I think it can only get better from here on out. Here’s hoping to a better rest of the year.

Stella: You know how I talked my way out of a speeding ticket? I was heading upstate with my parents, I was doing 90 on the country roads. I got pulled over. So this cop, gets out of his car, swaggers over and he says, ‘Lady, I’ve been waiting for you all day.’ And I said, ‘Sorry Officer, I got here as fast as I could.’

Ted: For real?

Stella: No, it’s just a joke. [pause] I know that you’re tired of waiting. And you may have to wait a little while more but, she’s on her way, Ted. And she’s getting here as fast as she can.

from How I Met Your Mother

I have to say, ordering single tickets this year has been a breeze so far. Last year I had to line up for up to an hour to pick up tickets I had already bought online. This year, I got to skip the line (which was about half a block long), and was in and out of there in less than 5 minutes.

Stop trying to sleep with women on the first date! It really screws everything up one way or the other.

It’s time to stop using the past as an excuse and time to get over and on with it.

Just because you want something doesn’t mean you can have it. You have to let it happen naturally.

Stop and smell the roses: I’m too goal oriented. Once I have a target I put the blinders on and go full steam ahead. I didn’t even check to see if the prize was worth the the price of admission (no offense intended — I just didn’t take the time to get to know her before putting her on the pedestal).

Watch my mouth. Some of the shit that comes out is funny, and some of it is offensive. Most of the time it’s both

I’m still an introvert. Luckily I have great friends that love me despite it. Also, there’s nothing wrong with being one.

One of the things I’ve been reminded of over the past 6 months is if you don’t put yourself out there, you’ll miss the opportunity of getting anything valuable in return. Sometimes you get something back and sometimes you don’t. It sucks when you don’t, but you just have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and put yourself out there again. It’s better than the alternative of living in your own world forever.

Caring for Your Introvert

On Sunday evening, we went to Peter’s Cottage up in Bancroft, then drove another 1.5 hours out to the Ottawa River to go white water rafting for the day. It was a great time — only one of us fell out of the raft in of the rapids, but we made up for it by jumping out and bodysurfing anyway We got to do some cliff-diving where we had to swim against the current to get back to shore too. All-in-all we had an awesome little trip, and I’d definitely go again.

One word of advice though: do NOT rely on Google Maps to help you navigate your way back. It took us on a 40 minute detour out of the 5 hour trip back to Toronto that was straight out of the beginning of a horror movie — dirt backroads where you could hardly see ahead of you and no lights anywhere near us. I was half waiting for the car to break down so we’d have to trek to a nearby house for help and get sawed in half.

Luckily, the Google Map wasn’t so bad as to give us the wrong directions, only really bad ones. We finally made it out to the highway and got home in one piece.