would ride shotgun with me through a normal day at work, at lunch, and at the gym. These were things that were normative... how would it change it to have a witness, an audience? It wouldn't really change at all, but somehow I wanted someone to see: this is what happens to me, this is what I do, this is what I'm responsible for, this is what I enjoy, and this is what I'm passionate about. But Twitter... is soo soo, like creepy. Like I don't want them to know when I'm where. Seriously. I'd rather use it as a vehicle for "deep thoughts," platitudes, or stupid laughs. Nothing patentable. They'd steal it in a heartbeat. And PLEASE do not tell Everywhig when I'm at the freakin grocery store!! I mean what would be the good of that? I still think it's creepy. |
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aleaffalls
Forgive and Forget Jul 13th, 2009 2:49:08 pm - Subscribe
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In my opinion, when a person says "I can and have forgiven you, but I can't forget about what you have done", it's a cop-out. Especially when the thing that can't be forgotten isn't so much the action itself, but rather the pain that the action aroused. To forgive means "to give up resentment of or claim to requital for". So how can somebody say that you are forgiven when they are clearly still holding on to the pain that you may have caused them. Fact: I hurt you. Fact: I would do ANYTHING in the world to ease your pain. Fact: Nothing can take back what happened. Opinion: It won't ever be the same again. Even if nothing had happened, things would have changed and it wouldn't be like how it was. Granted, they probably would've changed for the better, but because of what I did, the road now forks into two different paths. One will lead to our destruction, but the other could lead to something that will be better than what we had. If we can get through this successfully, nothing can break us apart besides our own will. You taught me about the concept of systematic desensitization to help me get over my fear. We can utilize this approach to our benefit specific to the situation we are going through. If we can learn to convert the pain we feel into something else - a sense of appreciation and security maybe - then the strain on our relationship will be lessened dramatically. If we can embrace the experience for what it teaches us about ourselves and how we handle hardships instead of fixating on the never-ending emotional turmoil, it will result in a loving, long-lasting, and carefree partnership. What I did was wrong, there's absolutely no doubt about that. But if it's not this, it would be something else. Relationships need work. There's no way around it. We can't walk away anytime obstacles get in the way of our happiness. Yes, I said that I don't expect us to end up getting married - that Life will probably lead us apart from each other. I don't expect it, just like I didn't expect to fall this hard for you, just like I didn't expect my happiness to be dependent on your presence. I'm not saying that I need you around to be happy - I'm just saying that the magnitude of my happiness would be so much greater if you were around. While you are away, I find myself wishing that I could share some of my experiences with you, wishing that you were there that night I made cupcakes with my roommates, when I watched the fireworks with our friends, when I look up at the stars at night. I didn't expect for you to have made such an impact on my life, but you have. I don't expect anything more from you than a few good years (though the way things are going right now, I'll be surprised if we make it through the holidays.) However, it doesn't mean that it cannot happen. The future is unpredictable and has the possibility of changing with ever second of the present. We can fix this. If not for the future, do it for the memory. Because who wants to look back 5 or 10 years from now and note any time of misery or regret that they experienced? Lets change it, ...before... everything f a l l s apart. |
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misty_rain
Who says a hobby has to cost money Jul 11th, 2009 12:26:15 am - Subscribe
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I was thinking... I need a hobby and I need money, so why not combine the two? Why should my hobby COST money, like mini golf or bargain shopping? I want making money to be my new hobby. Or rather, since money is so stupidly dry it's unfunny... I want my new hobby to generate capital for me. To quote a good book on breeding betas: "For Fun and Profit" At first I thought of labor intensive ways of making money, but there are two problems with that: 1. It quickly ceases to be fun. 2. You can't make it grow exponentially like you want. Then I thought of fleecing people to make money. But that didn't sit well with my conscience. So finally, I have a new hobby, and the first leg of this journey is finding out what it is that I have that is marketable... and doesn't involve being neked or lewd... The first thing I have to do is say "no" to my favorite hobbies that COST money. I will still do them, but I will cut them back to reduce them to about two or three hours per week each. The next thing I will do is get a weekly planning calendar that I print out for free, and block out considerable time per week for my new hobby. And after that... who knows? Will the fun be fun? Will the profit be phat? I'll tell you what. It will be one cartwheel better than spending seventy or eighty dollars monthly to watch four hours of television DAILY. Get a Life People!!! (My not-so-humble opinion.) |