arrested development

'Personally my dear, I blame you for my personal growth' 

for the taking

We should not demand respect, we should both earn and just plain take it. 'Want, take, have', aye Faith?

less full

'He was a hopeless romantic. No, he was a hopeful romantic.'

~ff quote

typo effect

Small typo can make 'popcorn' into 'porncop'. Oh well. :>>>

the magic button

The magic button — Make Everything OK

Cause we all need it at times...

master this

I'm a master apologizer. Perhaps that comes from being a much better repeat offender than an improved parolee.

tight spaces

Inercja jest piękna, ale jej nadmiar grozi klaustrofobią.

draco vincit

Dragons trump dinos any day.

rearrange that

'A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.'

William James 

random witty retort of the day

Don't hate me 'cause I'm smug. Hate me because I'm right.

a car, a mother-in-law and a river

'Endings are mixed blessings.'
                                           ~Dream, in 'A Game of You'
or as an old joke attempted to explain what mixed feelings where:

It's when your mother-in-law drives your car straight into the river.

So there. ;>

as much as it pains me to say it

...Coelho had something right when he wrote (quoted?)that:


'The first symptom of the process of our killing our dreams is the lack of time. The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid (...)'


Killing Your Dreams

cleptopenia

is 'the unconscious theft of pens'

It's always good to be diagnose. ;)

soon enough

"There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go." 

Tennessee Williams

tons of change

Once upon a time I used to unabashedly bash idiots who deserved it with my bare words. Now I'm all adult, and know to be diplomatic when I don't want to, know how to be scathing yet be seemingly nice about it.

What I don't know is, whether  to be proud or disappointed about it.


(I'm leaning towards the latter)

random retort on equipage

I'm sorry. I cannot help you cope with your emotional crisis. I am equipped to quip not to sympathize.

way cooler than t, huh?

'Scars are tattoos with better stories'
                                                       ~a random fanfiction and a bunch of other places/lyric/etc. on the web

random thought is random

Tyci Myci Double-You climbed over the Wall,
He grew big and amazing-like, while I suffered a fall.

the sieve

"All you can do is try to know who your friends are, as you head of to war."
R.Spektor- The Call

recon excercise

It is in little things ( which are really important) that you recognize your friends.

insane anonymous

"I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it." ~author unknown

joss is boss

"Always be yourself.. unless you suck." ~ a Jossism 

as in:something's out there

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."

                                                               Carl Sagan

I find it strangely encouraging today.

work in progress

She knew that if she waited to be finished, she would never start.

not much of a

Eternal promise if never realized, will always leave you lacking and wanting.

GTFO Universe

Universe likes talking to me, but apparently it thinks I only understand the stick- not so much the carrot.

WWBD&Co

One instance in which you shouldn't ask yourself the time honoured question of: 'What Would Buffy Do?', is in anything even remotely connected to learning how to drive.

Incidentally using 'What Would Winchesters Do?' or more 'How Would Dean Winchester Drive?' might also not get you your permit granted.

a bit on the cheesy side 2

"Follow your bliss" may be by now made into one of the cheesiest self-help phrases there is, but it has it's merits.As in:

"(...)if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be."
Joseph Campbell, "The Power of Myth" (the book)

I knew I liked Mr.Campbell for a reason.

some self-comforting cheesiness required

"(...)there's a spark in you, you just gotta ignite the light, and let it shine (...)"
'Firework' lyrics

ひとこと

案ずるより産むが易し。

                               ことわざ　

It's easier to do, than to worry ahead.

                              Japanese Proverb

filtering

Thought-to-mouth filter is so important. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for spontaneous behavior but you can't just go around blabbering everything that comes into your mind, or passing on every piece of info you hear without it costing you something. And sometimes the something may be precious.

open interpretation

"You have to be conscious of what you say, but you can never be responsible for what they hear you say."

  Rini&Saklani

the curly complexity

She was an unhappy, mildly-yet-unpredictably-wavy-haired child of curly haired parents. She could never properly make up her hair in curls as she's been never taught how.She figured the only way to go was to straighten them fully, not that she loved the effect at all.

morning converations with the humankind

'Ooh! You're wearing a pentagram!'- A. shouts whisperingly, her slightly scandalized tone for a moment overcoming the noise of a bustling locker room.

'Yes'- A pause- 'We get them all the time for killing babies.'- I deadpan, but the brilliancy of my comment goes unnoticed in all of the surrounding  commotion. I don't know whether to be glad or disappointed. 

botched promise of a new day

She's been always full of promise. She was also full of shit though, and these two seemed to cancel each other out.

workable if new: the seating arrangement

Okay so ppl walking back 'n forth behind my back annoy the crap outta me, and not really because I don't want them to see my screen- which is a factor as well- but mostly because  I've been paranoid since forever and feel endangered whenever I can't control what's going on behind me.

That being said, if the final result is being seated in front of the window, with all of it's majestic splendor displayed daily in high def, then I'm game and very much so.

decisively

Instant coffee is NOT a real coffee. Period.

URU

"Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you."
Dr. Seuss

'można' to nie to co 'trzeba'

Dobija mnie wszechobecny kult szeropojętego retuszu. W prasie, rzeczywistości, "w myśli, w mowie w sercu" normalnie. I nie, nie mam nic przeciwko fotografii manipulowanej artystycznie, czy usunięciu pryszcza z nosa celebrytce (albo tym bardziej mnie). Ale na Hefajstosa, nie wszystko trzeba zretuszować, nawet jeśli- a może nawet tym bardziej dlatego że- się da. Ugh.

recollection

Is it only me or does incense trigger some kind of sense memory in everyone?

rule of thumb

It's simple enough. When you don't like something change it.

smoke screen theory

Bigger then life personalities are often just smudgy, haphazardly draw contours of people not people themselves. Which makes a world of a difference.

wahrscheinlich arbeit macht einen frei

Moja Babcia oglądając hamerykańskie filmy o skomplikowanych rozterkach duchowych bohaterów, zwykła była mawiać coś w deseń : "Zabraliby się do roboty to by im przeszło".

Dziś bardziej niż dawniej nawet stwierdzam że miała rację.

quote interrupted

Had a chair in my head, but I bought it, so now it's real and I'm gonna sit in it.

wrap up

Get hands on, get real.

(chocolate) delivery

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
Charles Dickens

I knew the quote just never knew it was from Dickens before. Then again it's not surprising- great writers should be great one-liner deliverers just as well.

serenity is such a good place to start

'Grant me the serenity

To accept the things I cannot change;

Courage to change the things I can;

And wisdom to know the difference.'

                                        from Serenity Prayer

the art of war- the office edition

I love the interoffice heartfelt politeness where sentences like 'Are you well? You must have not slept well judging by bags under your eyes.' translate clearly into 'I just looove telling you you look like crap'.

z cyklu: muszę zgłosić do tego copyrighty

nastolęctwo- jako moja własna kontaminacja (portmanteau) mojego własnego pojęcia pt 'nastoletnie cielęctwo', którego doprawdy tłumaczyć nie trzeba raczej...

broody=emo => breemo?

Also: men brooding by default are so high-school kind of attractive. As in: so lame. As in: so Twilight.

sucker punch scope

In a way I'm a total sucker for all kinds of horoscopes. Not that I believe in a tall, dark, brooding and handsome, that should mysteriously stumble my way from some outlandish plane of existance (although I suppose I wouldn't exactly mind that either), but the bits themselves? They're a bit like obituaries, pointing out things about yourself you didn't even know or ever think about. And you get to read them while still alive which- as the world has me believe- is a plus.

way to go

I kinda realized that I'm on my most productive whenever it demands absolutely no effort from me. Which may not be 'the-best-possible-way-evah' for doing things. Go figure that.

nature of the green monster

"Jealousy is all the fun you think they had."
Erica Jong

SO true!

happy go lucky

When I'm in a happy drunk phase- that happens upon me at times-  I can be really charming, captivating even-bordering on irresistible. Now, where is that person exactly all the rest of the time? I want her with me together forever, baby.

suspected conjunctivitis& post-concert tiredness in a spring roll

My eyes today are bloody slits threatening to reveal  my intestines to the world.Don't  think the world is ready for that though, so I'm keeping it all bottled up then. Same old, same old.

fearlessly

"There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself." 
Anthony Rapp.


Yes, the Anthony Rapp people :)

mind-alone

I am alone here in my own mind.
There is no map and there is no road.
It is one of a kind just as yours is.
Anne Sexton

needs

‎"The heart lies to itself because it must."
Jack Gilbert

fb day ban

I was really glad  when I  turned fb off for a day. I proved to myself that I can procrastinate very well without it. 

anything& everything

I can do anything I want to I just have to know what I want

gut feeling

“Gut feeling” is not just a euphemism. Tension in the abdomen speaks volumes about how you truly feel about something, beyond all arguments and rationales. 

talking shit out induces revelations

The way you react to people allows you to shape yourself, even if the people aren't there
at all. The conversations I'm having with them in my head are often very educational.

the flow

I like the beginnings. Beginnings are nice. It is the middles and the endings that I find problematic.

beginning at random

Thoughts for today:

'I need to make myself into more than a passing shadow. How do I do that, that remains the question.'

'Life isn't about toys. It isn't, right?'