They're Talking Nerdy Baby: #NerdsUnite (court update and VD love)
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 5:31PMValentines day ... not venereal disease you sick ... sick ... human beings. ::evil laugh:: mwahaha takes one to know one!
I literally cannot thank you all for the tweets, comments, Facebook messages ... everything re: my court case today. I was UNBELIEVABLY shocked I was called to testify, and as anyone who has ever been in one of those situations knows - you relive every detail of everything (from the exact size of the laceration in my skull to how my body was positioned on the sidewalk when I regained consciousness) ... and I am just done right now.
I can't even talk about this anymore, I'm just ... fucking spent. This was hands down one of the worst days of my life. The fact that I had to actually TESTIFY today is equated to going into the dentist thinking you're just going in for a routine cleaning and then realizing you've woken up 6 days later because they had to take your wisdom teeth out and there were complications. It was fucking INSANE!!! And even my father who's a lawyer was STUNNED that they asked me to testify. Albeit he's a corporate lawyer, not a litigator - it was still freaking weird.
On the brighter side of things, however, I did end up getting a McDonalds gift card from the victims advocate ...
ANNNDDD I hooked up the Wii that the Modern Day Shaman loaned us. I'm seeing the bright side ... I swear ... I swear ... I just don't want to talk to anyone right now - hope you can all understand.
AND this means the post will be written sooner, so who can really be mad at that. Either way, this was a superly duperly sweet email I got last night that I had to share because it totes made me all misty eyed ...
I tend to have a fair amount of time on my hands <insert>standard masturbation joke</insert> on Valentine's Day; no hate for the day, though Madison Avenue does its usual holiday overkill. So I tend to explore it in my own way. {He totally spends it eating a barrel of conversation hearts.} Do not! Stop it!] {And weeping!} [::summons inner Miss Piggy:: Hiii-yaaa! *smack*] {Ow! Meanie!} [Where was I, oh yes...]
Here's the results of my stream of consciousness wanderings and ponderings aka One Man's Random Thoughts: Valentine's day Edition:
Things I have learned from Wikipedia:
Blue roses are often portrayed in literature and art as a symbol of love and prosperity to those who seek it and in contemporary culture they have come to symbolize mystery and longing to attain the impossible with some cultures go so far as to say that the holder of a blue rose will have her wishes granted.
Considering just about everyone you knew probably thought you were nuts when you started your website, and how you've used it to not only to make a living that suits your lifestyle, but as a way to explore yourself, improve yourself, and make yourself ready for the love to come, I can't think of a more appropriate rose for Jen Friel. (Yes, sentences that run forever are my style.)
Have one:)
Light Pink Roses symbolize desire, passion, joy of life, youth, and energy.
Hoping for all these things for you hence the background color!
The Anahata chakra , or heart chakra, is associated with love and compassion, charity to others, and forms of psychic healing. It is also associated with the ability to make decisions outside of the realm of karma. In Anahata, one is making decisions, 'following your heart', based upon one's higher self, and not from the unfulfilled emotions and desires of lower nature.
Doing what feels right, being generous and thankful, improving yourself, and not hating on people. It's the Jen chakra!
This really resonated with me after reading your Saturday post. How the gratitude for the program for paying medical bills of crime victims flowed to cueing your act of gratitude to the Russian hairdressers to revealing you had seen your attacker to a release of emotion that eased at least some of your anger and anxiety about the court date today. That post was a real change from the rawness in your 'voice' in your Thursday post; my heart was in my throat after reading that one. I could feel your emotions in your words on my screen.
Yes, I said today up above. I don't know when you'll be reading this, but I'm sending it at the beginning of Valentine's day my time (around 9 pm your time). Over the last two years+ talknerdytomelover.com has proved the epitome of the last line of the last song on the Beatles last album: "In the end the love you take is equal to the love you make."
You've put a lot of love into your baby, and a lot of love in the people that write for it, read it, and support it. You've created a whole community, full of energy, optimism, respect, and well wishes. You are well ahead of the game in the love making {not lovemaking, well that too ;P ::ducks::} [Quiet you, be nice!] department. And while you may not have that special romantic someone in your life this year, there will be a lot of love with you today. With all your friends and family on the East Coast, heck a Talk Nerdy to Me, lover contributor in Japan!, and all your fans worldwide, your Valentine's Day has already started, even before I send this!
So today in that courtroom (and throughout this day as well) , if you feel the anger, the stress, the fear, the confusion threatening to boil over -- take a breath, close your eyes if need be, and know there's loads of love in that room with you. No one wants you getting a contempt charge and going to jail. :P {Depends on the jail bow-chicka-wow-wow} [Stop it!] As you like say when you talk about tweeting where you are and how much safer that makes you, you have an army of support; you may be physically alone, but never truly alone.
But then you already know all this. Just my two cents. {Your no sense! ::runs::} [Grrrr! ::chases::]
Tons of love for ya, Jen. And that's just from me.
SO. FREAKING. RAD!!
THANK YOU GREG!!
Oh, oh, oh ... and one more thing before I go back to my cave ... in a little over a week, I'll be IN NY!!!!!! I'm heading out there to meet with the dating review peeps. So excited!! They totally hearted your feedback! And I heart their product because it's culturally disruptive!! BAHHHH!! Everyone WINS!!!
Keep it up, nerderinos!!
#somuchfreakinglove
PS. TRIVIA IS STILL ON FOR TONIGHT!!! (Goal Sports Cafe 9pm) Sincerest apologies for not updating sooner - but got the tweets, and yes yes yes ... still on, but please I can't talk about the case. Let's just work on keeping our winning streak for THE THIRD WEEK IN A ROW!!!! Last week we PWNED the competition, and we were down our team size by half ... ANNNNNDDDDD we won the drinking round for the first time. Way to be awesome, nerds!! KEEP.IT.UP!!!
