Wishin' and Hopin'

Upon skimming Emily's Entertainment Weekly, I saw Stephan King's column about his hopes and wishes for 2009. I quickly absorbed Uncle Steve's desires for the new year and couldn't help but think of some of my own. So kudos, Mr. King, for getting me a-desiring for a good year. Here are my hopes and wishes for '09.

I hope Obama can fix the garbage dump of a situation our nation is in. If McCain won I'd hope for the same thing. It's a big task and I will put my hopes behind Obams that he is the right man for the job.

I wish that people would start seeing how freakin' incredible that "How I Met Your Mother" is. Neil Patrick Harris is getting some attention for his role, so I think that is a good start! It needs some serious Emmy love.

I hope I will stop making-out with inappropriate people. I have gained a lot of self control in the past year, which again is a good start! And I hope that I will date someone that IS appropriate.

I wish for a book to catch my fancy and make me want to read it in one night. I did love the vampire antics of Stephanie Meyer, but it's a new year. Time to move on.

I wish for another great season of LOST and a redemptive season of 24.

I hope for an Oscar for Heath Ledger as the Joker.

I hope with the entirety of my over-worked heart that I'll be trained in High School.

I wish for Harry Potter 6 to be amazing and not fall flat on it's face.

I hope that I can manage to become about...let's say 8 degrees happier a person. I think that will be my '09 main idea. "Be Happy"

I wish for the continuation of my "astounding" knowledge of obscure bands.

I hope that I will get to do a lot more Block Party. I know, everyone hates it, but I loves it.

I wish for more Diablo Cody writtings. New book, new column, new movie, new tv show. Whatever form she'd do, I'd take it.

And most of all I wish, by the end of the year, I will have some idea of what I want to do with my life.

So there are my new year desires. What are yours?

Crazy

So I know I've expressed my intense love for it before, but I can't help it. I'm sitting at my Aunt's watching a bootleg copy of The Dark Knight and I am still in awe of it's brilliance. Now, matter how many times I watch/see this film, it never ceases to amaze me. If you haven't seen it yet, you need to get on that like two weeks ago!

I Know Things Now

Many things about various people in my life, were brought to light last night. And as my hair was growing with all the secrets it now contained, some Sondheim (I don't know if that's spelled right) lyrics came to my head. They are from a little show called "Into the Woods".

So we wait in the dark
Until someone sets us free,
And we're brought into the light,
And we're back at the start.

And I know things now,
Many valuable things,
That I hadn't known before:
Do not put your faith
In a cape and a hood,
They will not protect you
The way that they should.
And take extra care with starngers,
Even flowers have their dangers.
And though scary is exciting,
Nice is different than good.

I understand certain people a little better now. Which has allowed me to love them more.

Isn't it nice to know a lot!
And a little bit not...

Ode to Divorce

Dear Couples in love,

The world does not relvove around you and your partner.

I understand you feel like you got butterflies emerging from the cucoons in your stomach lining and it makes you feel crazy and sane at the same time. It might've been unexpected. You might have worked really hard for it. and even though it may seem to give you the right to turn into complete ass-wholes, it does NOT. There are other people around you who need a little slice of attention pie you think is baked solely for your Sugar Honey Babe. Sometimes the atmospheric characters in your life may not want to do something that you and Lover want to do, but guess what? That is normal. The desires, or undesires, as the case may be, of a friend should not be tossed away like excess Fried Rice from Panda Express. Just like a secret, it should be listened to without mockery. Then decided like adults. Not like the sickly nerd and the bully in sixth grade. Being in love doesn't not give you power. You can't treat others like characters in your novel that you can kill off.

Be kind, be caring, DON'T be self involved.

Forever and ever amen.

Apologize

I feel...You know what. I'm gonna let regina speak for me.

This is from her brilliant song Bartender. It feels apropriate for my life at the moment

"love will be the death of me
love is so fickle
cause it starts with a flood
and it ends with a tr tr tr tr tr tr tr tr tr tr trickle"