Random Thoughts and Musings

The last few days I have heard a few things that made me smile. Heard being relative, of course, because once of the conversations happened in IM, another via text … though the third was actually heard.

A few days ago, I had a text convo that went something like this:
Me:  What if you get stalkers? I mean, besides me.
Friend: I can deal with stalkers. I don’t know if I can handle you!
So … does that make me the psycho bitch from the stalker movies? Am I worse than the average stalker? What IS that, exactly? *snickers*

Yesterday, I was conversing with an exbf. We were rather … adventurous … during our time together. We liked to push limits, although not all of them were wild or crazy … some of them were just personal limits. Like, his fear of storms, and my fear of heights. Conquered in one crazy night, together, in the best way possible. I lived in Cali. He visited. There was a nearby mountain with a cliff that overlooked the water and beach below. It was a beautiful spot, one that I could not usually appreciate because I was worried the weight of our car and bodies would cause the cliff to crumble beneath us. Both of us were extremely fit (I was that once upon a time), but together we weighed more than 250 lbs … with the car, significantly more. He was terrified of thunder and lightning. Normally, this would not be an issue in Cali … there were rarely any storms. However, we happened to be going through El Nino. We had amazing storms (which caused significant damage … especially on the cliffs), the beauty of which made me brave enough to battle my fear of heights if he would battle his fear of being struck by lightning. We struck a deal, and made it happen. Apparently, he tried to help his current flame conquer her fear of storms the same way … Once he was done laughing and had stopped her crying, he grabbed the phone and IM’d me immediately.
Exbf: Remember that night … yanno, the conquer our fears night?
Me: Yep. It was a beautiful night. I had scars on my body for a couple of years from lying on that rock face beneath you.
Exbf: Melanie and I tried that tonight. It is a great night, light rain, lightning only in the distance.
Me: Awesome! Did you guys enjoy it as much as we did back then?
Exbf: No. She drove off once I got her to stop crying.
Me: WTF? What’d you do to her, tie her up out there?
Exbf: No. She lost her camera, our picnic basket, and her umbrella when the rock face crumbled.
Me: EPIC FAIL.
Apparently, with her, it backfired. *snort* They chose a not-so-stable cliff. Luckily they were not ON the cliff when the rock face crumbled … but they were close by.

Today, I was on a job with my BFF’s bro/my boss, M. We were doing what we could without having to buy paint b/c we were in the next town over, nowhere near a paint store we like. We were removing broken blinds, and I discovered someone had actually screwed the blinds into the bracket (seriously? SERIOUSLY???), and so we had to use screwdrivers to remove them. He was in another room, cracking jokes at me, and I started giggling so much that I couldn’t keep my hand steady enough to operate the fucking screwdriver.
Me: Quit making me giggle. I cannot screw and giggle at the same time.
M: “Do you realize your job is on the line?” See, there’s a Princess Bride quote for everything.
Me: Screwing and giggling is my new job? Great! I can stop this now!