Bee’s Musings

One brave couple is trying to live on $10 each for 2 weeks for food. They’re doing this in honor of the people in third world countries who make less than $1.00 per day. I’ve read through most of the comments, and I have to agree that the one thing they are not taking into consideration is the fact that a dollar goes much farther there than it does here. If you’d like to follow their stories, here are the links to their individual blogs.
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Since I’m always looking for ways to burn extra calories without extra time at the gym (or in my case, any time at the gym), this seems like a good option: The No-Workout Workout.

Of course, I’m not at all sure how well some of these really fit into every day life, without having people look at you and think “What the heck is that crazy person doing!?”

Ever wondered what 300 calories looks like? Well, it could look like a package of Swiss Cake Rolls.

Or, they can look like actual 300-400 calorie meals. They look pretty tasty to me. Now, all I Need is someone to cook for me.

I was told the other day that I was being snarky. Now, I know I’m a sarcastic person (yes, I just heard you all roll your eyes out there and say “No, really…”) but I never thought of myself as snarky.

Here’s the definition of snarky:
A colloquialism meaning short-tempered or snappish.

After getting that definition, it reinforced my desire to essentially be a better person. I don’t want to be seen as short-tempered or snappy - even when sometimes people deserve it. (Darn it, there I go again!)
Here’s to nicer posts, coming soon. (Either that, or all my snarkiness is going to show up here… not sure which yet.

I got to hang out with my buddy Daron for a while today, which was nice, since I hadn’t seen him much since I stopped going to yoga. (I didn’t stop going because I didn’t like the yoga - I love yoga. I stopped going because of workers comp therapy on my wrist. Having it immobilized makes the yoga a bit harder to do.) What started out as just a quick coffee break turned into a nice couple of hours in Old Town, including a trip to the store Curiosities. Part of the reason for my wanders down there was to procure a new toy for my office.

If you’ve never been to my office, you won’t know this, but I have an office with toys in it. I have stuffed animals, slinkies, and one of those magnets with 259 little metal dollar signs that you can use to form shapes. I’ve lately been feeling that my office has been missing something… and that something was The Avenging Unicorn. After conference calls like the one I was on last Thursday, I realized I needed a slightly more aggressive toy, and this is it. It comes with 4 interchangable horns, and 3 figurines that the unicorn can “stab.” I’m sure that this will provide many hours of good fun in my office in the coming weeks and months. Daron also got a chicken pen for the yoga studio. Its a little creepy - I’m not gonna lie.

After our walk to Curiosities, we walked past JeJu, one of our local restaurants. We were talking about their “Ultra White Tuna Rolls” - and Daron suggested we go in. We did, and we had some great sushi, and some fun conversations. One of the other folks who attends the yoga studio, Eric, showed up as well. He just partook of a few beans of edamame, before he left us for … well, I’m not really sure what. Laundry, maybe. I hadn’t had sushi in at least a month, so not only did I get good company, I had some good and mostly healthy lunch.

After the fun times, I went on a search for a new lugnut to replace the missing one from my right front tire. As it turns out, I’ll have to get one from the manufacturer. But, I did find out that my tires were legally bald. Since they don’t offer tire toupes, or rubber plugs, I had to buy new tires. Thus, I am broke for the next month or so, but at least I’ll be safely driving my money-less self around.

I’ve spent most of this evening working on my websites (BrandiCJohnson.com and eMediaDaily), and emailing with my good friend Dave, who is working on a paper for law school. At the top of my faithful gmail Account, there was the “Quote of the Day” which read:

Andre Gide- “Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”

It reminds me of the quote I write every night in my journal - as is the inner, so is the outer. When we are consantly striving to meet the needs and demands of today’s society, we forget to be true to our inner self. Some people call it the “authentic self,” others call it their “soul.” But whatever we call it, we need to remember that at the end of the day, the only person who is with you your entire life is yourself. And if you betray yourself, you have no one left.

I’ve been struggling a lot lately with my blog. Not so much in a technical term (although getting this to publish correctly on my own domain is much more difficult than I originally thought it would be), but in the sense that I question if the words that I write really have enough power to make them worth sending into the world of cyber-space.

My friend Dan is the author of “Before the Tense” - a blog simply endowed with “You know you love pretense” as its introduction. When I read Dan’s blogs, I am humbled. To start with, he can actual use words like pretense, naysayer and formulatic in sentences and paragraphs that make sense. His choices of topics are often emotionally significant as well, whether it be the Eulogy, which asks you to question your own role models, or the videos of chimps and monkeys from Japan that make you laugh in the middle of an otherwise bleak day.

Then, there is Kevin - primary author of “Good Puppet Bad Puppet“. He writes about whatever is significant in his life, often things that we can relate to. But he isn’t afraid to use his blog to voice his opinions on what is going on in the world. People have already commented on how he “puts it out there” on his blog.

Of course, I also have my friends who are simply occassional bloggers but who find powerful words to describe where they are in their lives. These are models for sharing how you’re feeling, but also can help you find someone else who feels just the way you do.

And then there’s my blog. Where I write innanely about golf, or post links to silly time-wasting websites. If anything, I suppose that this blog is a good testament about where I am in my life. Because of the eclectic nature, it gives you a good insight into the randomness of who I am.

I’ll try to get better about blogging, despite the beautiful days of spring and summer that are upon us. Because the truth is, if you’re reading this, no matter if I use fancy words, or embedd pictures, or write about the “big” issues in life - you’re reading this because you either know me and care - or you’re at least somewhat amused by the random rants of a 20-something still searching for meaning.

Yes, I watch Grey’s Anatomy. And sometimes its got some good quotes. And here some of them are. I’ll add to this post periodically, so feel free to bookmark it if you like Grey’s as well.

Okay, here it is, your choice… it’s simple, her or me, and I’m sure she is really great. But Derek, I love you, in a really, really big pretend to like your taste in music, let you eat the last piece of cheesecake, hold a radio over my head outside your window, unfortunate way that makes me hate you, love you. So pick me, choose me, love me.

For a kiss to be really good, you want it to mean something. You want it to be with someone you can’t get out of your head, so that when your lips finally touch you feel it everywhere. A kiss so hot and so deep you never want to come up for air. You can’t cheat your first kiss. Trust me, you don’t want to. Cause when you find that right person for a first kiss, it’s everything.

Damn it. I’m a bad sponge. A leaky sponge. I’m gonna leak all the wrong secrets. I’m a bad liar. I can’t even lie about talking to myself.

“I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. It’s been about two months since I’ve worked out. And I just don’t have the time. Which uh..is odd. Because I have the time to go out to dinner. And uh..and watch tv. And get a bone density test. And uh.. try to figure out what my phone number spells in words.” - Ellen DeGeneris

Note: I had to edit this post because someone mistakenly thought the previous title “I’m with Ellen” meant that I had decided to change my side of the fence and had replaced Portia De Rossi as Ellen’s muse. That is not the case, and shall never be the case. But Kev - thanks for trying buddy.