Tygher Says

Resolve to Make 2010 a Happier Year.

I’m working on my Happiness Project, and you could have one, too! Everyone’s project will look different, but it’s the rare person who can’t benefit. Join in -- no need to catch up, just jump in right now. Each Friday’s post will help you think about your own happiness project.

Last year was a tough year for a lot of people, but January brings a fresh start. Ask yourself: what would make you happier? Cleaner closets, less yelling, more fun? Make it happen in 2010!

In 2010, each month, I’ll propose an area of life to tackle, and once a week, over the next four weeks, I’ll suggest concrete, manageable resolutions to help you boost your happiness – and I’ll periodically remind you to stick with them. Also, assuming I manage to pull this off, I’m going to do a series of short videos on the proposed resolutions and why they matter.

To help people stick with their happiness projects, I’ve set up a sign-up sheet so you can add your name to the 2010 Year of Happiness challenge. It’s worth taking a second actually to sign up; studies show that doing an action, like signing this pledge, will help you hold yourself accountable for your resolutions.

The areas of focus will be:
• January--Body
• February--Love
• March--Work
• April--Money
• May--Mindfulness
• June--Order
• July--Spirit
• August--Fun
• September--Parenthood
• October--Friends
• November--Attitude
• December--Boot Camp Perfect

Of course, these categories are just my suggestions. You might choose to focus on very different areas for your happiness project.

January 1 is always a good time to make a resolution – 44% of Americans make New Year’s resolutions – so by adding your name now, you’re committed to taking action when January 1 rolls around.

Also, it’s so exciting -- to kick-start your 2010 happiness project, you can check out the posts, tips, and tools over at the Woman’s Day Happiness Project page. Womansday.com has an entire area devoted to happiness projects, so check it out and get inspired. You can read accounts of other people's happiness projects here.

Now, some people argue with the term “happiness” and maintain that it’s not possible to be “happy.” But even people who can’t agree on what it means to be “happy” can agree that most people can be “happier.” And that’s the goal of the 2010 Year of Happiness challenge – in some way, to make yourself happier.

Join in.

Life is hectic. Can't find my Symbol - it's been a month, since the day after I fell on the sidewalk and scraped my leg so bad I couldn't think for the pain. Yay road rash. It's got to be somewhere in this house. I've had a dream that I saw it. Just can't find it.

School is almost done for the semester. I have a paper due tomorrow .. and have to work today and tomorrow. I have no hope for this being a stellar example of my writing.

I recently rediscovered my old poetry blog on Livejournal, and moved everything worth keeping over to blogger, since I can't access that account. I think I might get back to posting poetry now and again. I miss it.

I want another job. I'm starting to get sick of the Mosaic thing. More the expectation that I can do the same work in 5 hours a week that I used to do in 10. Sorry, that's not how it works. but there's not a place hiring right now. I wish things would turn around, and fast.

My birthday is this month. I'm going to be 35. That's so old .. but I don't feel that old, except that I found an old picture of me, from 9 years ago when I had a -brief- stint at Scarowinds. Like, 1 day. I didn't go back because people were beating up the Scharacters and their guards, and that was my job. 10 years and 50 pounds ago. Sheesh!

Dear Very Nice Indian Man at Capitol One

Thank you so very much for being pleasant, and understanding. It has not been my experience that dealing with credit card companies is an easy or pleasant thing, but you have restored my faith in your company by working with me, and making the process of dealing with this unwanted monthly charge much less stressful.

~~~~~

Dear Lady at Easy Saver or Whatever Stupid Service ProFlowers Tricked me Into

Thank you for not arguing with me or trying to convince me to keep the service I will never use and did not want. Thank you for being efficient and not overly cheerful. Thank you for making the cancellation of said unwanted service quick and painless.

~~~~~

Dear Self

Don’t order flowers from ProFlowers any more. You like the flowers from 1800-Flowers better anyway, and they’ve never tried to trick you into some crap recurring charge for a service you won’t use.

Now get back to your homework.

Yes, it's been another long drought of posting, because life and my own scattered-brain-ness conspire against me. Lots has happened. I finished the semester without committing a felony; we traveled to Michigan again, enduring flight delays on both ends of the trip; I applied to, was accepted by and began taking classes at another school at a third of the cost of the previous one; I had my hours cut in half again at work, and got a job teaching at the best little yarn shop in Texas - oh wait no, North Carolina *grins*; we saw several wonderful musicals, including Mamma Mia and The Color Purple ... and probably a hundred other things.

We're planning to sell the townhouse, finally. It's been something we wanted to do for a while, but the situation didn't allow for it at the time. Now, we're getting rid of some furniture - the bed in the back bedroom, which is going to be Jason's office, the red chair, and probably some of the smaller bookcases. We're giving the two dressers back to Momma, and will probably keep the white one from the kitchen in Jason's new office as well as the chrome yarn storage. I want to take out the tall bookcases entirely, though I'm unsure where we'd keep them, because I think we should keep them. We're gonna put the rocking chair upstairs, the stripey chair in Jason's office, and keep the recliner and the blue chair I think in the living room, and will likely get a loveseat and coffee table from IKEA.

I love IKEA. I haven't mentioned that here before, but I love it, muchly. We've gotten two lamps - we need more - and a bookcase and a laptop desk, as well as some very awesome laundry hampers and other little things, and I've been -very- pleased with the quality.

So anyway, that's our plan. I'm looking into a cleaning service to come tend to the house, at least for a couple months. It's decently inexpensive it looks like, as long as we're not contracted for a long period of time and thus forced to spend a lot of money, and I just don't like to clean as much as needs to be done to have the house showable.

And of course, there's the matter of finding a new house. We've been looking a bit. We have an idea of what we want. An older house likely, in a neighborhood not a development. Single family. Preferably 4 bedrooms so we can each have an office/creative space and still have a real guest room. Two baths is preferable, but one is fine for us. The kitchen needs to be functional, and preferably should be an eat-in kitchen. I want a window over the kitchen sink, but will make do with a window anywhere in the kitchen if I have to. I'd like a pantry as well. A garage is also a plus, but not required - and not for storage, but for actually using as a garage. And a place for the litter box. Being at Larissa's new house showed us how wonderful -that- is. A laundry room on the same floor as the master bedroom is also important. Jason has converted me to that. Oh, and linen closets. Definitely necessary. As for the rest, I'm not picky. Wouldn't mind a living room, family room, formal dining room, but those really are not the focus for me. One room I can entertain in works for me.

This was posted on the RTH Ravelry group, and I thought it was a pretty informative questionnaire. most aren't, so I'm reposting here.

1. What is your name and does it have a special meaning? My mother named me Tania Ann. To my knowledge, it has no special meaning, except the middle name is hers. I changed the spelling to Anne. I like how it looks better.
2. How old are you? I will be 35 in October.
3. When is your birthday and/or what is your astrological sign? October 29th. In Western astrology I’m a Scorpio, in Eastern, a Tiger.
4. Where do you live (country/state)? South Carolina, USA
5. Do you have siblings? I have a brother 12 years younger, and a sister 8 years younger
6. Do you keep up with current trends (fashion, technology, knitting trends, etc)? Not usually. I’m usually just a tad behind the times, but I like it that way.
7. Share an embarrassing moment or funny story. Uh .. I have a bad memory. I don’t remember any.
8. What is a good food you tried recently? Haven’t tried anything really new, but I’m big on the trying new things.
9. What is your favorite Drink (alcoholic or non)? Chocolate milk, hands down.
10. If you were a crayon what color would you be? Hooray for Wikipedia - I’d probably be Plum, or Fern, or Cadet Blue.
11. Have you read a good book recently? Besides Shorn, no. I’m woefully behind in my reading.
12. Who is your favorite actor? That changes too often to pick one. I love Johnny Depp though.
13. What is your favorite new fashion trend? A-line skirts are my new favorite, not that it’s new to the world.
14. What are your favorite TV shows? Any CSI, NCIS, Bones, Firefly, Dollhouse, Castle, Numbers, American Idol, Survivor, Amazing Race .. the list goes on.
15. Do you have a favorite new song? Hrm. My recent obsession is Adam Lambert’s version of Mad World.
16. What is your favorite movie? Again, too many to name. I love the Pirate’s trilogy, the Harry Potter movies, the LOTR trilogy, Serenity, Wanted, the Narnia movies .. but there’s a ton of other ones too.
17. What are your favorite movies? See above
18. What activity do you love most in the world? Traveling.
19. Are you married or in a relationship? Married, going on 8 years this August 18th.
20. What is your living situation (house, apartment, dorm, etc)? I live in a 1k-square-foot townhome with my husband and the cat who we serve.
21. Do you have any children? (ages?) Newp. And have no plans to have them.
22. Tell us about your best friend. My oldest best friend I’ve known since second grade. We’re very different now in a lot of ways, but I still keep in touch with her - thanks to Facebook - and get to be involved in her life with her kids and such that way. My newest best friend is far younger than I am, but we are like twins in so many ways it’s not funny, so the age difference doesn’t interfere .. though it’s amusing when he talks about something I don’t understand.
23. Name one thing you admire about someone on this forum. homegrownrose’s ability to take care of two young children, especially when one of them needs so much extra care and attention.
24. Do you wear makeup? Sometimes I wear that bare minerals stuff. I like it better than anything else.
25. If money were no object, what would you do with your life? We would spend a lot of time traveling the world, exploring new places.
26. Is your desk messy or organized? Right now? It’s a bit disheveled, but I try to keep it, my kitchen and my altar organized.
27. Do you have a hidden talent? If I do, it’s hidden even from me.
28. Are you athletic at all? Not particularly.
29. Do you have pets? If you can call her a pet, yes. That lovely feline in my Ravatar. The beautiful Isis.
30. What sports do you like/watch/participate in? I watch many .. love hockey, and even football - american that is.
31. What color is your hair? Naturally? Sort of a warm cocoa. I’m prone to dying it with redder tones or putting honey/caramel highlights in it.
32. What color are your eyes? Brown.
33. What is your religion or faith? (Answer only if you would like to share. Answers are not up for debate - just sharing who we are as individuals)? The short answer is that I am Pagan. I call myself a hearth witch, and my spiritual beliefs run towards Animism.
34. Did you go to college, or do you want to? I got an AS in 1995, then just got another AA last year, and now I’m working on my BA with plans for a Master’s afterwards.
35. What did you/ are going to major in? My AS is in Computer Information Systems. My AA is in General Studies. My BA is in Humanities, unless I have to change schools again. My Masters will be in Distance Education and Administration.
36. What is your profession / skill? I currently work as a merchandising representatives for the major movie studios.
37. Do you collect anything? Do yarn and needles count? Those. I love the devil duckies. I’ve become addicted to Jim Shore stuff, though mainly the Halloween pieces. Some of his others are amazing too. Jason would say I collect tea. I want to collect teapots, but haven’t gotten any I really would display yet. Books, though we’re trying to get away from that. I used to collect teddy bears, and still have a number of them. Oh, and cookbooks.
38. If you could model yourself after any person in history who would it be? Huh. I’ll get back to you on this.
39. If you could change your name, what would it be? Why would I change my name? It’s who I am.
40. What causes are you interested in (charities, awareness, etc)? Caring for animals, gay/lesbian rights, women’s health.
41. What is your favorite website? Ravelry. Seriously. I could live without anything else, but I love Ravelry.
42. What is your favorite ice cream flavor? Mint chocolate chip.
43. Do you have a flickr account? (If it is public, link please!) I do, but I rarely use it. I have Photobucket and Fotki too, and rarely use them either. I should do something about that.
44. Do you have a blog? (If it is public, link please!) I have two. One for life, one for knitting.
45. What languages do you speak? Well? Just English. I took Spanish in high school and college, and managed to understand enough to get by in Spain, but I can’t think in it enough to consider myself nearly fluent.
46. How did you choose your screen name?Tygher has been my online name since I’ve been online. I have always had an obsession with tigers. Tiger and tyger were taken, so I got creative with the spelling. And well .. I knit.*
47. Do you have a myspace or facebook page? (if it is public, link please!) Facebook yes. Myspace I have but it’s empty. Just there to keep tabs of a couple musical artists.
48. What homemaking skills do you want to learn? I want to be better at scheduling my time and keeping organized.
49. What shampoo do you use? Currently VO5 Strengthening. I change it about every time I buy shampoo.
50. Is there anything you consider yourself an expert in? Cussing? No, not even that. I feel I’m good at a lot of things, but by no means expert.
51. If you had a whole day of free time, what would you do? Oh wow. Probably not know what to do with myself. Knit a little, play EQ2 (my newest obsession) or Wii, or both. maybe go to the botanical garden and take pictures.
52. What is a major life goal for you? I want to be financially stable enough that I could not work for a month and not have to worry. I also would like to have a horse, and maybe some sheep/goats/alpaca.
53. Do you know what you want to be when you “grow up” or is there something you would like to do that is different from what you’re doing now? (no matter your age) Hm. I want to teach online. I want to put some of the ideas I have about how online classes are run into use.
54. Do you prefer the city or the country? Country,though not so far that a trip to the grocery store is an ordeal.
55. What is your most commonly used phrase? Right now it’s “Really?”
56. Do you prefer talking or texting? Texting, to be honest. But I write texts like mini emails, and don’t use text shorthand.
57. Do you like reading? I love to read. just can’t seem to sit still long enough to do so.
58. What is/was your favorite subject in school? English/Literature.
59. What type of person are you, in your own words? I’m a mother bear.
60. What kinds of things do you like to do with your friends? Knit. Go to the beach. Go to the mountains. Travel almost anywhere. Go out to dinner. Have dinner at home.
61. What do you like to do for fun on your own? Knit. Play PC and/or video games. Cook. Watch tv/movies.
62. Have you ever broken a bone? My hand. I caught a baseball bat being swung at my head.
63. Describe your dream house. Not too big. Maybe 2-3 extra bedrooms. A real library/office. A crafting room. A big living room. I want to have a pool, and it has to have an updated kitchen. A walk in pantry. Hardwood floors - none of this carpeting crud. Lots of natural light, and hopefully a pretty view. Flowerbeds and a kitchen garden too.
64. Do you have a favorite Starbucks drink? I love their Chai lattes.
65. How do you spend your days usually? I get up and get ready for the day, spend some time on the internet. if I have to work, I go to work a few hours, then come home, clean if something needs cleaning, do some laundry, and play EQ2 a while. I cook dinner, have dinner with hubby, then we watch tv until he goes to bed.
66. If you could make a wish come true for someone, what would it be? For my mother not to have to live in constant pain.
67. What do you value most in a person? Honesty.
68. Where would you like to live? I never can answer this. I want it to be somewhere that I can enjoy my two loves - the beach and the mountains - without too much traveling, but other than that, I’m not picky.
69. What was the last random act of kindness you received or witnessed (here or in real life in any way)? I got two RAK packages just today! Some tea and honey from fasola4mi and some yarn and a blank journal from knittyknotty.
70. Have you ever been hypnotized? No, but I think it’d be cool in the right circumstances.
71. Are you sarcastic? I can be. I try not to be, but it’s so natural.
72. What is your favorite season of the year? Autumn, hands down.
73. Wat do you appreciate most about your friends? Thet they put up with my oddities and still love me.
74. What is your favorite quote? It can vary. My current one is from the tv show Numb3rs: “Whatever God is, it’s in how we’re there for eachother.”
75. Where would your dream vacation be? Traveling the Mediterranean by sea.
76. What is your favorite animal? As a pet, I have to say cats and dogs pretty equally. But animals in general? I’ve always been fascinated by elephants.
77. What is your greatest fear? Being alone. I have massive phobias of bees and planes (not flying, just the planes themselves) .. but being alone is definitely my greatest fear.
78. What is your favorite scent? Blooming lilacs.
79. What character from a book or movie are you most like? I really don’t know if I could pick just one.
80. Would you bungee jump? Sure, why not?
81. Something you are looking forward to. Graduating with my Master’s degree.
82. What creative things do you do (list any and all from cooking to sewing to scrapping to writing to knitting! the sky is the limit!) I knit. I write poetry. I bake and cook. I aspire to write fiction, but haven’t really practiced it. I love to take pictures.
83. Do you have any other hobbies / extra-curriculars? Photography. Not that I think I’m really good at it, but I’m a big-ol’ shutterbug and I love my digital SLR.
84. Do you usually wear jewelry? Earrings. I can’t wear my wedding rings currently. They shrank. Shrunk?
85. When you want to pamper yourself what do you do? Get a manicure/pedicure. Maybe get a massage too.
86. Do you have any scars? Several. They mostly have stories, except the recent ones. Those are all from the cat.
87. Are you an early riser or a late nighter? Late nighter.
88. What is your dream profession? Dream profession? I want to own a much-loved knit shop.
89. What jobs have you had up to now? I’ve worked as a cashier in two places, had a couple short-term secretarial jobs, then did internet tech support, and then got the job I have now.
90. What was the most frightening OR exciting moment of your life? Getting on the Greyhound bus that took me and my backpack of clothes and stuff all the way from new Hampshire to South Carolina to meet my now husband. We’d only ever talked on the phone before, and I left everything I know to move down here on faith alone that it would work out.
91. Would you rather go for a walk or a drive? A drive, usually, because I dislike insects.
92. Do you have allergies? Just the usual pollen allergies that spring up in spring and fall.
93. Do you walk or talk in your sleep? Not that Jason has told me. I don’t remember conversations he has with me in the mornings, though.
94. How many countries have you traveled to? Four. Canada, Spain, England and the USA.
95. How are you leaving your mark on the world? I’m not sure yet. I’ll let you know when I figure it out.
96. Out of these 10 countries, which one would you like to visit? : Germany, France, England, Italy. Sweden, Spain, Turkey, Egypt, Australia, Switzerland. Well, I’ve already been to Spain and England. I’d like to go to Italy for certain. then maybe France, Germany, Turkey, Egypt and Australia.
97. Tell us something about you that we don’t already know. I almost didn’t graduate high school because of my stubbornness. I skipped school the day of an oral report I was supposed to do. I had to come to school after classes were done for Seniors and present it to the teacher or I wouldn’t have gotten my diploma.
98. Are you superstitious? Certainly.
99. What do you hope your life will look like in 5 years? I hope I will have finished my degree and will have found a position teaching for a good school. And we’ll have been at least to peru, which is our gift to ourselves for finishing our Bachelor’s degrees.
100. What do you hope your life will look like in 10 years? I want to be happy, teaching still, and able to travel with my husband whenever we feel the urge. I want us to be financially stable and both in careers we enjoy, not just jobs that pay the bills.

In case it wasn't already abundantly clear, I am a domestic goddess. Our disposal has been non-functional for three-four days. I fixed it today. The culprit? A measuring spoon.

Been a bit since I posted a decent update. I've got no excuse, other than laziness. but I have been busy-ish.

Playing EQ2 some, now and again. I'm liking it lots better than WoW, if only because WoW really had become like a second job .. and if I'm going to have a job, it's going to pay me, not the other way around. EQ's world is a little more .. I dunno .. gentle? there's something about it that I'm liking a lot more. It's bigger-seeming in many ways. I'm not going to admit that's probably because my favorite characters are teeny tiny. But they have wings! How cool is that! But I'm glad I switched. I might go back to WoW some day .. but that's not now.

I've been knitting more lately, but those updates are in my knitting blog.

School's finally done. Just the waiting now. I don't think I aced any of my finals, but I did well enough that I'm not worried I might fail. My only concern is Ms. Hale's grade, since she now thinks I'm rude and uncaring. F her though. You don't ignore a student's question. Just because I didn't email her privately isn't an excuse. And neither is 'WebTycho is flaky' .. because if I'm responsible for logging in every day, or at least a few times a week, so should the teacher be, right? Right. Grammar and Myth & Culture I'm not worried about, though I know I flubbed several parts of the Myth & Culture exam. It's the names that got me. Oh well.

The house looks so good now. With the walls painted a glorious chocolate brown .. like, milk chocolate. I'm not kidding .. it looks a lot more home-y. Warmer, more cozy. And with the whole downstairs except for the bedrooms all one color, it actually seems bigger. And Jason and I can actually eat at the kitchen table now. Imagine that! And we do, almost every night. There have been a few nights that we didn't, but for the most part, we go eat dinner together.

Spent last Saturday visiting family. First Steph and Joe and Savannah, which was fun. She's going to be in third grade next year. Third! OMG! Then we made the obligatory visit to Mike and his new fiance Katy. Who is .. nice. A little odd maybe, but nice. Definitely a change from Kim. I'm a bit unsure about the living conditions .. but at least they have a place to live. I look forward to seeing more improvement with Mike. He does seem better than he was for a while.

The mystery plant from a few posts ago was in fact bamboo. The weather or some random person knocked it over, so I pulled it up. It's 8-feet tall. Eight Feet Tall. WTF?!!? That's some insane growth, I'm telling you. I'm hoping that it won't try to continue to grow from the spot it sprouted from. Don't exactly know how bamboo works. Just that I've seen it sprouting through asphalt.

Ta-da’s:

* Wake at 4am with unexplainable nausea
* Stumble downstairs, find phenergan
* Have a moment of lucidity, only take half of a phenergan
* Sit up sipping cool water until the nausea passes, and I’m unable to keep my head up
* Stumble back upstairs and prop self up in bed to doze until nausea is gone
* Sleep in a medicated fog until 10am
* Get up, showered and dressed
* Make appointment for final final exam
* Take final final exam without angsting over getting a perfect grade
* Make lunch - tuna sammiches!
* Plug cell phone in to be charged

In some ways, I rather hope you find this, Miss Hale. And I will not call you Doctor just because you got your doctorate. That doesn't mean you've earned even that much respect from me.

You are childish, and unreliable. You showed very little real interest in actually teaching a class. You did very little to foster real communication between students. Online courses are problematic, because there is really only text to judge a student's effort by. When I take an online course, I expect a certain amount of reliability from a teacher. When I log into a class and see a post that uses "*rolls eyes*" in it, I rather lose respect for the teacher posting such drivel.

I asked a simple question in the online forum so that anyone else who had the same question might be able to benefit from the answer. This is respectful to my fellow students. I don't see what the big deal was with posting exactly what you emailed to me far earlier than ten days after my original posting.

Web Tycho can be unreliable, and sometimes it does not even show me when there is a new message.

That quote would give any student in your class grounds to appeal any grade they received if it were at all late. You cannot expect students to hold to a particular standard when you do not yourself. If I as a student am expected to check the conferences -daily- and remain involved with the discussions, should you not also hold yourself to that same standard? This is not high school. This is not 'Do as I say and not as I do." This is college. You are an instructor at a supposedly respected university. I expect better. I am paying your salary.

I will -never- take another class you teach. I can certainly promise you that. and you'd better believe I am going to look forward to seeing my final exam, considering your personal opinion of me. Have no doubt if I feel it was lowered due to your personal opinion of me, I will appeal it. I will do everything in my power to see that you understand that you are not without responsibility to your students.

I am only sad that I was forced to complete my course evaluation before this occurrence. I can tell you I would not have given you near as good marks as I had, based on the way you have behaved in these final two weeks of class. Did you decide that once the evaluations were completed, you no longer had to act like a professional? That you had no further responsibility to your students? I'm sorry, you're wrong.

That, Ms Hale, is why I will not call you Doctor. Nor will I consider you a teacher, or a professor. You do not seem interested in teaching. You seem interested only in instructing. In bringing students through a class where they can regurgitate information they will never remember. A teacher takes interest in the education of their students.

I am very, very glad to be finished with you, and your class.

"Easy peanut butter cocoa flavored cookies without turning on the oven."

Ingredients:
2 cups white sugar
3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup margarine
1/2 cup milk

1 pinch salt
3 cups quick cooking oats
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions:
1. In a saucepan bring sugar, cocoa, margarine, milk, and salt to a rapid boil for 1 minute.
2. Add quick cooking oats, peanut butter, and vanilla; mix well.
3. Working quickly, drop by teaspoonfuls onto waxed paper, and let cool.

.. what this plant might be? It's growing up from underneath our patio stones.

Ta-da's
* Get up, showered and dressed
* Make bed
* Work - *only took me like an hour or so, since I did some of the work on friday. woohoo!*
* Homework for Myth & Culture
* Study guide for Grammar - not finished, but I'm working through it
* Water plants since we got exactly no rain

To-do's
* Laundry 1 2 3
* Drink water 1 2 3
* Scrub baseboards/corners in guest bathroom
* Finish finding homes for or tossing everything that was in etagere/dresser removed from guest bathroom

Little Things, by Danny Elfman - From the movie 'Wanted'

Have you heard the news?
Bad things come in twos.
But I never knew
'Bout the little things.

Every single day
Things get in my way.
Someone has to pay
For the little things.

And I'm through with the stories
And I'm sick to my shoes.
And the walking and the talking,
It's got nothing to do with
The final solution.
It's a box full of tricks.
And I'm through with repairs
When there's nothing to fix,
When there's nothing to fix,
When there's nothing to fix,
And it all comes down to you.

Let the headlines wait,
Armies hesitate.
I can deal with fate
But not the little things.

Armageddon may
Arrive anyday.
I can't get away
From the little things.

With a pile of cares
And a bucket of tears,
I could look at the sunlight
And I feel no fear.
With a mountain of maybes
And some Icarus wings,
And I'm armed with delusions
And one little thing,
And that one little thing,
And that one little thing,
And it all comes down to you.

Have you heard the news?
Bad things come in twos.
But I never knew
'Bout the little things.

Every single day
Things get in my way.
Someone has to pay
For the little things.

I dreamed that I got called to a meeting with my boss and a bunch of people I don't know to discuss some secret handshake think they were calling flair, and then I didn't even get one, and then I left, and was killing monsters like from EQ2, and some guy tagged one and then over his head came a chat bubble with 'lol jk' in it. I picked up the strange little plant mob, decided it was too cool to kill, and put it down, and he killed it. Then I walked back to go to my car and almost ran into this guy and apologized that I was 'lost in thought' ... and that's all I remember.