A Sigh and a Hug... (Here We Go Again)

"Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos." --Charles M. Schulz

When Will It All End?

Every four years, a little thing called the Olympics happen. Right before it all begins, I couldn't even care less about it. Then, slowly, I get sucked into the excitement and spend the next 16 days glued to my TV watching sports and trying to find out the results before it's shown "live".

So, yes, I did cheer for Michael Phelps with thoughts about my abandoned swimming career and what could have been. I tried to guess the ages of the gymnasts as they fling, contort, and flip their bodies in the air. I sympathized with Yao Ming and his little minions when they were annihilated by the Americans. And, yes, I even took in a game of the ever-exciting sport of handball.

13 days down. 3 more to go. Then, I can sleep again. I can't wait.

Hmmm...

"Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood." --Henry Miller, an American author and writer

My New Home = My Car

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." --Ellen Goodman, an American journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist

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...)