Life Is Like an Onion...

...You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.

I definitely feel what Carl Sandburg was feeling when he wrote those wise words. I spent most of the day moping around after saying goodbye yet again. The count is now up to 4 this year alone with more on the way. It's a vicious, vicious cycle I'm stuck in. Why can't teleporting machines really exist?!?!

(Farewell Mickey Mouse and Optimus Prime. It's been swell...)

Lemons for Sale

When life gives you lemons, you're suppose to make lemonade, right? So what should you do if the heavens open up and drops an entire lemon orchard right on top of your head?

I'm trying hard not to dwell on my problems and think of the positive. Things happen for a reason, right? I just want to know when the insanity is all going to end!!!

I guess I should just take my lemons and be grateful they aren't watermelons or durians (poop fruit). I'll make a pie with my lemons. I like pie. I also like lemon slushies.

In a World of Frustration

Now, I completely understand why the Brits head out to the pub after work every night. Working sucks! (Well, in my case, management sucks! I'll leave it at that.)

How the Hell Did It Already Become 2008?!

Another year, another set of resolutions. Here goes mine for the year:
1. Get me one of those things called a job (well... a real one... although, 3 years of slacking off has been fun)
2. Actually attend one wedding that I've been invited to
3. Do the mud run again (and do it under 1:45)
4. Occupy another country
5. Start writing again and accept the fact that there will be rejections attached
6. Reconnect with long lost members of the 張 clan
7. Apply for the Amazing Race (haha... I made a funny)
8. Stop looking like a college student
9. Think first, act second
10. Floss more

Appreciating the Little Things in Life

Just returned from: Nairobi, Kenya
This I will no longer take for granted:
-Paved roads
-Flushable toilets
-Warm showers
-Electricity
-Getting my own seat in the bus/train/subway
-A government that isn't corrupt (oh wait... I don't think that really exists in real life)

Things I wouldn't mind going back to Kenya for:
-Ugali (yummy... cornmeal mush)
-Nakumatt (Kenya's version of Target/Wal-mart)
-Night skies filled with shooting stars and constellations
-Sandpaper leaves and exploding apples
-Giraffes (they're cute but they couldn't fit in my backpack... not even the baby ones)