The Good Things

Between Erin and Bambi, it's a toss up.

So, I found my last few posts to be quite the downer. I'm sorry! I decided that this post would be dedicated to things that I'm thankful for/things that I like. Because life is EXCITING!!!

A Few Things I'm Thankful For:

• Diet Coke



• Coffee/Monsters/COFFEE MONSTERS



• My new job that pays me to talk to real live people



• My new job where one of my bosses is a magician and does magic tricks at all of the tables as well as for me because I enjoyed it so much. (I'm one of those people that absolutely loves magic. Only one or two tricks at a time, though, because I get frustrated after a while)



• Victor Olston shows



• Weekends



• Mix CD's (there's more to them than you'll admit--you've got to admit that)



• MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY



• Overdraft Protection for the faint of heart (gross)



• Finding my old iPod with all of my old music on it. Norah Jones, Cake, Augustana, Rooney. All of it. It's like a return to highschool-hood.

Things That I Like:

• In December, I was at a local flea market looking for Christmas gifts. Usually, I wouldn't want to talk to the individual shop owners there, as it usually appears that they are merely hassling you to convince you to buy something you don't really want. (It's much like walking around New Orleans). However, this one day, there was this man at a jewelry desk who started talking to me about this human hair bracelet from the 1800's. I was intrigued. It took a while for him to locate it, and it was obviously far too expensive for me, but he looked for the bracelet anyway. I wanted to see it as much as he wanted to show it off. He finally found it. It was beautiful. He said that before the men would go off to war, the women that stayed home would take a large lock of their husband's hair and begin to weave it into a bracelet. The women would wear the bracelet to give good luck to their husbands and would wear it in mourning if their husbands did not come back from war. It was a lovely idea.

• I love antiques, particularly war antiques. I almost bought a World War II hat I found at an antique store a couple of years ago just because I wanted it. Would I ever wear it? I'm not sure. I would kinda hope so, but find it doubtful. There's something so beautiful about heritage and old things with a heart. And it's not for the sake of being "vintage." I wish no one had ever jumped on that bandwagon. Now it's just a preferred style of dress instead of a state of seeing. (Lame play on words that almost doesn't even make sense. I should probably delete it.)

Also, as a side note, I would like to say that I am extremely afraid of stingrays. I mean, would you not be terrified if you saw this coming towards you?!