Mary Had a Little Limb.

Hello my faithful readers!

Thank you to the few who do read this.  I love you.  I know it hasn't been much but I never promised to ooh and aah you did I?  Nope, I just promised that it would be about me.  

"Oooh Aahh"

Well, as the first post of the New Year I will give you guys a short recap of what 2008 was about for me in list form because I like lists... and forms.  

-I graduated college!  <---Amazing, ME, I know.

-Watched my best friend get married.

-Performed as a lead.

-Made it onto IMDB.  Look me up. Raymond Lee (X).  It's nothing impressive yet but like Britney's hair, it will grow.

-Shot two commercials.

-Starred in three short films.  One of which is on the festival circuit.

-Got a job.

-Got health insurance for the first time.

-Started this blog!

Enough bragging though.  

To be honest, the second half of this past year was hard.  I was pushed through one threshold after another of shit I didn't know I could endure until I did.  Feeling completely helpless at times I found that turning to prayer was only thing left to do.  Which resulted in a cathartic bawl to end all bawls to wrap up the end of the year.  I prefer not to get into details about my hardships nor am I writing to vent but this may be an alternative way of letting some of my friends know why I have been distant.  I've had to rearrange priorities that have been jumbled while I've been away from home.  I've bailed continuously on my friends and I'm sorry.  Believe me I hate flakes more than flakes hate Proctor & Gamble for making Head & Shoulders more appealing to the masses with a hip new logo.  

The moral of this entry is that, I feel that 2008 was a year of opportunities.  Opportunities presented itself in beautiful and hideous forms but it was what I did with each opportunity that made it beautiful or hideous.  My amazing friends and peers have helped me to place things into perspective.  I've learned this past year that every opportunity can be made into something beautiful.  If something sucks, it's an opportunity to see that it sucks and then learn to grow from the suckyness of it.  My hope for 2009 is to make everything around me beautiful that suck.

I wrote a very short story last night and I wish to share it with you.

Mary Had a Little Limb

Mary had a little limb.

She was afraid people would look at it and laugh so she hid it the best she could.

Rude people called her T-Rex.

Nice people called her unfortunate.

Good people didn't say a thing.

But the best people made their own limbs short so Mary wouldn't feel like she was different.

Mary once had a longer limb and everyone thought she was perfect including herself.

Mary was even praised for her limb and people said her limb would make her famous.

Now that her limb is little Mary feels lost and hopeless.  

All she wants now is her limb back because she knows that she took it for granted.

Good night loves!

reading::    Doubt- John Patrick Shanley

listening::  Peacebone- Animal Collective 

touching::  My dog Cookie's ears