all the small things
over the last few busy busy weeks i've had quite a few ideas for blog post that just kinda sit in my head and don't go anywhere beyond daydreams. and since i still don't really have the time to write any of them up in full, i thought i might collect a few of them here, as random snippets...
rebirth
i took this pict of one of my rose bushes. every year i trim then back to almost nothing. It was really hard last year because i didn't really know what i was doing, and i was afraid i'd just kill them. But sure enough, you cut off everything, leaving just the last little buds of growth, just before Spring arrives. And they grow back fresh and new and better than ever.
interviewer: "You like to use metaphors, don't you?"
Adam Corolla: "Is that like a simile?"
the grey hair
two days before my thirtieth birthday, i noticed a scraggly grey hair right there in front. rather than pluck it out like i usually do, this time i decided to just let it lie. it stuck around for a few days, and i lived thru the end of my 29th year with no major problems. i gained a new appreciation for my new decade in two separate instances - a waiter carded me, and then responded with "oh, wow" after seeing my license (as in "dude, my bad, but you don't look thirty"); and then someone else told me that now that i was thirty, i could be taken seriously. As if until then i was just a kid, and wouldn't be worth anyone taking seriously until 30. The younger person's perspective is just the opposite, of course.
gadgets
i bought a Video iPod and a PlayStation Portable last week. Both are amazing, sleek pieces of modern day gadgety-geek consumerism. I love 'em, but they're for work. No, really! i'm working on building a portable video site as a fun side-project, and these were just the tools to get me started. I'll let you know when you guys can beta-test the new creation.
taxes
speaking of business expenses... hehe. well, doing my taxes just about killed me at the end, and i'm pretty sure TurboTax got confused and filed an extension for me rather than actually finishing... but hey, they're done. next year will probably be worse, but at least now i know what i'm doing.
older women
I could probably write a few pages about my new found love for older women and why they're so superior to their cute & silly younger couterparts. But that would probably lead to me being too honest, pissing off some people and embarassing others (myself included). Youth will always rule in our society, but i'll still prefer Julianne Moore to Jessica Simpson, any day. (FYI - she's 46, and that picture is from 2 months ago)
new quotes...
"i've only had four days off in the last year... including weekends." -friend that works for Apple
"yeah, i've only had four days off.... this week." -my response
"i don't drink vodka much, 'cuz it smells like my dad." -me
"She left me roses by the stairs Surprises let me know she cares."
-- my little girl's favorite lines from the song All the Small Things
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rebirthi took this pict of one of my rose bushes. every year i trim then back to almost nothing. It was really hard last year because i didn't really know what i was doing, and i was afraid i'd just kill them. But sure enough, you cut off everything, leaving just the last little buds of growth, just before Spring arrives. And they grow back fresh and new and better than ever.
interviewer: "You like to use metaphors, don't you?"
Adam Corolla: "Is that like a simile?"
the grey hair
two days before my thirtieth birthday, i noticed a scraggly grey hair right there in front. rather than pluck it out like i usually do, this time i decided to just let it lie. it stuck around for a few days, and i lived thru the end of my 29th year with no major problems. i gained a new appreciation for my new decade in two separate instances - a waiter carded me, and then responded with "oh, wow" after seeing my license (as in "dude, my bad, but you don't look thirty"); and then someone else told me that now that i was thirty, i could be taken seriously. As if until then i was just a kid, and wouldn't be worth anyone taking seriously until 30. The younger person's perspective is just the opposite, of course.
gadgets
i bought a Video iPod and a PlayStation Portable last week. Both are amazing, sleek pieces of modern day gadgety-geek consumerism. I love 'em, but they're for work. No, really! i'm working on building a portable video site as a fun side-project, and these were just the tools to get me started. I'll let you know when you guys can beta-test the new creation.
taxes
speaking of business expenses... hehe. well, doing my taxes just about killed me at the end, and i'm pretty sure TurboTax got confused and filed an extension for me rather than actually finishing... but hey, they're done. next year will probably be worse, but at least now i know what i'm doing.
older womenI could probably write a few pages about my new found love for older women and why they're so superior to their cute & silly younger couterparts. But that would probably lead to me being too honest, pissing off some people and embarassing others (myself included). Youth will always rule in our society, but i'll still prefer Julianne Moore to Jessica Simpson, any day. (FYI - she's 46, and that picture is from 2 months ago)
new quotes...
"i've only had four days off in the last year... including weekends." -friend that works for Apple
"yeah, i've only had four days off.... this week." -my response
"i don't drink vodka much, 'cuz it smells like my dad." -me
"She left me roses by the stairs Surprises let me know she cares."
-- my little girl's favorite lines from the song All the Small Things
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posted by joe @ 8:37 PM
1 comments
Oh, I so enjoyed your blog-minis. Thanks for the words on older women. I've had an age focused week and I'm content to be in a group of women considered older in their 40's. I've often been told that I look like Jessica Lange, she's older than me by a few years but I always take that as a compliment.
Funny about your lone grey hair - I've colored my hair so long that I have no idea what color they would be if I stopped. If I persist as I do, I may never have to notice one. My perception of reality can be that I am a blonde. I have a girlfriend who turned grey early and has long beautiful silver hair. As long as someone calls you Dude and not Sir, you are still a baby (you do have a baby face)
Like Seal said, "Now that your rose is in bloom, A light hits the gloom on the grey"
Your new toys, er, I mean work related items are great. See, getting those tax write-offs early this year. Maybe I need to work on something video related, like video interviews so I can "need" one of those.