I declare this...The Summer of George! Er..I mean, THE YEAR OF CHRISTEN!!!




Hello my lovelies. Today I find myself writing to you on the last day of 2007. Although it's been a good year, I am pretty glad that it's coming to an end. Because-----2008 has officially been deemed the YEAR OF CHRISTEN. And not because it is 2008, but because this year I am 27. Don't ask me what the specific relevance to being 27 is, just understand that I am declaring it... so it will be.

Big things are brewing. I can just feel it.

As for resolutions, I only have one. I don't want to go into to much detail, but it involves giving up not a habit, but a person.

I guess this person actually is my bad habit. Have you ever had a relationship with a person in your life that you know is completely destructive, yet you can't shake em'? My relationship with this person is a lot like my relationship with fast food: I love eating it, but immediately regret it.

It's going to be a struggle, but I'm pretty sure it will be worth it in the long run. I might even look back on this and laugh at how I even had an attachment to this person.

So for 2008, I am going to try to be strong and try to surround myself with people of substance, character and love. And most of all, make the YEAR OF CHRISTEN as meaningful as life should be.

Peace out 2007....

Love: ....like raindrops or toilet paper, it all depends on the usage.

Okay, so I know my post title is a little strange, but some events today have led my thinking to a very strange place.

You ever have a friend that is perpetually in love? Or so they claim. I have this friend, who I LOVE dearly, who has a knack of falling in love the way I fall in lust over a hot pepperoni pizza everytime I see one. And the result of her love, and my lust, usually end in the same way. Lament and upset stomach. Mine however due to the gassyness from my lactose intolerance...but I digress.

It blows my mind really. It's not that she isn't an amazing person, she really is. She has a way of pulling people into her universe and trapping them in her surrounding gravity. It's just that I can't quite grasp how its possible to find that type of love and adoration for another human being quite so quickly, or frequently.

I'm lucky if I see ONE dude a week that I find slightly attractive. But, I do live in Chicago, one of the fattest cities in America.

But its probably better that I don't you know? I mean, knowing my track record, I would probably chase the perfect man away without even realizing I'm doing it.

Maybe its the holidays, or the fact that not one but TWO of my girlfriends called me today to tell me that they are engaged, that has really got my mind spinning on this whole "love" thing.

I guess your experiences with love are greatly determined by what your definition of love actually is. It could very well be that my expectations are WAY too high. Goddamn Disney and all their relationship propaganda.

But then again, I look at my friend, who can always seem to find love the same way raindrops find the earth, and I really wonder....are some people just magnets for it? Perhaps I need to ring Mr. Wizard and have him de-polarize or super-polarize my magnetic energy or something. Hee hee. Maybe afterward we could make some sweet rockets and shoot them into all the slow walkers on the city streets. Damn you all sheep people!

Ahhh.

I'm glad I could get that off my chest. Cause you know, XMAS is over and we are officially on countdown to TWO extremely uncomfortable...er...I mean FUN! times for single gals, New Years Eve and Valenwhores Day. I mean, who doesn't love standing around awkwardly in that moment at midnight while every couple revels in the sanctioned "tonsil hockey" PDA moment of the year. Or better yet, having every jackass you bump into on Valentine's Day ask you if you are enjoying your "girls night out". Its just a day people, relax. Remember, its the unspecial day's moments that mean the most.

Wow, do I really sound like a miser or what? Haha.

Well, so I don't leave you all on a sour note, I thought I would treat you a little "animal porn" (courtesy of AP photos). Come on, you know you love it. :)

R.I. P. Benazir Bhutto 12/27/2007

Tasty People.....They're Grrrreat!

Ok, so I know its a terrible thing that a dude got eaten at that zoo in San Francisco, but really, is it that suprising? I mean, it's a tiger people. They eat like 40 lbs of meat at a time. I thought I would post this tasty tid-bit because for some reason, CNN thinks this story is so shocking that they've had it on a 15 minute loop for the last 4 hours.

What, slow news day CNN? You think that that maybe the landslides were a soft story?

Ugh. And I actually feel bad for the tiger. I mean, I know that if I had to sit, with limited exercise in a fake "jungle" enclosure, day after day as red-faced, tasty-looking meat morsel human babies were dangled in front of me yelling "kitty cat!", I might eventually try to escape and eat the first thing running....just for fun.