Don't all disagree at once, people!! :-D
Seriously, though, I get so wrapped up in my own stuff that sometimes I forget that I really should be be thanking the hell out of the Universe every single day for the amazing people in my life that I have been lucky enough to trick into thinking I am a nice human and not a walking dumpster fire.
I went to "Taco" (which is really TACO-LESS TUESDAY...don't ask!) this past Tuesday so I could hang out with some totally rad humans, and as I was driving home I thought, 'Man, those fuckers keep me sane and they don't even know it'.
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| My peeps..with a few missing! |
And that's pretty sad.
I mean, they know I like them well enough to drag my ass out of the house 4X a year to meet up with them and trade insults and try to force shots on each other and make jokes about whoever isn't there, but....WAIT- I literally JUST realized those A*holes are probably slagging me off 48 Tuesdays out of the year. SCREW THEM!
::::frantically Googling new blog topics:::::
Kidding!
Anyway, that thought process led me to go through my FB friends list and look at my friends and think about how rad they all are. I feel pretty blessed at the eclectic, eccentric, crazy, funny, loving, fabulous people I have been fortunate enough to meet in my life.
And social media, even if it is a soul-sucking wasteland of gifs and snaps and tweets (WTF do those words even MEAN???), is pretty convenient for remaining close to the people I love that are so far away.
I love my humans so much, especially when the news manages to convince me that we are all vulgar trash and should discorporate and let some more honorable species (I say owls and elephants) take over the earth and undo all of the crap we screwed up. When I get all sad and angry and eco-terroristy, there is a lot of comfort in seeing people's babies and pets and artwork and haircuts (BUT NEVER YOUR FUCKING PEDICURES, EVER, because there is a fetish page out there where someone may pay money to look at your - ew - feet, but my newsfeed is not that place!), it reminds me that there are good people out in the world doing good things,
Seriously, there are people that I have not seen in years, but I can rejoice with them when they get promoted, watch as they (attempt to - because kids suck) raise loving, thoughtful, productive humans, and buy homes and cars and brides over the internet. Or maybe not that last one, CARL!!!
I started thinking about allllllll of the crazy songs there are about friends, and I guess I don't REALLY think about the lyrics when I listen (and sing along atrociously) to them, but if you do...MAN!! All the feels.
I'm not going to list them or anything, but I did kind of YouTube a couple of 'friend' songs (for, like 6 hours), and I decided that my 2 favorites in the wholewideworld are Carol King's 'You've Got a Friend', and Randy Newman's 'You've Got A Friend In Me'........which probably makes me look like a crazy, but SERIOUSLY, go listen.
Anyway, tangent aside, I am super grateful for all of my friends - near and far - and I am so lucky to have all of you in my life. (sob) I'm actually getting emotional here, and since I value food over feelings, I am gonna have to dip out and grab a burrito, but before I bail, I want to tell you that one of my super duper awesome friends, Veronica, and I have decided to do a 30 day blog challenge in November--using prompts of course -- and are going to hold each other accountable for daily posting and publicly humiliate each other and trash each other on social media if one of us doesn't fulfill her daily responsibilities....
You should plan on reading along, because it's fun and also because I am about ready to start selling ad space on my blog and since it is only my friends that read this (and a shit-ton of Russians if my "stats" page is correct -- which, if it is, dobro pozhalovat, did you bring the vodka??) I know you all want me to get rich off of this blog because you love me and you know I will buy you all pool tables so we can go to Taco Tuesday somewhere that has decent damn tacos so I am not folding a chip around a mozzarella stick and calling it a 'culturally diverse taco'.
(There's probably some cultural appropriation in that last run-on sentence, but my white privilege prevents me from recognizing it, so my bad.)
Here is the link to Veronica's blog Grown Up Tantrums which is super hilarious and witty and rather salty as well!! Just in case you want to follow us on this trip and publicly shame us on social media and stuff if we don't post EVERY DAMN DAY IN NOVEMBER!!
Also, I will find some new Ryan Gosling pics, like this one:
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| Okay, so it's not new but COME ON!!! Look at those abs!! <3 |
