A New Perspective

I read an article on MSN yesterday which discussed the reasons why men marry. It stated that the number one quality men look for in the women they marry is a positive attitude... Perhaps this is the reason I am still single. Dating is another story. The qualities men seek in women they date are the cliche - physical attractiveness, a sense of humour, large pocketbook.
So, perhaps it is time that Noree adopted a more positive perspective. I'm not saying I am "changing" myself to find a man...just that maybe I could be a more balanced individual if I tipped my scale toward the sunny side of life.

"Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body..."
- Walt Whitman

Yes Walt! Yes!

When I Dream

A painting by Marc Chagall, one of my favourite artists because in his paintings man can fly and horses play the violin. I wish every dream could be like a painting by Chagall.

The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year

I love the Holiday Gap Week - These little days of heaven between Christmas and New Year's are my favourite days of the year perhaps! Sure I have to work this year but it is quiet... and almost fun. I am looking forward to New Year's Eve but not as much as I am looking forward to a brand new year and a brand new day-timer. So many pages to fill with events and appointments.
I had sort of crumby Christmas full of relatives asking stupid questions and parents humming and hawing but I survived. I enjoyed playing Chutes and Ladders, Battleship, Uno, and hockey with my nephews. Without them I probably would have tried to impale myself on some sort of tacky, holiday lawn ornament. Don't get me wrong, I love the rest of my family but there is a reason why I no longer live with them...or in the same city. :O)
I have a feeling the 2007 is going to be a big year for Noree! Let's hope so anyway.

Holiday Burnout

Santa, I know how you feel.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurber, in Edward R. Murrow television interview
US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 - 1961)

What I Said Before....

SERENITY NOW !!!!
I can not wait for the new year!

"I Have Enough Character, Thanks"

And thank you, Sarah, for that lovely quote. I like it too.
I have decided that I am leaving all of my crap in 2006. Any bad feelings, any unrequieted love, any extra pounds will magically turn into a pumpkin at 11:59pm Dec 31st, 2006. I will then take that pumpkin and throw it at Laird's house...(just metaphorically). I just like the idea of smashed pumpkin on his house.
Yes, 2007 will be a better year!

Why Does This Video Suck?

I love Chris Martin,(and Cold Play)and all but why is this video so dull? It is a great song...one of my favourites...listen to it's goodness. :O)

The heart has it's reasons that reason knows nothing of. - Pascal

Life never ceases to surprise me. I try to prepare myself for the worst case scenario,(or the best case scenario), but without fail life presents the "out-of-left-field-never-would-have-conjured-it-in-a-million-bad-acid-trips" scenario.
I am a strong believer in things happening for a reason, but I'm also a strong complainer about things happening to teach lessons. It seems that character is not doled out in equal shares. Some people tend to get more lesson situations than they need...
Or maybe it is the wise person who learns from every situation? (I prefer to think this is true.)
"Immortality will come to such as are fit for it; and [s]he who would be a great soul in the future must be a great soul now." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hope you find some solace in Ralph's words my red-haired goddess friend! Your soul kicks ass!

Avoid Falling Into Anything

The title of this blog is evidently what the title of my first (or last) book will be. It is advice which I would give to anyone wishing to avoid pain in this lifetime. To love someone who doesn't know you are alive is painful. To love someone who knows you exist but still does not return your love is pure torture. If I were a smarter bean I would not be in this predicament but alas... There is no "Painting" without "Pain". Here are some other platitudes which might make you feel worse:

Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Leo Tolstoy

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
US novelist (1896 - 1940)

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
Brendan Francis

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman" (1903), act 4
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Reading and Writing"
German philosopher (1844 - 1900)

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau, Journal, July 25, 1839
US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862)

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
English novelist (1775 - 1817)

Life's Gonna Suck ( a slideshow)

This has been my mantra as of late. It is a catchy tune...there is no denying that.
I don't know what I would do without Youtube.com. I would probably get more accomplished in life.
I surveyed all of the videos for this song and this was the only one without anime or dead people. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.