RSVP - regrets only.
I'm not a list-maker by nature, although I've reached a stage where haphazard lists really are the gossamer membrane remaining between me and a total loss of sanity. Which really has nothing at all to do with today's topic, except for the list part. Because today's post is a list. Try to restrain your wild excitement, eh?
Top Ten Things I Regret:
10. Not realizing/appreciating how much my grandma gave me when I lived with her.
9. Letting religion make my decisions and choices for me for so long.
8. Choosing a "safe" career instead of going for a risky one.
7. Not attending the Thanksgiving Miracle of '07.
6. Living in Orlando for those three and a half LOOOOOONG years.
5. Not wearing enough sunscreen.
4. Not drinking enough in law school.
3. Getting lost inside internet worm-holes for unbearably long periods of time.
2. Pinky-swearing to do the STP and then not doing it.
1. Publishing this list.
Heh.
posted by eclectic @ 2:26 PM
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24 Comments:
I'm curious--what's your "risky" career? It's not too late--do it now!
Um, what's STP?
THANKSGIVING MIRACLE '09 AT YOUR HOUSE!
(i'll still cook.)
Shawkey: I would have gone into a performance career in music, and the time for that has indeed passed what with the creeping of time and the addition of offspring... Anyway, STP is the annual "Seattle-To-Portland" roadbike tour. I pinky-swore to a bunch of friends that I'd do it this year for sure, and then bailed. :(
Kat: DEAL!! For serious?!?! Please say yes!! And will Heather!Anne! still be 1st sous-chef and can I be 2nd?
STP?
Best wishes
STP=Stone Temple Pilots
I am so on board for TM09!!
If you do the STP tell me when....I'll make sure my Portland trip coincides. Please?
Maddy: The STP is rather an institution for cyclists in this region. It's almost a rite of passage, like you're not really a cyclist until you've completed it at least once. And I haven't. BOO! But I hope to change that soon.
Bloggy: I forgot. Probably we should tell the Seattle-To-Portland organizers so they can, y'know, change the initials of either Seattle or Portland to eliminate any confusion. ;)
Abs: REALLY?! OMG, I'm SO excited!!! If you guys are serious, I'm totally game!
Q: You have another Portland trip scheduled?? WHEN??? We must coordinate these things!!!!!!! STP is always in July, so we can't possibly wait that long. How 'bout we aim for your birthday again?
Ummm, what is Thanksgiving Miracle 07?
Yes, '09! I'm there!
TysGirl: Well, it's a long story, but I'll try to give you the condensed version: 2007 was a sucky year for several friends, and that group of friends decided to get together for Thanksgiving even though they live all over the country. And as it turns out, it was the BEST 3 days of an otherwise sucky entire calendar year! There was much laughter, much love, and much excellent food -- just like you'd think Thanksgiving should be: a miracle to be thankful for. Only I didn't go.
H!A!: You wouldn't kid a kid, wouldja?? I have absolutely marked it on my calendar!!!
#4 was not a problem for yours truly.
Ang & I are thinking that Qs next trip should be a meet in Seattle instead of Portland. We can just get a hotel & hang out in Seattle the whole time...what do you think?
PS We haven't told the Q yet:) heh
Regrets are the mosquitos in the great camping trip of life. They attack you from nowhere and leave itchy, weeping little welts on your legs and arms. Scratching just brings trouble but we do it anyway. We just have to.
The aftermath is usually more annoying than the intial attack, plus people can see your wounds as you try to nonchalantly walk it off and pretend it's only the smoke from the campfire that has irritated your eyes.
Everyone has regrets.
(((hugs)))
You can always make up for #4 by drinking more now! And as for #2, yeah, I broke my pinky swear, too. :(
(If you'll accept party crashers for Thanksgiving I'll bring the scotch. Also some premium Stumptown coffee.)
Dude, I'm totally already having a Thanksgiving Miracle '08 at my place, small, crappy apartment and all. If only because I figure I've earned it...
You're definitely invited, if you know, cold and Minnesota are your kind of things.
So wait - where is the TM08? I still need to meet lots of the participants and it would be sweet if DC could get a repeat.
And I'm with you on the "religion influencing your life" thing. I let that go on way to long. Turns out, all I needed to get past it was a Jewish wife who was all, "Who? Jesus? He was such a poseur?"
we totally would have had another TM08 in DC but for the fact that i'm being dragged to the in-laws this year. EVERYONE BLAME SETH.
Limpy: Oh sure... rub it in. Look, I can't help it if drinking to excess wasn't on the course syllabus at my school.
Shelly: Yeah!! That'd be awesome!! Let's tell Q though, since it would suck if she flew to the wrong place.
Mo/Dis: That's the best analogy EVER. Hilarious! Now, to find a way to keep the damn mosquitos from spreading diseases...
Vahid: People on the invite list cannot be considered crashers. And people bringing scotch and/or coffee are ALWAYS on the invite list.
Matt: Never been to Minnesota at Thanksgiving... mostly because I don't live there and for some odd reason my kids think I should be home to make dinner. Can't explain it, because I don't cook anywhere NEARLY as well as Kat.
GSR: Your wife just made me laugh! Looks like TM'08 -- DC is your get (see Kat's comment below).
Kat: Geez Seth... way to ruin a party.
Hey baby... nice list. ;D
We all have regrets. I try, really hard, to not dwell on mine. Doesn't sound like you're exactly dwelling on them, more like having fun listing them. :-)
oooh, you've got me considering my own list....first thing that comes to mind:
Not dangling my feet in the Princess Diana Memorial (yes, it's allowed) when my son asked me to join him simply because I found the water too cold.
For some reason, this really bothers me today.
If you want to do a make up session for "Seattle to Portland" via automobile... I'll be in Portland in like 18 days or something like that :-D
[:-)
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