Oy

Sometimes life just likes to throw you punches.

So this week instead of crying I decided to laugh.  Well truthfully I was half crying half laughing, with some moments of rage in between.

So I buried myself in my video games and tried not to feel sorry for myself.

A Friendly Stranger

I had a neat experience yesterday.

For those of you who don't know, I try not to spend any money on Sundays.  Sometimes though I have moments where I completely miscalculate how much gas is left in my car and have to fuel up.

That's not the neat experience, that's an occasional happening.

But, as I was at the light waiting to turn, the guy in front of me was in a big truck and there wasn't enough room for me to go by.  But I wasn't in a hurry so I didn't really mind waiting at the light.  However, the guy pulled up enough to let me squeeze by, so I smiled and waved.

It didn't end there though!  Then he was even nice enough to back up a bit so I could get a better look at oncoming traffic!!

I love encountering friendly strangers.  It reminds me that there are good people in the world.

Why I Blog

One of my friends wrote a post about why she blogged and encouraged us to do the same so I thought: why not!

I started it out as a place to write about my feelings that I struggle to express in words.  I've always been more open in text rather than in speech, and it helps keep me sane if I can get out my inner most feelings in some way.

I also like to blog about the random little things that happen in life.  And I decided recently that I want to be sure to include the little moments that make me smile, at least one per post.  Because I think sometimes we loose ourselves in the BIG and forget the small.  And it's the simple day to day things that make the most impact.

I also ramble a lot so really I blog to be heard and to be felt.

Random Little Joys:

I broiled a steak and although I cooked it more than I like (I need my meat mooing), it still tasted fantastic!!  (Normally I fail spectacularly at broiling stakes.  Which is quite vexing since I'm a barbecuing pro).

Getting a favourite on a story** that I'd written years ago.

Listening to the awesome music that I'd never transferred from my old laptop!

**Disclaimer if you choose to read it:  I'd started writing it for fun because I desperately needed something to do while I was sick with mono.  It's un-edited and poorly proof read, but it holds a special place in my heart because it's one of the few stories I've actually finished.  And yes, I've written fan fiction. And may or may not be considering a Legend of Zelda fan fiction.

Look I wroted fine print cause I can!

C'est la Vie

This past week I felt like that old man from the Hunchback of Notre Dame.  You know the one, keeps getting liberated from whatever captivity only to stumble into another prison.

Saturday I had an epic wipe out thanks to fresh snow on ice.  I made the mistake of bracing (which I keep telling myself I won't do the next time I fall), and busted up my write arm.  (Which is mostly better now).  And despite falling on my side I managed to bruise the front of my knee... Who knows...

Then, not even a week later... was it thursday?  Friday?  Someday...  Anywho I fell out of the hay stall. Don't even know how that happened and, despite my aforementioned hurting arm while bracing, guess what I did again!  Only with my left hand.

Imagine my moment of: Oh crap!  Because if I actually hurt that one then I'd wouldn't have been able to do anything.  Which would really suck.  Thankfully that one was fine.

Random Other Things:

SO happy Jennifer Lawrence won Best Actress!  (And she fell, poor thing, but it was so funny and cute).

Belle is potentially having teeth issues, but I'm also suspecting she's not liking the fact that I'm asking a little more of her... Took it easy the past couple of rides in case it was her teeth and lo and behold she was happier in the bridle... Hm.  (Teeth issues are a real possibility, it is that time of year).

Snow storm sucked.  But I finally got my house cleaned.

I had a melodramatic couple of days at the beginning of this week and then settled back into being myself...

Last night while picking a movie with friends, I had a moment that probably defines me very well when I said I was torn between watching a chick flick I can't remember and The Last Samurai.

Yep.  (We ended up watching 10 things I hate about You, which wasn't the other choice).