People dissection

"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Here are excerpts from the latter part of the above quoted:


5Ws: Kate (pictured) and me, dinner, last Friday night, at MAZZA 9th and 9th Sugarhood... because we needed to get out of the bubble.

(Nerd by day. People watcher by night. Don't let the glasses fool you...)

The quirky mix included:
a) wonder bread white family that looked totally out of place but their assured expressions said otherwise.

b) the innocent U-but-may-as-well-been-from-BYU couple with the 'rescuer' male and 'i'll gracefully giggle at your lame jokes for the rest of eternity if you save me from single-dom' blonde female counterpart.

c) the persian group going to town family-style.

d) the 4-top of quirky hipster denizens who were fabulously nonconformist but could have used 5 more minutes in the shower.

e) an attractive man species with a gal who, if we had looked at him for 2 seconds longer, would have straight up murdered us with her A-pocket Sevens.

ALSO
as we checked out the lesbian couples (all 2 of them) and wondered for the 2498435 time aloud how gay we ourselves looked (2 parts concerned, 7 parts comically) ... is when I grab Kate's knee (to properly tell a story) and the waitress walks by.

EXCELLENT.


And let's not forget 'lumber jack' waiter who we both made eye contact with for a good 4 seconds, then giggled, then looked up again only to realize he had turned around to look at us again.
Hysterical.

'Lumber Jack' was a dark scruffy pirate type ... think Josh Kelley meets Johnny Depp.


After some other Sugarhood shenanigans, we drove home and my jaw hurt from laughing so hard.


I need to get out more often.
xo

SoCal in a nutshell?

Saw this on dear cousin Marian's blog....




Hahaha...must be from Orange County...;)

Also, should I be proud or ashamed that I understand all the lingo he verbalizes? Thoughts? :)

Couples around the world

Inspired by Amy's post...

Snapped this gem in Espana....this couple was not holding hands, but they had the same crook in their backs which made them lean the same way....

just taking a little stroll at mediodia during siesta...cute, huh?

Sociopathic wonderment

I am intrigued by the unstable...namely criminal minds, or sociopaths...

but I got not-so-hot grades in the two psychology classes I've taken at BYU, so needless to say I haven't explored a degree there.

That doesn't mean you won't find me in a master's program or classes somewhere down the road exploring the subject matter.

But i thought of this man/boy and how disillusioned by him i was, and how now the signs are all crystal clear: he's a SOCIOPATH.

(He fits EVERY description within that link).

From my bipolar 'friend' in high school to this crazy fool, I really know how to pick 'em.
Why me? What is it about me that attracts such unstable people?!

I know I'm unstable at times and I have to closely monitor it through healthy things like exercise and channeling my energies into my passions, but why why why do I find myself dealing with these kinds of people?

Although, I have learned a lot about myself, and even though high school was hell with said friend and a couple weeks ago with said man/boy, I wouldn't trade the experiences for anything.
Because to have two markedly abusive experiences under my belt at such a young age, and to have come out of it stronger and wiser instead of eternally scarred: I think that's a victory. It's almost as if I've been vaccinated with antibodies of abuse!

It reminds me of this very odd Book of Mormon teacher I had freshman year who didn't think there was anything weird with writing "Israel" on his garden rake to remind his kids while they did yard work that raking leaves was like "gathering Israel"...yeahhhh.
I had a discussion with one of my floormates who took the class with me, and we came to the conclusion that he's the sort of person who enjoys trials. Enjoys the process of feeling the adversity and the strong feeling of the Lord's hand in his life while he (and his family) recovers from it.

(And speaking of unstable people, I think there is something a tad odd with most of the BYU Religion Department, except for this sweet grandpa-figure teacher I had once for a "International LDS Church" class - take Prof. Don Cannon, he's a doll. Oh, and Prof. Richard Walsh, he just loves everyone, and the feeling is not only palpable, but mutual).

Well I apologize to whom this following statement may be offensive, but I think trials are hell as you go through them.
The doubt, the uncertainty, the hopelessness, the feeling that you've been forgotten by God. And of course, there's comfort to be drawn in scriptural passages and friends (if they aren't the source of your adversity), and church, but seriously, the silver lining is always the brightest part. Even if that silver lining means you only came out of the adversity stronger.

But oh, the hell it puts you through...such a manic existence I lead sometimes...