Purge post

I keep feeling like I have things I want to talk about. And yet I can't quite put a post together. And yet, especially tonight, I feel like I need to talk about some things/get some things out. So instead of insightful, themed posts, I think I need to resort to point form.

Thoughts from the last couple days...

* I cannot, CANNOT, believe I forgot to make my World Cup pool picks on Saturday, causing my score to plummet (when I would've picked correctly - and thought I had). It's just a meaningless game, but ARG!

* Woke up on Saturday to realize, in exactly one week, my oldest friend in the world is getting married... to a man I've met about 5 times and don't know at all.

* Can't wait for Saturday. Especially for the cake. May even have the soccer games under control, what with the ceremony fitting nicely between the two matches (and pictures at the bride's parents' house). Well planned day. Well planned.

* If a white swan with a black beak and a black swan with a red beak cross-breed, what colour is the swan?

* How did I get so busy the last couple weeks that I completely forgot to go look at the cygnets when they hatched?

* Italy is driving me crazy in the World Cup. They play in such a defensive way that as soon as they score, they become turtles and climb back into their shell. And today's game! They can't win a world cup on a last minute penalty shot! Why can they never just go out and win? Why must it always be a drama?!

* Francesco Totti is, quite possibly, the most beautiful man on the planet.

* Ditto England. It's like they keep accidently making it to the next round. WTF?!

* Would love to see Ghana kick Brazil's ass. Go Ghana!

* Feeling uneasy about work this week - and I have no clue why.

* Saw a play yesterday. Well acted but, somehow, I kept completely missing the change in the characters' motivations so I could never figure out why they were doing 180s and totally changing their paths. Very odd.

* The two ladies next to me read the interpretation of the plot in the program and then proceeded to discuss it. Presenting the comments and thoughts of the ideas as their own. So that they were essentially making the points that they had both just read. Overhearing pseudo-intellectual conversations always cracks me up. Pseudo-intellectual conversations that don't actually contain original thought but simply regurgitate information just presented to you are unbearable. I wonder how they decided who should claim each paragraph as their own thought.

* I'm having MAJOR deja vue after that last point.

* Read a line in the book I'm currently reading where the two characters get a little pseudo-intellectual and overly analytical themselves. One then laughs out loud at how pretentious they're being. Brings to mind how I get torn about sounding too pretentious and overly analytical (and so, self-absorbed) and yet love to philosophize and seek the depth in the world - the only way to appreciate it fully. Hard to balance not sweating the small stuff and sucking the life and joy out of every minute, sight, smell and taste. It may be an intense, exhausting way to live, but is oh so much better than being numb to the world.

* I have decided there is no meaning to life. That we must simply enjoy it. So, if we are doing our best to maximize the joy in every minute, we are fulfilling our purpose.

* I don't know how much longer I can stand watch Canada's Next Top Model. Whereas America's Next Top Model humiliates the candidates for sport, CNTM is actually just mean. Becoming unpleasant to watch.

* Watched the premiere of Whistler last night. Newspapers called it the O.C. of B.C. Bothers and saddens me that the comparison for trashy teen soaps is the O.C. and not the original, and best, 90210. Sorta like when Elmo put out a sequel to "Monster at the End of this Book". It's awful when the cheap knockoffs become the standards. Sad day. Like the show though.

* Bought an outfit to go with the new striped shoes I've talked about here. Finally the whole package comes together.

* At some point I REALLY need to get my diet and exercise program on track. And it needs to stop being "tomorrow".

* Watched The Cabin Movie - a film fest flick. Reminded me that "independent" doesn't necessarily mean good and that, maybe the reason the film wasn't picked up by a studio was because it just actually sucked.

* Took this coming Friday off so I could get into town for the wedding without rushing. At one point, long ago, didn't know if we might need it for pre-wedding manicures and pedicures. Will now be spent watching two very important soccer games and having a nice lunch with my dad. May still paint my nails during the games (if I don't get them done beforehand). From pedicures to soccer - I love being a girl.

* So. looking. forward. to. this. extra. long. weekend.