life...a muffin basket full of rainbow kisses

so, i regularly interact with this dude at work that signs off on his email and voicemail with “make it a great day! it’s your choice.” hmm…ok. gotta be honest here, i’m not a fan. don’t get me wrong, i’m all for generally having a positive attitude (thumbs up), but feel this level of perkiness runs the risk of hoisting the red flag that reads ‘hey, I don’t quite have it all together and need this life mantra to keep me from going to the ‘bad place’.

talk to me, people. interested in your thoughts on such nonsense. hope you’re making it such a freaking great day!


p.s. – i just changed my email signature at work to “are you ticklish?”

thumbs up, america.

i feel compelled to tell you all about a revolution that's going on...a "thumbs up" revolution. i can't explain where this popular gesture has gone in my life and the life of my friends over the last 20 years, but it's back ...and damn it feels good. welcome back, thumbs up.

for my money, nothing says "hey, it's all good" like a big ol' thumbs up. having a crap day? hey, thumbs up! gas prices got you down? cheer up, lil' bud...thumbs up! some a-hole just cut you off? how about giving that guy a thumbs up!

when i'm having a rough go at work, i like to pull myself aside and give myself a personal thumbs up. feeling better already!

this past weekend, some dudes went to the chiefs game. most fans cheered and did the tomahawk chop in their KC red and yellow...but not us. we just gave them the thumbs up. looking gooood, chiefs. (goulet.)

just tonight I received an email from my boy, clark, who recently moved away. did it have words? no. did it need to? no. just a picture of him giving me a big ol' thumbs up was enough to say "hey jeffer, it's aaaalll good." (pictured above)

check out who else is catching on to the "thumbs up" revolution...











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lardawg's quirks*

brace yourself.

1) I stockpile my favorite hair care product (Salon Selectives "Molding Putty") and live in fear that it may be discontinued or something. Just this morning, I cracked open a new package and noticed there was only one left in the closet. Was late for work because I drove straight to Price Chopper and bought three more.

2) When a hair dryer is available (mostly in hotels), I enjoy drying…well… "down there". Man, it feels great. Don’t knock it unless you've tried.

3) I am addicted to the MTV show for 14-18 year olds called "Laguna Beach:The Real Orange County". It's so real. I could literally watch it for hours. I'm in love w/ Kristen, the "party girl". Nevermind that she's 17, she's, like, such a little hottie. My friend Kelly finds this repulsive. Maybe so, but if our love is wrong, I don't want to be right. Perhaps it feeds on my old high school marching band days where I always dreamed of the "popular girl". Times have changed, baby…

4) I eat out every meal.

5) I wipe standing up.

6) Every night in bed, I read, think, pray…and pick my toenails and throw them behind my bed. Sick, I know…but you're not the one that has to clean it up every six months. Hey, these are the A-B-C's of me, baby.

7) From what I hear, my shower/personal hygiene regiment is like no other. For Sarah's sake, I'll spare you the details, but I like to be clean. Reeeal clean.

8) I talk on the phone while in the restroom. I see it as an extremely efficient use of time and a great place to catch up w/ friends when you’re living a busy swinger’s lifestyle like mine.

9) When I get out of the car for the last time at night, I take a minute to set the CD player to my favorite song. That way, I can start the next morning off right! Bet you wish you’d thought of that.

I seem pretty normal to me.


(*edited)

sarah's quirks

I am really getting into this blog thing way more than I thought I would. Kristen has "tagged" me for quirks and as thinking about it I realized I needed to do categories. I have a lot of OCD disorder things that are "normal" for me. I am going to write the ones that seem particularly peculiar. I am excited to see Jeff's idiosyncrasies, and request that he posts an edited version. Thank you Jeff. :)

#1 When I see small children brush their teeth I always have a gag reflex and feel like I am going to throw up.

#2 Already posted this on John's blog...I slow down when I see a policeman...when I am walking.

#3 Occasionally I find myself clacking my teeth to the clock or song rhythyms. Does anyone else do that?

#4 Since I was a child I do what my mother refers to as "working myself into a frenzy" before I go to sleep. Whenever I have to get up for something especially I lay there and count down the math and get very frenzied because I am trying too hard to fall asleep...example..."now it is midnight, I have to get up in six hours...if I fall asleep in thirty minutes I will only get 5.5 hours of sleep...oh my gosh, now it is 1:30...I have to get up in 4.5 hours I have got to go to sleep. Sometimes this can last for several hours. A few times all night.

#5 When I purchase clothing I figure out the math on the "price per wear". I will wear this at least once a week for the next year and it costs forty dollars...that will be about a dollar a week. I will wear this twice in the next year and it costs forty dollars...at twenty dollars per wear is it really worth it?

#6 I am a heavy walker and a heavy sitter. I throw all of my weight into both so it would sound like I weigh aproximately three hundred pounds. Ask my roommate.

#7 I could devote at least ten of these to things have to do with hair. Disgusting. Do not get me started.

#8 I eat grapes a certain way...I put them one by one into my mouth and once several are in there I chew them up.

Oh my gosh...I think I need counseling. I am way over the allowable limit for quirks. :)

the boss.

hello people. i’m making a post. here’s why…

----Original Message----
From: Jeff
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2:45 PM
To: Sarah
Subject:

I'm having fun watching our blog. Thanks for setting it up.

-----Original Message-----
From: Sarah
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 3:00 PM
To: Jeff T (Jeff)
Subject: Re:

are you going to go in and put in an actual post? this is for both of us not just for you to comment on.


i'm not sure how much of this i can take...

So here it is. My first blog entry. Jeff and I have spent a long time praying about it and we feel like we are being called to start a blog together. Jeff liked the word drivel so that is why you will find it in the title of the blog. The name of his grandma's dog is "lil' bit"...it just had to be in the title as well. You can expect to find all our meaningless musings at this site. I also have some really great stories about Jeff that I will post from time to time. Today at lunch he really comforted me as I shared about many of my best friends moving away. "Thank God we have modern communication...everyone has a blog Sarah. It really isn't going to be that different." He always knows the right words to say. I love that. To Jeff's credit he is one of the most encouraging people of my summer. So I can't gripe about him too much. Okay. Now I just wait the rebuttals of anyone that would actually read this. I am kind of shy so I don't know how much I'll write. No longer am I a lurker. :)