Take your cat and leave my sweater

"Someday, I'm gonna run across your mind, but don't worry I'll be fine, I'm gonna be alright.  While you're sleeping with your pride, wishing I could hold you tight, I'll be over you and on with my life."

Somebody that I used to know.

I know... I never blog anymore.   Hi everyone, I miss you!!!!   This is my new obsession:

Forever Young

"There comes a point in your life when you’re officially an adult. Suddenly, you’re old enough to vote, drink, and engage in other adult activities. Suddenly, people expect you to be responsible. Serious. A grown-up. We get taller, we get older, but do we ever really grow up?
In some ways we grow up. We have families, we get married… divorced. But for the most part, we still have the same problems that we did when we were fifteen. No matter how much we grow taller, grow older, we are still forever stumbling. Forever wondering. Forever… young."
-Grey's Anatomy 

Hey Stephen

Okay, first attempt at guitar, and I have the blisters on my fingers to prove it!   I can't play and sing very well yet but I'm proud that I've learned ONE whole song!   Taylor Swift.... of course.

Dream On...

So... I've decided I'm going to start taking guitar lessons.  I've always loved music, loved to sing... but have never been able to play any instruments well.   I've always dreamed of being able to play my favorite songs on guitar, but sadly I've never been able to do so!  I'm always so jealous when someone has that talent.   I miss playing music.   So, I'm going to start again!   .... I'll keep you posted.

Just for kicks, here are a few songs from my old band "Losing Indiana."  We were just a small little band, but we played shows and had so much fun.  Seems like a million years ago now!   I co-wrote these two songs with my former band-mate, Chad.  So.... yeah.

Cause I'm feeling like a criminal.

Whatever happened to Fiona Apple?   I went to see her in concert when I was 15.   I went with my best friend, we were both obsessed with her!    I'm pretty sure Fiona was either drunk or high through the whole thing, and about half way through her set she crawled under her piano and started rocking back in forth.  About that time my friend took pot from these 40 year old men sitting next to us and started smoking with them.    Somehow I managed to cover for her when her mom picked us up an hour later.  Good times, good times.  BUT I did get a pretty rocking Fiona Apple t-shirt from some man on the street, which I still sleep in these days.  And I'm pretty sure I still have the "No Fur" sticker that PETA was handing out at her concert, stuck to one of my old journals.   Oh Fiona.... you take me back to those angry-teenage-girl-days of my youth.  

Knowing is better than wondering

"A couple hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. “Never leave that ’till tomorrow,” he said, “which you can do today.”

This is the man who discovered electricity. You’d think more of us would listen to what he had to say. I don’t know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I’d say it has a lot to do with fear.
Fear of failure, fear of pain, fear of rejection… Sometimes the fear is just of making a decision. Because, what if you’re wrong? What if you’re making a mistake you can’t undo?


Whatever it is we’re afraid of, one thing holds true… that, by the time the pain of not doing a thing, gets worse than the fear of doing it, it can feel like we’re carrying around a giant tumor.

The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can’t pretend we haven’t been told. We’ve all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the poets urging us to seize the day.

Still, sometimes, we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today’s possibility under tomorrow’s rug, until we can’t anymore, until we finally understand for ourselves, what Benjamin Franklin meant:

That knowing, is better than wondering. That waking, is better than sleeping. And that even the biggest failure, even the worst, most intractable mistake, beats the hell out of never trying."

-Grey's Anatomy

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