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Things I Do Not Understand And Definitely Am Not Going To Talk About

thingsidontunderstandand:

• I don’t want a boyfriend; I want someone to remove my glasses when I forget and fall asleep.

Is it wrong if my first thought was of maybe designing a robot butler that could perform the task?

Or just a pair of glasses that could remove themselves from the wearer’s head when it sensed she was asleep?

And then I spent a good 5 or 6 minutes giggling at the idea of glasses that could scurry away from their sleeping owner?

ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MINERAL

bluefugate:

A fun game to play with yourself is Literalizing Terms of Endearment. Sit back, close your eyes, and raise your interior voice a few octaves…

Now, imagine a honeybee. Tell it you love it. Picture a pumpkin. Urge it to hurry along to school. Envision sugar (cube-form is best, but your call). Whisper that you can’t wait to see it later.  

Cool, right?

life is short. sometimes things you think are gonna last forever don’t, and some things you aren’t sure about end up lasting. what have we discovered? that things are not always hard, and remembering what we really wanted and who we really are means very simple things. for me, it is that i love music to no end, and i love to hear carl play the guitar more than just about anything else in this world. i play to hear him play. it’s that simple.

together we have a world no one else really knows. we often do not even need to speak - we just know. we joke about how we share one brain. of course, that means when one of is stressed, the other cannot help but be affected. we find ways to balance this - and most of the time it really works. yeah, we have had bumps in the road, and on occasion it seems as if we may never recover from these bumps, but we do.

so now it’s three years later, three years since the last record. we are still together, and we are still very much in love. we found a way to get back to all the things that really matter, and of course, at the heart of it all, is music. making music. creating this other world.

this new record - it started in 2009 with a series of recordings carl had under taken. i had a solo record - our close friends told carl to make a solo record. he recorded, on and off, for maybe 18 months. all by himself, and amassed a wonderful inventory of tracks to work with. then valentines day 2011 was coming, and his gift to me was this cd of tracks he had done, all alone, and a lot of them new, just for me. i loved them, all of them. i played them all day every day for months. carl told me it was music just for me, and no one else would ever hear it.

you imagine your very favorite guitar player in the world making music just for you. just for you. think of how wonderful that would feel. if carl really did not want anyone else to hear it, so be it. i had new music just for me, and i was overjoyed.

-windy & carl

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ridyou:

“I feel as if I am an ad
for the sale of a haunted house: 
18 rooms
$37,000
I’m yours
ghosts and all.”

-Richard Brautigan

(Source: freedomandjesus, via oversets)

The men who expected a terrible, painful future rated their anxiety and their attraction to the ladies as significantly higher than those expecting mild tingles.

ennuipartie:

RT @notsmartblog: The couple that misattributes together, stays together - new post: http://t.co/fHfPeeO

So much awesome in this article it would be impossible to reblog it all.

There is a reason playful wrestling can lead to passionate kissing, why a great friend can turn a heaving cry into a belly laugh. There is a reason why great struggle brings you closer to friends, family and lovers. There is a reason why Rice Krispies commercials show moms teaching children how to make treats in crisp black-and-white while Israel Kamakawiwo’ole sings Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

When you want to know why you feel the way you do but are denied the correct answer, you don’t stop searching. You settle on something – the person beside you, the product in front of you, the drug in your brain.

Plus experimental results previously blogged about:

…partners tended to feel closer, more attracted to and more in love with each other when their skills were routinely challenged. He reasoned the buzz you get when you break through a frustrating trial and succeed, what Graham called flow, was directly tied to bonding. Just spending time together is not enough, he said. The sort of activities you engage in are vital. Graham concluded you are driven to grow, to expand, to add to your abilities and knowledge. When you satisfy this motivation for self-expansion by incorporating aspects of your romantic partner or friend into your own skills, philosophies and self, it does more to strengthen your bond than any other act of love.

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The frequency of novelty can diminish as the relationship ages and you settle into routines. The bond can seem to weaken. To build it up again you need adversity, even if simulated. Taking ballroom dancing lessons or teaming up against friends in Trivial Pursuit are more likely to keep the flame flickering than wine and Marvin Gaye.