Maybe You Know This About Me, Maybe You Don't

PERFECT IS JUST AS GOOD AS IMPERFECT

I'm an imperfectionist.  I like things to be a little messy.  A little haphazard.  I don't think planning too much helps.

When I eat food, let's say when I heat up something, it doesn't have to be the right temperature.  If I heated up some soup and it's not as hot as I want, I don't care.  (Maybe it's laziness.)  I'll just eat it at warm instead of hot because is it going to be that much better?  Am I going to greatly increase the taste? In my mind, no.  It's good enough.  It's imperfect.

When I write, I work and work at it and then I let it go.  I don't edit past a certain point.  Maybe six months afterwards.  Because in six months, I'm a different writer.  I've absorbed too much.  To make changes on something older is just me patching the new me on top of it.

So I leave it imperfect.  I see the flaws and I think that's part of the whole.  The holes are part of the whole.  The whole hole is the hole in the whole of my soul.  Souls bowl for trolls on the dole near the shoals.  Lol lol lol.


UNCRITICAL AND UP FOR ANYTHING

I'm not a critic.  I don't like being one.  I don't go into a situation looking to hate something.  My mind is open to enjoy something to its fullest extent.  I laugh pretty loud.  I don't get up to the bathroom during the middle of something.  I stay.  I let my mind engage.  I don't check my phone during movies or plays or talking to people. (Or I try not to.)  If there's a card game or a board game to play, I'm down.

If you want me to come out to dinner with you right then and I can do it, I will.  Can my best friend Val come along?  She better be able to because we do everything together.

Does your piece of art suck?  I don't know yet.  I haven't seen it.  I'm ready to check it out.  Is your dog an annoying rat who barks and tries to nip noses?  I don't know if he is.  I'm going to bend down and pet him.  Does your political candidate remind me of a better looking Hitler?  I don't know that yet.  I would love to come listen to him/her speak.  Let me know where and when.

I'm just saying I like to live my life undimmed by expectations.  I like to let things surprise me.  And when I do, I find life to be a little more beautiful, spontaneous and worth exploring.

DAIRY IS MY COMMON LAW WIFE

I know you think you love dairy as much I do.  But you don't.  We got married.  Because we just lived together for so long that Johnny Law was like, "You guys are sicking me out.  I pronounce you married."  And we're so happy together.

How much do I love dairy more than you?  Let's see.

1. Would you drink half n half all day?  I would.
2.  Do you eat cottage cheese?  I do.
3.  Do you use butter generously?  Did you eat it with your fingers like peanut butter?  Do you like toast buttered only?
4.  Do you like another snack like chocolate better?  I don't.  I'd give up chocolate for dairy.  Easy.
5.  Sour cream?  More, please.  Cream cheese?  Put it on anything.
6.  I would eat ice cream in a bowl of condensed milk with cream cheese on top.
7.  Cheese?  Have I met any that I don't like?  Yes, yak milk.  All other animals are fair game for my mouth hole.
8.  I think it's a hoax perpetrated by NASA to cover up the moon not being made of cheese.  I know it is.  Those nerds are hogging it for themselves.
9.  I would sleep in a waterbed full of milkshake.
10.  Luckily, Valerie and Edie are not dairy or else they would be dead.  From my cravings.