I might do a part 2, as I found another very interesting source. Will alll the new songs coming out (heh) we’ll see what I do.
Bigger than the Whole Sky
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye/You were bigger than the whole sky/You were more than just a short time/And I’ve got a lot to pine about/I’ve got a lot to live without/I’m never gonna meet/What could’ve been, would’ve been/What should’ve been you/What could’ve been, would’ve been you…/…Every single thing to come has turned into ashes/’Cause it’s all over, it’s not meant to be/So I’ll say words I don’t believe
Grieving giving up her opportunity to come out, missing the (queer) person she might have been.
***Trigger Warning***
conversion therapy
Though this is very bleak, we’re going to end on a lighter, more hopeful note:
I split the songs up on the Lover album as well so we can delve into each one a bit more.
False God
We were crazy to think/Crazy to think that this could work/Remember how I said I’d die for you?/We were stupid to jump/In the ocean separating us/Remember how I’d fly to you?/…They all warned us about times like this/They say the road gets hard and you get lost when you’re led by blind faith…/…But we might just get away with it/Religion’s in your lips/Even if it’s a false god/We’d still worship/We might just get away with it/The altar is my hips/Even if it’s a false god/We’d still worship this love…/…I know heaven’s a thing/I go there when you touch me/Honey hell is when I fight with you/But we can patch it up good/Make confessions and we’re begging for forgiveness/Got the wine for you/And you can’t talk to me when I’m like this/Daring you to leave me just so I can try and scare you
Walkin’ through a crowd, the village is aglow/Kaleidoscope of loud heartbeats under coats/Everybody here wanted somethin’ more/Searchin’ for a sound we hadn’t heard before…/…When we first dropped our bags on apartment floors/Took our broken hearts, put them in a drawer/Everybody here was someone else before/And you can want who you want/Boys and boys and girls and girls…/…Like any great love, it keeps you guessing/Like any real love, it’s ever-changing/Like any true love, it drives you crazy/But you know you wouldn’t change anything, anything, anything
Blank Space
Magic, madness, heaven, sin…/…You look like my next mistake/Love’s a game, wanna play?” Ay…/…New money, suit and tie…/…Ain’t it funny? Rumors fly/And I know you heard about me/So hey, let’s be friends/I’m dying to see how this one ends…/…I can make the bad guys good for a weekend…/…You can tell me when it’s over, mm…/…Got a long list of ex-lovers…/…And you love the game/’Cause we’re young, and we’re reckless/We’ll take this way too far/It’ll leave you breathless, mm/Or with a nasty scar…/…But I’ve got a blank space, baby/And I’ll write your name…/…Stolen kisses, pretty lies/You’re the King, baby, I’m your Queen/Find out what you want/Be that girl for a month/Wait, the worst is yet to come, oh, no/Screaming, crying, perfect storms/I can make all the tables turn…/…Don’t say I didn’t, say I didn’t warn ya/THEY’LL tell you I’m insane (I’m insane)/’Cause YOU know I love the players…
Style
Midnight/You come and pick me up, no headlights…/…Could end in burning flames or paradise…/…And I should just tell you to leave ’cause I/Know exactly where it leads…/…And I got that good girl faith and a tight little skirt/And when we go crashing down, we come back every time…/…Oh, you got that James Dean daydream look in your eye/And I got that red lip classic thing that you like
Out of the Woods
Then discovered…/…The rest of the world was black and white/But we were in screaming color…/…Are we out of the woods?/Are we in the clear yet?…/…The night we couldn’t quite forget/When we decided, we decided/To move the furniture so we could dance/Baby, like we stood a chance/Two paper airplanes flying, flying, flying…/…Remember when we couldn’t take the heat?/I walked out, I said “I’m setting you free”/But the monsters turned out to be just trees/When the sun came up you were looking at me
All You Had to Do Was Stay
People like you always want back the love they gave away/And people like me wanna believe you when you say you’ve changed/The more I think about it now, the less I know…/…Then why’d you have to go and lock me out when I let you in?
Shake It Off
I go on too many dates [chuckle]/But I can’t make ’em stay/At least that’s what people say, mmm-mmm…/…And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate…/…I shake it off, I shake it off…/…I never miss a beat/I’m lightning on my feet/And that’s what they don’t see…/…I’m dancing on my own (dancing on my own)/I make the moves up as I go (moves up as I go)
More examples:
These had too many pics to post a concise list on this post, but check out the websites. It shows a lot of relationships, marriages, babies, cheating, fights, etc, etc… are orchestrated to generate buzz and ultimately sell a product:
You think I’m gonna hate you now/’Cause you still don’t know what I never said…/…I wish you knew that/I’d never forget you as long as I’d live…/…We’re a crooked love/In a straight line down/Makes you wanna run and hide/Then it makes you turn right back around…/…And remember what we were fighting for…/…This mad, mad love makes you come rushing
Exp 2:
Bad Blood
You know it used to be mad love…/…Now we got problems/And I don’t think we can solve ’em/You made a really deep cut…/…I was thinking that you could be trusted/Did you have to ruin/What was shining? Now it’s all rusted/Did you have to hit me/Where I’m weak? Baby, I couldn’t breathe/And rub it in so deep/Salt in the wound like you’re laughing right at me…/…Did you think we’d be fine?/Still got scars on my back from your knife/So don’t think it’s in the past/These kind of wounds they last and they last/Now did you think it all through?/All these things will catch up to you…/…If you live like that, you live with ghosts (ghosts, ghosts)/Band-aids don’t fix bullet holes (hey!)/You say sorry just for show …/…Hm, if you love like that, blood runs cold/’Cause baby, now we got bad blood
Wildest Dreams
…”Let’s get out of this town/Drive out of the city, away from the crowds“/I thought Heaven can’t help me now/Nothing lasts forever/But this is gonna take me down…/…I said, “No one has to know what we do”/His hands are in my hair, his clothes are in my room…/…You’ll see me in hindsight/Tangled up with you all night/Burning it down/Someday when you leave me/I bet these memories/Follow you around…/…Say you’ll see me again/Even if it’s just (pretend, just pretend) in your wildest dreams/In your wildest dreams/Even if it’s just stayed in your wildest dreams
How You Get the Girl
Stand there like a ghost/Shaking come the rain, rain/She’ll open up the door/And say, are you insane…/…And you were too afraid to tell her what you want, want…/…And then you say/I want you for worse or for better…/…Tell her how you must’ve lost your mind/When you left her all alone and never told her why, why/And that’s how it works/That’s how you lost the girl…/…Broke your heart, I’ll put it back together…/…And you could know, oh/That I don’t want you to go
This Love
High tide came and brought you in…/…Skies grew darker/Currents swept you out again…/…In silent screams/In wildest dreams/I never dreamed of this/This love is good/This love is bad…/…In losing grip/On sinking ships…/…This love left a permanent mark/This love is glowing in the dark…/…I watched you leave/Your smile, my ghost/I fell to my knees/When you’re young, you just run/But you come back to what you need
I Know Places
It’s a scene, and we’re out here in plain sight/I can hear them whisper as we pass by/It’s a bad sign, bad sign/Something happens when everybody finds out/See the vultures circling, dark clouds/Love’s a fragile little flame, it could burn out…/…’Cause they got the cages, they got the boxes/And guns/They are the hunters, we are the foxes/And we run/Baby, I know places we won’t be found and/They’ll be chasing their tails trying to track us down…/…Lights flash and we’ll run for the fences/Let them say what they want, we won’t hear it/Loose lips sink ships all the damn time/Not this time…/…they take their shots, but we’re bulletproof
You’re still all over me/Like a wine-stained dress I can’t wear anymore/Hung my head as I lost the war/And the sky turned black like a perfect storm/Rain came pouring down/When I was drowning, that’s when I could finally breathe/And by morning/Gone was any trace of you, I think I am finally clean…/…There was nothing left to do…/…So I punched a hole in the roof/Let the flood carry away all my pictures of you/The water filled my lungs, I screamed so loud/But no one heard a thing…/…Ten months sober, I must admit/Just because you’re clean, don’t mean you don’t miss it/Ten months older, I won’t give in/Now that I’m clean, I’m never gonna risk it
Flashing lights and we/Took a wrong turn and we/Fell down a rabbit hole…/…’Cause nothing’s as it seems/And spinning out of control…/…Haven’t you heard what becomes of curious minds?/Ooh, didn’t it all seem new and exciting?/I felt your arms twisting around me/I should’ve slept with one eye open at night…/…We found Wonderland/You and I got lost in it/And life was never worse but never better…/…Too in love to think straight/All alone, or so it seemed/But there were strangers watching/And whispers turned to talking/And talking turned to screams, oh…/…It’s all fun and games ’til somebody loses their mind…/…I knew I had to go back home/You search the world for something else/To make you feel like what we had/And in the end, in Wonderland, we both went mad
One look, dark room/Meant just for you…/…No proof, one touch/But you felt enough…/…You can hear it in the silence, silence, you/You can feel it on the way home, way home, you/You can see it with the lights out, lights out/You are in love, true love…/…He keeps his word/And for once, you let go/Of your fears and your ghosts/One step, not much/But it said enough…/…One night he wakes/Strange look on his face/Pauses, then says/You’re my best friend/And you knew what it was/He is in love…/…And you understand now why they lost their minds and fought the wars/And why I’ve spent my whole life tryin’ to put it into words
New Romantics
We’re all bored/We’re all so tired of everything/We wait for trains that just aren’t coming/We show off our different scarlet letters/Trust me, mine is better/We’re so young/But we’re on the road to ruin/We play dumb but we know exactly what we’re doin’…/…I could build a castle/Out of all the bricks they threw at me/And every day is like a battle/But every night with us is like a dream…/…Heartbreak is the national anthem/We sing it proudly/We are too busy dancing/To get knocked off our feet/Baby, we’re the new romantics/The best people in life are free…/…We’re all here/The lights and noise are blinding/We hang back/It’s all in the timing/It’s poker/He can’t see it in my face/But I’m about to play my Ace (ah)/We need love/But all we want is danger/We team up/Then switch sides like a record changer/The rumors are terrible and cruel/But honey, most of them are true
I told Cool that if I ever lose the use of my legs or need diapers to euthanize me. That is how important my independence is to me.
So I’m very skeptical I would like to be in the military. I know full-well that the affordable housing, job opportunities, and paid tuition–come at a cost. Once you sign on that dotted line the government owns you. You are no longer a free agent. Sure, they’ll say that they try to accommodate you, but when it comes down to it–you are going to do what the military tells you to do, and that’s it.
I feel guilty about being stubborn against this idea. But I’m reminding myself that yes, it’s absolutely ok to be stubborn about your own life–I am the one who has to live it. I don’t have to justify my choices to anyone.
Enter my well-meaning parents. They are worried about how I’m going to pay for graduate school. I am also super-worried. They feel like the solution to ALL my problems is going into the Navy. Which, I could do. And I’d like to follow in my father’s footsteps, and I’d be honored to serve my country. BUT the logistics just do not work out for what I want in my life. But they won’t listen to me. They don’t hear my concerns, they just think I’m making an uninformed stubborn choice. And I can tell saying no about this is stepping into a landmine. It’s going to hurt the good place my relationship with my parents has finally gotten to. Which sucks! It was hard work getting to this better place with them. School funding/Navy is a point of contention, for sure. Except–you should not join the military for someone else, and you should never do it out of guilt–which is what I would be doing. I did look into it and here is why it just isn’t going to work for me at this point in my life:
-It’s an 8 year commitment!
That’s a long time. That’s all 4 years of school AND 4 more. There is a lot of opportunity for being moved around. A lot of dealing with less then optimal conditions. And 8 years to worry about my little family and my own survival.
-I would have to be separated from my family.
That’s what I have. It’s my whole support system. Cool wouldn’t be traveled around with me (more on this later), and I’m sorry if that makes me weak and a whiner–I want to be with her. Maybe other people can live apart from their mate, but I never want to. Also, Kitties cannot go to bootcamp, nor to officer training, or to different countries–and moving them around to different states would be difficult at best. After being separated from them in Seattle–I want my pets to live with me. I love them and they are my responsibility.
-I am gay. And this poses many problems:
–Cool and I aren’t married because I think it’s an antiquated tradition, she would ruin my good credit, and I figure why bother when the benefits depend what state you’re in at the time. In the military, they try to ensure married couples remain together–they could care less about what the law considers a roommate.
–So She and I would have to be apart. When and how would I see her? And where would she live? How would she afford it? What if her bipolar flared up as it does and things went terribly wrong? I wouldn’t be there. That doesn’t work for me.
–Also, being gay may be legal in the military, but that isn’t the same thing as being accepted. It’s a lot to ask of me to hide a fundamental aspect of who I am. But if I didn’t I could be teased, hazed, harassed, or even raped. I want no part of that–and who could blame me?
-I do not want to involve a recruiter
to get specific answers to my questions I have to call a recruiter. Which I don’t want to do. They give you the hard-sell. They gloss over the bad parts and emphasize the good, so you really have to read the fine print anyway. They spam you! I don’t want constant phone calls or mailers pressuring me.
-I’m fearful about the training and expectations.
I’m not sure I’d like getting screamed at. With work, I could do the physical stuff, but I in no way want to take my gas mask off for such and such amount of time like you have to in the Navy. I might be capable of doing it, but I think I would be very unhappy and stressed about it.
-I don’t like travel.
Basic is 2 weeks in some cold, Great Lake state. Officer training is in RI–for a month. You have to spend such and such time per year training who knows where. They promise you during your service they try to put you where you want to be, but let’s be real, if the government needs you somewhere they’re going to put you there, whether it works for you or not. And on relatively short notice. Plus, I have bathroom privacy and hygiene standards that cannot be accommodated in a military lifestyle. I need a (warm) shower EVERY day! And a private bathroom stall (with American plumbing) and a door and a fan.
-I don’t want stress, trauma, or long term effects like my dad (and many, many others) have
I’m sensitive, I don’t want to undergo emotional trauma, physical abuse, and I would be suicidal if I went through the sexxual abuse common in the military and in the Middle East. I also don’t want PTSD which is a very real side-effect of service.
-I don’t want to risk my LIFE
I also have NO interest of traveling abroad–especially the Middle East. And I read they are starting to put Audiologists on the forefront of actions because of portable equipment. Before they mostly did noise-prevention and VA stuff, but with accessible equipment, the government can stop sending soldiers to the closest sound booth (in Germany) after explosions and check them right on the front lines. That means audiologists are on the front lines.
-And bottom line, the money/perks just aren’t that great.
I can get better stipends from my school, or at the very least loans that don’t involve travel and put my life on the line. I will find a job once I’m out of school, and I could still do noise-prevention or VA work as a civilian.
I’m going to have to put my foot down to my parents, and I hope it doesn’t cause a big, ugly scene. But better that then ruining what I want for my life. I’ll just have to find another way to finance my education. This is about me and what I want, and nobody–even my parents–gets to demand what path I take. I just hope they can understand that I’m not just being rebellious, I actually researched and see many reasons why that’s not what I want. . .
I just wrote a blog post. And published it–got the note at the top of the page saying it had been published and everything. And it was just gone. Not posted, not a draft, nowhere. So I back-back-backed my way to this, and it’s blank. That is one thing I do NOT miss about the Myspace blog days. You couldn’t trust it not to erase all your work, so you had to write on a word doc and transfer it = pain. Don’t start with that business, WordPress! Anyone else having these probalems? It’s never happened to me on here before this month. . .
So to recap I had told you I’m sorry for not posting. I’ve been terribly busy. And I felt guilty for leaving you hanging, and worried everyone would leave. I told you I’d be back full force after my semester. For now it’s a little crazy trying to get my obligations in check while fighting my sleep schedule.
And so help me–if this post is gone without a trace, I’ll scream! Now, I cry because I have to work on Halloween, I’m eating too much sugar lately, and I still have homework, but I’m super-sleepy.
Last night I started feeling worse and worse. Normally when I feel something coming on I go to bed super-early. But I will have to work til midnight really soon and my body is already going to be shocked. As such, I HAD to stick it out until 9:30PM. I felt so bad that I turned off my alarm clock (I never sleep to the alarm, but I’d be too nervous if I didn’t set it–just in case) for cleaning the vet hospital in the morning. I try to go there every other day and had gone Monday, so was set to do it today. But I had called Monday to make Rusty an appointment–and of course Wednesday was the first they could get me in. And they were very explicit that I should drop off at 7:30AM. So with the (impending) sickness, I didn’t think I should get up at 3-4AM, drop off the car, and be unable to nap. If I get in bed after 5:20AM, I CANNOT sleep no matter how hard I try. Anyway, so I decided I would clean work Wednesday night and still get it done on the every other day.
I slept fitfully because my body is trying to get sick and out of guilt for not cleaning–even though it’s a flexible schedule and I just have to make sure and go 3x/wk. But I felt bad anyhow. In the morning (the cats woke us up at 5:30AM, so I didn’t get tons of sleep), we went to drop Rusty off. And–he had written that I called on Monday, but neglected to put me on the schedule for today. So skipping work and dropping off was unnecessary because he put me on the very bottom of their full schedule. Annoying. And I felt icky so I almost said something about it.
At the track, I had intended to run a record 400m today. I thought maybe if I warmed up slowly it could still be done. Because I’m not completely sick, I can just tell it’s coming on. But there is still time for preventative sleep/warmth/Zicam/vitamins/fluids. But as soon as I started jogging I instantly felt TERRIBLE. Everything ached, I felt tired, my muscles were stiff. It was unpleasant. I changed my mind about any speed work and just did a slow 2 miles practicing switching long strides and quick strides.
When I got back to the apartment complex, the trashy-trashy, white-trash trashy lesboz that park next to us were over the line half in our spot. So I had to squeeze in very tightly. And when I opened the door, I was confronted with their barf-covered passenger door. Who pukes on their car??! Disgusting. Cool wrote a note, but the tone was annoyed. And I am all about feeling annoyed, but hesitated to give it to them, because, trashy people have no boundaries and who knows how they might retaliate. But Cool put it on their barf-mobile anyway. Fast-forward: Next time I went to the car, theirs was gone, and the note was crumpled beside Cool’s car. . .
Rewind: I went home and Cool made a wonderful huckleberry waffle breakfast. I was feeling so crummy that the impossible occured and I actually was able to nap for 30 min. But it wasn’t enough and I still felt like crud. I get, for lack of better word, annoying sickness. There’s no outward signs, but I feel feverish and fatigued. Standing in the kitchen to make a frozen drink for Labor Dave about did me in, and I felt really crummy. So I look a-OK, but feel ick-scum. If it does come full-on (it hasn’t yet) I’ll get a fever and a head-cold. Not cool times for public or for sitting in class.
Anyway, I didn’t get a call until 1:30PM asking permissions and pricing. So I should have gone to work, and Rusty will not be finished today. Which is super-annoying, because now Cool goes to work and I’ll have to clean at 3-4AM tomorrow–sacrificing more sleep when I’m (getting) sick.
That’s all. I’ll work on my graph blogs today since standing up seems too much. That reminds me, there are just 5 days til school starts and I have a HUGE list of things to do before then. I’m mentally going insane, but my body won’t cooperate–it’s going to be a low productivity day when I need to kick it into high gear >:-[
I’m going to hate my Wednesday schedule. My class starts at 10 AM on the dot, which means I have to leave work right at a certain time–not conducive to a veterinary schedule, especially surgery. The struglasarus-LVT is scheduled with me. She is slow, and I don’t really trust her. This is a concern because I already have a lateness phobia. And this particular class is built-in required observation hours. So you can’t be late. And if you miss one, you miss that observation hour–and I have no idea where I would make it up as I have no contacts HERE. Add in a 7-8 min drive, an unmeasurable amount of time to find parking (in the over-sold lots), and 8-10 min walk from my car to the building, and still arriving in the room early enough to find a (good) seat [9:55AM at the very latest]. I have to leave by 9:35AM and hope everything goes smoothly. There’s no wiggle room, and dire consequences. Well, it’s not awesome.
I was first VERY worried about getting everything finished at work this morning AND making it to class on time. Stressed off the heezy, actually. So I made sure to alert everyone at work about my concerns. But then, with disapproving looks, body language, and little comments like, “You have a HALF hour to get there.” I felt: Guilty, worried, disgruntled, helpless, and frustrated.
Because:
-This is the only time this class is offered, it’s not like I chose it.
-I hate the new schedule too–I don’t want to leave work in the lurch OR be late to class. And I worry about something going wrong on both ends (work and school).
-It makes me afraid they will change my schedule to Wednesdays off and put me back on all day Friday, in which case I’ll have to quit and search for a new job in the middle of a semester to keep my sanity. And nobody likes that story.
-It’s not my fault that my school arranged the class at this time, that parking over-sells the lots, or that our LVT is incompetent. I wish my work would tell the other gal to get her head out of her a$$, and quit giving me such grief. And I wish school would be willing to work with me in ANY way. But those things will never happen so I’m left hopeless.
And probably more.
And add a impending work evaluation to that and I was really stressed/worried/crabby when I got home from class. And I thought my eval was probably going to be awful, because of all the schedule drama and intrapersonal cat-fighting. But I KNOW I’m a good employee, and a lot of my attributes are obscured for emotional reasons. So in order to calm myself, I went through every eval question and wrote an example of what I do in that particular area. Which, actually made me hopeful, because when it’s all in writing and I can cite examples, it makes me feel confident I could defend any unwarranted attacks on my character. Then, because the eval calls for rankings, I gave myself a 0-10 ranking on each subset. Then, averaged those for a “grade.” But then I realized you can’t average a scale as a percent, so I re-did it with a +1 good, 0 neutral, -1 bad. Then averaged those numbers to quantitatively figure out my eval.
And I was happy to see when all said & done I have a 72%, and most of my characteristics fall into the meets expectations catagory–with a couple high in that box, and 1 item (motivation) even topping out exceeds expectations. Being above average (especially when I judge others to fall below average) made me feel a LOT better. Especially since I have data and examples to back up my claims. Then I decided I’m HAPPY about evaluations because it will be a private, earnest, un-heated discussion.
I don’t know how some things end up there. Phone calls, especially, tend to end up on things I should have done but didn’t yet do. I hate making calls for whatever reason! And sometimes when I finally DO whatever I’ve been putting off for days and days, weeks, or a semester as the case may be. I needed a new student ID (to get free bus access for just in case) and this went on my to-do list in August. I literally moved the item to every next school day because I never felt like I looked the same or better then my original picture on the card. Finally, on FINALS week, in December I went in to get a new ID–only because next semester they charge you for it. And I didn’t even have to take a new picture. . . So I had put off the task, had to think about it, and stressed about it–really for nothing. See what I did there–I procrastinated finishing that sentence above and told you an example story. The point? Sometimes when the task is done, it was so much shorter and easier then I thought, and there was no reason to put it off at all. Procrastination is stupid. It just makes the task that much bigger, scarier, take up more thought and time.
I know this, and yet. For some reason I’ve really been putting off my scholarship application. You remember how unlucky I’ve been with this in the past–maybe that’s part of it. I know just how important it is–how could I throw away FREE money?! I need it. And it shouldn’t be that hard. I think it will be fine to just edit my 6 essays of last year and re-submit them. I guess that’s where my concern comes from. Those essays didn’t get me money last year, so I feel I should have totally started over and written new ones. But during the semeter I didn’t have take the time, and now I want to wade through NEXT semester’s class things instead of writing 6 new essays that may or may not garner me funding. So I guess it’s out of guilt that I’m not finishing this scholarship app like I should.
And that guilt sucks. I also had really wanted to volunteer over the year–that’s what gets you the real scholarship money. But school and work just took over and that didn’t happen 😦 So I’m sort of stuck, knowing it’s too late this year, but feeling like maybe with enough effort I could salvage something. I suppose I should just turn in what I have, and look to next year–set myself up more for success next time.
I woke up to pee in the night, and was horrified that I suddenly had a sore throat. This is always, always the first sign of an impending cold. And when I get sick, it really sucks, because 1) it’s never the vomit and diarrahea stuff that keeps you at home, so I’m obligated to keep all my comitments. 2) It’s always the same: Invisble sore throat, into invisable fever that really makes me feel miserable, into a messy head cold. Runny noses in silent 75 min lectures are the worst! 3) I don’t sleep well–and this unleasehes a chain of events like being crabby, non-funtional at work, and extra worrying.
Most people want soup when they’re sick. But the only soup I like is chowder–in a bread bowl. Preferably in San-Fran at a Fisherman’s Warf stand-up table over-looking the water. So today I’m pretty miserable. I did stay an extra half hour at work, because they really over-booked the morning (and social tensions were actually low and I want to keep it that way) and I studied very productively. But I feel rotton. And of course guilty about leaving when there was still so much work to be done–and worried that social tensions will be at a peak again tomorrow because I did leave. Maybe that’s just the tiredness talking.
But no one wants to hear about that same ‘ol stuff. Here’s more about why I dislike soup. Disclaimer when I didslike things (with the exception of french fries, which I will never, never, ever touch, let alone eat, in my LIFE) I just mean I don’t prefer them and wouldn’t chose them. But I still eat them if need be. Anyway, why soup is disargreeable to me:
It’s slow and unruly to eat. As a rule, I dislike food you have to work at: Lobster in the shell, ribs, caramel apples on a stick. No matter how good the taste, I resuse to struggle around with my food. I want things that I can quickly shovel into my mouth. Soup has to be spooned, slowly, and slurrped. Soup is better out of a thermos, because you can drink it–but why (when there are so many better things to pack in a thermos) would I chose soup? It often drips down my chin from the bowl, and I hate that.
After all this work, I find that it’s not even filling. Maybe the salt fills you up short-term, but usually I’m still starving after soup. Salads too, for that matter. Soup, is only tolerable when there’s bread to sop it up and fill you up–but again, why bother when you can just eat the bread?
Besides, super-hot temperatures hurt my mouth. I hate all the waiting, and blowing before you can slurp soup. I want to dig in–so I do. And then I pay the price of scald-tongue, roof, cheecks, throat. Not awesome. Especially, when you can’t taste things for the next couple days because your skin has sloughed off. That’s one of the things I love about Cool–she knows just how “hot” to make my beverages or foods. To most people it’s leukwarm, but that’s just enough for me.
Even after braces, removal of impacted wisdom teeth, and gum-grafts–I had real food. Like steak.
Another post that I do not WANT to write. But it needs to be done. No matter who sees it. Writing this will put it out there and hold me accountable.
I intend to quit drinking all-together. Like done.
Here’s the straw that broke the camel’s back: Cool and I wanted to celebrate Halloween–our favorite holiday. Except I had an exam fairly late in the day. So I studied all day prior to the exam, and took the exam at 2PM until 3:15 PM. Cool had taken the night off work this year and she wanted to go to a restaurant dressed in our costumes. She was a banana and I was a butterfly. And we were so, so responsible! We wanted a drink at the resturant and knew on Halloween there would be drunk drivers, kids walking around, and police enforcement–not the best driving scene. So we cabbed it. Which was super-expensive at $42 round trip 😦
Anyway, so I had my first drink close to 4 PM. Oh, and I had eaten a really filling skillet-scramble prior to my exam so this was on a pretty full stomach. At the restaurant we shared a boneless wings meal also. I never intended to get drunk, and don’t remember being drunk. I knew full well that I had to work before the crack of dawn the next morning. There was never a time when I thought–hmm maybe this drink isn’t the best idea. And I didn’t drink any different amount then I usually do, but I guess it must have been a shorter span of time.
Because, when I woke up at 5AM I felt pretty rough. But I got up, poured my normal coffee, and got water too and went through my normal morning routine figuring with hydration and caffeine I’d be set to go to work. But maybe I drank all the liquid too fast, or the coffee was a bad idea. Because as I sat there I began to feel worse. But I have never, never, never missed responsibilites for drinking reasons, so I fully intended on going to work–knowing I might drag my way through the 4 short hours. But then I felt terrible. Like headache, dizzy, touchy belly–just full on horrible-hangover feelings I suppose. And I stood up to start packing my backpack for work–and had the spins so bad I had to immediately sit back down. I was really bad-off.
How could I go to work. I couldn’t even stand, let alone drive–or actually work. And I have never called in sick to this job in 3(?) years, I’ve only called in sick at all 3 prior times in my life. And of course, today I was supposed to work with the doctor that now hates me and treats me badly, so I didn’t want to give her a legit reason not to like me. But I just couldn’t pull through. So I had to text everyone telling them I was sick–knowing full well on November 1st they would know I was hungover. And that it would look bad. And that it was bad and messy.
I feel ashemed, embarrassed, and sloppy. That is not the person I am, and I can’t let that happen again. So I think it’s best if me and alcohol part ways. Yes, forever–not just as hang-over regret. When drinking consequences bleed over into my work life, who knows where they would head next. I don’t want to find out. And I’m torn–I will probably need support and it’s no secret, but I’m hesitant to announce it too. Because I don’t want to put any name to it, or have anyone make a huge deal about it or treat me like some kind of junkie. I guess I can decide about that later. I’m just better off without drinking, that’s all.
BUT–logistics! We have all this really hard to find ice-wine in the house. 4 bottles? And I don’t want to waste them. I won’t do that. So even though I have resolve to quit now, I think I will finish those first. But then, for reals–especially now that I’ve typed and posted this–I’m done.
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