Family Quotes

I'm trying to find one that starts off talking about the whole horror that will happen during Thanksgiving but the family will forgive and forget because they're going to get together and do it all over again when Christmas comes around. In the meantime:

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. ~George Bernard Shaw

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. ~Dodie Smith

Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie - not perfect but who's complaining? ~Robert Brault

Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are. ~Marsha Norman

Friends are God's apology for relations. ~Hugh Kingsmill

There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Say Wha?!?!

So a close relative is having a baby and she just found out the child's sex today. I was totally psyched so I put the "it's a ___" as my fb status. I was actually shocked when someone asked if I was pregnant. Maybe they knew but thought they were being funny? Maybe they actually thought that I was? Mixed feelings either way I think.

I did have a moment though. You know when you know a word, have used a word, and maybe never really thought about it? Then you have a moment where you feel something, see something, etc. really strongly and suddenly it's that epiphany of this is SO the time to use that word. It's hard to describe. Anyway, today I had that with "nonplussed."

Some Random Quotes

I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis. -- Douglas Adams

Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson


Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. ~Dave Barry, "Your Disintegrating Body," Dave Barry Turns 40, 1990

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright

Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett

I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997

You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown


I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball

Cabin Fever? (yet another whine)

Okay, so I'm thinking I should probably get out more. Just hard to really find a reason why. I was going to pop out but then got snowed in. Could go out but just don't feel like dealing with icy roads. Some roads are fine but some have ice all the way across. I've stupidly driven across ice and had the car go the opposite direction from where I was steering and going or stopping when I was trying to get it to do the other. Popping out just to pop out does not seem worth it.

It's a little blah seeing the same people day in and day out. Then when you go out for anything remotely significant, it's the same people in a little car and the same people you have to put up with just in a different place.

Internet here is too slow for Hulu so I'm stuck with DVR. But the DVR only goes with the big t.v. and if I want to watch anything, during the day (aka anytime other than the middle of the night when everyone else is asleep) I don't get a chance at the shows.

Trying to get stuff out there, but trying to find someone to send it to is proving less than fun. I have the sneaking suspicion that someone who tried to connect me with someone else who may lend weight misrepresented me. Basically that my focus/ interest was in an area that it is not and making it sound like I am far less flexible than I am. Frustrating.


Holiday shopping is done, but I need to haul butt on my holiday cards. Eh, as long as they're out by early January, I figure they're cool. I go with happy holidays. If nothing else you've go New Year's right? Oh, I saw on someone's fb status that an organization had a "naughty" list of stores that said "happy holidays" instead of "merry Christmas." That same organization used buses that had "happy holidays" printed on their sides. Not to sound disrespectful/mean/bitchy or anything but aren't there bigger problems that all these resources could be used on?

Rosi Golan - Been A Long Day (w/ lyrics)

16 Tons and What Do You Get?

Yeah so this is more of a whining / venting a bit.

Someone I know was accused of something they didn't do. Being accused of something really sucks. You're investigated. You're emotionally and sometimes financially harmed. People close to you are hurt too. I've always had a bit of a hard spot for people who make false accusations. They take resources from people who really do need help and harm innocent people.

Job hunting sucks. I remember that hunting for a summer job sucked and was downright depressing. To be qualified you must have experience. Well where the hell is that experience going to come from if no one breaks down and let's someone start somewhere? Ever think that no experience may mean you don't have to break the person of bad habits, not have to always hear that this was the way things were done at my last job, and maybe encourage a little loyalty?

I know it's how the world works but this "connections" thing annoys me. I'm the same person I was five minutes ago before you knew that I knew that person. Frustrating.

I think that before any school lets someone graduate, they should be required to take a course in how to get a job. Sure some school's career centers are great. Some aren't. Then some students are too focused on graduating that they don't have the time to attend all the little lectures sometimes given (usually late at night or oh yeah, during one of my classes). If it's required, BAM! It's scheduled in and is made to work. Where do you look for a job? Have any of the people who lecture actually called a "local professional in you field" to ask for a meeting without having the weight of the school/ company/ whatever behind them? I mean really.

Oh and is it SO terribly and horribly bad that I don't want to take a job that will actually COST me money? I don't care if others have started their own businesses or are working for nothing their first year or so. I'm not proud, I'll admit that I can not afford that.(If I could, I would probably try some wise investment so I'd never have to work again or maybe just blow in all on a beach house in Maui.) Call me old fashioned but my goals are to try to keep debt minimal and pay them off ASAP.