The Week in Quotes


"Do we have to call it blonde, or can we call it light?"
-Maddy at our staff meeting on the new blonde coffees. She used to have blonde hair, which is why it's funny to me, and also we had spent the entire meeting talking about the specific way that Sbux was rebranding their coffees

"You know, people say I need to get a human baby..."
-Nick, while looking at Tilly with fatherly love

Me: I'm thinking about whether or not I want to get a Master's.
Heather H: Oh yeah, I should get one of those.




I'm really excited and nervous to try out Crossfit tomorrow. I feel like I'm joining the army. Especially because it's so early in the morning.
I'm excited to ride the bus again.
I'm excited Dan made my 5 year old laptop run like it is brand new, on Linux, and that the WiFi started working again. He is a genius.
I'm excited that it is finally getting cold outside. I sat in the hot tub, and it was glorious.
I'm encouraged.

"Balloons. Plastic. Rubber. Crazy."


-Nick

"Well it's okay to indulge now and then."
"Yes, but I usually indulge more now than then."
-Celisse

"I do NOT think it would go well if I got stoned and went to Japan alone."
-Nick, on hearing "Who says" by John Mayer (from Ashleigh, but I feel like I was there. :)

and Tanya-isms

"In that neighborhood everyone knows everyone. They know everything: they know you farted last night, and how many times."
-on her mother-in-law's neighborhood

"Yes their marriage already been rocks for years."
-remember to add Russian accent

"Derrick, I don't want to live in a pig style everyday."
-she says this one a lot, so it's starting to sound right to me

"Nick, what put that into your brain to put basil leaves in your beer?"
"I don't know."
"Did it fall into your beer?"
"Hey peanut butter wasn't invented on purpose."
-Stesha and Nick

Long overdue Nickisms

"Would you drink champagne if I opened it?"
"Dan, don't threaten me with a good time."

"Wait, will it ever come back?" (on the subject of his "golden" birthday, which was when he was eleven, so he didn't know about it)

"I want to go somewhere wild. Like Maine."

and one from Ashleigh:

"Sometimes I just think about the day-to-day space odysseys."


Oh Nicholas.

"If you (wear) a mustache you can come (to) Randal's bachelor party !!!!!"
-Nicholas D'Amico's poorly spelled text to me this morning.

I am having a very nice time on vacation. Once we got home from Illinois I basically started to live at the Mombergers' and watch Celisse make a wedding cake, and slept in for a really long time all the time. And worked out. And colored my hair. And started talking to an old friend, and went with Cel while she bought her wedding dress.

And I'm really happy.
I think it's also related to no school or work. But I'm really happy.

"I wonder how many smiles I've smiled in my whole life."
-Nick D'Amico

"Who the hell is Kaylene?" Nick once said when he had been talking to her for fifteen minutes.
I laugh about it still.

I'm playing memory games with little pieces I forgot and I forget. Maybe I'm trying to categorize tonight, like Elijah Wood in "Everything is Illuminated", sticking things in ziploc bags and stapling them to the wall.

Number one: the smell of the really awful coffee we made at the hospital, and just how the air felt at one in the morning there. I would dip Lorna Dunes in the coffee and try to stay awake, charting vitals. How heavy your eyelids feel when you know you'll be up til 7:30 a.m. The dinging bells of the call lights. Making small talk about Texas with John. He was one of those people I got to know so well. Like when you know everything they're going to say next and all their jokes, and what makes their heart feel heavy when they wake up.

Number two: How I would feel driving to the hospital. Awful. It was dark and the air was hard. But how I would feel driving home; like I had changed the world. And I miss that feeling. I miss that direction and how it was who I was. And how I hated it.

Number three: Starting at Chase. It was hot and smelled good and it was easy to park, and I felt older. Going to the U and the awful headaches, and learning how to put my arms and legs on in the morning and having the most complicated relationships of my entire life, and how easily it all fell together. Learning how to just turn off how I feel: priceless.

That's all and so much for tonight.

take this for a grain of salt
as Nick D'Amico would say

"I know sitting in this Barnes and Noble Cafe that my underwear is probably showing. I know I'm young. I know that true love has never shown up at my door or saved me from anything, but that my friendships have saved me from a hell. I know I've made some mistakes, but I don't think that I've made my one big mistake. I know that glamor is worth something, but my life will never be rock and roll. I am far from the end, but I hope for it's nearness. I'm happy even when I am unhappy."
-Me four months ago

I am learning things. I am growing. I think someone is done punishing me for listening too long to one song.