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		<title>About Once Every Six Months, I Feel I&#8217;m Entitled To A Sappy, Serious Post: What I Want Out Of 28.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I approached my 28th Birthday, there were several times when I caught myself thinking of all the things I have yet to accomplish. In fact, I spent the last few weeks laying in bed at night freaking out because I&#8217;m STILL not where I thought I would be in my life. I don&#8217;t have [...]]]></description>
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<p>As I approached my 28th Birthday, there were several times when I caught myself thinking of all the things I have yet to accomplish. In fact, I spent the last few weeks laying in bed at night freaking out because I&#8217;m <strong><span style="color: #ff00ff;">STILL</span></strong> <span style="color: #ff00ff;"><strong>not where I thought I would be in my life</strong></span>. I don&#8217;t have the ideal income, I&#8217;m not completely self reliant, I drink entirely too much, I still have a bit of an inferiority complex, I&#8217;ve quit going to the gym daily, and I&#8217;ve found that I occasionally still slip back into old bad habits.</p>
<p>Today, though, I made a decision. I&#8217;m not sure whether or not it&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve been clear headed and sober for 48 hours, but while I was on the treadmill today, thoughts began pouring out of my brain before the blaring sound of LCD Soundsystem on my ipod could block them out.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m ready to quit focusing on all that I haven&#8217;t achieved. I&#8217;m ready quit putting myself down for lapses in judgment that I&#8217;ve made in the past. I&#8217;m ready to stop dwelling on all of my forgotten goals, and I&#8217;m ready to stop pretending that I can just sit here idle and the world will magically fix my problems.<span style="color: #ff00ff;"><strong>It&#8217;s time to take action.</strong></span></p>
<p>First I want to congratulate myself on what I <strong><span style="color: #ff00ff;"><em>have </em></span></strong><span style="color: #ff00ff;"><strong>achieved</strong></span> in the past year. Twenty-seven may have not been the best year of my life, but I think I&#8217;ve endured a lot of <span style="color: #ff00ff;">changes</span>, some of which have helped me become a stronger person.</p>
<p>During my 27th year I changed jobs. I changed houses, changed cities, and changed roommates. I watched my family fall apart and had to learn to play the role of an adult with my parents. I helped to bring my family back together. I let go of relationships and learned that I deserve respect from others and from myself. I&#8217;ve had arguments with close friends and am learning how to compromise. I became a blogger and realized though at times I may go a little too far, I enjoy putting myself out there and love to write like no one&#8217;s reading. I&#8217;ve made new friends and reconnected with old ones&#8230; and I&#8217;m starting to understand the importance of friendship and communication.</p>
<p>But if 27 was a year of change, I think 28 needs to be the year of growth. I&#8217;ve decided to set some goals for myself, but I&#8217;m also not going to be too hard on myself ifI don&#8217;t meet them all.. because after all, <span style="color: #ff00ff;"><strong>I&#8217;m not perfect.</strong></span></p>
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<h2>I want to be more reliable, and in turn not take people for granted.</h2>
<p>A close friend of mine told me the other day that in just the last two months she has noticed that I am not near as flaky as I used to be. She told me that she had started to hold me more accountable to things that I say I will do&#8230; and while on one hand that scares the bejeezus out of me&#8230; it also made me proud. I used to enjoy being the person that no one could count on. Not because I didn&#8217;t want people to like me, but because I was lazy and wanted to be able to flake out of situations without people being surprised. For a long time I didn&#8217;t mind when people said, &#8220;Oh that&#8217;s just Carissa.. she probably just forgot.&#8221; After years of this behavior I&#8217;m sure that people have just come to assume that I&#8217;ll be the one who forgets to RSVP to weddings. People have come to expect that I&#8217;ll be the one who will arrive 2 hours late to the party, if I even show at all. I don&#8217;t know how I went so long without caring that I was &#8220;that&#8221; girl. I have come to realize lately that I rather enjoy it when people can count on me. It makes people respect me, and want to behave the same way in return. I plan on making 28 the year that people can count on me for a change.</p>
<h2>I want to choose my battles&#8230; but also my apologies.</h2>
<p>I&#8217;m not one to argue much with friends. I don&#8217;t like confrontation, but even more than that- I&#8217;ve always had a difficult time standing up for myself. Over the last few years I feel that I&#8217;ve made some head way in that regard. I&#8217;ve begun to feel passionate about my stance on my ideas and care a little more about sticking up for them, and I believe that this is a positive change. However, I&#8217;ve gotten myself in a few situations where I&#8217;ve gotten involved and I probably shouldn&#8217;t have.. It&#8217;s good to share opinions, but just like momma always said (your mom, not mine) there are times when things are best left unsaid. Sometimes it&#8217;s best to just let things play out and I think it&#8217;s important for me to understand that time is the best cure for some circumstances.</p>
<p>That being said, I still feel that one of my greatest weaknesses is how quickly I am to take the blame&#8230;. to say &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry.&#8221; I&#8217;m not saying that I shouldn&#8217;t apologize when I am at fault, but I should definitely recognize the times when I&#8217;m not. I spend entirely too much time feeling guilty over situations that I have absolutely no control over. I can&#8217;t be there for everyone all the time. It&#8217;s not my fault if my friend&#8217;s argue with each other, or if their relationships don&#8217;t work out. I can&#8217;t feel bad about not being able to be at two places at once. I can sympathize with situations, but I can&#8217;t always do something about them, and I need to learn to be OK with that.</p>
<h2>I want to fill my time with things that make me happy, find new hobbies and get more involved with old ones.</h2>
<p>I have a lot of passion for a lot of different things, but I feel like lately I&#8217;ve let a lot of them fall by the wayside. I want to spend this year getting back involved in the things I love. I want to perform more, and not be afraid to try new things. I want to improve my writing, and do it more often. I want to take advantage of opportunities. I want to embrace my talents and start looking to using them for my future. I want to join my sister on a birding adventure, ride the bike that has been sitting in my garage for 4 months, and start swimming again. I want to take one of the art classes in my neighborhood that I&#8217;ve looked into 5 times but never thought I had the time for. I want to meet some of you people and have some good conversation. I JUST WANT TO DANCE!</p>
<h2>I want to live a healthier lifestyle, both physically and mentally&#8230; have respect for myself and treat my body like the temple that it is. Basically I want to be the best me.</h2>
<p>When people I know see that I&#8217;ve lost over a 100 lbs, a lot of people assume that I am the epitome of good health, that I must have have mastered self control.  This couldn&#8217;t be further from the truth. Sure there are days, even consecutive weeks when I will work out 5 days a week, watch my portions, and count calories. But there are also days where I am so terrified that I will gain weight, that I will consume almost nothing so that I can drink a bottle of wine at night. There are other days where I will completely jump the wagon and not even care that I just ate an entire weeks worth of Chinese food, but will stress about it for days after. I don&#8217;t want to be this person anymore. I know this is something that I&#8217;ll probably always struggle with, but I want to find some consistency. My healthiest months are the ones where I am the most happy, and I want to feel that way all the time. I don&#8217;t want to be the kind of person who is always concerned about my appearance, or that people are going to judge me&#8230;. and for the most part I&#8217;m not. I want to get to the point (and some days I&#8217;m there) where I&#8217;m not concerned if I gain a few lbs, where I know that I will still feel comfortable and confident in my body no matter what size I am.</p>
<p>I want to stop smoking, and I&#8217;m only 2 days in but I think I can do this. I want to cut down on drinking significantly, so that I can remember the good times&#8230; so that I can enjoy the quality of my life. I want to brush my teeth every night and go to sleep early enough so that every once in a while I can get up and enjoy a sunrise walk.</p>
<p>I want to be more confident in myself. Sometimes I think I was more confident when I was bigger, probably because I had to be. I want to be able to walk into a room and KNOW that I&#8217;m fabulous, even if other people may not agree.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t want to be so insecure in my relationships. I want to trust. I want to have more faith in people and human kind as a whole. I want to have the same faith in myself as I think some people have in me.</p>
<p>I want to enjoy everyday of 28, and not get bogged down by the little things. I want to make the most of this wonderful, wonderful life.</p>
<p><em><strong>Thanks for sticking with me through 27, and through this ridiculously sappy post. Even this girl gets sappy every once in a while. I LOVE YOUR FACE!</strong></em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wowsa guys, what a weekend. Here I sit Monday evening at 10:30pm, (sober as a snake) and I can barely keep my eyes open. This rarely happens and I really should be in bed right now watching Chuck, but I couldn&#8217;t resist a quick little bloggy-blog. Because I&#8217;m an unconventional weido- let&#8217;s work our way [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wowsa guys, what a weekend. Here I sit Monday evening at 10:30pm, (sober as a snake) and I can barely keep my eyes open. This rarely happens and I really should be in bed right now watching Chuck, but I couldn&#8217;t resist a quick little bloggy-blog.</p>
<p>Because I&#8217;m an unconventional weido- let&#8217;s work our way backwards through the weekend.</p>
<p>Last night was <a href="http://www.redcarpetcrash.com/">Red Carpet Crash&#8217;s</a> &#8220;<a href="http://www.redcarpetcrash.com/2010/01/26/2010-oscar-party/">Dallas Big Gold Statue Watching Party</a>,&#8221; and it was so good to see some of the local blogger gals there. <a href="http://www.ishineoutloud.com/shine/">Shine</a>, <a href="http://nataliecottrell.blogspot.com/">Natalie</a>, and <a href="http://eveningsketches.blogspot.com/">Sketch</a> all looked absolutely gorgeous in their fancy dresses. I basically wanted to lick all of their faces. I was also so happy that  Moops and Shae-Shae made an appearance. I worked the VIP table most of the night, and besides the fact that I made the mistake of wearing 5 inch heels, I had the time of my life.</p>
<p>I cried about a million times during the show and not because most of my favorites didn&#8217;t win, I think that all the winners were quite deserving. That being said, Jeff Bridges- fuck .yeah. You rock my world, sir. He does. I dunno what exactly it is about him, but he warms my soul.</p>
<p>You will all be quite happy, or if not happy- completely dumbfounded to know that I actually got quite a bit of unpacking done on Friday night. Actually I stayed up until 5am in the morning with the scary ghosts organizing my closet.  Woohoo yay me. I still haven&#8217;t hung up anything on the walls or made any sort of attempt to detangle my jewlery, but I still feel pretty proud of myself.</p>
<p>Friday night I did some karaoke and probably scared a million people away, nuff said&#8230;<br />
And now for a few post-its&#8230; For more amazing post its -check out <a href="http://supahmommy.blogspot.com/">Supah Mommy&#8217;s page!</a>!!</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carissa Jade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The formatting on this is a little off. I don&#8217;t know why, but I can&#8217;t fix it. Lo siento mucho. I&#8217;m a talker. Especially once I get a little booze flowing through my blood. My friend (and soon to be once-again roomie) LA is also a talker. Talker + talker+being really good friends=ridiculous conversations that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>The formatting on this is a little off. I don&#8217;t know why, but I can&#8217;t fix it. Lo siento mucho.</em></p>
<p>I&#8217;m a talker. Especially once I get a little booze flowing through my blood. My friend (and soon to be once-again roomie) LA is also a talker.</p>
<p>Talker + talker+being really good friends=ridiculous conversations that a third party often cannot comprehend.</p>
<p>So the other night I met up with my friends LA and AW, and AW got to witness once again how when we get started talking- hilarious, incomprehensible conversation can ensue.</p>
<p>I guess he was really lost on what we were discussing, but rather than interrupt, he decided to take notes on some of the random quotes and bits of conversation so that he could ask about them later.</p>
<p>Today I received an email with his &#8220;notes,&#8221; on our conversation. I&#8217;m not sure if this will be as amusing to you as it was to me, but I figured I&#8217;d share and try to justify these little notes of his.</p>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em><strong><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% #ffffff;">- She uses big words like&#8230;insatiable.</span></strong></em></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">That&#8217;s all LA. When I&#8217;m drinking, I&#8217;m lucky if I can even say insatiable. I&#8217;m not sure what this word was used to describe. Quite possibly it was my insatiable thirst for wine. Or my insatiable thirst for <a class="zem_slink" title="John Cusack" rel="imdb" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000131/">John Cusack</a>. Or maybe it was LA&#8217;s insatiable thirst for using big words like insatiable. Either way, I&#8217;m curious&#8230; can other words besides &#8220;thirst&#8221; be used after the word insatiable? Because I&#8217;m pretty sure the only word I ever use after insatiable is &#8220;thirst.&#8221;</span></span></span></p>
<h3><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em>- LA and CM talk about a lot of different stuff. </em></span></span></span></h3>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ummmm yes we do&#8230; great observation though&#8230;</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em><strong><br />
- What is a doppelganger? </strong></em></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Somebody obviously hasn&#8217;t spent enough time on Facebook the last couple weeks!! OK, I&#8217;m not too sure either.  Apparently it means an actor/actress that you wish that you looked like. Or that you had a dream about. Or maybe someone that if you were gay, you would totally go for&#8230;. because I saw quite a few really pretty famous people as my friends profile pictures. I was going to put up Frida Kahlo as my doppelganger, because of the mustache and all&#8230;</span></span></span></p>
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<h3><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em>- Who is Nora? </em></span></span></span></h3>
<p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So speaking of &#8220;doppelgangers,&#8221; I know I&#8217;ve  mentioned like 30 times the night LA and I  hung out with <a class="zem_slink" title="Joshua Radin" rel="homepage" href="http://www.joshuaradin.com/">Joshua Radin</a>&#8216;s band and I made out with the drummer&#8230; Well, it turns out they had been on tour with a certain Grammy winner in the past whom they desperately wanted to name drop.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Drummer boy: Oh my gosh.. wow, you look just like my friend Nora.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Me: ummm ok?</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Drummer boy: NO really!!!  Hey “bassist!!” Doesn&#8217;t she look just like Nora.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bassist boy: ummm&#8230; I guess so? A little?</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Drummer boy: Yeah, you smile like her. <em>**nudge nudge</em> You know Nora right? My good friend <a class="zem_slink" title="Norah Jones" rel="homepage" href="http://www.norahjones.com/">Nora Jones</a>??</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Me: ummm right.. (but make out with me lovah boy) </span></span></span></p>
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<h3><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em><strong>- Why wouldn&#8217;t they up-play that shit and get with high up girls instead of downplay that shit and get with us?</strong></em></span></span></span></h3>
<p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I&#8217;m not sure which one of us genius&#8217;s muttered this intelligent comment, but I&#8217;d put a million thousand bucks on the fact that it was me. In fact I distinctly remember repeating it at least  three times so AW could write it down. </span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It&#8217;s simple really, but I&#8217;ll put it into English for you</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #000000;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Why wouldn&#8217;t they use their semi-level of faux-fame to get into nice bars where they could meet girls who would buy their starving artist-asses drinks, rather than hang out with 2 girls who took them to the dive-iest (Adairs) bar in Dallas, and needed all of our drinks bought for us? </span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em>- Whoa whoa&#8230;so this is the night you bled on ____&#8217;s bed right???</em></span></span></span></strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I&#8217;m not sure why this particular story was brought up&#8230; maybe we were discussing something similar that happened to one of us more recently but<em> I&#8217;m not sure if that even happened.</em> It is <a href="http://www.carissajaded.com/2009/11/tmi-thurday-a-bloody-confession/">actually a story that I have already shared with you</a>&#8230;</span></span></span></p>
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<h3 style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em><strong>-Carissa! I look at porn sites ALLLL the time! Are you kidding me?</strong></em></span></span></h3>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I think this one is pretty self explanatory. I think AW just wanted to write this note to put in his spank bank for later. </span></span></p>
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<h3 style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><em><strong>-Let&#8217;s talk about love.</strong></em></span></h3>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">OK this one was all me. But before you write me off as some cheese-poof who likes to “talk about love” with her girlfriend&#8217;s on a Friday night over a bottle of wine- let me explain. I was trying to think of a story for this show I&#8217;m doing that has “love” theme. Since my experiences with “love” aren&#8217;t, for the most part, romantic&#8230; what we talked about next was all sorts of funny and also kind of sad.</span></span></p>
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<h3 style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><strong>-That&#8217;s what real rappers do, playa!!!</strong></span></em></span></h3>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><strong><br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Have I told you yet of my dreams of being a world-renowned rap-star? Well, I have them. I know it will never happen, but I even have a rap-star alter ego named Kimbernisha. You&#8217;ll have to meet her one day. Anyway, I told you yesterday how I went to see Four Day Weekend&#8217;s comedy show. I loved it all&#8230; except for the part where they rapped. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, they did a great job improvising rap, but there moves were a little lacking. Ever since I saw Timbaland last week, I&#8217;ve been spending much of my down-time trying to imitate the rapper&#8217;s groove, which I demonstrated to my friends before I made this comment.</span></span></p>
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<h3 style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;"><strong> </strong><strong><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><em><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">-Rap just got me off! </span></em></span></strong></h3>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Yeah, I got really into that shiz!! I mean not literally, but I was really spent afterward. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">___</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">In other news, I want give a shout out to one of my favorite blogs who is ending his project soon. If you haven&#8217;t checked out the<a href="http://100girls100days.com/"> 100 girls-100days project</a>, I implore that you do so now. I&#8217;m really sad that it&#8217;s almost over. Start from the <a href="http://100girls100days.com/the-100-days/">beginning</a> and read your way through. That&#8217;s the way I do it. He may seem like kind of a dick at first, but overall, the dude seems really genuine and he&#8217;s extremely addicting. </span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Oh and tonight we have our Dallas happy hour!!! I&#8217;m so excited to meet some of my favorite bloggers in person!! WOOHOO!!<br />
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		<title>I don&#8217;t know how to do those post it notes that are so hot right now.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s true. I&#8217;m pretty much an idiot when it comes to technology. But I&#8217;ve really been enjoying the post it notes that quite a few people have been posting on Tuesdays. At least I think it is on Tuesdays. I don&#8217;t know where my head is these days. Anyhow, I really have been enjoying reading [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s true. I&#8217;m pretty much an idiot when it comes to technology. But I&#8217;ve really been enjoying the post it notes that quite a few people have been posting on Tuesdays. At least I think it is on Tuesdays. I don&#8217;t know where my head is these days.</p>
<p>Anyhow, I really have been enjoying reading the &#8220;Post It&#8221; Tuesdays, but really don&#8217;t think I could condense my bitching into a single post it note even if I tried. Though I would love to try if someone would be willing to tell me where you get these &#8220;post its.&#8221;</p>
<p>I guess for now I&#8217;ll just go with &#8220;slightly longer than a post it note Tuesday.&#8221;</p>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">Dear bloggers who do post-it Tuesdays,</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">How do I do this? And by <em>how</em>, I mean where do you get the post it&#8217;s? I&#8217;m sure it is very simple, but I am computer illiterate.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">Please and thank you,<br />
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<p><em><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">Wants to be a member of the cool kids post-it club</span></strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">________________________________</span></strong></em></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">My beloved dog Stella,</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">As much as I love you and love to cuddle, I cannot really be expected to do so when you smell like sour milk. I am not sure whether or not you have been sprayed by a skunk out there in the country, or if you have been purposely rolling around in cow patties all day, but either way&#8230; your scent has become intolerable. Even after putting you through the struggle of a bath, you have continued to smell of rotten cow carcus. I have no choice but to exile you from my bed.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">Your ex-cuddle bear,</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>Cold at night</em></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1431" title="stella" src="http://www.carissajaded.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/stella-300x225.jpg" alt="stella" width="300" height="225" /><br />
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<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">My bathroom,</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">Please get your shit together.The bottom of the toilet has been leaking for weeks, my make up drawer is straight up hanging there by a tiny piece of wood, and the shower takes about an hour to drain. I try to treat you with respect and you just keep on making my life more difficult. I really can&#8217;t afford the time or effort needed to call a plumber or to fix your problems myself. </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">I suppose will take blame for pouring the hot wax down the sink causing it to get clogged,</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>Mistook hot wax in a candle burner for hot oil!!</em><br />
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<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">_________________________________</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">Dear Pizza Hut Delivery guy,</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">How dare you?? My sister, my dad and I drove around for over an hour looking for a pizza place that was open on Thanksgiving night. We finally gave up and settled on Denny&#8217;s.  Precisely 2 minutes after I ordered my biscuits and gravy, you walked in holding a stack of warm, fresh, pizzas. My Thanksgiving was already on the shitty side, and you had to come in and rub your deliciousness in my  face.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">Shame on you,</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>Didn&#8217;t need it anyway</em></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1430" title="pizza man" src="http://www.carissajaded.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/pizza-man-300x225.jpg" alt="pizza man" width="300" height="225" /><br />
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<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">___________________________</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">To screenwriter <a class="zem_slink" title="J. Michael Straczynski" rel="imdb" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0833089/">J. Michael Straczynski</a>,</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">I hear that you been given the task of writing both the remake for Forbidden Planet as well as the very anticipated screenplay adaptation of World War Z. Don&#8217;t fucking blow it. Please.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">Trying hard not to judge you by your work on <a class="zem_slink" title="Ninja Assassin" rel="imdb" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1186367/">Ninja Assassin</a>,</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>Film nerd</em></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">__________________________</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">Dear purse,</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">I know people talk shit about the state in which I keep you. I do it for both of our own good. One of these days I will be able to fulfill my master plan of being able to pay rent from the change that collects at the bottom of you. Either that or spend an entire day playing Photohunt and Tic-Tac Trivia at the bar. </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em>-Doing everything for a reason.</em></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1429" title="purse contents" src="http://www.carissajaded.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/purse-contents-300x225.jpg" alt="purse contents" width="300" height="225" /><span style="color: #0000ff;"><br />
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<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>____________________________<br />
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<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Impulse buy facial mask,</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>You promised to moisturize my skin while leaving it more firm and with less wrinkles. As far as I can tell you are a scented wet paper towel with holes cut out for the eyes and mouth. Speaking of the holes, the ones on your masks are not designed to fit the facial structure of any human. I can&#8217;t get it to stay on  my face unless I lie down, and frankly, I feel it made me look like the dude from Silence of the Lambs.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Why did I buy 6 of you!?</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><em>-Buyers remorseful</em></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><em>______________________________</em></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Dear Kitchen<em>,</em></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Thank you for letting us destroy you this weekend in a massive food fight. That was the most awesome time I ever had in our house, though I&#8217;ll never be able to eat off your counters again without imagining smears of gravy and mashed potatoes.</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Sorry, (not)</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><em>Still has potatoes in her hair</em></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><em><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1432" title="food fight" src="http://www.carissajaded.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/food-fight-300x225.jpg" alt="food fight" width="300" height="225" /><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1433" title="food fghter" src="http://www.carissajaded.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/food-fghter-300x225.jpg" alt="food fghter" width="300" height="225" /><br />
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		<description><![CDATA[Note- I think this post may make me come across like a bitch, but bare with me! I know everyone is all in the Thanksgiving mood and getting ready to get in the Christmas spirit, but since Hobby Lobby has had their Christmas decorations up for four months now, I figure I&#8217;d better go ahead [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Note- I think this post may make me come across like a bitch, but bare with me!</p>
<p>I know everyone is all in the Thanksgiving mood and getting ready to get in the Christmas spirit, but since Hobby Lobby has had their Christmas decorations up for four months now, I figure I&#8217;d better go ahead and get a head start on New Years.</p>
<p>2 years ago my New Years Resolution was to be less  of a flake (which was mostly a success) and last year I decided to be more committed to appreciating the culture of my city, (at which I miserably failed.) This year I have been wanting to have another go at inner-self improvement, but I had been having a difficult time figuring out what I would like to improve, until recently.</p>
<p>Actually, there have been a few things that have made me realize that there is something about myself that I want to change. I feel like all the signs are pointing to it, and maybe January 1st is the time to do so (or maybe I&#8217;ve already started.) Either way, I should really do something about it for the better.</p>
<p><strong>I think I need to be a little less snobby.</strong></p>
<p>Wait, wait! Don&#8217;t get the wrong idea&#8230; It&#8217;s not like I go around judging everyone or anything. And I want to change!!!</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m <em>better </em>than anyone, quite the opposite actually&#8230;I&#8217;m not the smartest person, I don&#8217;t have the nicest things, I&#8217;m not the funniest, I&#8217;m not the best at anything really, and I&#8217;m ok with that!! It&#8217;s just that I sometimes feel&#8230; like I might have the best <em>taste</em> in all things in the world!</p>
<p>I&#8217;m talking everything! I love the best movies, music, T.V. shows, vintage clothing, comedy&#8230; Don&#8217;t even try to tell me otherwise, because you&#8217;re wrong.</p>
<p>My friends have been telling me for years that my taste is not the end all be all of tastes, and that is fine. I don&#8217;t love my friends any less because they aren&#8217;t obsessed with the Beatles, or because they don&#8217;t like to sing Meatloaf at karaoke, or because their favorite movie is Drive Me Crazy (I love you  Amber,) or because they like Grey&#8217;s Anatomy.  It honestly doesn&#8217;t bother me that my close friends don&#8217;t all share my same interests, as long as there are some people out there with which I can have a common bond of<em> my </em>favorite things. And as long as my friends realize that though they may hold different opinions that me, <em>mine</em> are far superior.</p>
<p>I think I&#8217;ve already told y&#8217;all that this weekend my sister and I went to go to see &#8220;Where the Wild Things Are.&#8221; We have seen probably a million movies together in our lifetime, and the same thing always happens. Every time I am finding myself grinning with pleasure or laughing my ass off,  I look over at my sister and my heart fills with dismay when I see that she isn&#8217;t having the same reaction. After this particular movie I started to grill her, just as I always do.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff00ff;">CJ: <em>&#8220;Sooo.. Didnt you LOVE it!? Oh my gosh, I really liked it!!&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #008000;">Sis: <em>&#8220;Yeahh&#8230; I mean&#8230; it was alright&#8230;&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff00ff;">CJ: <em>&#8220;Um&#8230; ALRIGHT??? You do realize that was a <a class="zem_slink" title="Spike Jonze" rel="imdb" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005069/">Spike Jonze</a> movie don&#8217;t you??? The same guy who directed <a class="zem_slink" title="Adaptation (Shooting Scripts)" rel="amazon" href="http://www.amazon.com/Adaptation-Shooting-Scripts-Charlie-Kaufman/dp/1854597086%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D1854597086">Adaptation</a>, the best movie of ALL time!! And even if it wasn&#8217;t the BEST movie in the world, you had to have enjoyed it&#8230;. You enjoyed it didn&#8217;t you ??? You didn&#8217;t even laugh once!&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #008000;">Sis:<em> &#8221; Yeah&#8230; I told you&#8230; it was ok, just not my favorite! And I didn&#8217;t think it was funny&#8230;&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff00ff;">CJ: <em>&#8220;Well!! You obviously have no taste!! You don&#8217;t think ANYTHING is funny! I bet you don&#8217;t even like <a class="zem_slink" title="Steve Martin" rel="imdb" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000188/">Steve Martin</a>!&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p><strong>And then she let me have it. </strong></p>
<p>She told me that <em>just</em> because I like something doesn&#8217;t mean everyone else does, (duh) and that sometimes it comes across rude when I try to push my passions on other people&#8230;</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff00ff;">CJ: <em>So I guess it&#8217;s also rude when I get really mad  when I&#8217;m trying to make someone watch a <a class="zem_slink" title="The Kids in the Hall" rel="imdb" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096626/">Kids in the Hall</a> sketch and they would rather read a magazine?&#8221;</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #008000;">Sis: <em>Rude.</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff00ff;">CJ:<em>And also when I make every one in the car be quiet so that they can hear the lyrics to Wilco or Joshua Radin and make them give me their interpretation&#8230;?<br />
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<p><span style="color: #008000;">Sis: <em>Rude.</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #ff00ff;">CJ: <em>And when I make everyone be quiet in the car so they can listen to my impression of Bob Dylan singing every song that comes on the radio?</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #008000;">Sis: <em>That&#8217;s just annoying. Especially after the first 2 songs. And you don&#8217;t sound like Bob Dylan.</em></span></p>
<p>I thought about this for a while, and when writing my post yesterday, I realized that I have always been pushy about the things I enjoy&#8230; especially to my closest friends and family members. I have come to the conclusion that I really want to have a more open mind&#8230; and I really think you guys (bloggers) are already helping.</p>
<p>I feel like I&#8217;m really getting to know some of you, and you&#8217;ve really given me the opportunity to open my eyes to things that I normally wouldn&#8217;t have given a time of day. Sometimes I&#8217;m so surprised when I feel like I know a lot about who you are, and then you reveal something new that I never would have expected, and I love you more for it! And since I do, I accept that maybe my opinion isn&#8217;t  superior (maybe.) I&#8217;ve realized that if I just shut up and read about other people&#8217;s passions, mine aren&#8217;t the only ones that matter.</p>
<p>So basically, what I&#8217;m trying to say, is that I am so very thankful for each and everyone of you that I have gotten to know the last few months. Even the people that I haven&#8217;t corresponded with, you&#8217;ve helped me expand my horizons a ton! I feel like I have learned so much and I can&#8217;t wait to gain an even more open mind with each day!! (Can I have some wine with my cheese?) But seriously.</p>
<p>Now I just have to apply my new found open mind to real life&#8230;</p>
<p>And while we are on the subject,  Kim over at <a href="http://perfectlycursedlife.com/">Perfectly Cursed Life</a> has begun a tradition that I absolutely love, the annual &#8220;Thank You for Blogging&#8221; award, designed to honor bloggers that you are thankful for.  I recently handed out awards, and her rules are you have to hand it out to at least 4 other bloggers, so I&#8217;m going to keep this right at that&#8230; though I would hand this out to a zillion people if I could stay awake.</p>
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<p>First off, if you haven&#8217;t checked out <a href="http://perfectlycursedlife.com/">Kim&#8217;s blog</a>, do it now. She definitely has a way with words, and has a way with being funny, while also making ya think! What I&#8217;m trying to say, is she hits you in all the right places.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve only recently come across Beckeye over at <a href="http://thepopeye.blogspot.com/">The Pop Eye</a>, but if you have an interest in anything pop culture&#8230; she is a must! Before I started a blog, I spent all of my internet time on film and music sites, and I&#8217;m so happy to have found a mix of everything I love on one little site!</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve said it before, but Meg at <a href="http://megsrantsandramblings.blogspot.com/">Lost in Thought</a> is easily one of my favorite bloggers ever. I feel like whenever I read her posts, I am taken away in a whimsical land&#8230; and just when she gets me going all sentimental, I laugh my ass off. Loves this girl!!</p>
<p>I&#8217;d also like to pass this on to Dani over at <a href="http://laughstooeasily.blogspot.com/">She Laughs too Easily and Cries too Loud</a>. Always hilarious, always poignant&#8230;. and I just don&#8217;t have enough good words to say about this lady! Check her out!</p>
<p>OK one more, Tricia at <a href="http://www.onesteptorecovery.com/">One Step To Recovery</a>. You already know that I love you to pieces, but for everyone else, check out this girl&#8217;s blog!! I go crazy when she doesn&#8217;t update!  She is hilarious and says it like it is&#8230; Trust me, you will love her!!</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ll be around tomorrow, (could surprise ya!) But I figured I&#8217;d leave you with this!</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff6600;">Happy Thanksgiving!</span></strong></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am just going to go ahead and brush over the fact that I have been a horrible little blogger the last few days. I don&#8217;t really have an excuse  except for that life has kind of taken over a little bit. I have been working a little harder, and spending a little less time in front of my computer in my downtime. As much as I enjoy  spending my days reading everything on my reader, I&#8217;ve been having to  spend a little more time nerding out on film sites, as the Oscars are quickly approaching. I&#8217;m really hoping that I am not getting too late of a start on my goal of once again, seeing every movie nominated in the major categories. This year it is even more daunting with 10 films in the Best Picture category alone.</p>
<p>Anyway, back to you&#8230; I am hoping I will eventually catch up to all 900 or so unread posts on my reader&#8230; but I&#8217;m thinking it may take a while.</p>
<p>This weekend was kind of insane. On Saturday I got to catch up with a bunch of my college sorority friends at a baby shower.  (Love you Lydia and little Oliver who will be born sometime in the next 10 days) I&#8217;m usually terrified of situations that have anything to do with babies&#8230; mostly because babies scare the hell out of me. But besides the slight panic attack that I had in Babies R Us whilst trying to get someone to help me figure out what a Diaper depot was and where in this freak house of miniature things it might be found, I had a pretty rockin time.</p>
<p>I got all Martha Stewart on your asses and even made cream cheese tortilla rolls for the second event this month. I completely forgot to add salsa, which is apparently a major ingredient, but no one  said anything if they noticed.</p>
<p>I think the most shocking moment for everyone was probably when I held one of my friend&#8217;s babies. I did have to sit down first in the style of a 10 year old&#8230; but it wasn&#8217;t even such a terrifying experience. I actually really liked holding her. I had to admit  that babies are kind of cute and soft and I kind of started wanting to eat her up&#8230; or at least pet her obsessively. That came out a lot creepier than I meant it. What I&#8217;m trying to say is that- while I still don&#8217;t have baby fever in any way shape or form, maybe I shouldn&#8217;t be so scared of hanging out with my mommy friends a little more often.</p>
<p>We also drank a whole lot of champagne. I haven&#8217;t been to many baby showers, but I am quickly finding out that they even though the preggers guest of honor can&#8217;t drink, it&#8217;s perfectly appropriate for everyone else to. Afterward, a few of us hit the streets of our college town, and basically didn&#8217;t stop until around 10:30 on Sunday night. We gave Sunday Funday a whole new meaning, which basically led to a pretty miserable Monday. Except for one part&#8230;</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1368" title="2012" src="http://www.carissajaded.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/2012-213x300.jpg" alt="2012" width="213" height="300" /></p>
<p>Yeah I know what you&#8217;re thinking, because I was thinking it to.</p>
<p>With all these Oscar-worthy movies coming out in the last week or so, why would I go see Roland Emmerich prove to the world that his dick is smaller than Michael Bay&#8217;s?</p>
<p>For one, I had to get at least one more popcorn-blockbuster-type movie in before I start spending most of my free time in the Angelika, watching foreign and arthouse-ish type films through January.</p>
<p>Also, I actually like really really like <em>end-of -the-the-world-shit-blowing-up-disaster</em> type films. Who doesn&#8217;t? If you say you didn&#8217;t like Independence Day, I&#8217;m so calling bullshit. And not just because Bill Pullman pretty much made the sexiest-voiced president ever in a film. These type of movies do exactly what they set out to do, and that is to entertain and get you excited. Yeah yeah yeah, I admit that it was essentially one near death experience after another, but it definitely kept me on my toes. I spontaneously decided to forgo the gym and go see it by myself after work, but if someone would have been with me I probably would have spent the second half of the movie punching them in the arm.</p>
<p>I was planning on writing a full-on movie review, but I knew what that would turn into&#8230;</p>
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<p>A post about nothing except for my love for John Cusack, and that can get old really fast. Just ask anyone that knows me in real life.</p>
<p>But seriously. I love the man&#8230; skewed political opinions and all. I don&#8217;t know what it is about this guy, but just seeing him on the screen makes me all giddy and butterflies in the stomach and all that nonsense that the thirteen year old me felt when opening up a Tiger Beat magazine that featured a pin up of Brad Renfro.</p>
<p>In complete honesty, I would probably love any movie that this man was in, (with the exception of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445946/">The Contract</a>, because that movie just sucked balls) and I completely blame John Cusack for the fact that I have spent the better part of my life single. How can a girl settle down with someone unless he shows up at your window with a boom-box and professes his love to through the musical stylings of Peter Gabriel? I&#8217;m still waiting!</p>
<p>And the thing that gets me the most about him is that he&#8217;s just so damn average. He&#8217;s good looking in a &#8220;guy that you see in your local grocery store&#8221; sort of way&#8230;  He usually plays these average down and out cynical characters, that are passionate about books and movies and music&#8230; but the dude always wins&#8230; and you really want him to.</p>
<p>2012 is no exception. I would much rather see the John Cusack continuously narrowly escape being blasted by fire balls and falling into the earth than Brad Pitt or George Clooney. You <em>know</em> they&#8217;ll escape. I would rather watch John Cusack do anything on the screen. Speaking of my favorite award night of the year, how has this man never been nominated?</p>
<p>See what I&#8217;ve done here? And I must stop. Mostly because I may need to change my panties.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t be surprised if the next time you come here there is John Cusack wallpaper on my background. I will go there.</p>
<p>But until then&#8230; I&#8217;ve missed you and go see 2012!!! Now!</p>
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<div><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Carissajaded here. It saddens me to say that <a href="http://www.livitluvit.com/">Lilu</a> is on vacation for the next few weeks (that bish.) Luckily, she has planned to continue posting her very special <a href="http://www.livitluvit.com/2009/11/tmi-thursday-the-post-secret-edition-vol-ii.html">post secret</a> editions of TMI. Check it out! <span style="color: #ff0000;">Hint: One of them is mine!! Can you guess which one? <span style="color: #000000;">Also be sure to check out her <a href="http://www.livitluvit.com/category/tmi-thursday">TMI archives</a> for hours of TMI enjoyment!</span></span><br />
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<div><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Today is a special guest post  TMIT. As I am still completely mortified by <a href="http://www.carissajaded.com/2009/10/tmi-thursday-my-birthday-present-to-my-best-friend-it-was-a-dark-and-stormy-night/">last week&#8217;s TMI</a> (in which I allowed my best friend to completely shit on me, or actually in which I shit on her car) another one of my BFFs  (who would like to remain anonymous) has offered to tell a story of her own. She&#8217;s a new blogger, and not yet ready to pop her TMI cherry on her own blog, so I invited her to share her story over here today. </span></strong></div>
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<div><strong><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">I now pass the mic to my friend Megr&#8230;. </span><br />
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<div>This happened to yours truly yesterday AT LUNCH&#8230;..</div>
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<div>This cold weather has really been getting me down, and I&#8217;ve got to work super late tonight so I thought I would take a nice long, relaxing lunch at my boyfriends house.  This little special break from work happens every month or so and involves me going to his house, cooking us both some food, and then we hop into bed for a bit.  Pretty nice lunch!</div>
<div>I made vegetable tacos, which were quite delish, but I know why you all are still reading so let&#8217;s get to the good part, shall we?</div>
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<div>After lunch, we got into bed and snuggled under the covers.  A little kissing started, and then things really got moving.  My boyfriend started kissing me <em>down there</em>, and WOW!  It was hot.</div>
<div>I mean really hot&#8230;.OOOUCH!!!   What is going on?? Why does this feel so&#8230;.painful??!!</div>
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<div>Then I have a sudden and HORRIBLE flashback of cutting up a fresh jalapeno and sprinkling it on my boyfriend&#8217;s meal before serving it about 30 minutes prior.  He loves jalapenos.  Vaginas do not.</div>
<div>I start yelling &#8220;OOUUUCCCHHH it burns!!! <em>It buurrrns!!!&#8221; </em>My boyfriend alarmingly asks, &#8220;What&#8217;s wrong, what&#8217;s wrong?&#8221;</div>
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<div>To which I respond &#8220;My vag is eating a jalapeno!!!!&#8221;</div>
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<div>We immediately cease all lovey action and take action to calm my en fuego girl parts.  In his attempts to make me laugh and keep the mood light he suggested a milk bath or perhaps sprinkling some bread on it.  The end result involved a cold wash cloth and some  pitiful tears and back rubbing.</div>
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<div>Needless to say, I&#8217;ll never look at jalapenos the same way again.</div>
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