I know I promised VOLUME II, but I didn’t say it would be the next post I put up!
Ahhh.. home from the gym, showered & cleaned up. Came home and checked my emails. I believe my face looked a little like this while reading a particular message:
Said message was sent via facebook, and was a response to my “hey, sorry… who is this?” question. It went something like so:
i am a very nice man to get a long grate with todd.
Well at least he managed a period at the end of the sentence. I don’t know if he’s trying to tell me he has a long grate, or he wants to go get that long grate with a man named todd. Bahahahha!! This is what you get when you accept a friend that you “can’t figure out where you know them from”… only to find you really don’t know them at all. Unfriend. (Word of the year for the Oxford dictionary!) Do you ever get random azz friend requests/creeper messages? Or overhear people completely eff up the english language? (Non-native english speakers don’t count.. I know I make up tons of my own phrases in Spanish!) Another favorite of mine is actually from some chick, and it was in a text conversation that my buddy showed me. She was trying pretty hard.. and apparently she just learned the phrase “Granted….” as in “Granted.. I rarely attend class…” or whatever example you want to insert. I say she must have just learned it because she used it about 5 times in a 5 minute text conversation. And I say she must have just learned it because she thought the phrase was “Granite….” Mmm yep.. girls can be dumb too.
While I was getting photoboothhappy, I decided to show you two of my favorite items of clothing that I happened to be wearing today. Exhibit a) my Tin Fish (the restaurant where I work) hoodie, which I felt the need to embellish with Mr. Rainbow Fish:
Annnd Exhibit b) my very favorite ever track zip up. I think I got this my freshman year of high school, and it’s still crispy clean because I’m OTT protective of it I take good care. 
If you can’t tell what the design is.. think starting blocks and Usain Bolt.
Aright aright. Done with that! Do you have a one-most-favorite-ever item of clothing? I don’t know that this jacket is IT for me.. but it’s near the top of my list!
MOVING ON…
We are on the eve of Thanksgiving, and I just wanted to take the moment to say I am super thankful for all of YOU! I finally figured out my Google Analyticator, and am so happy to see the new readers I have coming to the site, as well as the readers that keep coming back time and time again. I also wanted to pass along this lil’ message from my my man Emerson:
For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, For love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thought it rather fitting.. don’t you? 
Well I have a BIG day tomorrow – 6:30 am spin + run, over to my mom’s to help cook cook cook, the WHOLE FAM coming over!! and fooootball with gramps. A very good day if I do say so myself. Do you have big Thanksgiving plans? Or if you don’t get to this until after you are stuffed of turkey and pie, What is your favorite part about Turkey day? Mine is definitely all the family time. IIII love them to the end of the world and back! And hey – you guys too!
Have a lovely night, and hopefully a LONG weekend!
-E
Love ya sperl!!!! Also, your blog looks pretty rockin in mobile. I got your tweet and decided to see if I could check the link. In case you didn’t know, you’re BlackBerry-approved! Lol.
hahah cute pictures
and i am having a delicious dinner w/ the fam & cooking allll day wiht the cousinss…. oh & my fav part of thanksigving is the delicious food obviously 
xoxo
shelley
Aww I love the hoodies!I cant pick one item but i had a special ‘dorunning’ hoody that i loved. I say ‘had’ because it unfortunately recently got ruined. I was running a race in horrendous conditions and had it on to go there. My mum put it in her bag whilst i ran and all the die from her new bag leaked on it when it got soaked in the rain
Too funny about the facebook dude…ive def. had similar things happen. I am also notorious for having ‘facebook clean ups’ where i ‘unfriend’ anyone who i havent spoken to in hmmmm 5 years?! The last one sent me from having a fair few hundred ‘friends’ to 25! LOL
I hope you have a lovely day with your family tomorrow. We dont celebrate thanksgiving in the UK but i am constantly trying to focus on all the things that Im thankful for in life. I gotta say Sperly, you are one of them! I hope that doesnt sound creepy (!!!) but you have no idea how much strength, hope and determination i draw from each and every one of your posts…even when you are being a (fellow) fiery red head
Take care x
Love both of your clothing items! The fish one especially:)
Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!
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