I am a bottle of scream...
Ventilation
I don't like when people infringe upon my plans. Maybe it's selfish or whatever, but I just don't. I mean, yeah, I'm always down to help other people out...always. But when they just assume I will and disregard any prior engagements (and I'm not talking prior engagements like interupting my workout schedule or something menial like that, I'm talking like commitments like weddings or something) I may already have, needless to say it pisses me off. I just think that's really not cool, regardless of whether or not it's family, and what else are they gonna do, and all that. I mean, hello...I plan things ahead for a reason... And I don't like it when I have a prior engagement and I'm made off to seem like the bad guy cuz I don't wanna help out. It's one of those passing judgement things that to me is comparable to running one's fingernails accross the blackboard. I just wish that people didn't assume things all the time and rather asked and plan further ahead of time, that's all. Is that too much to ask?
Some things I learned today:
"Being taken into account" or "heard" is far more important than the answer itself. One of the things that make people feel good is knowing they're being heard or listened to. They are not necessarily always looking for a certain answer...just knowing that they are being heard is all that matters.
Even though you have accepted some things as they are, and perhaps forever will be, it doesn't mean it's gonna stop hurting. Often times, emotion and logic do not go hand in hand. It's like if I was sick. I accept that I am sick and that I need to take medicine...but that doesn't change the fact that the medicine is gonna taste like crap...bad analogy, but my brain is only semi-functional right now.
First impressions are often times wrong impressions. So those people that play big on first impressions usually miss out cuz they form their opinion upon first glance, so to speak. I think people's first impression of me is almost always misleading. It's like skimming over something instead of really reading it. One gets a clearer picture when after examining the words more closely, figuratively speaking of course.
Extra time
I had lunch w/ Janelle today. Johnny Rockets @ Beverly Center...yum yum yum. It was so good seeing her, as it always is. And we caught up, as usual, and laughed and just enjoyed each others' company. It's a good feeling when someone takes a moment out of their extreme busy schedule to spend quality time w/ you. Before I had lunch w/ the best friend, I had to go shopping at Bed, Bath and Beyond for a wedding gift for my friends Pia and Jerome, who are getting married this saturday(man, ANOTHER wedding...sheesh). Anyway, I was down there forever trying to pick out something good, and I think I did with my purchase of an 8-piece festival glass punchbowl set. I think it looked pretty cool. Anyway, I'm breaking off on a tangent here, I wanted to say something about the store itself...hmmm...oh yeah, so the layout of the store is so weird. It doesn't have one of those circular, or "squarular"(WTF?) type layouts most stores have.. And by "squarular," I mean like if I went to the left and walked all the way towards the end of the store, and kept walking, I'd eventually be led back to the front of the store, where I came from. Such stores, like Target, Best Buy, you can take different directions to get right back to the entrance/exit of the store. Not THIS store....there was only the entrance, and the store snaked its way all the way back...and dead ended right there. It was crazy, I was carrying that heavy ass punch bowl thingy and kept walking thinking I'd eventually be led to the cashiers that were by the entrance. Boy oh boy was I wrong...I ran into the dead end, twice. How? Don't ask, I'm a confused mind. Anyway, some worker girl sees me and asks if I needed help looking for something, and I told her, sheepishly, "yeah, the cashiers." And she laughed and told me it happened all the time. The layout of their store was weird because it was at the bottom of the mall. So back to my point...squarular is good, snaking to dead ends...bad...it'll just cause chaos.
"Fasten your seatbelts Dorothy, cuz Kansas is going bye-bye."
Ventilation
I don't like when people infringe upon my plans. Maybe it's selfish or whatever, but I just don't. I mean, yeah, I'm always down to help other people out...always. But when they just assume I will and disregard any prior engagements (and I'm not talking prior engagements like interupting my workout schedule or something menial like that, I'm talking like commitments like weddings or something) I may already have, needless to say it pisses me off. I just think that's really not cool, regardless of whether or not it's family, and what else are they gonna do, and all that. I mean, hello...I plan things ahead for a reason... And I don't like it when I have a prior engagement and I'm made off to seem like the bad guy cuz I don't wanna help out. It's one of those passing judgement things that to me is comparable to running one's fingernails accross the blackboard. I just wish that people didn't assume things all the time and rather asked and plan further ahead of time, that's all. Is that too much to ask?
Some things I learned today:
"Being taken into account" or "heard" is far more important than the answer itself. One of the things that make people feel good is knowing they're being heard or listened to. They are not necessarily always looking for a certain answer...just knowing that they are being heard is all that matters.
Even though you have accepted some things as they are, and perhaps forever will be, it doesn't mean it's gonna stop hurting. Often times, emotion and logic do not go hand in hand. It's like if I was sick. I accept that I am sick and that I need to take medicine...but that doesn't change the fact that the medicine is gonna taste like crap...bad analogy, but my brain is only semi-functional right now.
First impressions are often times wrong impressions. So those people that play big on first impressions usually miss out cuz they form their opinion upon first glance, so to speak. I think people's first impression of me is almost always misleading. It's like skimming over something instead of really reading it. One gets a clearer picture when after examining the words more closely, figuratively speaking of course.
Extra time
I had lunch w/ Janelle today. Johnny Rockets @ Beverly Center...yum yum yum. It was so good seeing her, as it always is. And we caught up, as usual, and laughed and just enjoyed each others' company. It's a good feeling when someone takes a moment out of their extreme busy schedule to spend quality time w/ you. Before I had lunch w/ the best friend, I had to go shopping at Bed, Bath and Beyond for a wedding gift for my friends Pia and Jerome, who are getting married this saturday(man, ANOTHER wedding...sheesh). Anyway, I was down there forever trying to pick out something good, and I think I did with my purchase of an 8-piece festival glass punchbowl set. I think it looked pretty cool. Anyway, I'm breaking off on a tangent here, I wanted to say something about the store itself...hmmm...oh yeah, so the layout of the store is so weird. It doesn't have one of those circular, or "squarular"(WTF?) type layouts most stores have.. And by "squarular," I mean like if I went to the left and walked all the way towards the end of the store, and kept walking, I'd eventually be led back to the front of the store, where I came from. Such stores, like Target, Best Buy, you can take different directions to get right back to the entrance/exit of the store. Not THIS store....there was only the entrance, and the store snaked its way all the way back...and dead ended right there. It was crazy, I was carrying that heavy ass punch bowl thingy and kept walking thinking I'd eventually be led to the cashiers that were by the entrance. Boy oh boy was I wrong...I ran into the dead end, twice. How? Don't ask, I'm a confused mind. Anyway, some worker girl sees me and asks if I needed help looking for something, and I told her, sheepishly, "yeah, the cashiers." And she laughed and told me it happened all the time. The layout of their store was weird because it was at the bottom of the mall. So back to my point...squarular is good, snaking to dead ends...bad...it'll just cause chaos.
"Fasten your seatbelts Dorothy, cuz Kansas is going bye-bye."
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