your heart is my pinata

Upon being asked about his books, Chuck had this to say....

"If you haven’t already noticed, all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.

In a way, that is the opposite of the American Dream: to get so rich you can rise above the rabble, all those people on the freeway or, worse, the bus." ~Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories (2004)

*This blog contains images with quotes above each image from one of Chuck Palahniuk's books.*

  I had the honor of getting to see Chuck Thursday night at Hal & Mal's for his Damned tour. 

If you are not familiar with this author, i highly suggest you become so.  

What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.~Choke

I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, "Why?"

Why did I cause so much pain?Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness?Can't I see that we're all manifestations of love?

I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special.

We are not crap or trash either. We just are.We just are, and what happens just happens.

And God says, "No, that's not right." Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything. 

~Fight Club

"Behind a veil, you're the great unknown," she says. "Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you."

The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic. ~ Invisible Monsters

The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.~Lullaby

 She'd wear shades of lipstick you'd expect to see around of the base of a penis. ~Invisible Monsters

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That’s the only lasting thing you can create. ~Choke

 And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.  It got until she didn’t belong anywhere. It got so nobody was good enough, refined enough, real enough. Nothing was as real as her imagined world.~Diary

You will always have some excuse not to live your life.~Haunted

happy happenings

Hi Friends!

I have a few things I wanted to share with you....

The first and most important “happy happening” I have to report is that my baby sister got engaged late Tuesday night.

I still don’t think it’s sunk in quite yet that my sister (baby sister) is going to be a married woman soon-ish. I am very happy for her and her soon husband-to-be. I think they truly do compliment each other and it is true that I have never seen my sister happier.

 congrats to my sweet caroline and darling alex.

They are thinking about a beach wedding sometime in March or April. I’m sure more details will soon follow.

The next happy happening is that Chuck Palahniuk is COMING TO JACKSON, MS!!!!!!!!  I awoke to this information on my facebook newsfeed  and my heart nearly jumped out of my chest. Most of you know how much I love this author. I’ve read nearly everything he’s written. When I read the book Choke, I felt as if he was writing about me. I am SO beyond stoked and I hope you’ll come see him and buy his latest book, Damned. Chuck will be here Oct 20^th, 2011 at Hal & Mal’s. 5:30 pm. No tickets are needed. It’s a free event. It just doesn’t get much better than this;) For more info, click here.

The third thing I have to report is the yoga workshop this weekend with the amazing Noah Maze! I had the privilege of attending his last workshop here almost 2 years ago and he is phenomenal! It is truly a blessing to get this kind of expertise this close to home. And the good news is that YOU CAN STILL REGISTER! Please come out and join us this weekend. You will not be disappointed!

Also, my sweet friend, Cassie, is coming up from the New Orleans kulu to stay with me this weekend for Noah! So excited to see her and spend time with my yogi’s.

another happy thing is the weather we experienced earlier this week. my morning jogs have been even more extra delightful.

 (come on Fall!)

And yet another happy thing is that my mom bought me a dresser from Hudson’s (her absolute favorite place to shop). i’ve been using my ironing board (of which I NEVER use) as a dresser the past 4 months. I can’t wait for parents to bring it to me!

This first week of school has been both good and exhausting. I’m in class most days for 6 hours. That’s 6 hours worth of new material my brain has to digest and absorb. I can absolutely assure you it did hardly either of those things this week.  The second day of school I had over 3 hours of reading material to cover. 

When I was re-tested a few years back (IQ and ADHD testing) the therapist told my dad I had one of the worst cases of ADHD she had ever seen. She told him I needed to tape my medicine to my tooth brush so I wouldn’t forget to take it. Sadly, I can’t take the medication anymore because, of course, I abused it;)

So, now my “medication” is my daily routine of running and yoga. and eating pretty decently. I function MUCH better when I do those things. It takes me about 5 extra steps a day to keep in step with the “average” or “normal” person. This used to frustrate me. I’ve gotten sort of used to it now.

What was I talking about??

Anyway…..

OH yeah. happy things.

What are some of yours?

Is It Thursday Yet?

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and is well rested for this dreary, sad, and foggy Monday morning! 

(note sarcasm please)

This morning I struggled to get out of bed. More than I have struggled in a long time.

Nothing a few cups of joe's won’t fix, however;)

This weekend was pretty awesome.

I got to eat yet another birthday dinner with my dear friend, Cleve.

We ate at Fratesi's...it's a little hole in the wall Italian place and it is AMAZING. I highly recommend you try it if you haven't.

Saturday, the weather was uber-amazing. I was on a euphoric natural high all freakin’ day.

I ran 7 miles.

WOOT! 

And didn’t do a bit of school.

Infact, lately, I think I’ve been going through a mini-crisis in which I have no desire to do anything I’m supposed to do.

This could be classified as a major case of the “Fu*&-its”.

On Saturday, I thought about joining the Peace Corps (once again) and just going. Going and going and going and going....you get the gist;) 

But, I didn’t. I went to a benefit at Hal & Mal’s for Northern Uganda and rocked my socks off.

Yesterday evening I held my first team meeting for Relay for Life. My team rocks! So far I have about 12 people!

We decided on our team name….

The Planeteers!

(from Captain Planet).

Our goal is to raise $3,000.00 by April 29^th.

So, if you want to donate……..;)

And now on to my ever-full half week because Thursday,

We leave for NEW ORLEANS!

Yoga workshop with non-other than my yoga teacher, Scotta Brady,

Shopping on Magazine St,

Vegan Restaurants galore,

I’m ready!