Quote of the Week

Stealing this from one of my mom's blogs... because it reminded me of Jim and everything he embodied.

"The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tape parades for us, no monuments created in our honor. But that does not lessen our possible impact, for there are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. It's overwhelming to consider the continuous opportunities there are to make our love felt." -- Leo Buscaglia

Words to Remember...

When it all seems impossible, focus on the point in front of you. Follow it like a hawk and forget everything else.

-- Carlos Castaneda

Quote of the Week

I would seriously like to know if the writers of Grey's Anatomy have a secret look into my life and mind that I don't know about... last week's episode ended on this note...


Lexie: [narrating] Grief may be a thing we all have in common, but it looks different on everyone.
Mark: It isn't just death we have to grieve. It's life. It's loss. It's change.
Alex: And when we wonder why it has to suck so much sometimes, has to hurt so bad. The thing we gotta try to remember is that it can turn on a dime.
Izzie: That's how you stay alive. When it hurts so much you can't breathe, that's how you survive.
Derek: By remembering that one day, somehow, impossibly, you won't feel this way. It won't hurt this much.
Bailey: Grief comes in its own time for everyone, in its own way.
Owen: So the best we can do, the best anyone can do, is try for honesty.
Meredith: The really crappy thing, the very worst part of grief is that you can't control it.
Arizona: The best we can do is try to let ourselves feel it when it comes.
Callie: And let it go when we can.
Meredith: The very worst part is that the minute you think you're past it, it starts all over again.
Cristina: And always, every time, it takes your breath away.
Meredith: There are five stages of grief. They look different on all of us, but there are always five.
Alex: Denial.
Derek: Anger.
Bailey: Bargaining.
Lexie: Depression.
Richard: Acceptance.


I'm pretty sure I'm still living in denial. I wake up in the middle of the night and, much like the character Cristina did at the end of the episode when she said 'George O'Malley is dead,' it dawns on me... James (Jim, he'll always be Jim) Glenn Durgan is dead. He's gone. He's really gone.

Random Quote

From a random animation...

"Y'know, evil comes in many forms, whether it be a man-eating cow or Joseph Stalin, but you can't let the package hide the pudding! Evil is just plain bad! You don't cotton to it. You gotta smack it in the nose with the rolled-up newspaper of justice! Bad dog! Bad dog! And you don't do it for money. No! You do it for love! You know, I've learned something this week... on justice and on friendship, there is no price. But there are established credit limits." (Emphasis added)

Missing Him

Sometimes I remember a quote from a movie that didn't mean much at the time, but hits home now... like this quote from Armageddon that shows how I feel when I'm flying back and forth to Colorado...

Harry : Come on, God, just a little help. It's all I'm asking.
Max: I think we're close enough, He might have heard ya.

I keep thinking the higher in the sky my plane is the closer to Heaven I might be... thing is... crying randomly at 30,000 feet in the sky makes the strangers next to you more than a bit nervous.

Another thing about this movie that I've always liked... every time I here the song below I think of Jim. I always have. From the very first week I met him. I love the soundtrack to the movie and I had popped the disc in the rental car for one of our trips over to Idaho Falls to catch a new movie. Unfortunately, I forgot to take it out. A couple of years later Jim found the disc on sale somewhere and bought it for me (because that's the way he was :) ).



I just want to stay in this moment forever with him, still. I was in the parking lot of our last kiss last week. The trees were in full bloom like they were this time last year. The feelings were overwhelming. It was like he knew he wasn't coming back. He stopped his car behind mine to give me one more kiss before leaving for the airport. He pulled me close to him and just held me for a moment. As we pulled away from that last embrace, he kissed my forehead and wiped the tear from my cheek. If I'd have only known that was going to be the first of many tears I would have begged him to stay home for one more weekend.

Quote of the Week

"Few will have the greatness to bend history; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation ... It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is thus shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."

~ Robert F. Kennedy ~

Quote of the Week

"The future is ours to shape, but the past, the past is memories set in stone."

Linda Hamilton's character in "Home for the Holidays*."

*And no, I'm not a Lifetime chick... I just was flipping channels when I walked in the door hoping to find something to buzz along in the background... instead I settled on this classic on AMC tonight...

Only the Best Movie Ever

I was watching Laws of Attraction this morning.

It's a movie I've not seen all the way through in one sitting. I've seen bits and pieces here and there, but never really seen it from start to finish. I still can't say that I've seen the beginning, but at least I finally got to see at least from the middle on.

The movie has a character in it that reminded me of the rock star "Catfight" in what can only be called one of the best movies ever... My Chauffeur.

So of course I had to look My Chauffeur up on the web to see if it was the same actor. It wasn't. But the nice thing about imbd.com is that it gives a list of quotes from movies... I'm such a child of the 80s that I sat here reading through these and laughing until I cried... that and my dear mother will still quote the second set listed below... it's kind of a running inside family joke...

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Catfight: Jesus jumpin' Christ. Look.
Bimbo: What?
Catfight: A blue woman with a blue dog.
Beebop: No.
Catfight: Yes.
Boom Boom: She ain't blue.
Catfight: Her hair's blue.
Beebop: That counts.
Catfight: Dog's blue.
Bimbo: That's 20,000 points.
Boom Boom: Gotta get her underwear.
Catfight: I'll get 'em.
[growls]
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Casey: [Southern Belle Accent] My, my, it's hot. But thank God it's not sticky. I just hate it when it's sticky. Listen to silly me. A sticky desert. That's as foolish as a... an intelligent woman. How ridiculous. What nonsense. God, I miss Tara.
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McBride: What are you doing?
Casey: I came for a job.
McBride: This is Brentwood Limousines Ltd.
Casey: I know, I came to be a driver.
[the elder driver is getting visibly excited]
McBride: Madame, if you continue masturbating my driver, you are going to be a murderer.
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McBride: Giles.
Giles: Yes, sir.
McBride: Get her a uniform
Casey: [Chasing after Giles] Hey, slow down. What's your problem? Where ya goin', Babe? It is "Babe", isn't it?
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Giles: You used to be a school bus driver and now you want to drive limousines?
Casey: Woo - Baby.
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Bone: Ok ladies it's time for the GRATUITOUS NUDITY. You supply the nudity, and we supply the gratuity.
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McBride: You're deluded.
Casey: [gasps] I've never had a 'lude in my life.
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Casey: Have you ever tried to give a dog an Alka-Seltzer?
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Jenkins: A woman is a horrible goddamned thing to have around.
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O'Brien: Damn it, man, what are you so hot and bothered about? Afraid she'll open her jacket and flash her titties at you? You couldn't handle that, could you?
Jenkins: I've seen enough titties in my time.
Moses: I haven't.
Fourth Chauffeur: Been a hundred years since I seen a good titty.
Moses: No such thing as a bad titty.
Jenkins: Goddamn it. There now. That's my point. The little bimbo hasn't been here an hour and all you hormone graveyards can talk about is nipples.
Moses: Didn't mention nipples.
Fourth Chauffeur: We was speaking of the titty as a whole.
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Casey: Rise and shine.
Catfight: [Popping up from under covers] Take off your clothes and get into bed.
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Catfight: All I got to do now is find a one-legged nun walking a goat and I win.
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McBride: A woman says you and your friends tried to rape her... and her dog.
Casey: She was worth 20,000 points.
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McBride: Don't get your nipples hard. you've got a long way to go before you're hired.
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Casey: We've been driving around in circles for two hours. I'm getting dizzy.
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Casey: They send me out last. You get me, you've hit bottom. I'm the last cookie in the jar.
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Casey: Oh, eat me.
Battle: What did you say?
Casey: Will we be stopping for lunch?
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Casey: Oh, what are you so worried about? I'm not going to get girly bugs on you.
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Bone: What planet you from, sugar tits? Saturn with the rings around your head?
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Bone: This is the club I hang at. And the problem is I'm going to be walking in with a guy dressed as a waterbed.
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McBride: You're running a goddamned whorehouse on wheels, woman. I can't have that.
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Battle: FUCKING BITCH.
Casey: There you go.
Battle: SCREW HER.
Casey: That's right.
Battle: Yeah, I didn't like her anyway. She smelled funny.
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Charmaine: The more you spend on shoes the less you can walk in them. Do you understand?
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Jenkins: You sure it wasn't a snow white kangaroo and her majesty just climbed on its back and hopped off to court?
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Bone: Listen, if you have a little more trouble getting that skirt off I'll give you another hundred.
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Casey: Oh mister, you can't do that. you don't know how sick you're gonna be. I just went through this with my dog.

Quote of the Day

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

8:04 PM - Quote of the Day
Current mood: moody


Today during Glen Beck's daily television show he said the following and given my current feelings about the state of a certain branch within an organized religion I felt like writing it down for future reference and then decided I would share it with everyone because I know I'm not alone.

"When you try to make religion fun for everyone you end up spiritually fulfilling no one."