I've just been sitting here, listening to my iPod (I'm trying to listen to all 966 songs via shuffle before it runs out of battery, current song playing: "Losing Touch" by The Killers, song #71), and flipping through a phone book while I wait for someone to call me back. I noticed that, sprinkled throughout the yellow pages, are a bunch of random inspirational-type quotes. Like a Danish proverb that says "The road to a friend's house is never long," which made my brain go, well that's stupid, I have a good many friends who live miles and miles and miles away. Yeah, yeah, I get that it's a "proverb" and it is "metaphorical." Whatever.
(Another Killers song came on. What is up with this, shuffle?
"Took to the spotlight like a diamond ring....")
This quote was one of my favorites:
"Some things have to be believed to be seen." —Ralph Hodgson (any relation to the author of
The Secret Garden, I wonder?)
"If you want to test your memory, try to remember what you were worrying about one year ago today." —E. Joseph Cossman
The sad thing is, I
can remember.
This made me smirk-slash-laugh:
"If only God would give me a clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a swiss bank." —Woody Allen (Which reminds me that I still haven't gotten around to renting
Annie Hall, even though I keep meaning to.)
I smirked again—
"Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other." —Lawrence J. Peter
Every now and then quotes would repeat, which is pretty lame, I mean, think of all the great quotes in this world, and they had to double them up? This one tripled, which I figure means something important:
"Two important things
are to have a genuine interest in people
and to be kind to them.
Kindness, I've discovered, is everything."
—Isaac Bashevis Singer
And lastly,
"A man's greatest strength develops at the point where he overcomes his greatest weakness." —Elmer G. Letterman
And now that I have filled you with your wisdom, smirking, and randomness quota of the day, I will go back to waiting for that phone call. (Song #76: "No Good" by Kate Voegele)
He makes me laugh and shows me cool music and likes to be creative and we laugh at stupid movies or else freak out during intense ones together. Oh and we're both basically freaks at least once a day, usually more. Think of the weirdest thing and then multiply it times a hundred, that's us. No, really.
I love him bunches. I also torture him a lot, because that's part of the job description (see: page 4, section C, "Sister Manual").
He makes me very proud.
