Great Minds Think Alike
Long before I ever saw Sex and the City for the first time, someone once told me I’m “so much like Carrie Bradshaw.” I’m quite sure that, considering who it came from, it wasn’t meant as a compliment. Though who was I to know at the time? I’d never even seen an episode.
Photo courtesy of HBO Entertainment
However, I think he was on to something.
I put a lot of thought into everything I do or consider, yet I’m highly over-analytical.
I’m entirely self-confident in my independence, but I second guess everything.
I’m quite sure I have it all figured out, but most days I realize that I have nothing figured out.
I like to talk things through over and over again for my own reasons, and sometimes I just shut up.
I also really love ghetto gold jewelry for fun.
Judging by what I’ve just written above, what I once interpretted as an unflattering criticism I now see as a compliment to my character. Who really wants to have it all figured out? Who really wants to to be rock solid in their self-confidence, so much so that any shred of humility is impossible? Who wouldn’t want to experience the ups and downs that everyday life has to offer? I think my existence would otherwise be montonous and dull.
“…find joy in sufferings, because suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope…” - Romans 5:3-4
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To give you a short re-cap of the last few days, it’s been wet, wet and wet. Yesterday my mom and I ventured out to Coquitlam Centre for my highly-anticipated first visit to H&M. It’s a great shop and I’ll be excited when it finally opens downtown, but I won’t say it was worth trekking out there in the soggy rain and cold. I did, however, find a wicked cowl-neck sweater vest and, yes, some ghetto gold jewelry.
Photo courtesy of Duane Storey on Flickr
For the most part, I’ve spent this weekend trying to stay indoors and warm. I absolutely adore the fall season and rainy days and hot mugs of tea and jogging pants. It could rain outside for weeks on end and you wouldn’t hear a single complaint uttered from my lips. What I don’t get is those that do complain about B.C.’s endless rain. For those that were born and raised in this bella province of ours, rain is to be expected. It is, after all, a rainforest. And for those of you that moved ass to B.C., if you don’t like the rain, leave. Because the rain was falling long before you arrived and it’ll keep falling until well after you’re gone.
P.S. If you walk down the street with an umbrella, don’t be a jackass. If me and my elbow bump into you and your umbrella under the awning, rest assured I did so on purpose.
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OKAY so… i take it as a compliment really carry’s great! at least someone didnt say your a samantha… by the way today i sat in the temperate climate piramid at the mutart conservatory for over an hour just smelling the redwood trees and stareing at some japaneese maples… then the lady who told you facts about the plants… which i didnt want to know said something about b.c. to me, and she was like but who would want to live there with all that rain and i was like all that rain… and i was like LADY! this is alberta we have 6 months of ICE give me a break! you have obviously never lived in b.c… i obviously have… this province has nothing to offer once you’ve lived in beautiful b.c. she just laughed and said that she would take the cold over the rain any day and i was thinking… please leave me to smelling the essence of forest and stop pissing me off becuase by then i knew she was just a jerk!!! thats my story… love you dear!
I’m with you on the rain. Who lives in Vancouver and doesn’t know that it’s part of the package? And seriously, umbrella or awning…not both! I spent most of Saturday grumbling about the people lacking proper umbrella etiquette on South Granville.
It’s been raining a lot here as well. I actually like the rain though. Helps me sleep.
It usually is not overly rainy up here, being quite far inland. BUT lately it’s as though the north knows I miss van haha it’s been raining in that light, misty way that usually is only down south!
MAYBE if It rains enough I can flip an umbrella upside down and float on it to visit you!
i think i have charlotte’s optimist, miranda’s cynicism (to counter the chance of over optimism), samanatha’s um… enthusiasm and carrie’s ability to sit at the computer in her underwear - oh uhh… but i’m not doing that right now i swear.
i think you have a little charlotte in you too - you always believe and hope for the best in people.