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Day One: Ten things you want to say to ten different people right now.
Day Two: Nine things about yourself.
Day Three: Eight ways to win your heart.
Day Four: Seven things that cross your mind a lot.
Day Five: Six things you wish you’d never done.
Day Six: Five people who mean a lot (in no order whatsoever)
Day Seven: Four turn-offs.
Day Eight: Three turn-ons.
Day Nine: Two images that describe your life right now, and why.
Day Ten: One confession


Day Five: Six things you wish you’d never done.

This is always a tough question for me to answer because I firmly believe that the failures are a large part of what makes me who I am, and plays a big part in where I am in my life right now. More than my successes, sometimes. While I have complaints about my life as it is, I'm mostly happy with it right now - changing things in my past wouldn't necessarily help. (It also wouldn't necessarily hurt either, but hey.)

All that said:

1. Gone to college immediately after high school. I was so not ready for it, and really at the time, I wasn't even sure I wanted to be there. I was just going because a) it was expected b) it was the only way I could figure to finally get out of living with the parents.



2. Gotten so involved with The Cowboy. While that affair did eventually leave me with one of the closest friends of my adult life, that whole relationship was just so much distracting drama. My time could have been better served concentrating on school and patching my own fucked up psyche back together.



3. While I don't regret the relationship itself, I do regret the amount of stock I put into Murphy. Similar reasons. Between the two of them I think I've about concluded that that level of NRE is poisonous. Also getting into relationships because the current state of your life sucks.



4. Not speaking up for myself, my boundaries and my feelings at several key points in my life. That level of self-sacrifice is never good.



5. Moved in with Cara. Awful as it would have been to stay in NY any longer, I should have just figured out a way to manage moving back into the valley and directly in with cell23. On the other hand, I now know that my capacity to deal with Other People Crazy is now zero unless I'm getting the side benefits that come with a relationship.



6. Sailing through my 20s letting other people chart the courses and not really stating emphatically enough where I wanted to go. Or really figuring out where that was and working towards it.

Writer's Block: Girls and Boys

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All information is worth having, and more is always better than less. Though apparently they haven't retired that awful 80s sex ed cartoon they showed us when I was a kid - while I was visiting Alé we traded stories of being traumatized by the rubber duckie that ducked under the bubbles in the lady's bath to check out her naked bits. Eww.

But no seriously? I'd rather kids get armed with more information than go into sexual experimentation ignorant.

Stuff

Ash/Raincloud continues to settle in. He is an absolute love-starved cuddlebug and will butt your hands with his head until you pet him. Also see drape himself over whatever part of your anatomy looks the most comfortable. He has also stopped running away from LilBeast for the most part and will let himself be petted by him as well. Guh. Lily doesn't even do that.

I can quite safely say that I like neither pina coladas nor getting caught in the rain. Both arriving and leaving work were underscored by having to be out during raging thunderstorms. Thankfully I had huge golf umbrella but after today and the monsoon wedding adventures on Saturday I'm quite done with being outside in inclement weather.

Kidzilla and I saw Brave after work, and thoroughly enjoyed it.

( slightly spoilery comments, mostly likes/dislikes )

Also? the short ahead of Brave, "La Luna?" Enchanting.

I gotta say, there is nothing that'll make your heart explode harder than coming out of a movie to be greeted by a grinning four year old jumping into your arms for a hug. That kid is going to murder me with cute someday.

Pizza for dinner, kitty cuddles and the sound of giggly kiddos made for a good end of the evening.