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		<title>Words. Kind of&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 22:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carissa Jade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember, Remember the 5th of November. I woke up with that in my head this morning. Actually, I wake up with that in my head on the 5th of every month, but until this morning when I looked it up on Wikipedia , I had no idea what I was supposed to remember. Actually I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="_mcePaste">Remember, Remember the 5th of November.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">I woke up with that in my head this morning. Actually, I wake up with that in my head on the 5th of every month, but until this morning when I looked it up on Wikipedia , I had no idea what I was supposed to remember.
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<div id="_mcePaste">Actually I still have no idea what I’m supposed to remember. Something about Guy Falkes, pennies, children,Thanksgiving and fireworks. Basically, I think the crazy Brits combined Thanksgiving, Halloween, and the fourth of July because they were jealous of our holidays.</div>
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In other news.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">I’m so fickle.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">About everything! I truly look up to the people who are able to wake up, make multiple decisions, then just move on with their lives as if they didn’t choose “choose a path” or something like that. Oh, here she goes again going off on some whiny tangent about paths and finding herself, blah blah>blah.</div>
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Don’t feel bad for thinking it, I’m wearing myself out.</div>
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<div id="_mcePaste">Today I’m not complaining about life choices so much. It’s the little, probably not-effecting my life choices that are getting to me today.</div>
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This morning I sat at my desk and stared at banana for about five minutes, then walked into the break room and stared at a bag of Taco bueno breakfast burritos. Then I went back to my desk and stared at the banana for another 5 minutes. And then I went and got a breakfast burrito, brought it back to my desk, and then decided to eat the banana. About half way through the brown banana, I started thinking how much better the breakfast burrito would have been. I stuck with the banana, only because by ttime the burrito was cold and for me, my laziness is usually my deciding factor.</div>
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Then I had to decide what to listen today, which hurts my brain to even think about. I have 11,205 songs on my ipod, plus countless audio books and podcasts… Then there are all the amazing stations I’ve created on Pandora and on Grooveshark. How is a girl to choose?
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I decided to settle on the latest “This American Life” episode because they never fail to make me happpy, but something that Ira says reminds me about a Mountain Goats song I haven’t heard in months. So I put that on. That made me a little sad, so I decided to put on Paul Simon’s Graceland, which made me really happy the other day. Then that made me start to sing out loud, which isn’t great to do at work, so I figured I needed to put on something with less singability, so I settled on Tom Waits, which sort of kind of makes me in a bad mood, but I’m a glutton for punishment, so I stuck with it.</div>
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Then I lunch I decided I needed to try and write a little something. I started 4 different posts about things that I love about myself, in attempt to stick to the 30 days of truth meme. I wasn’t satisfied with any of them, so I decided not to post today at all.</div>
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Then I started feeling guilty, because after all I did commit to writing every day for 30 days, and it’s only day 5… how sucky would that be of me if I quit now? Do I care? Is it even that important to me?</div>
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And then piece of crap post somehow made its way onto my computer. I still don’t know if I’m going to post it or not.</div>
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But if you’re reading this, well then… I couldn’t come up with anything better for today.</div>
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		<title>Decisions, Decisions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carissa Jade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Decisions. Yeah&#8230; I don&#8217;t do them well. I know I posted the other day about how I truly believe there are no mistakes&#8230; and I still believe that. I really do. But that being said- when it comes to choosing between one thing or another, or whether or not to do something, or even thinking [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Decisions.</p>
<p>Yeah&#8230; I don&#8217;t do them well.</p>
<p>I know I <a href="http://www.carissajaded.com/2010/01/this-should-probably-just-be-titled-dear-diary/">posted the other day</a> about how I truly believe there are no mistakes&#8230; and I still believe that. I really do.</p>
<p>But that being said- when it comes to choosing between one thing or another, or whether or not to do something, or even thinking about the fact that I have a choice in the matter&#8230; sometimes I  feel like I suck big, hairy, man tits.</p>
<p>Figuratively speaking, of course.</p>
<p>Although I have licked one before on a dare. Or under the influence of alcohol&#8230; I can&#8217;t remember.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure I spend half of my life debating in my brain whether or not I should do something. When I finally decide what I will do, then starts the debate as to how I should go about it. And then once I finally do the thing in question, I analyze for hours as to whether or not I made the right decision. And then I analyze what other people might be thinking of my decision. And whether or not I should even care.</p>
<p>I was originally going to post my test-ad for Craiglist, trying to find a free Life-Coach (with benefits?)&#8230; but WordPress hates me and I lost it, and I was too lazy to try to recreate it, so you get this instead.</p>
<p>Lately it seems I have some big decisions weighing on my shoulders. Like, where the hell am I going to live in 3.5 weeks when my lease is up? Should I just bite the bullet and move to away  and give this comedy stuff a shot? Should I go back to school and get my masters?</p>
<p>I really related to <a href="http://www.ishineoutloud.com/shine/?p=321">Shine&#8217;s</a> post yesterday about her struggle with censorship on her blog. Every day before I hit publish, I sit back and try to think about who I could be offending. I wonder if people in my life who read this will assume that I am talking about them. I debate about whether or not I should even be sharing the shiz that I put out there, or if it is better that I keep my crazy head to myself.  As much as I have talked about this and have tried to adopt Shine&#8217;s philosophy of &#8220;it&#8217;s my blog and I&#8217;ll write I want to,&#8221; I know I will still contemplate these things.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not always even the big things that get to me. In fact, usually it&#8217;s the<strong> little insignificant</strong> things that get to me the most.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s reflect over a few of my small yet majorly time consuming decisions that I struggle with daily, shall we?</p>
<p>And yes&#8230; I realize I&#8217;m quite ricockulous.</p>
<p><strong>*Whether or not to wear a jacket: </strong>I leave jackets places<strong> </strong>as often as Perez Hilton <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">fucks</span> is an asshole, and jackets are expensive. I have to constantly weigh out whether or not having a numb body is more important than losing an 80 dollar coat. Plus, half the time, even if I want to wear a jacket because it is 33 degrees outside (like it is now) I don&#8217;t know where any of them are. So then I have to decide if I should invest the time to look for said jacket, or just make a freezing cold run for it. And more so?  Dude. I live in Texas. You never know what a fall/winter/spring day will bring. If I wear the jacket, I usually end up with sweaty armpits. And if I don&#8217;t? All my arm hair, plus an additional 3 inches grows back.</p>
<p><strong>*Whether to get the hell up and ready, or push snooze 14 more times: </strong>I&#8217;m not even sure why I bother with this one. But I do, every. single. morning.    My alarm goes off at 6:30. I snooze until 6:40. This is the time when I start debating whether I should get in the shower, blow dry my hair, watch 20 minutes of Good Morning America while I think about fixing my hair but usually don&#8217;t and  instead choose to eat a grapefruit in bed. Or whether I should continue to snooze until 7:15 when I will jump out of bed in a panic, throw on dirty clothes, brush my teeth, grab a banana, and run out the door with my clothes inside out. 99.98767899936 percent of the time push snooze at least 9 times and I show up at work looking like a person from underneath the stairs.</p>
<p><strong>*Whether or not to go out: </strong>This is always a question that requires a lot of thought. I mean, if I choose to go out, that usually means that I have to shower (which I detest) and that I have to find something to wear. Then I have to think about whether or not I am actually in the mood to be social. Do I have money? Are my eyebrows plucked? Is there even anyone going to be there that I want to talk to? Am I having an ugly-face day? Not that these questions really matter much in the real decision making process&#8230; It usually all comes down to who is guest hosting  SNL tonight? and do I have beer at home?</p>
<p><strong>*What to eat for dinner: </strong>For my roommates and I, this is literally the most difficult decision that we have to come to as a group, daily. The texts usually start somewhere between 2 and 3pm, once lunch starts to wear off. Our conversations are pretty much always the same.</p>
<p>Me: I&#8217;m hungry, what should we do for dinner?</p>
<p>Jake: meeee toooo&#8230; I&#8217;m craving Mi Cocina!</p>
<p>Me: We can&#8217;t afford Mi Cocina, plus then we&#8217;ll have the runs, and have to run afterward to burn off that 5000 calorie Limbo Taxi we will have.</p>
<p>Jake: urghhhhhhh&#8230;.. well what do we do?</p>
<p>Me: I&#8217;m having 3 pieces of un-cooked rice.</p>
<p>Jake: I&#8217;m having 8 baked beans so that I can keep full longer.</p>
<p>Me: I&#8217;m having water.</p>
<p>Jake: I’m having air.</p>
<p>And then we usually decide to meet at home to discuss our options before we go to the store, which usually results in us sitting around for two more hours starving&#8230; so we either settle on fish and veggies that we have in our freezer, or we wait another additional hour before we go to the store, each of us emerging with a tv dinner and a bottle of wine. But it&#8217;s all good because by that time, I have already eaten off all of my fingers and I’m not even hungry anymore.</p>
<p>I really just want a feeding tube. I think that would solve everything.</p>
<p><strong>*Do I, or don&#8217;t I applaud at the end of a movie: </strong>Yes. I’m a clapper. What? I like showing my appreciation. Plus it feels really validating when you clap first and everyone else joins in. But you always risk the chance that no one will join in, causing you to be the lone-idiot-slow clapper.</p>
<p><strong>*To drink or not to drink: </strong>I more apt to go with the “to” on this one. I still have at least five minutes of internal debate.</p>
<p><strong>*And more importantly, to ambien or not to ambien: </strong>This debate doesn’t have to do so much with actually taking it, it’s more as to whether or not I will actually get into bed after the fact. And after I take it, the decision is really no longer up to me.</p>
<p><strong>*Whether or not to speak up: </strong>Dude, this is the worst. I’m an honest person. I believe in telling the truth, but there are some situations where I am just at a loss as to whether or not I should speak my mind or put myself out there. I’m talking about in multiple types of situations, with friends,with guys, at work&#8230; whatever. I never know what to do when friends who ask for my opinion about a situation, especially when I know that telling someone the truth could possibly hurt them. I also constantly struggle with putting my feelings out there when I know it could result in getting hurt myself. I decided a while back not to play games, and lately I’ve been taking more risks with my words…. Still not sure how well that is working out.</p>
<p><strong>*Whether or not I should check my bank account: </strong>A lose/lose situation. I check it and am either completely bummed or I see that I actually have money and then proceed to overspend. Or I don’t check it and proceed to overspend. Conundrum.</p>
<p><strong>*To pee, or not to pee:</strong> Well, I don&#8217;t usually think about this too much. I usually just go when I gotta go. Preferably in a toilet, and not as a result of a sneeze. But right now I feel that I have to go, but I really don&#8217;t feel like getting up until I finish this, and I also know that the toilet is going to freeze my ass off, and I actually kind of like my ass. But after thinking about it the last few minutes, I think I&#8217;m going to go ahead and pee so I don&#8217;t sneeze and accidentally pee my pants or something.</p>
<p>Happy Weekend party people!</p>
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