Joan Baez sorta makes me wanna shoot my temple but if I grit my teeth and breathe deep while she tries to explode my head, I can appreciate how fucking beautiful her music is. Actually.

Hush now, don't explain
You're the cause of all my
Trouble and pain
Unless you're mad
Don't explain

My love, my love, my love
Don't explain
There is nothing within me now to gain
You know that I love you
Look at what loving has done
All my thoughts were real
And so sincere
I was so completely yours

You know I hear folks cha-cha-cha-chatter
And I know you cheat
Right or wrong, that doesn't matter
You're here with me
Sit down, have a sit
It's your time to feel the pain
It's your time to weep
Don't explain

Hush now, don't explain
There is nothing within me now to gain
I'm gonna skip it instead
Don't explain
Don't explain

knock knock and i may let you in.

so the people whose cat i inadvertently found out was theres left a gift bag with a nice UNICEF thank you card thanking me for pretty much being the awesome person that i am.

also, a nice bottle of wine and a box of truffles. both french.



tomorrow's agenda involves looking for more lost animals.

i just took out mah lip ring.

weird.

this is the first time i've been jewelry-free in five years.

i have a little baggie full of body jewelry. what the hell am i going to do with it all?

Today ended up being alright!

I slept in then went through a walk through the East Side whereupon I came to a telephone pole with a flyer on it for a Lost Calico. ...The lost calico that has been living in my basement for the last few days.

So that was my good deed for that day.

The combination of that and just being out in the sunlight and fresh air gave me a boost of energy so I went home and did all sorts of little odds and ends I've been putting off like hanging my Christmas lights.

And I've just been practicing Spanish because I want to test out of having to take it. I took three years of Honors Spanish in high school - I really don't want to waste my time and money. That, and I can't speak it/write it/read it fluently yet and I really want to! And I want to teach Dan.

I'm happy. :)

So Dan took my car to go to drum practice for the next 5-6 hrs or so.

So.

I will walk to Whole Foods as soon as I get my ass outta bed (it's only 12:30)
and have breakfast and soak up some electromagnetic radiation because I'm dying. I had a thought that it stands to reason that if global warming did not exist, in the next few hundred years, everyone in New England will have offed themselves because of lack of warmth and sunlight. Darwin's theory of Getting Rid Of Miserable People. I made this hypothesis when thinking about how happy and nice everyone is down South and wondering why New Englanders aren't like that.

Then I will do some yoga and integrate some serious toning postures because I'm getting fat eating at Dan's parents house every night. (Granted, the food is always amazing but getting even slightly out of shape is sort of out of the question with someone who is as neurotic as myself and who thinks on a daily basis "well, at the very least I'm healthy.")

Debate with myself about which book I want to start reading next.


Still jobless. Still searching my ass off. I applied to a number of jobs last night and posted my resume on every job-seeking site on the web. We'll see. I am supposed to get a call this weekend from an editor/producer lady who is selling her house in the spring and needs help packing/listing things online/moving for like two months or so. I guess her house is that big. $10.00 and part time. Just what I'm looking for right now. I feel like Kevin Spacey in American Beauty working at the burger joint.


Mindy, be cool to your knees okay?

<3

i'm sad.

dan and i were driving down route 6 and we came across a big deer that had obviously just been hit. it was still steaming from the heat of its body. poor thing... it was such a beautiful creature. i, of course, couldn't deal with it being left in the middle of such a busy road so dan and i turned around. i was going to help him just pull it off the road but when i got out of the van and saw it i just couldn't bring myself to touch it. dan pulled the deer into the woods where it can rest.

i'm a sad mindy.

Christmas 2007

a Wireless Mouse for my laptop from Joe

a numeric keypad for my laptop from Joe

Anatomy of Hatha Yoga: A Manual for Students, Teachers and Practitioners from Dan

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool from Dan's father

Voices of a People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn from Dan's father

The Zen of Zombie: Better Living Through the Undead from Annie

Soweto Gospel Choir: Blessed from Dan

Inner Peace for Busy People from Dan's mom

Harry Belafonte: Calypso from Dan's father

Savage Inequalities: Children In America's Schools from Dan's father

Deb Talan: Something Burning from Dan's mom

also: a memory foam pillow from Joe, a $50 MasterCard from Dan's mom, a $20 gift card to Bath & Body Works with a pair of microfiber socks from Dan's mom, a Balsam & Cedar Yankee Candle (to drive Dan nuts with) from Dan's mom, a classy electric blanket with 10 settings (to replace the one my grandma gave me a few years ago that I somehow LOST and missed dearly), a Christmas card from my Grandpa & Grandma, a phone call from my Nana Jean, and a text message from my mom telling me she wasn't going anywhere on Christmas because she was "sick". And I probably forgot a few things.

I made a vegetarian lasagna (with the help of Dan's mom) for my Grandma (who just had knee replacement surgery) and Grandpa and they seemed really grateful. I spent a few hours with them and my Uncles Johnny & Jimmy and it was nice.

My Life As Michael Jackson - WATCH THIS! It's amazing! It's a final project of a friend of a friend of mine.

( In reflection... )