Thoughts of the Day

     My mind tends to wander and jump from one thing to the next.  Sometimes even I can't keep up with the runaway train that is my thought process.  Here are a few things that crossed my mind today:

• I enjoy too many movies.  I decided to make a "Top Ten Favorite Movies" list but I couldn't seem to limit to only ten.  I think I finally managed to narrow it to fifteen.  Most are romantic comedies... Hey, I'm a girl!  I can't help it!
• I should make a new rule for myself: Erin is not allowed to date her guy friends.  It never ends well and I lose a really good friend in the process.  I don't do it on purpose; I just am attracted to someone who I trust and confide in.  So from now on, my guy friends are off-limits.
• I take far too much pleasure being the only sober one at a college party.  I've begun to start studying drunken behavior like a researcher watches white rats run through a maze.
• Ever since I returned from Spain, I leave my phone places like in the center console of my car for hours on end and as a result, people cannot get in touch with me.  Oops.
• Liquid liner is not flattering on me because it draws attention to my already-slanted eye shape.  It looks overly dramatic on me when on others it looks perfectly natural.  Sigh.
• I need to go through my bookshelves and get rid of some - I make a point to regularly donate books to my town's library but haven't done it in a while.
• I want to dye the ends of my hair purple but since I have dark Korean hair, I would need to bleach it first and I'm too scared to.  I know that if it's just the ends then I can simply cut it off above the bleaching when the purple fades, yet I am still too afraid!
• I'm scared of a lot of irrational things; i.e., dyeing my hair...chickens...driving over a bridge that collapses underneath me, causing me to drown in my car...trying new foods at my favorite restaurants because I am afraid I will regret ordering it...being unprepared for something that might potentially happen - like a meteor crashing to earth.
• While attending my sister's marching band performance at a varsity football game, I was informed today by several high schoolers that I am now considered "old" because I am twenty.  In the grand scheme of my expected (or hopeful) lifetime, I am not that old.  I have friends six or seven years older than me and six years my junior.  I am not old - I'm still a kid even though I have jury duty, my friends are starting to get engaged, and I am expected to declare a major in eight months.
• I have to start thinking about and planning what to buy my five friends whose birthdays are all in the next two months.
• I don't like weak huggers.  I find it uncomfortable when people barely embrace you.  I like "real" hugs: when a person pulls you into them, wraps their arms around you tightly for just a minute, then releases you to look you in the eye and smile at you.  Those are the best :)
• My body physically rejects stress.  I am most likely getting another stomach ulcer because I really feel crappy.

    T'was a beautiful summery day out today!  May Autumn arrive FASTER!  I'll be posting some photos of my sister tomorrow!  Sweet dreams.