Tis the season… November 29, 2009
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So today was decorate day!!! That was fun. Usually, at least for the last 6 years, decorate day was a bit of a wash… It was fun, and I really enjoyed it, but my previous roommates were not really the decorating type, so it was usually just me putting up the tree and the other stuff, making bows, hanging garland, and making it as festive and pretty as I could. If I was lucky, Eric would stop in to help, and that was always great… This year, I was REALLY looking forward to it because it is mine and Eric’s first Christmas together (roommates) and since we both love decorating for Xmas so much, and we always did great work together in Garden Center when we both worked together, it was going to be a million times better… Unfortunately, timing this year prevented us from having the amazing time decorating together that we would have liked… There is still a lot left to do, so all is not lost… but it does make me sad that we didn’t get to do this together. 
I did, however, have some help. Medardo was over and he and I did a lot of the decorating together. We hung up lights and garland outside, put lights in the bushes, went to Lowes and Walmart to get more decorations and ornaments, put up the tree, shimmied cardboard into the tree stand to make it NOT crooked, and hung up lights and garland inside. I kind of went all out this year… I would have done more last year and the previous years, but my last two townhomes did not have a good place to put lights outside, so I didn’t. This townhome has wooden trim around the door and window, so I was able to do more. The others had brick… and staple guns go not work well with brick. 
Anywho… I am really happy with the work we did and the lights, I’ll post some pics later… was going to do that now, but my phone is being a bitch!
Big THANK YOU to Medardo for helping!!! 
U rock!
-=brett=-
Introspection November 25, 2009
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I take off the blinders as I look inside
No longer afraid. I choose not to hide.
There’s too much to lose, too much to gain
Relaxed in acceptance of this lifetime of pain.
Of choices I’ve made, and ones I will make;
Searching for meaning on a quest I must take.
Perhaps on my way, I’ll get to the day
Every person desires in their special way.
Craving not just attention, but a lifetime or meaning.
Turning sharp from my past, from the hurt I was clinging.
Internally focused externally bound;
Only one thing in life have I truly found:
Nothing yet in my life has been more profound.
Madness and Chaos November 11, 2009
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More searching; introspection
As I plot a direction
Down a path that for once I will choose.
Nothing holding me back
End’s in sight down the track
Safe and sound I’ve got nothing to loose.
Seeing clearly a future
As I pull out my sutures
Now the healing can finally begin.
Dare I rattle my fate
Challenge; Deliberate
Hard to see how the story will end.
At least as I go
Of one thing I now know
Some time soon I’ll be back in control.
-=brett=-
