Tuesday, November 07, 2006

A little peeved and then gushing, gushing and more gushing!!!

Tomorrow I have the day off of work because it's election day! It's so lovely to get the whole day off for that!!! However, I've developed one huge complaint now - I've just been searching all over the internet and all kind of websites to find out where I have to actually GO tomorrow to vote and there's not a fucking thing out there to tell me anything! No addresses, no nothing. Seriously, what the fuck? How unorganized can they be to not give good and wonderful people (like me!) a way to find out where I need to go!!! And yes, I know I'm waiting until the night before to start looking into this, but I'm sure there are plenty of other quite normal people doing the exact same thing!

Okay, I'm finished with that now! Today was a wonderful day! I had some really really good talks with The Meat and he was imparting so much of his wisdom which I always so appreciate as I learn so much from him and so value his opinion. He has had such an effect on who I've become over the past year and he still reminds me often of my value, of all the gifts I have to offer, of all the wonderful facets of my personality, and he was the one to really give me permission to think that I'm indeed special and really worthy and that I have so much to offer. I owe so much of my self-confidence and overall sense of comfort with my life to the gifts that he has given me. And all because he sees something special in me and he cares about me as a friend and also almost like a daughter sometimes. And he would roll his eyes and be so embarrassed if he knew I was writing all this!

And my wonderful day continued because Mr. H called me during the early afternoon just to say hi and check on me and see if all was okay with my friends at work - I love love love love love all the so many little gestures he makes! He makes me feel so special and so happy!!! My morning song this morning was Leonard Cohen's "I'm Your Man", and he said the lyrics are so him - and it's the most amazing song and so romantic and knowing that he picked it out for me because I'd like it and also because of what it says means so much to me!

And I also got to gush a little to Freckles and show her some of the wonderful things that Mr. H has written, and I also told her about his plans to come here and meet them all and even cook dinner for some of us, and I loved being able to share all this again! And I love that she's starting to see a bit of how truly real and sweet he is!

After work I got off the train a little early and walked to a big grocery store and finally stocked up again - and oh the most exciting part is that I got a bag of big pine cones spiced with cinammon or a cinnamon scent! They smell SO wonderful and make my entire place smell like fall and like Christmas!!!! Once again I'm realizing what an amazing power there is in our sense of smell!

And then tonight I IMed with a wonderful friend from the East Coast for awhile, and then Mr. H called and we talked for close to two hours and watched videos together on YouTube and talked about our future visits, and talked about such other exciting things that really put such an extreme sense of joy in my heart. I know I gush all the time about him but he's more than worthy of it, I swear! He really is such a special and unique and good person, and very multi-faceted which I love and appreciate. And he's such a caring person, and makes me feel like a princess and cherished and appreciated, and that's such a wonderful feeling! And he's interesting and interested in many things, he has a wonderful funny side and I just love when I get him to laugh about something, it makes me feel so good and always makes me smile! And he thinks I'm fabulous as well, and the fact that we both think each other are fabulous and tell each other that is even more amazing and wonderful!!!

Okay, I'm realizing that I'm in a VERY gushy mood right now! I could go on and on for quite awhile longer but because it's quite late now, I'm going to stop and instead go to bed! So that tomorrow I'll wake with plenty of patience to track down my voting location!!! :) And I SWEAR I will get back into Gratitude Tuesdays one of these weeks! I ALWAYS mean to, but my list of L words is so so so long and somehow I always wait until Tuesday night and then there's never enough time or I would be up half the night! But very soon, I swear!!!!

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

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Written by Caterpillar :: 11/07/2006 12:27:00 AM :: ::


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I'm a 30-year-old sometimes girl and sometimes woman living in Chicago. Over the past year I have faced my biggest demon and won, and as a result I have hope again for wonderful and fabulous things to happen! I'm still learning, growing and always trying to improve myself, but I absolutely love life and think I'm very close to becoming a real butterfly!!!
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"I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved."

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♥ I think that the most beautiful women I've ever met are the ones that know who they are, have stories to tell, ideas to share, wisdom to impart and love the skin they're in. No one can love us as we love ourselves. No one can take away our beauty and our dignity when we own those things. To me confident=beautiful. :: CeeCi

♥ I'd been feeling a little blue (for no particular reason) when I began thinking about things like attention, age and body image. Suddenly, it washed over me. I see people looking at me and I see them reacting. I began thinking about the times I notice the attention and realized its the days I'm strutting, the days I'm open and holding my head up. This got me to thinking further. How I perceive myself is what I show to others...People don't realize it, but they show the world everything about themselves in the way they move and act, in the words they say and the way they say them. A little confidence can lead to a lot of confidence. :: CeeCi

♥ When we believe in ourselves the world is an entirely different place and our place in it feels right and happy and healthy. :: CeeCi

♥ Remember that something incredibly wonderful is always possible!

♥ There are moments that are wonderful, if you let them be.

♥ Being distrustful put me in a very lonely place, a place filled with doubt and hypervigilance. I'm grateful I've learned to trust again, because in learning to do it, I learned to trust myself. :: CeeCi

♥ We're all a work in progress. I believe we will be until the day our lives end. Why fight it? I love the changes I experience. Some are certainly easier and more enjoyable than others, yet I wouldn't stop the process for any thing in the world. :: CeeCi

♥ We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss the chance to see a rainbow on the way :: Gloria Gaither

♥ Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed :: Storm Jameson

♥ Love is everything. It is the reason we are here, and the wonder we take with us wherever we go.

♥ Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow :: Mary Anne Radmacher

♥ Just live in the moment, the moment you're in. Don't live two days from now. Don't live two hours in advance. Live now. And appreciate what you have now. Don't go any further. You have this moment. This second. Breathe it. Enjoy it. Live in it. :: Open Eyes

♥ Leap, and the net will appear.

♥ I've learnt that when we express our deepest feelings, even though we may stammer or be unable to find the right words, it always pays. It pays to be authentic.

♥ There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness :: Carl Jung

♥ I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge, myth is more potent than history, dreams are more powerful than facts, hope always triumphs over experience, laughter is the cure for grief, love is stronger than death :: Robert Fulghum

♥ You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens. :: Ethel Barrymore

♥ Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. :: Carl Jung

♥ I will try to be as honest as I can with myself. That is all that is required of me. I'll keep admitting and opening my hidden box of fears, hurts and insecurities, again and again, until I know each one of them by their first name. :: Anu

♥ It struck me that there is amazing beauty everywhere. Does it matter where you are or who we're encountering? There is magic all around us. The fact that we're alive, the fact that we're living in this place and time. The fact that we've met the people we've met, all of it, every bit of it, only contributes to the wonder that is life. :: CeeCi

♥ No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the starts, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. :: Helen Keller

♥ Half of doing anything is believing that you can.

♥ Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that he can subsequently open the door through which he wants us to go. :: Catherine Marshall

♥ Even if it burns a little low at times, the secret of life is to always keep the flame of hope alive.

♥ The three grand essentials of happiness are something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.

♥ Some people will say that you are going the wrong way, when it is simply a way of your own.

♥ Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. :: Martha Graham

♥ Life is a series of new beginnings, and in every ordinary moment there are a thousand miracles to behold.

♥ Don't let the approval of others determine your belief in yourself.

♥ When it's all said and done, when all the opinions have been uttered, preached, shouted, and shared, there is only one thing we can do: From this moment on...love.

♥ When you're stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing. :: Christina Baldwin

♥ You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn't know were there.

♥ Be the change you wish to see in the world... :: Gandhi

♥ Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

♥ We each have only a limited amount of time here. We have to do more with it - pay attention, explore, be open to all of life. Because we have only one chance, we have to make life seem longer than it really is. :: Viggo Mortensen

♥ Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible. :: Cadet Maxim

♥ Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore! Dream! Discover!

♥ What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? :: Unknown

♥ To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. :: David Viscott, M.D

♥ Right now it feels like:...no dream will ever remain unfulfilled...no desire will ever remain unanswered...no tear goes unnoticed and no effort wasted...the hills are alive and so are we...each moment is fresh and waiting to happen...and there will be garbage like situations all around...but it is upto us to light mud lamps in it...and glow in our own acceptance and appreciations... :: Anu

♥ I struggle with not feeling like I'm good enough at times. Usually, its because I'm pushing it too hard and have depleted my reserve. Yet, I know without a shadow of a doubt that no matter how heavy or thin, how young or old I appear to others it's what I feel on the inside that glows through. If I could give every person on this planet just one gift it would be the unwavering knowledge that they are beautiful and worthy of every good thing the universe holds. :: CeeCi

♥ It's easier to buy into the negative things we conjure about ourselves than the positive things. Knowing that is the first step towards changing the thoughts that keep us unhappy. With time moving forward, why stay trapped in the past? All we have is right here and right now, I intend to make the most of it! :: CeeCi