My friends is so sweet! Last night, under the ruse that we were going to go to some gay restaurant on Las Olas, Alli dragged me out of the house, quite against my will. But first we were going to stop off at Alex's to get Alli's gloves she had "left in his car."
Despite the fact that: 1. Bill & Susan were baking my birthday cake right under my nose while I was at their house; 2. Mark called Alli and she announced, "774? Who would that be?" Luckily, she's from Massachusetts too, so it made sense that someone from that area code would be calling; 3. Alli switched stories on the way to Alex's and said we were going to someplace off of Oakland Park (I assumed she & Matt C. were taking me to a sex store at that point); and 4. I walked right by Matt Hoe & Ralph standing at the grill at Alex's place and never noticed them..
I was completely surprised when I walked into Alex's place. "Surprise!" Alex said. "Okay," I thought. Then I looked behind him and saw Mark and Andrea standing there. "Oh! I get it!" Bill & Susan arrived shortly after, kitty litter cake in hand.
So anyway, sweet friends, eh? I was mighty impressed. I didn't get too many pictures, but there were a few other cameras going.. Wondering what will make it up on Flickr...
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!"
