"Firsts"

Jason and I got new bikes this summer and went on our first ride together tonight. Fun fun! Well, except for when we took a detour off the main bike trail and ended up knee-high in a field of weeds. Yeah ... that wasn't so fun.

I'm donating blood on Saturday for the first time. I'm a bit nervous but also excited. My dad had blood transfusions at different times throughout his illness, and the thought of helping someone else out in the same way makes me happy.

Jason and I will soon be going camping together for the first time! We've eached camped separately before, but I have never shared a tent with my husband and I am quite looking forward to it.

And last but not least, in a couple weeks for my mom's birthday, my mom, my sister and I are all getting pedicures. We've never done it before, so I hope we enjoy :)

Ordinary

I love this song by Train. I don't know what it's overall intended meaning is, but I love listening to it, and lately the title has really resonated with me. Sometimes I feel so ordinary and forgettable in this great big world, and who I want to be does not always equal who I am or how people perceive me. I don't think the source of my security (i.e. who or what helps me overcome my insecurities) is properly aligned right now. I care too much about what others think of me.

Whose eyes am I behind?
I don't recognize anything that I see
Whose skin is this design?
I don't want this to be the way that you see me

I don't understand anything anymore
And this web that I'm tired of
Is taking me right up these walls
That I climb up to get to your story
It's anything but ordinary

infomercials

I admit it, I enjoy watching infomercials. My favorites are the Magic Bullet and Turbo Jam. I've never actually bought anything from TV before, but I enjoy watching these "amazing" products and inventions transform basic ingredients into delicious meals, dirty surfaces into sparkling clean ones, or flabby bodies into toned ones. There's something very satisfying about seeing such a transformation, even if it's all a ploy.

I have a problem, I know I do.

(Picture taken from www.buythebullet.com)

Edit - Undo

My coworkers and I were talking today about how nice it would be to have the "edit-undo" feature (used in Microsoft products) apply to other areas in our lives. Wouldn't it be great if we could just "undo" saying something we shouldn't have said? Or doing something that made you feel really stupid? Or even ... "Oh man, I shouldn't have ordered this chicken marsala. Edit-undo ... now I want the chicken parmesan instead."

Too bad life doesn't work that way :)