Damn punctuation.
"All my resistance could never be distance enough."
--- Anna Nalick

The above have been frequent thoughts lately.  Take an analytical mind, add situation after thought and mix in some complications and you get the drink I'm holding that I want to put down the drain.  Have you heard or read "Never place a period where God has placed a comma"?  It's been haunting me.  I tend to leave strings attached rather than cut them off, so maybe that's making me even more irritated.  I'm all about possibilities- but at the same time, I think if something's meant to be, it'll happen no matter what.  Why can't I have my own life now and not have it be completely intertwined w/ whatever has happened before?  There are definite times when I want a connection- want it to make sense or someone to understand me w/o all the work involved to get to that point.
Why isn't, "I don't want to" or "leave me alone" enough?  Do I need to be every person's friend?  Just because we were before or have things in common or any number of things, does it need to or is it healthy to continue on?  I am woman.  Hear me roar.  I'm tempted to compare rights and privileges to being one's friend.  I'm also tempted to give up on people and go be a desert nomad.

 There are no Herberger affiliates w/in 200 miles of where I live.  How sad.  I think they're a pretty good department store.  I guess it's time for a road trip!!  I'd like to go some place warm, though.