Notes from the Red Bird House

Exception List: "For people in a committed relationship, a list of people with whom they are allowed to have sexual encounters with... Typically the people on an exception list are models or celebrities or people whom you would never expect to have a chance to sleep with..." (Bad grammar courtesy of www.urbandictionary.com) It's all hypothetical, right? I mean what are the chances? First you have to actually meet someone on the list. THEN he or she has to want to sleep with you. The odds have to be worse than the odds of winning $4 billion on the Power Ball. But what if? What if the planets aligned on the same day that all the numbers matched? Stranger things have happened. And that's why I've always had an exception list. Like me, you may struggle to win two bucks on a scratch off, but it pays to be ready, have a plan, just in case the big score appears in line behind you at Starbucks and strikes up a conversation. The last thing you want is a

I wrote what follows awhile back. Maybe a month ago, maybe more. I can't recall exactly. Regardless the lessons still apply and I suspect that they will for quite some time. Perhaps they are universals, perhaps they only apply to me. In the long and somewhat on-and-off history of my blog, I've posted things I assumed would make sense only to me, but time and time again I learned that my words often resonate with others. And funny, I'm always surprised and awestruck. As I've often done, I squeezed my many thoughts into a bullet-pointed list of ten. I assigned them numbers, but as always the numbers are of little consequence. Perhaps they are merely an homage to David Letterman. Top Ten lists seemed to work well for him. All are equally important to me, but if even one says something important to just one reader, I will call it a success. 1. Cheap doesn't explain the kind of drunk I am these days. 2. Being awake in life is more important than anything. 3.