When It Rains, It Pours…

When It Rains, 

 It Pours…

It has been raining hard since the morn.  It is said that when it rains, it pours… Indeed, it does. In my case, it pours right straight into my purse.

Earlier, I received a call bearing the wonderful news … and I am extremely grateful and equally amazed, as always, as to how JUST and POWERFUL our GOD is.

28342480. Yes, I got it! What can you say? Cat got your tongue?

30% goes to my guide, a few percent for the lady in waiting, and another cut from the predestined levy…   Let’s say: Give or Take I’m overly blessed today. (Do the math, don’t forget the 2834248 you owe my guide, okay?)

Now, this may not be a lot for YOU (shout out to those who were unfoundedly stupid!), but the thing is I placed the boot in your arse!  Yes, I dribbled the ball and kicked you in the rear (what a nice way of putting it.)

Today, I am happier and YOU (plural) gained another point for sucking so bad in whatever you are doing and for what you have been doing for some time now. I pity the bandwagon that you’re with. Truth is, you have aided them BIG TIME in throwing away their dough… this is not the first – I know. (soon enough, they’ll come to their senses (will they?) and YOU … will be off to somewhere you have never travelled… and I guarantee YOU that the journey  you‘ll traverse leads to a rocky and deserted road. (Hello, KARMA!)

I am in a good place (literally and figuratively speaking). I may be penniless but not destitute as YOU have been (drowning in the deep sea). I may have appeared feeble, yet my pride is still intact (yours?).

Emily Dickinson defined Hope as the thing with feathers and said that: “the sweetest—in the Gale—is heard”.

 HOPE always means a lot to those who are down in the dumps. People change, you grasp for your friends – you know in your heart that you cannot compel them and lord knows I never want to subject any of mine… yet, sometimes, when you’re in deep shit, you get to see the totality of a person, you get to know who wish to stay or who simply take the safe road—while others have shown the distinctiveness of their hypocrisy from the start---what’s that again?! Oh, Once a douche bag is always a douche bag! Mark my word!

Like Emily, I’ve managed to hang on with the hope of another day… with the faith given by real friends, and with the optimism of those who want to help beyond any circumstances. Hope guided me… and led me to GOD’s promise that one day soon…” He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you for He is a just GOD” (2 Thessalonians 1:6).

Numbers are Numbers but beyond all these? What does that make YOU?

A Laughingstock? Most likely.

Remember your words and remember the numbers:  It’s not 20461 like Jean Valjean’s… it’s larger, BIGGER and costly. Not only it’s going to be in your head for a while, but you will also be tagged as the dim-witted fool who lost because YOU made yourself Queen…       Queen of hogs & insolvents.

Now, I’ve known my friends, I have my friends (Do you have yours?)   I held my head high because YOU have once again made a fool of yourself. As everyone laughs behind your back (as they always do). I am as well smiling and CRUSHING (conquering)!

Everybody raise a Glass to my friends and family! Our God is really really good and I am eternally grateful for your friendship and love throughout this ordeal... *sob* so, this is how it feels to kick the butts of the unscrupulous dimwits, huh?!

I fell upon this quote from Coco J. Ginger last week, and this is for YOU:

...Watch me rise like smoke from fire.
Watch me fly above your hate.

Watch me dance upon your meanness 
like a ballerina with posture; grace.

Watch me laugh over your hatred;
watch me soar above your sea of grief.

And know that I am out there somewhere… 
C R U S H I N G.” ― Coco J. Ginger

 

*YOU denotes to the person or people unspecified.

Note To Men: You Should Date A Girl Who Reads…

Note To Men:  

You Should Date A Girl Who Reads…

Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.

She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. 

Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of coffee.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

She has to give it a shot somehow.

Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.

You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

Or better yet, date a girl who writes.
― Rosemarie Urquico

A Writer’s Block

A Writer’s Block

Click click clock

She types like the tick of a clock

Thinking and Remembering

Even chasing a memory in the wind

Vivid

Lucid

All in a state of wake

Wondering if she will ever get a dime

From writing all this rhyme.

Empty

Weary

Dreary and drained

Words escaping in a phrase

Trying hard to make a face

Dreaming

Drooling

Lulling

Trying to make a rhythm

Can you even break free?

For the wave of your sanity?

Papers

Brains

Rollers in ink as she makes a link

Be happy for now you are done

Load it up and shoot the gun.

Coffee & Friends

Coffee & Friends - A Perfect Blend!