rants & raves...

reasons #127-129 why germany is cooler than the states:

number one-the H&M's are way better. 4 floors people, come on now. roseville only has one. and it's lacking in the quantity department...

number two-you are allowed to be drunk in public. there is no chance of you getting arrested if you are stumbling down the street, walking around with alcohol, or yelling out for the nearest mcdonalds or döner.

speaking of döner...

number three-döner. enough said. the closest thing to it in california is a greek gyro. just doesn't cut it.

number four-cheap coffee. so much cheaper here than in the states. except for starbucks of course because well, it's starbucks.

number five-all of the bikes! oh i love it so much. so bike friendly. must get a bike when i go home.

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reasons #313-316 why the states are cooler than germany:

number one-helpful employees. see, even though the H&M is way better, when i was in the dressing room and somebody had put an XS skirt on an L hanger, an overly pushy sales room assistant would have been awesome right then. mama's got hips, and they ain't fittin' in an XS.

(btdub, the above sentance recognizes that [fittin'] is not a word, however [ain't] is acceptable. hmmm.)

number two-in the glorious u-s-of-a people have the freedom to smoke, yet it's in controlled areas and has restrictions in public. everyone here smokes everywhere, all the time.

number three-plutos salads. ohhh maaa gawwd. girlfriend is misses you, plutos.

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oh, and for the record...i don't actually have an ongoing list of pros and cons about germany and the united states that reaches into tripple digits. those numbers just came to mind.

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okay, onto my next rant.

ignorant people on facebook making rude comments about today's tragedy. 

i'm not talking about actual facebook "friends" because i would have deleted them. 

no, i'm talking about ignorant people commenting on my "friends" status' offering who were offering condolences towards japan. uugghhhh anger. honestly. and it's stupid to even let it bother me, but i think because i was so stressed out and anxious from all of the news reports, that it really was just adding fuel to the fire.

but i am okay now. 

my family is fine, and my heart is heavy for those in japan.

to take my mind off of it i went shopping.

apparently, natural disasters lead me to shopping.

once upon a time, i used to be addicted to shopping. 

literally, addicted.

but there is nothing to send a girl running from the stores like being knee deep in twenty three hundred dollars of debt.

yes, that really happened. 

before i turned twenty.

yikes.

but now, shopping for me is good.

 i only buy things when i really, really need them and really, really want them. but it is so hard for me to shop because i freak out thinking the debt monster will  grab me again.

bad analogy?

you bet!

but back to natural disasters...

it just makes me realize my own mortality and that life really is precious and unpredictable and it makes me want to see the things i want to see, go where i want to go, and tell people i love, that i love them.

reminiscing on places i love on the coast and out in the middle of the pacific:

++haystack rock at cannon beach, oregon-my most favorite place in the whole world++

++the young family in maui-dad and kate's wedding, 2006++

++little river inn-mendocino, northern california++

all places minimally hit with a tsunami. and by minimally, i mean min-i-mall-y.

way to terrify us over here in europe, news.

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in other news...

the sun was being a tease today.

first she was there in the morning,

yet ran away and replaced herself with cloudy skies dropping rain,

then came back for dinner.

dirty little minx.