Perceptions

If your looking for stories of the monster and vi...this blog won't give them to you.  Its been the same with them lately.  Dumb ass questions, actions, but both have been in pretty good moods.  I won't say that my level of aggravation and annoyance has gone down.  It hasn't by any means, but it's tolerable at the moment.
I feel the need to just write...
Notate my favorite quotes, perceptions on life and situations, etc.  
You may see this as boring, but tough, my blog my choice...*add raspberry noise here*


Family
The quote "the grass is always greener on the other side" is such a true statement.  
I remember growing up and wishing that I had parents like my friends.  Always fun, relaxed, had parties, went cool places, etc.  Of course I grew out of that and learned of the hardships each of my parents had gone through.  I appreciate them for who they are and what they've taught me.  
Now I just wish they'd have a drink or at least smoke some pot to friggen relax and enjoy life instead of always fearing it.
There have been a few deliveries to the cave in the last few weeks such as a new couch and new frig...both times monster thought the deliver guys were casing the house.  Way to be paranoid.


Favorite family quotes:
~Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. ---- George Burns
~If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. ----George Bernard Shaw
~Family is a mixed blessing. You’re glad to have one, but it’s also like receiving a life sentence for a crime you didn’t commit. ~Richard Pryor


Friendship
This to me is linked with family, but it means more since I don't really know most of my family.  I know I have more family members out there somewhere, but damned if I know them. 
Friends mean the world to me.  Loyalty, no judgement, understanding, laughing, crying, everything a person needs to get through any situation.
I wouldn't be where I am right now if it wasn't for my friends, especially my bestie.  She has pulled me through more than I could ever write about.  She's been there through it all.  And I mean all of it and there's much more to come for both of us.  
I try to be the best friend I can be to all my friends.  Sometimes it's tough depending on life and drama, but I do the best I can.  I cherish the ones that stick by me and will always view them as family.  They've earned the title.


Favorite friendship quotes:
~“Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
~"A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are."
~"Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families."
~“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.” 


Love
Love is a funny thing.
One minute your floating and everything is right with the world.  Then next moment your world is collapsing for something that could be so small to anyone else.
I've learned you have to find faith in love.  You have to believe that no matter what it will find a way.
I have been hurt by this emotion many times, but I'm trying to learn to trust in it.  I have found how strong love can be and how devastating.  
I'm smack in the middle of it now...stronger than any other love I've felt in my life.  It's hard, but to me it's worth it.  I am a hopeless romantic and I wear my heart on my sleeve.  


Favorite love quotes (there's quite a few of these)
~" I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you."
~" In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged."
~" If I know what love is, it is because of you."
~" If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand."
~"I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun-warmed, flower-bordered path."
~"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
~"Love is friendship set on fire."
~Amor vincit omnia




OK so that's enough of my random thoughts.  It's 2:30am and I'm sleepy.  Just to put it out there, I'm headed to Cancun on October 21 and plan to write a blog every single night I'm there.  5 days away from the cave deserves to be celebrated even in writing.  Sober or drunk...there will be blogs!