daybee’s posterous

...more people commit suicide in new york city than are murdered.

i knew i left for a reason.

i've been eyeing these new running shoes for a while now. thanks to my new favorite deal site dealnews.com, i got these on clearance +addtl20% off for $60. =D i figure with the 10k, 4mi trail run, and half marathon coming up, it couldn't hurt to upgrade on the neon green NB's i got at penn relay's clearance sale during senior year for $25. they've seen me through 4 years of gym time (where i was able to keep them squeaky clean), runs around the world (in philly, nyc, boston, london, paris, belgium, seattle, la, san diego, shanghai, and taiwan), the volkslauf mud run (where they found their brown tint), a 5k, and a weekend building houses in mexico (where my right shoe picked up a sky blue paint splash). it's too bad i can't find the neon pink NB's i got at that same sale anymore. i think i lost them in one of my many moves since i bought them. sad.

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tiffany sent this to me over the weekend with a simple "i think u'd enjoy this" note. i LOVED it. feels good to have people know you so well and think of you when you're not around. three-words: BEE-EFF-EFF. haha. enjoy :)

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ever have days where no matter how much water you drink, you throat just feels parched? not pleasant!

I contemplate. I analyze. I brood. I consider, deliberate, intellectualize. I mull and muse. I ponder. I rationalize, reason, ruminate.

I tend to OVERthink, which I hate because it takes me out of really living the day and draws me into myself. Joy is not felt as readily and even sadness becomes muted. It's a real funk - but somehow in all of my thinking and preoccupation with myself, this passage made its way into my head as I was going to bed yesterday and finally kicked myself out of my head. :)

It's not that I worry about what I will eat, drink, or wear, but there's always something to worry about if I let myself. Relationships. School. Career. Where to live. What to do. How to spend your time. Anyway, it's an "oldie", but a goodie. It really is good. It's good because it makes me better. I think that definition applies to all things in life. It's good when it makes better.

From Matthew 5:25-34...

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

"i've come to realize that i can't hold you responsible for my self-control."

haha. one of the best quotes i've ever heard. it wasn't said in relation to this, but it also appies.

who could ask for anything more

don't judge a book by its cover

placenta?