How to Hug a Porcupine

A book that has really stuck with me is How to Hug a Porcupine, dealing with toxic personalities. It is a book i highly recommend for everyone. It is basically a self help book. The best audience for the book is someone in a difficult relationship, abusive relationship, and the average person. I say the average person because i believe everyone has a person in their life that is difficult to deal with for one reason or another.

I personally enjoyed the book because of the validation i received. Learning about all the different things people with toxic personalities do to the people around them. I really appreciate when reading this that it helps the reader know what they can do for themselves to be ok with who they are and how to deal with difficult people. It talks about how to help yourself overcome difficult or toxic behaviors. It does not classify everyone with difficult behaviors as toxic. I believe everyone has things they need to work on and i appreciate the perspective of this book.

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Cliches

1.Silent as (the grave)- Silent as if you would never speak again.

2. Clean as (a whistle)- Clean as a plate after it came out of the dishwasher

3. Hungry as (a wolf)- Hungry as child wanting an afters chool snack

4. Pretty as (a picture)- Pretty as a bunch of flowers just picked straight from the garden

5. Fit as (a fiddle)-Fit as a castle for a princess

6. Easy as (pie)- Easy as doing 10 jumping jacks

7. Cold as (ice)- Cold as a child's hands coming in from playing in the snow

8. Smooth as (silk)- smooth as glass 

9. Blind as (a bat)- Blind as a person driving to a new location they have never been before 

10. Strong as (an ox)- Strong as a father throwing his child in the air.

Instructions for styling my hair

1. Make sure hair is completely dry.

2. Plug in and heat up straightening iron.

3. Tip head upside down and spray hairspray. Make sure you spray up and down from right to left until all hair is covered.

4. Flip head back over. Hair should be sticking out like a crazy witch on Halloween.

5. Carefully part hair on the right side with out brushing out hair. Do not brush out hair and cause it to not stick out.

6. Start on the left side, in the front, with the top layers of hair. Straighten. Continue with small portions underneath until you reach the bottom. While doing this tip head so that the hair you have straightened folds up. This way you can keep it from getting in the way.

7. Once that section is done, flip it back down and brush through just that part.

8. Continue in this fashion till you have straightened all hair.

9. When finished fluff and brush until it lays just right.

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My Poem

I decided to write about my piano. With all the changes i'm making in my life I always go back to my piano. It is always there no matter how i'm feeling. It has been the one consistency in my life.

My Piano, My Friend

Upright and always there for me
Scratched and dinged, its use you can see

The hammers striking the strings
Practicing songs for others to sing

Soft and Quite the melody
Loud and bold always dramatically

I play for my self
And for others to hear

My feelings into the music
My piano always listens

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Voices

This weekend i'm going to play all day and not do any homework. I'm going to watch movies and go to a friends house.

This weekend i'm going to sail till the sun goes down and find some gold. I'm going to scrub the deck.

This weekend is going to go by way to quickly. Before I know it i'll be back at work.

This weekend I'm going to go to the mall and get a new shirt. I'll probably get a new pair of pants and some earrings to match. I'm excited to get out with my friends and shop.

This weekend i'm moving. I will be making sure the truck is loaded right, directing the unloading into my new apartment, and then unpacking and organizing as much as i can so that we can get through the week. I will go to church and hopefully make some new friends. I'm also going to make sure i spend some good time with my kids since it is my first full weekend off since i started my job.

What I was like as a child

As a child I tended to be quiet and shy, but I was a lot more outgoing with my friends. I loved to ride my bike around the block and thought I was so cool when I could go all the way around with out holding on to the handle bars. I always had a lot of chores and quickly learned to rush through them so that I could play outside or at my friends houses. I moved all the time and lived in 4 states before I turned 18 California, Utah, Virginia, and Arizona. I never lived in a house longer than four and a half years. Most of the time it was a lot less than that. I had to learn to make new friends quickly. I always had a few good friends I could count on. When I was seven I started piano lessons. This was my dream! I loved to play the piano. I never had to be told to practice, I chose to. I memorized almost every piece I had to learn every week. I put all my emotion into the piano, it was my safe place, another world I could escape into. It is the same piano I have and play on today.

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Don't Touch!

The touch I hate most is has to do with feet. My feet are especially sensitive. They are always dry, calloused, and cracked. I can't walk on anything with out socks on. The way they rub and catch on the fibers of the carpet pulls at the cracks on my heals. I cringe to walk on hard smooth floors because of the way my feet rub against  the cold surface. The only time I don't wear socks is in the shower or at the swimming pool, but sometimes I wish I could. I have seriously considered wearing socks to swim and shower.

I love socks, but I can only wear one kind of sock. The line above the toe has to fit just right so that it doesn't hit any of my toes, and the heal has to fit just right too. I have only found one brand of socks that fit me just right. I have to buy them from costco and they have a kb logo on the top. They come in all different colors and designs. I like the ones with stripes, any color will do. When I put a new pair on for the first time, the socks are then doomed to always be a right or left foot sock. From then on when I go to put them on I check where my previous foot print is on the bottom. That way they are stretched out just right and always fit the same. I even have a hard time changing socks because of the way they rub my feet.

I am so sensitive to the touch of feet that I have a hard time with other people's feet. I can't even watch when they walk with out socks or shoes on. I get the same feeling as if it were my feet. I will even tell you to stop rubbing your feet on any surface if you do it in front of me.

In the summer I can always be found with at least one pair of socks in my purse or bag, usually two or three. I take them off as I slip my feet into my flip flops, and put them back on when I take them off. I'm even known for not wearing any shoes if I can avoid it. I frequently drive and go places with only my socks and only wear shoes when I'm inside a store. I take my shoes off when ever I get the chance.

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