Beg Your Pardon

Fairytales

2007-10-24T13:46:00.000-05:00

Just for the record: That whole love at first sight thing?
Yeah, that actually exists in real life.

Boy, Oh Boy

2007-10-01T13:23:00.000-05:00

I like a boy. A boy named Robert. I'm not going to say much more for fear of ruining it! But he's cute, and completely adorable. And suddenly I have a beatles' song in my head. Actually it's really just the line "I wanna hold your hand". Strange... I don't usually sing anything by the beatles... ever.

My best friend Meagon got married this past weekend. I was granted the honor of being a bridesmaid (y...a...y) (Although i can't complain much or else i would have never met Robert).
I dreaded being in the wedding for three reasons:
1) You wear clothes that someone else picks out. This could be a good thing or a bad thing all depending on taste. Luckily mine was good.
2) I wore heels. Now let it be known that I am a huge fan of the ballet flat, kitten heels, tenns, and flip-flops. I haven't worn a pair of heels in roughly 7 years so it would be apparent that they are not my particular favorite. Meagon (the dear) picks out a pair with a 4" heel (actually it was between 3 and 4. Generally, if i just look straight at my brother i see his chin, in those shoes, i was eye level. EYE level.) Luckily for me I didn't fall.
3) I was the only single bridesmaid. THAT's not awkward at all. Secondly, ALL my friends are either engaged or married so needless to say, I didn't feel too special about it. Just a little.

I just remebered, Robert caught the garter. I wonder if that whole superstition is true. Give me a few months and I'll get back to you on that one.

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2007-06-12T20:19:00.001-05:00

My step sister decided to brave the nonexsitent traffic for this. She's off a bit. Did i mention she eats white bread so her butt will get bigger?

December 21, 2012

2007-06-11T20:03:00.001-05:00

The mayan's have a prophecy that the world will end in 2012. Specifically on December 21. Sorry, it was just slightly intriguing.

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2007-05-03T10:53:00.001-05:00

Seriously today is just not my day. First of all, let me just say that all I really do at work is paperwork. My boss had scheduled just me and her to work this morning and of course today happens to be the day that we get our freight truck in. So i spend my morning unloading the truck, and at one point a box falls off a pallet and hits my head. I now have a giant headache.

The icing on the cake

2007-05-01T12:29:00.001-05:00

The freaking ATM just ate my debit card.

A Tried And Tested Method - The Longcut

2007-04-17T14:00:00.001-05:00

Saw this on Veer's Skinny. Awesome song and video.

2007-04-17T13:44:00.001-05:00

"With a prompter in every cellar window whispering comebacks, shy people would have the last laugh."
-Amelie

An Unexpected Role Model

2007-04-17T11:21:00.000-05:00

For some time I have had this little idea for a story in my head. I've taken a few notes about it but haven't really done much else with it. The other night, in my Design 1 class, I was talking with the girl sitting next to me about writing in general (just some background history or what not for you: she is 16 or 17 years old. She is homeschooled, a junior in high school, and taking concurrent college classes). I said something about the writing class we had there after she mentioned wanting to take classes on screenwriting and such. Further in the discussion she mentioned having written a few books already.

Yeah, that's right. Read it again. She said books. Plural, not singular.

After I asked her what they were about she gave me a rundown on all seven.

Four of them were already complete, Three of those are part of a trilogy. The Fourth is part of a two book series. She is currently working on the second book and a stand alone. Her first book she started when she was thirteen and it took her three years to write it (all of them are roughly around two hundred pages long. Her first was about 262.). She hasn't had any of them published yet but is currently working on finding a literary agent.

I was totally amazed after she told me all this. The word astounded, doesn't even do it justice. Then I suddenly felt very, very, tiny.
I felt slightly insignificant in comparision. What had i done all my life? What had I accomplished? I have one crappy short story to my name (which i'm not even sure would count seeing as it was done for class), and one idea for a possibly good one. I can use a computer well, and have few paintings that I am even remotely proud of. I'm good at my job, I read a lot and have a nice collection of books that is getting way too large for my current bookcase. I graduated high school and am currently going to college.
But is that really all? Isn't there something with....
with... I don't know, just a little more permenance than that?

I have the urge to sudenly go do something. Last night, before class, she came in and was complaining that she was all sweaty from having just finished helping put up the frame on a house in one of the new Habitat for Humanity housing divisions.
Good God, how does she have time for all of this? Don't get me wrong though. I have a huge amount of respect for her because it takes a lot of drive and an intense amount of focus to have completed what she has at her age. After having talked to her I have decided to start putting more of my ideas down on paper and write my short story. Who knows, I might even turn it into a novel. I don't know if I would actually have time to go join the Habitat and help build a house, but maybe I could help someone or somebody out in a different way? But how?

...Does anyone know a good literary agent?

Eerie beauty

2007-04-16T10:25:00.001-05:00

A shot I took with my cellphone early wednesday morning on my way home from work. The sky was absolutely beautiful in an eerie sort of way.

Taken

2007-04-16T09:40:00.000-05:00

I wanted to use begyourpardon instead of begpardon as the address for my blog but it was already taken. So I went to begyourpardon to see what it looked like.

Now i'm a little annoyed.

For one the blog hasn't been updated since 2003. Two, they can't punctuate. It took me a few moments to really comprehend what they were saying in the first post. I counted 4 commas and 1 period (which technically shouldn't count because it's in an email address, but at least they put one there - right?).

Would it be rude to email and ask them to delete it so i could use their address? But then again, I just set this one up. That would be slightly inconvenient.

Oy vey...

In the beginning...

2007-04-15T11:14:00.000-05:00

I do not have a myspace, a facebook, or im.
So why in the world am I setting up a blog? God only knows. Seriously. Because I really don't.