Children of the Corn

I'm taking a day off from the movie quotes and playing a game I found on another blog I read.

You go to this website: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 and select five quotes that reflect who you are or what you believe. You keep hitting the random button until you get your five.

Sound like fun? Lets play!

1. If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure - Kanye West

2. I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get. -Anne Tyler

3. Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. -Phyllis Diller

4. Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking. -Malcolm Gladwell

5. The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end. -Harriet Beecher Stowe

And as a bonus - I can't say this applies to me because I'm not married. But it's an epiphany I had recently (as in today or last night) about what makes relationships real. I'm annoyed at who said it and convinced she nicked it from somewhere but here it is:

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more. -Candice Bergen

That was fun! Anyway, today was a tough day - I gave 200% at work and now I'm home and not thinking about it (except I am, but I'm not..).

I meant to blog last night more but I was tired after an emotionally exhausting day. It was a day of epiphanies and while I love those moments, they are exhausting. But I called my friend J (ooh, you sound so cool when I just call ya "J"!) and she was telling me about the dinner she had made: Grilled brats and corn on the cob. J lives where I grew up in Illinois and I immediately got homesick hearing that. The penultimate McHenry experience, frankly, is to have brats, beer and corn on the cob on a cool late summer night. I can't think of anything else more indicative of a summer night there..Unless it's falling off the bar stool at the River Shannon but generally that's not a family event (although...).

Of course, it only makes sense - it's loaded with german descendants and lots of, well, corn. As depicted here:




and of course, as pictured here:



*giggle*