Stuff On Top

June 16 - 11:10 pm.

 I would like to make a very important announcement.  I am done.  I have been made more beautiful than i ever thought i could be.  I am finished. I think i shall just sit down and die now.  Wow.  Ok, if you have no clue what i am talking about, you can go and read this.  If you still don't, just go and look at the picture, here.  So yes, that is me.  That is, it isn't really.  This is the incredibly marvelous creation of Annelie, the artist that i posed for in February.  I can barely being to contain how wonderful i think that this painting is.  How can i be a part of something so beautiful?  I, sit here....in awe.  Wow.  Thank you so much Annelie.  I consider thinking about purchasing it from her.  But for one thing she is trying to build up a collection of her own work, she likes this one (she likes the painting of me...even better than me liking it i think) and wants it to be a part of that collection, it costs a little more than i can afford right now and...and i don't think i could have a painting of myself, it is just a little too narcissistic, i think.   But wow.  My day, which was going amazing well and joyful...just got better.  My day has been made.

Ok....back to our regularly scheduled entry...this was just an aside...because i just saw my painting.

   I feel the need to talk nicely about some people.  I don't know why, perhaps that is just what happens.  Right away i can feel you clenching up and feeling like you shouldn't be reading this, at least not until you've got your retch guard.

   First, foremost and before everyone else (and i must say now that these have been completely randomized so as to not indicate any importance to any one friend, as i am sure i am missing some, or others and nothing is meant by this other than the fact that my memory is filled with acre wide holes) i must thank Rebecca for being the most amazingly cool cousin that a person could ever hope to have.  Friendly, witty, warm, cute, beautiful, wonderful, intelligent, and just downright adorable.  (Will i mention that she has been badgering to say nice things about her for the last while?  Will i point out that she is the only person that has had her own tribute on my web page since day one?  No, i wouldn't do that, i am the good cousin.)

   Audra.  Most of you know Audra.  Audra runs Marigold.  Audra is my friend.  Audra is my very good friend.  Some days, i don't know what it is that makes Audra my good friend.  I really don't.  We don't necessarily always have the same thoughts, beliefs, politics or anything.  But you know, something about her is so....so....i just don't know.  That is her quoted on the side there and yes, it is about me.  Audra and i trade many a barbed jibe and catty comment about each other.  And yet, something about her makes me be sweet and nice and gentle.  And this isn't always that common for me.  I am not always one to be sweet.  I think that Audra, in large part, is responsible for the way that i have been able to say things that have more meaning and feeling behind them.  Maybe.  (if you say things too entirely nice about Audra, she does tend to get a very large head).

   AlliLoop.  Ok.  Alliloop is an unknown phenomena to me.  Alliloop is a completely known phenomena to me.  Alliloop is an enigma, Alliloop is a charm.  I don't know if i can get this to be more clear.  Everything about this amazing person amuses and intrigues me. I have said to a couple of people that this person is my non-romantic soul-mate.  Does this make sense to you?  No, but...when i speak, she understands, when i think, she understands, we don't have to finish our thoughts, we are totally in sync.  She and i...well, don't even try to understand us when we talk.  Because you just can't.  What culla da monkey?

   Robin...at least 5 of those things are true of you as well.  But you don't badger so this is all you get.  How unfair is life?

   Shar.  Wow.  I don't feel qualified to talk about Shar...cause...wow.  Shar amazes me in every facet of her existence.  Shar is like the friend i always wanted and never had.  And yet i have.  Luck be a lady tonight.

   Andrea.  Andrea is rapidly becoming the most important person in my life.  Everything about Andrea...is important to me, every detail, every thing.  I hang on every word, though and emotion. 

   Betty...you are the reason that most of these updates actually get done.  Thank you.

   Retching yet?  Almost done.

   Shawn.  Still my best friend.  'nuff said.

   Gayle.  Gayle...how do you brighten up my day just by saying hello?  How do our 10 minutes of conversation in the morning, each morning make each day seem that much more easy to enter?  I don't know.  But thank you.  I will always love your flying tacklehugs.

   Ok. i am done. i forgot some of you.  Some of you were missed.  Much of it is oversight on my part.  Some of it is you not dedicating enough of your lives to making me want to say nice things to and about you.