if You're a Bird, I'm a Bird

For a long time I thought the idea of romance and soul-mates was something of the past.

That only people in the "Gone With The Wind" era knew what it meant to fall in love with someone head over heels and spend their entire mortal life together.

Then I realized that idea seems to be cultural.

I'm not saying my parents don't love each other (I'm certain they do, they just bicker like a dog and cat) but it feels like in the Russian culture people get married to get married and have kids.

Tradition takes over romance.

I'm fairly certain there are a hundred other cultures where tradition trumps any emotion or feeling of complete and utter love just like the Russians seem to do.

I never really understood why someone would sacrifice happiness just to fulfill a biological need to procreate.

I would rather wait to meet the ONE and spend the rest of my life in bliss than to cage myself in a life long prison sentence.

Life is more than just repopulating the earth. What ever happened to falling in love with someone who is also your best friend?

Sometimes we should abandon tradition and be selfish...at least that's my story and I'm stickin to it.


PS, I should mention that I just watched "The Notebook" for the umpteenth time (and cried again).

DAY 3

You would think eating gluten free would be somewhat of an easy task, seeing as how everyone seems to be on SOME sort of diet these days....

not so much.

When you're used to eating pastas, breads and other non gluten friendly things, life becomes slightly more complicated when you want a snack and all you can eat is....well...not what you really want.

I find myself feeling a crap load better overall, but also, I am starving an hour after I eat anything!

My metabolism has always been kicked into high gear, but now all it has to burn is foods high in protein and raw metabolic material like fruits, nuts and dairy.

The fridge is stocked full of meats and cheeses, and the pantry has been gutted and refilled with rice and corn based products.

I find myself hiding Larabars in my nightstand drawers and in my purse, and M&Ms in my pockets just to keep my body happy when I haven't eaten in an hour or two.

This could get expensive, but so far it seems very worth it.

Gonna do this for two weeks and see how it goes.

And now, I need a snack.

Linda's little life lessons

I wish people would stop trying too hard. In general. If you're trying so hard in anything that it becomes so insincere and turns into annoying, you should stop while you're ahead.

Mostly speaking about people that try to impress others so much that they end up coming off as complete jackholes. All you're really doing is showing someone that who you are on a regular basis just isn't enough for that person or (god forbid) you're just not right for each other.

Save your breath (and money), there's someone out there that will notice you and appreciate you when you're not even trying.

Lesson in life #46

Gluten-Free

So, on a whim, today my cousin and I figured out that maybe all my health issues have come from the fact that my body doesn't like me eating wheat.

Upon further research and digging, it turns out, one of the most common problems celiac people (those who cannot tolerate wheat) experience is vitamin deficiency that could never be explained by any other factor...ie my b12 deficiency.

I'll definitely go get the blood test to make sure that's what it is, but today, I'm on day one of a gluten-free diet.

Thank god for Trader Joes and their easy to read labels, because otherwise I'd be standing in the fresh meat section at Ralphs looking like a Somalian child only Sally Struthers could help...for just 26cents per day, I may add.

Let's see how well this works out.

Naughty by nature.

Are men just programmed to be polygamous or are they just all cheating asses?

This was the topic of discussion a few days ago. 

I've met maybe a handful of guys that haven't at some point cheated in their relationship. And even they will admit to thinking about it at times.

To spare you the entire debate, I'll just say that we came to the conclusion that dudes are put on this planet to spread the seed...as much as possible. Which means staying with one girl for their entire life is going against everything in their nature. 

I suppose. 

I still think most dudes are just using that as a sorry ass excuse to be a d-bag. 

:)

Love come

Amazing song by Sarah McLauchlan


Love come
Light up the shadows
Let the beauty of you enter in
For I have hungered for a tender touch
A long and lonely time
I've seen much more than I want to
So much anger
So much pain
A line is drawn and lives are torn apart
The wound's too hard to heal

Love has taken me in
Lifted my load
And in this empty space a wonder grows
A dream of some kind of peace I could hold up is true
I never knew anything about love before you

You can call, I come running
I can sense the flood before it breaks
And I'd do anything to dry your tears
To let you know you're safe

Love has taken me in
Lifted my load
And in this empty space a wonder grows
And I dream of some kind of peace I can hold up as true
I never knew anything about love before you

Love come light up the shadows
Let the beauty of you enter in
For I have hungered for a tender touch
A long and lonely time.

My personal fort

Bringing down walls you've spent decades building, is really fucking difficult.

It may feel like torture, but if it's the right person helping you take them apart brick by brick...I must admit, makes it a little bit easier.

Maybe some day really soon, I'll see outside my castle of walls.