Christmas Is All Around Us

Twitter is supposed to be a social-networking device. A good way to send out minute-by-minute updates of your daily life to all your friends and followers. For someone like me, however, the site takes on a bit of an alternative meaning. You see, I have over 30 followers, but only one of these is a person that I actually have any real contact with in my life. And I actually prefer it to be this way. I use Twitter not because I feel that the world needs to be updated on my every word and thought, but because I like to have another easily accessible creative outlet– however mild of a creativity this may end up being. I use Twitter as a miniature blog of sorts. A way to release an idea that may be nagging me in the middle of class. Or as a means to remind myself of something funny or cute or possibly painful that happened during the day.

That being said, I find it amusing to look back on my year in Tweets. It maps out some of the ups and downs of the year, and points out some of the more prominent themes in my life, i.e., cats, music, school, etc. Looking back on my Tweets reminds me of those exact moments that constitute the basic idea of this blog…the fleeting moments when you realize the joy or the specialness of some common everyday occurrence, and you take the time to note it.

So, without further ado, here is a year’s worth of Tweets from DrBee_to_be to you. I hope you find them as witty and insightful as I intended them to be 😛

Beginning Feb, 2009, in chronological order:

• I’m back, dammit.
• Found a plush opossum at Goodwill. It scared the cashier.
• Movie Gallery closed…now where will everyone in Meridian-Kessler get their porn? Oh, and Happy Valentine’s Day 🙂
• Dad says he wants more stimulus at the pig trough.
• Thanks Hugo Brinkman now my back hurts. It’s a good thing you’re cute.
• It’s a good news day!!!
• I was just tricked into enjoying john mellencamp.
• Girl Scout cookies are SO overrated.
• I wonder why food tastes better in the shower.
• Chips for dinner at 1am….typical.
• Latenight Pilates Afterthought: it’s always fun to see a bunch of guys practically dying in pilates class. Weenies.
• Today we texted Google to ask, “What’s ‘taters, Precious?” But Google didn’t know 😦
• I think it’s about time to get panties in the mail.
• These sunny evenings really make me want to knock out the back wall of my dining room.
• Gorging myself before heading to Trader Joe’s.
• I’m ready for the first epic thunderstorm of the season.
• I get to see one concert a month til the end of summer! Yay!
• I love bats.
• Doing a little research in anticipation of the impending Decemberists concert…
• Didn’t think this day could get worse but it has. Exponentially so.
• I notice some trees already turning color. But it seems like summer just got started.
• I cant help it, that Airborn Toxic Event song sucks me in EVERY TIME.
• It’s so hot, there are melted kittens all over the floor.
• My boyfriend is floating in the nethersphere. If you see him please tell him: pizza party at 6 and I’m getting an A in chemistry.
• Sometimes I wonder how half these movies get on my Netflix queue in the first place…Definitely, Maybe? Definitely Not.
• A dolphin’s brain, in relation to the size of its body, is larger than the brains of chimpanzees and great apes. Second only to humans.
• I wonder what lovely person left home-grown cucumbers and tomatoes on my porch this evening???
• Is it lame that I anticipate textbooks in the mail like Calvin anticipated his beanie? ….no I don’t think so 🙂
• Today’s events make me thankful for everything that i have. *sap alert* 🙂
• Headed to the fair for farm animals and fried food!
• You know its going to be a good day when you get running water at work!
• I can hear kelly clarkson from my house. Ugh. Quick go inside and close all the windows!
• Already today: hot air balloon race, goat lips, garage sale-ing, and munching in the garden. Time for a nap before this day begins.
• Went shopping for tennis rackets today. After dissecting my fall schedule I find I have time for yoga and weight training on the weekends!!
• Im going archer farms crazy.
• Something abut Regina Spektor’s voice makes me want to weep quietly.
• I need a long walk.
• One day I will wake up and relationship will come to me easy and uncomplicated.
• I’ve finally paid my $112 fine from two years ago…now I can show my face in the public library again! Happy day 🙂
• I find myself craving real salsa and that amazing tortilla soup I had at La Hacienda last night.
• Movie night concludes. Attempted to watch Titus, but I greweth weary with sucky Shakespeare adaptation. Opted for Apocalypse Now instead.
• Driving home from Loseyville, listnin to patty griffin.
• Im not a superstitious person, but finding a dead preying mantis is just a bad, bad sign.
• I feel like a complete ass. But at least i have my cat back.
• The oldies station sends endorphins to my brain.
• Number of small holes to paint today: 1203. Its gonna be a long day…
• Headed to school, attempting to blend in with the class of 2013.
• It amuses me to think about how all kitties everywhere love string. Or hate string?….
• My god why am I still up??? Oh yeah, because I slept til eleven then took a nap this afternoon…
• It’s a faaaabulous week to be working outdoors!!!
• Wow, the biol dept is way cooler than the chem dept. I use the term “cool” loosely…
• Feels like an excellent night to do homework by the fire pit.
• Note to self: applying eyeliner is easier if you put down the hot dog.
• Dear Tuesday, please end. And take that raccoon with you.
• RIP Smeagol. You were always my favorite person.
• I hate banks. I miss my cat. I’m ready for fried chicken and wine.
• Spent $1500 at the apple store today…and I don’t regret a single penny 🙂 PS–Thank god for student loans.
• Finally picked up my diploma from Herron…only 16 months after graduating.
• When the hell is Meridian-Kessler going to get on the roundabout bandwagon? For Pete’s sake, we’re being shown up by Carmel.
• eating my “less unhealthy” version of Ramen noodles. Gotta love a lunch that costs 20 cents.
• Twitter is my facebook status overflow receptacle.
• How did i forget that there are 45 chicken nuggets in my freezer? I want ice cream.
• I find I’m comfortable with complicated.
• Welcome to Crawfordsville, home of Ben Hur…huh?
• Nothing beats Target bohemian.
• Chemistry is becoming every bit as discouraging as I dreamed it would be. 😦
• I just got the sudden urge to mix together sugar and butter. Mmmm, coookies.
• *controlled breathing*
• Just ate three cups of corn…I don’t even know what to say about it.
• I love you baby preying mantis.
• Nevermind, I think I see a head. Glad I wasn’t the one who discovered that crawling up the outside of my house in the middle of the night.
• It’s sad how limited my menu becomes when I don’t have salted butter 😦
• Reminder: do not do a google image search for amniotic sac on lunch break…
• Woo hoo! Weekend! Time to study!
• I SWEAR that panhandlers stalk people in this neighborhood. Seems like every day they are knocking at my door as soon as I get home.
• It always feels great to have someone running to greet you when you get home! This is why I have cats 🙂
• Most lipstick contains fish scales.
• Spent $80 today on “brain food.” It will either make me smart or make me fat–if I’m lucky it will do a little of both 🙂
• Was flipping through stations in the car and Scott made me stop to listen to “This One’s For The Girls”.
• I swear that only half the cats in this house are actually mine!
• If you have heat and electricity at work today, well, you’re better off than I!
• At work, sitting on a ladder next to the space heater, eating an ice cream sandwich.
• I feel a little lost in my own home
• Im at a far too cynical point in my life to be listening to sappy love songs all day.
• Today is not a good day to play chicken with me, escalade.
• I firmly believe that sleep is better preparation for an exam than actually studying all night before…time for bed!
• If i were a vet, somebody would have lost his balls last night.
• That Hot Pocket made the most impressive sound when it hit the floor. WHUMP! Tasted good, too.
• Spent the past half hour fantasizing about being a lemur doctor. Guess I should get back to studying then. The lemurs need me to study.
• Wow, Boss is crabby today!
• The one thing worse than feeling bad is not knowing what you’re feeling.
• Getting paid to have bfast at Good Morning Mama’s. Life good!
• Well, Mama’s isnt as tasty as Hoaglin’s or Patachou, but the chairs are fantabulous!
• I hate that sudden realization that there is a BUG in my PANTS. Eeek!
• My chem lab TA told me I should be an art major. I said I’d love to but I already have an art degree 😛
• My first attempted all-nighter in lord only knows how long. Must more cappucchino. Yes, must more.
• Why does my kitten have to be so freaking adorable a mere three hours before I bring him to be neutered. Talk about a guilt trip.
• Im at a point when overdrafting my bank account doesnt even register on my stress radar. It warrants no more than an exhausted shrug.
• How can I possibly study when there is a tiny wild kitten hiding behind my stove that desperately needs to be socialized???
• It amazes me that a five week old wild cat does the exact same things as older, domesticated cats. Instinct, you are so amazing and cute!
• Wild kitty (Schrodinger) just received his first human kisses ever! Many more to come…
• Damn. The Bowerbirds are my first great personal discovery on this chilly October morning.
• Oh hello 2AM! I didn’t see you sneaking up on me…
• Gotta love a job where being small and not afraid of bugs is a major advantage.
• I’d like to thank whoever thought to plant a million sugar maples in Broad Ripple about 60 or so years ago. You are my hero.
• British Sea Power is the least fun I’ve had with music in some time now.
• I feel like I’ve been slacking so much lately. Oh well, time for bed!
• Wow, i really need to go home and recalibrate. Not sure if im gonna make it through two more hours.
• SUCH a nice day. And kitties everywhere!
• Wow, one round of halloweeners and I’m out. Sorry kids! I’m too poor for this holiday!
• I should really write in my blog, considering it’s been five weeks now… Wait, is “write in my blog” even a correct statement??
• I’m so annoyed with people who have more than they will ever need and insist that nothing good ever happens. Grow up.
• Completed yet another chem lab that I know I didn’t do right but is getting turned in anyway! Yippee, only three more! 🙂
• Wearing my dragon hat today. Working outside yay!
• I’m so craving pierogies, it’s not even funny.
• Okay, now I am craving those Flamin’ Hot Cheetos that were popular back in the 90s and I haven’t had since then…what is going on here???
• I just did a forward dive onto a big pile of pine needles. It was soft and it smelled good.
• Just got eight inches chopped off and boy does it feel great.
• It’s extremely difficult to study on a day as nice as this… 😦
• Silly printer. That’s not a paper jam, that’s my cat!
• I promised myself twelve ounces of peanut m&ms if I stay off the computer and study hardcore tonight. Starting…now.
• Taking a break to gloat about how much I’ve gotten done today 🙂
• I really wish someone would invent a glow-in-the dark sharpie.
• I’m feeling strangely super-cerebral today…like my brain is quietly and ferociously humming. Thoughts and sensations magnified in my mind.
• Omg i hate awkward people stuff.
• Damn, i looove when they play Cranberries on the radio.
• Anxiety, anxiety, please go away…
• Tonight, I made potassium oxalatoferrate (III), like it was my job.
• I’m being slowly and lovingly battered by a large gray housecat.
• Its no wonder to me that i get anxiety attacks at work. But it just pays so damn well.
• I love how studying entitles me to eat whatever junk food i damn well please.
• I’m proud of my deep-rooted Indiana heritage, humble and unsophisticated as it may be. Don’t like it? There’s 49 other states for ya.
• If I were an evil scientist I would invent a pill that makes men emotionally hypersensitive. Then maybe they’d get it.
• What’s more disturbing than a Lynch film? A Lynch animation. Wow.
• Wow, my first evening sans class in months. Don’t know what to do with myself!
• I think its cute that my dad spends half his morning trying to track down a bottle of fabric glue for an elderly seamstress.
• One midnight hour of David Bowie is enough for tonight.
• I’ve learned that while studying its helpful to set out decoy papers to keep cats from lounging on my homework. Doesn’t always work though.
• Pulled up to brunch to see a huge sign outside the restaurant saying “Our condolences to the Joe Brown Family.” How sweet.
• I feel good for the first time in, like, a week. Yay me!
• Don’t start your Tuesday with bad polar bear news 😦
• Outdoor Christmas lights are up!!! Almost broke my finger–almost 🙂
• Habig’s shovel at 52nd and College has on a Santa hat. Win!
• Oh my gosh, a poem–just popped out of me! Hasn’t happened in years, I swear.
• Nothing more heartbreaking than having to steal an article of clothing from beneath a sleeping cat.
• Okay chimney, you have one job and that is to keep smoke out of my house. Why can’t you handle that?
• Why cant vending machines sell hot pizza
• It’s sad that I’ve heard better music on NPR this week than I have on any radio station.
• Academia suits me far too well on a Saturday night.
• Patch makes his first Christmas ornament kill.
• Fuck this chem lab final. I said Fuck It! I’m going to bed.
• This day looks totally awful. How am I supposed to go out to get study snacks?
• DNA evidence suggests that Genghis Kahn may be responsible for .5% of the ENTIRE present world population (16mil). Damn, he was a busy man.
• This piece of plywood smells like a graham cracker and makes me crave s’mores.
• Not having anywhere to be on a Monday night, or a Tuesday night, or a Wednesday night, and so on…makes me feel kinda icky.
• Its one of those weeks when a fortune cookie can make me tear up. Thanks for believing in me, fortune cookie!
• I’m an electrician today, yay!
• Got the very LAST bag of candy cane Kisses. Oh hell yeah.
• Just discovered the song “Academia” by Sia–love love LOVE it!
• Just..one..more..final.
• Channeling warm weather thoughts with Pet Sounds. The snow is quite lovely though!
• I just realized I only need 58% on my bio final in order to get an A in the class. Niiice 🙂 Could pretty much just close my eyes and guess.
• I guess a good time to leave the bookstore is when you cant possibly carry any more books.
• If i get mesothelioma im gonna be PISSED.
• Snuggling kittens and watching Full Metal Jacket.
• Life feels good tonight.
• Surprisingly calm in the throes of castleton traffic on christmas eve eve.
• Only at walmart can you hear the phrase “zippin that coat up” used as a command.
• I can’t take it any more! No more Alexi Murdoch for at least four weeks. His voice weakens my will.
• What relief to empty a semester of small paper circles from my hole puncher.
• TOOOO much to do. I am suddenly hosting the Christmas Eve festivities.
• Nothing says “Christmas Eve” like Green Day’s International Superhits.
• Merry Christmas!!!
• My nephew just spit out a mouthful of cat food. Oops.
• Sigur Ros makes for some great napping music.
• Gotta love my Saturday morning booty buster. Oy.
• It’s great to know that a suspected terrorist can still manage to board a plane with an explosive device. So much for airport security.
• Brilliant idea at 1:30am…remote control thermostat.
• ALMOST bowled an 80 today! Happy birthday to me! 😀
• Nap time til gym time. Helloo, birthday week.
• Just got the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album for my birthday! *hearts*
• I’m getting to be quite familiar with that slow but steady realization that someone is just not that interested.
• Birthday Week would have been grand–had it not been for the food poisoning. Curse you, cheese ravioli!

Oh, and Happy New Year, everyone. May 2010 be your best year yet. Love, Me and The Kids.