waking up

Waking up for me is always a feat. Pulling myself out of my literal cocoon (because at night apparently I roll myself up in my 17 hundred blankets) is approached slowly and calmly. Walking to make a gigantic pot of some very strong coffee this morning I realized that I woke up with a song stuck in my head... the Cheers theme song! This is a frequent happening for me. One that I can remember really well is when my mom came to visit about 1 year ago:

I was sleeping at my house on the couch. It was like 11 or 12 in the afternoon and I went stumbling through my kitchen. Only to find my mother and her boy friend drinking their vanilla chi teas and looking at me very strangely, sarcastic smiles upon their faces. They were indeed smiling like this because of my appearance at that particular wonderful moment in time. I do assume that my hair was probably half in and half out of an elastic, my eyes just barely cracked open, one of them may have even been still closed. And a gentle loving grunt coming from my voice box as I walked by them and my mother said "good morning baby!" You have to understand, I am completely non verbal prior to having coffee in my system when I awake and do not want to have any interaction with the human variety or otherwise. I did in fact happen to open my mouth to speak a short phrase, "something is wrong with me." My mother turned from sarcastic face to serious face in a heart beat and asked, "what's wrong!?" I spoke again, "I woke up with 'you're a grand old flag stuck in my head'." Then passed them by without so much as a smirk. They both of course started hysterically laughing at me and my brains choice of music to have lodged in it lobes.

Now, for serious people.. what is wrong with me? HAHAHA. What on Earth do I possibly dream about that would have me waking up to singing these completely ridiculous tunes?!

..have a nice day. ^_^

Veronica Ashley.

rainy day.

It's gray and raining outside. And I love it. Day's like these are just relaxing. I noticed today when I first walked outside that if you smell the scent of the rain mixed with the cold crisp air.. it smells like April. I can't wait for spring time.. I've already decided I'm going to Block Island for my birthday weekend, which happens to be mothers day weekend too. Spend a little time with my grandmother and celebrate 'grand'mothers day and my 23rd birthday. UGH! I can't believe I'm gonna be 23. I feel so old. It feels like just yesterday I was 6 years old and my mother was telling me to stop growing up! But it's one thing in life you just can't win a fight with. ^_^

I decided I need to go to the Aquarium for my birthday as well.. haven't been there since I was a child! I hope the sea urchins are still there!

one more thing I can't wait for-- Lilacs! The old fashioned purple ones. They're my favorite and they bloom the week of my birthday. It's like my very own present from mother nature! haha

Veronica.

I will never be, I will never be you, no
I will always be, I will always be me, that I know
But oh, even though I'm happy being me
I want to get away from all this harsh reality, oh

Gimme a break, a little escape
I am so tired of being me
I wanna be free, I wanna be new and different
Anything I'm not

I love Lenka- download her shit. It's adorable and very catchy.

experimenting with human emotion.

So tonight I was working at Body Shop, and during my time there this evening I decided since it was not so busy in my store to stand at the lease line. I then began to wonder how contagious smiles really were.. so I set out to smile at everyone that walked by me. I came to find that if you flash someone a big fat smile (and look like you really mean it too!)then pretty much 97% of the time you'll get either an equally nice smile back, a smile to let you know they saw you , or just a plain old smirk. There happened to be the few individuals that did not smile at all, which I just find odd. It doesn't take a lot of effort to shoot someone a smile back. It so happens that if you're in a bad mood even, and you smile back at someone it'll heighten your spirits and put you in a somewhat better mood. Moral is:

Just keep smiling people. They're free, and they are contagious. Also, you never know who you could touch by just letting them know you noticed them, and greeted them in a friendly manner.

Veronica. ^_^

ps: this should make you laugh. I did.

http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/archive/12125/

luckiest lady in all the land.

First off-- WOW alliteration! check out those "L's" holler!

secondly and are you sitting down? Cause you should be for what I am about to tell you...


I, Veronica Ashley Samsel, beloved daughter of Kathy & Anthony, sister, cousin, grand daughter, and neice to all who would take more time than I have to list...

I am going...


to see...



Billy Joel & Elton John!!!!!

July 17th is waaaay too far away. People, this has been a long time coming. Since many many moons ago, when I was just a deeeeeet of a wee one, much smaller than even now-- I have waited for this most joyous moment in time. The glistening light, of two heavens (my heavens, my gods) coming together in one night of passion, glory, and all out pure entertainment! I was much too small (like 4 or 5 years old) to go to the Billy Joel & Elton John concert with my mom .. and now, now that I have blossomed into this creature you know today-- the time has come, for me.. to be-- Entertained! and speaking of entertained, I wish I could have seen this magical performance. Hahahaha, OHHHH Elty you kill me!




LOVE IT! CAN'T FUCKIN WAIT!

-Veronica-
PS-- In the video, Billy Joel does a Batman quote-- when the joker (Jack Nicholson) is frustrated by Batman (Michael Keaton) beating him once again-- the joker say's "Where does he get those wonderful toys?"-- how I respect and love that Billy Joel made a Batman reference-- however the perfectionist in me when it comes to pop culture quotes and references is overwhelmed by his misspoken phrase! UGH, still hilarious none the less!