Pre-trip nerves and Doofy Birds

[reymonkey]

I leave for B'ham tomorrow. I have some pretty mixed feelings about this, as I realy want to see madcowchef and cheesetarget again, but Ginny has been having some pretty bad days lately. I assume she's having some bad days at least in part because I'm about to leave, but that could be egotistical of me.
I don't know what to do when I come downstairs and find my pretty girl curled up on the floor crying, and I don't know how long she's been like that because I've been asleep. I think I deal with it pretty well, I hope I do. I can never tell if I'm any real help or not, because it seems like she knows her own way around and out of those holes pretty well, while I just stand to one side and ask if there's anything I can do to help.
I'm gonna miss her. It's only a week... I keep telling myself that.

In other more lighthearted news, some random crack.

In the drycleaning machine at work, there's this thick metal cylinder the door is set into, and pretty much any wierd shit that gets left in people's pockets migrates to there so that when you go to empty it, it'll be sitting right there at the door. Theoretically there shouldn't be anything in the pockets because we check, but once in a while we miss and there's some pennies or whatever at the door, no biggie. So a few days back I go to empty it, and when I open the door, this is sitting there.



Looks pretty wierd, right? But it gets stranger. It probably doesn't show up in the scan, but set into the back is this little rectangle, and in little raised letters it says:

"I will tell...
things you have
done" (Ps 9:1)

Now I'm no Christian, but I'm pretty damn sure from the format that's some kind of bible reference. I checked with Ginny, and she said that's what it looked like to her too. I know I missed out on Sunday School and all that shit, but I really don't remember any doofy birds in connection with the bible.

I put him up in the pirate display above the computer, so he's being slain by Playmobil pirates.

Comments

[justdbear.livejournal.com]

Hmm. It's I will tell of all the wonderful things You have done. (loosely translated)

But a bird? And a freaking funny looking one at that? I am guessing it's a praising bird with it's hands raised up? Scary. I don't want to go to Sunday school and get that as a prize for memory verse memorization. *shivers*

Tell the pirates to give it a haircut while you are at it.

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I am not Bridgie, but I have cried curled up in a ball on the floor before. When I get like that no one could help me, it's something I have to get through. I have had best friends sit and hug me like that for hours and it does no good as it's a mind trap and not something someone can help you out of. I would care to guess that her moods are definately triggered by something, perhaps your leaving or perhaps something deeper than that even, but you are not responsible for her moods, they are what they are. No one can MAKE someone else feel a certain way-obviously or you would have already made her feel better. Instead we have to offer comfort in the only way we can and be there when the person comes out of it to support them and let them know you are still there no matter what.

Blech listen to me. Ramble ramble ramble. *HUGS* Have a safe trip, you. :) I'll miss you too and I'm not even THERE! hahaha.

[cheesetarget.livejournal.com]

What time do you get here on Wednesday? Do you need a ride from the airport? I wish Ginny could come too!

[reymonkey.livejournal.com]

I'm here! I'm in! I forgot to bring your frickin' phone number! I can call and get it from Ginny, but I am here. My parents picked me up, and I got in around 5 your time, but after getting up at 6:30 Richmond time, 5 here is...8 pm my time. I spent the entire day in airports and on airplanes. And an hour of that was sitting on the runway in O'Hare.
I will call you guys tomorrow, one way or another. I wish Ginny could have come to, I miss her lots and lots and lots...
*cries* Miss my pretty girl...

[cheesetarget.livejournal.com]

Woooo! I was sort of worried that you might get Stuck In Seattle, like what happened the last two times I flew into B'ham. Tiredness, a common side effect of flying all the way across a continent. Now if we would implement my plan to eliminate continental drift, we wouldn't have this problem.

[reymonkey.livejournal.com]

You wanna call me, or should I call Ginny and get your phone number? I have no clue what we're doing today, except that we're going to the comedy club tonight. I wanna go to Eagle's sometime while I'm here, and try to hunt down the GURPS Space book...
*HUGSHUGSHUGS*
I miss my pretty girl... Couldn't sleep last night, too damn quiet. I didn't realize how much noisier it is in Richmond, but there was no street traffic here and it was messing with my head. Didn't feel jetlagged last night, just very awake on adrenaline. The jetlag didn't hit me until this morning.
Call me? You've got my parent's number, right?

[revyrie.livejournal.com]

To shed some light on the bird....(warning: Christian retail knowledge spouting ahead).....

It's a "Bible Memory Buddy". This summer, many churches chose to do the VBS with the "Safari Adventure" theme. Each of the five days, the kid gets a different "Memory Buddy" to help them remember their verse for that day.

(end spouting)

[reymonkey.livejournal.com]

I was starting to figure it was something like that, but you know what? It's still ugly. Why a doofy looking bird? Why not a lion or a lamb or a fish or something... or an angel.
Or at least a bird that isn't doofy looking with a yellow mohawk.