my week in quotes & pictures

Sunday

"After a certain age, there's no one left to turn to.
you've got
To find the small crack
between here and everywhere else all by yourself.

How could it be otherwise?
Everyone's gone away, the houses are all empty,
And overcast starts to fill the sky like soiled insulation."

-Charles Wright

Monday

"You're a miracle, Ronnie. We're all miracles. Know why? Because as humans, every day we go about our business, and all that time we know... we all know... that the things we love... the people we love, at any time now can all be taken away. We live knowing that and we keep going anyway."

-May McGorvey to Ronald James McGorvey in Little Children

Tuesday

"Far away far away, I want to go far away
To a new life on a new shore line
Where the water is blue and the people are new
To another island, in another life."

-Ingrid Michaelson, "Far Away"

Wednesday

"I want my will, and I want to be with my will
as it moves towards deed;
and in those quiet, somehow hesitating times,
when something is approaching,
I want to be with those who are wise
or else alone."

-Rainier Maria Wilke

Thursday

"Don't you know that when you sleep with someone, your body makes a promise whether you do or not?"

-Julie, played by Cameron Diaz, in Vanilla Sky

Friday

"When something bad happens
we play it back in our minds,
looking for a place to step in
and change things...But even the hero
who stands up to chance has to feel
how far the world will bend
until it breaks him."

-Lawrence Raab

Saturday

"I'm a diva, you best believe her, you see her, she getting paid. She ain't callin' him to greet her, don't need him, her bed's made."

-Beyonce, "Diva"

I'm sitting here trying to watch this recorded game..

(game 1 of Pacers) and it's a real challenge. I can barely keep my eyes on the screen. Funny, considering basketball was, at one time, my only love.


Where did the love go?




On a better, and more exciting note, Carley & I are heading to Indy tonight to shop for our Halloween costumes, which will (hopefully) be this:
(post left unfinished for the weekend..and then returned to on Monday:)

Oh wait..we were that. Except that no one really knew who we were. Well okay to give us more credit approx 2 people guessed correctly right away. But it doesn't matter cuz we looked seriously legit!! It was sweet. We even scared the scarers at the Fright House..they were like "wait is there a person? I think there's a person coming buuut..." haha..awesome. And the owner people (Mr. Tim Couch..he's cool) took tons of pics of us and loved it.






Speaking of Mr. Couch, I saw him come into the ksac when I was working today and he acted weird and I just now realized that it's probably because he didn't recognize me without all the black paint..hahaha..oops.

(See....wasn't that a lot more interesting than some big boys running around jumping and throwing a ball and wearing ugly colors?? I'm sensing an epic fail on this first challenge..encouragements appreciated..)

The Beginning of a New Carrie

I want to be a lot of things.. every time I see someone being something I'm not, I get really pissed.

...a dancer..a politician..a mountain biker...

The jealousy has gotten to be a little unbearable.. so I figured.. why not just be those things you want to be??

So, I'm gonna. Starting now.

But I can't do it all at once, so I'll start small (only not so small at all, because the firsts will be a challenge..you'll see why..).

I'm going to make myself into an NBA fan. Yup. This is a big deal, if you know me at all, because I tend to hate overpaid, arrogant assholes.......... which seems to define many of those involved in the NBA, at least through my lens. But I have this husband who loves this sport (and too many others..) and he's sorta pursuing this whole b-ball coaching thing, so I figured it's join or die. And now's the time.

So...who is it going to be?? Which team?? I asked the Hubs & he denied me of Bron-Bron, suggesting I be a home team follower--The Pacers. My reply was that I've always hated their colors...but alright...I'll do it.

Their first game being tonight at 7, I suppose I'm going to start out as a pretty crappy fan, as I won't be watching it due to class (that's a reasonable excuse, though, no?). Unfortunately, Hubs just suggested he record the stupid game on our stupid DVR (hate that thing sometimes..) so now I have to actually do this thing.

This is the beginning of a new Carrie.

(more on this later..)