winter adventure

12/30  pdx --> nice.  overnight over the big blue sea.
12/31   paris.  new years. champagne & the louvre.
1/3  venice.  venezia.
1/6  drauginan.  small town near nice in the south. 
1/11  geneva.  swiss chocolate. alps. flea markets.
1/14  drauginan.  wander the streets of the village while lindsey teaches the kids. 
1/17  nice -- jfk -- ( Read more... )

Sometimes... sometimes.   I can't handle not doing/seeing/feeling/being the things I thought were the most important.  Then suddenly, I am at the dining room table listening to my mother's stories about all the men who ever proposed.  Laughing until the tears come when my sisters face shows such astonishment ( Read more... )

It was peanut butter chocolate chip cookie day at the bakery, and it is rapidly becoming my favorite.   I think they must make it with crunchy peanut butter, which is pure genius.  I have never in my culinary life been this interested in peanut butter cookes before!

Next step, bake! 
Random sidenote, I absolutely hate that mint mojito orbit gum.  ( Read more... )

It is so weird to walk up to people when they are talking about you. 
Especially in connection with a boy.
Especially when that boy is there.

Yeah. 
Baja Fresh  is the most condusive environment to flirting EVER. 
Maybe its all that salsa.

it's official ( Read more... )

It seems like such finality when you drop your own sister off for her first day of high school ( Read more... )

Life has been unquestionably perfect lately.  I only question when it will end.  But I know.  I know already.
I dont want to think about that.

I have watched so much lost!

Mostly I am just updating my journal to ask if anyone has any book recommendations. 
Something excellent (of course), consuming, possibly easy to read (?), provoking, beautiful.

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today, I made an amazing peach chicken curry.

the end.

What a glorious graduated seven days this has been ( Read more... )

sigh sigh sigh.

I feel so reluctant to grow up.  
So unwilling to get serious.

My eyes refuse to focus.