H - Eat your Oatmeal cookie

[Stigmata]

...so I just looked over and gave him a little smile with raised eyebrows - like, "Hey, give a try whenever you want."

- I had a feeling this may have been the case, K. Have full confidence in your abilities not to let that pass unnoticed. Last thing you need to hear is an collective "Ewwwww!" from teens not wishing to hear about their "Rents'" SL.
Good on the "look."


I was at a wedding on the property of this gorgeous non-profit I recently applied to. The non-profit is environmental in nature and has this incredible "green" building on the Chesapeake Bay. Anyway, I was actually "crashing" the wedding (we are going to a wedding this weekend where I don't really know the people, old friends of H). It was a very elegant, high profile kind of wedding and there were two helicopters flying around to maintain the "privacy" of the wedding - like with celebrity weddings. Anyway, as I'm sitting there I am thinking how cool it would be to fly in a helicopter and then I am actually sitting in one of them but still also sitting at the wedding. Flying around looking at the wedding from above, the water etc... - amazing. Then I realize that I cannot be in two places at once and the helicopter evaporates from around me, I fall into the water and get out laughing, amazed, exhilarated.... The dream ends.

Any armchair Freds or Jungs out there?

- LOL K. "Fred" typo. Now picturing an passed out fat dude named "Fred" groggily stirring in his armchair holding laptop while logged in to SSM MB.

What? No takers? Sigh.

I love these IRL. Esp. when Fs tell them to me. I go all Freudian on their a$$es.
[Disclaimer: Karen, this is for your entertainment purposes only. I will not be held liable for blah blah blah legalese blah blah blah...]

Ready?
[steepling hands, raising eyebrow Freudingly]

Of course, the wedding symbolizes your M. And that it is upper crust/high end it represents what you want your M to be--the high ideal.

When you see the choppers you think to self, "hmmm, how can I make my M this way? Perhaps a better/different perspective?"

Whoosh. You're up in the chopper. God's Eye view. Seeing your M in its entirety. Wow, different perspecdtive. "I can see things from up here I couldn't see from the ground."

...Including some of the missing parts, like, say, the catering truck way off in the distance held up in traffic.

You start to dwell on the missing pieces, finding it hard not to look past them. You feel yourself starting to overanalyze when you remind yourself,

"Hey, I can't view/analyze my M from above and participate simultaneously as part of it on the ground without sacrificing something. Gotta just live in it for the moment and see where it takes us."

Chopper dissolves. Karen falls into the water without going <splat> on the ground. Whew! She laughs. Ah, yes, and being Stigmata, you just know where I am going next...

The water is an cleansing, a washing away of dread and M doubts, yes...a baptism of sorts. You feel exhilirated as you emerge.

"Wow. Everything is going to be okay after all."



-Stigmata-