ahh, a trip to home depot later and i feel so much betterand not just because i'm having an i-feel-ugly day (less than 5 hours of sleep will do that to you), yet all the men/pigs in home depot were whistling at me! why yes, sir, i am a model with my bad skin and under-eye circles! nope, that's not why!
i bought a step stool! (can i tell you how many times i've almost fallen off the "for decoration purposes" one-foot tall stool i have? and this one was only $9.99!) and a tape measure! (can i tell you how i have had to measure huge distances with the help of only a 12-inch ruler?) and a new plant for the bathroom! (why bother watering when a new one only costs $1.99?) and a big huge closet rod! ahh, i feel so much better now. i may go back later and spring for a hose! and an $10 bathroom shelf! yep, i'm feeling craaaazy! ahh, what a sad life... :D
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I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"