a bed time story

Just a few random things to add while i'm thinking of it. This picture is of me and Marissa -- my ex, David's, sister (did I do that comma thing right?) Anyway, I was having dinner with some friends one nite, and in walks Marissa. She's a sweet girl, and I'd not seen in in the 2 or 3 years since David and I broke up. She e-mailed me the pic.

I also wanted to include this little story I read online (ok, via AIM), but wanted to keep it for my own referral.

Him:: there once was a little red cardinal name JAy.
Him:: you may have heard one of his stories before.
Him:: but tonight's story is altogether different...
Me: something about ball-step whatever in the sky
Him:: Jay was a firey red head of a cardinal... he loved to sing and dance, and do shuffle ball changes in the sky to the rhythm of silly broadway musicals all the day long.
Him:: but Jay was a very troubled bird.
Him:: He loved so hard that it made him sad. He loved his friends, he loved his family, he loved his cat...
Him:: but the last thing he every considered loving... was himself.
Him:: So many times... Jay was hurt over and over again. He simply didn't know how to make it stop.
Him:: It was as if everything was crashing down around him.
Him:: There was no stopping it.
Him:: He felt trapped.
Him:: He felt more alone than he ever had... (he had just been rebuffed again by the Evil Blue Jay with whom he was in love)...
Him:: Things didn't seem like they could get any worse.
Him:: Until one day...
Him:: Jay rose from his nest... realized that his pet worm... the nightcrawler, Luna (not to be mistaken for Yuna) was in dire need of his assistance.
Him:: She needed him like no one ever had -- she was not well -- and needed someone to help her heal.
Him:: Like the person Jay had stiven to become for so long...
Him:: he was there for her.
Him:: The end.
Him:: but.,
Him:: BUT
Him:: the story does not REALLY end there.
Him:: because what Jay failed to realize in all of this...
Him:: what he failed to see clearly...
Him:: was that he had been there for EVERYONE... at one point or another.
Him:: when they really needed him.
Him:: What he also failed to realize...
Him:: is that everyone remembered it too...
Him:: even the Evil Blue Jay, who had once again broken his heart.
Him:: What he had no concept of -- was that everyone loved him very dearly... and cared SO much about his well being -- that in his own time of need... they would be there.
Him:: So...
Him:: the story will eventually pick up... whenever the beautiful red cardinal, Jay... finally realizes this...
Him:: /hug
Him:: the end.
Him:: for now.