Everyday Happenings

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• Running outside with no shirt on Christmas morning - Florida #FTW!
• Never buy an Apple product again - http://gizmodo.com/5431521/the-best-alternatives-to-every-apple-product/gallery/10
• the Orlando Magic lost again. This is becoming waaay to common *sigh*
• just got his copy of "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" in the mail today. Guess what's playing at Casa de Shinall tonight!
• The best-laid plans...
• You make everything glorious, and I am yours. So, what does that make me?
• are you f'ing kidding me?!!!! Magic lost to the Wizards? The Wizards?!!! without Arenas too???!!!!
• needs to learn to stop freaking out and just 'go with it'.
• okay, this is strange -- where did these biceps come from?! holy crap!
• and Orlando slips to #4 in the East. Way to go guys. Keep it up and we won't have to worry about the Playoffs.
• Sometimes I feel like such a corporate whore...
• needs a vacation.
• U.S. unemployment at 10% as of January 8 - http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
• Little man loves to do the "run and headbutt" - and he's just tall enough now to be dangerous.
• thinks it's funny how pre-conceived notions can be shattered by just a touch of humanity. I'm not relativist, but maybe it's not all B&W.
• never met a Twizzler he didn't like.
• Citrus Bowl tonight reminded me of Canton, IL
• is so *not* buying Orlando Magic tickets next season!

Fell for it again. This is the absolute last time. I'm tempted to delete this post: "Dichotomy of You". Alas, it's probably the most honest I've been with myself. Plus, it's part of my history. I'll let it stay around. I just have to post enough content to move it off my front page!

You make me smile, but you make me nervous.
I look at you and see beauty and strength and love.
In you I see all that I want and everything I'm afraid of.
You have taken me to my greatest height and sent me to my deepest valley.
I want to give you everything of me.
In you, I have experienced great joy, but also great anger.
You have been a fierce ally.
You are probably one of the few who would truly understand me, if you wanted to and if I would let you.
My heart sinks when I think of you, because of great love and fear.
You can give me my greatest adventure or my loneliest despair.
Knowing your complexities makes me tremble a little more, but doesn't make me love you any less.
If I could unlock the the secrets of who you are, I believe I would have the greatest fulfillment in life.

I took one of those "How Well Do You Know Me Quizzes". I don't think I did so well.

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Are we friends? Yes

My unimpressive track record regarding women and relationships continues. Recently, Angie text'ed me and told me she didn't think we were clicking as anything more than friends. I'm pretty used to hearing some variation of "the friends speech". I can honestly say I'm not disappointed by this latest development. Well, no more so than anyone else would be at finding himself back at "square 1".

Alas, I was pondering the uniqueness of receiving this message via text message. It's my first "txt dump". I ended up compiling a list of the various ways I've been dumped or received "the friends speech". Here's what I came up with: