impossible? pshh. impossible is nothing.

dream big. be big.

Johnny boy, we're getting married.

Beautiful, I watch you try
To see yourself through others' eyes
The mirrors are a losing game
They only show you backwards anyway

The magic and the misery
Come and go so easily
But everything you'll ever be
You already are to me

You were only five years old
Playing princess in your mother's clothes
Could you feel me standing next to you
With my plastic sword and playground shoes

Saying "if my dear I'm wrong somehow,
May dragons come and fail me now."
Because everything you'll ever be
You already are to me

Why
I don't know why
I don't know why you think you need to do it
How
I don't know how
I don't know how but
I just sit back and I see my way right through it

When the memories are ten feet tall
Throwing shadows on your bedroom wall
When you pull the shades and kill the lights

Will you hear me singing out tonight?
Will you hear me singing out tonight?

Days are long and words are cruel
They won't get the best of you
Cause everything you'll ever be
You have always been to me, yeah yeah


Always been to me, yeah, yeah
Always been to me, yeah
Always, oh oh
Always been to me, yeah, yeah
Always been to me

a story involving a mop, a night at work, and a spectacular display of sticky soda waterfalls

Yet another Del Taco story, coming your way.

It was a pretty good night. Hilary and Julie were working the store with me, and we were having fun catching up as we took orders. 

As I went to hand a drink out the window, Julie and I both tried to turn at the same time. This didn't work very well, so we ended up body slamming right in front of the drive-thru window. It wasn't so much the accidental body slamming that was humorous... it was the look on the customer's face as he watched this unfold through the window. I've NEVER seen someone's eyes get that wide before.

Later, as I was taking an order, my phone started vibrating in my pocket. It scared me, and I'm pretty sure my random sudden spasm might have concerned the customer a little bit.

Later, when I had a chance to check it, I saw that Leslie Greenland had called me. Her son, Jacob, could officially go to six flags, meaning that I had a ride buddy!

I celebrated by driving over to Marble Slab on my break. Jacob attacked me with a hug, and then had to return to working. I wandered over to Jamba Juice while he did his job.

I waited awkwardly at Marble slab for it to clear out so that I could talk to Jacob. His coworkers looked at me funny before disappearing into the back room. Jacob came back out and gave me another hug just in time for his coworkers to walk out and exclaim, "Oh! You guys are friends! We were just talking about how weird it was that the Del Taco girl wasn't ordering anything!" Not awkward at all.

I headed back to work, and Julie had to leave. We bid her farewell and went along with our jobs.

As the clock ticked closer and closer to the time when I get off, Patsy started doing close out.

Here's the part in the story where it starts getting interesting.

(this is the music that I imagine in my head as I replay this in slow motion you can go ahead and play it as you read on.)

The soda started coming out of the soda in a way that was less carbonated than most times. The way our machines work, all of the soda is connected to the same Co2 container, meaning that if one's flat, they're all flat. Flat soda is disgusting.

So, in order to keep our customers happy, we ventured to the back of the store to change the Co2 (we being Hilary. I don't know how to do these things.) It takes a while to get the carbonation through the tubes from the back of the store to the front, so I did exactly what I had seen Bud, my boss, do a thousand times. I clicked all the buttons and let the soda run for a few minutes.

They were still coming out flat.

So I clicked them again, enjoying the view of all the flat sodas running at once.

They all flowed majestically into the drain. 

All of a sudden, one of them made a sound like a sneeze, and was suddenly pouring out carbonated soda. I cheered as they all sneezed and started working. 

So friends, tell me, why is it so hard to fill your soda cup all the way to the top when you first fill it? It's the bubbles or the fizz, right?

As the sodas all poured out large amounts of liquids, they all began to fizz and bubble. I watched, unbelieving, as the drinks went from their normal liquid size to their fizzy size, growing like a monster before my eyes. The little drain was overloaded and forced all of the fizzy liquids to overflow onto everything. 

The sprite poured sparkly and clear as it made it's way down to the ground,

the coke filled up the ice handle with it's fizzy brown goodness. The soda's all danced together, seeming to multiply as they all pooled in the drain, a big, mixed, sticky concoction.

Frozen, all I could do was watch as the sodas splashed down the soda machine, around the sink, and across the floor of the entire drive thru section of del taco.

Cleaning it up was quite the adventure.

The adventures of Toni and Cydney

While I was running some errands today, Cydney texted me asking if I wanted to go on a library adventure with her. I agreed that it might be fun, and arrived at her house to pick her up. We then proceeded to get distracted in any and every way possible. 

Among the things that were accomplished, these were some of them:

- Cake pops were dipped
- 20 dollars was made
- nine year old's butt got whooped in a video game
- Toni decided she wants a yellow parakeet
- Discovered that Michael's craft store is empty and chaotic because it's moving
- Found an interesting book in the non-fiction section
- Got stuck in the Del Taco parking lot thanks to a semi truck
- Created wedding playlist while sitting in the Del Taco parking lot
- Stalked my hater's younger brother
- Ate ice cream
- Talked
- Laughed
- Planned a Party
- Talked more
- Laughed more

Overall, today was lovely.
I should have taken pictures.

the beauty of simplicity

ever feel like you're just floating through life?