tetanus shots hurt! i got one yesterday since it seemed like a good thing to do before leaving the country and i haven't had one in over 10 years i'm pretty sure. right now i can't lift my arm above halfway and there's a big swollen lump from where i got it, also it's on the same arm that has tendonitis in the wrist from yoga, which is good because ( Read more... )

I need some recommendations. Who can hook me up? I want to immerse myself in things that will inspire me for our trip. Also movies set in Europe, particularly French movies since we're both learning a little bit before we go. So who's got 'em?

"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards:
they try to have more things, or more money, in order
to do more of what they want so that they will be happier.
The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first
be who you really are, then, do what you need to do,
in order to have what you want."
-Margaret Young

don't know why- low energy, sleepin' a lot- i'm not pregnant! i guess i'm getting a decent amount of things done. see, this is an attitude that seems to have developed over the past couple years of getting enough done. today i was freakin' active, dammit-i took a 2 hour modern class that left me sweating and panting on the floor (i mean, anything ( Read more... )

who knew? i knew i had it good in boulder those last couple of years- it was so fun, and so easy- deceptively easy. i had never had friendships like the ones i had in boulder, and yet they were so easy when i found them, i thought for sure they would be easy to find again. it's been 3 and a 1/2 years since i lived there and i have had only small ( Read more... )

This being human is a guest house ( Read more... )

hard-core, man. it's all i can do to get out of bed and actually try to re-immerse myself back into my "normal" life. what does it mean that recovering from a show feels like a nasty-ass hangover? i'm beginning to wonder if what i think of as being "enough" in my life is not. why should i have to learn how to recover from that high- the high of ( Read more... )

today was an interesting day. brett and i set the alarm for 7:30. we got out of bed at 9:30. that's pretty much how the whole day felt- nothing pressing enough, nothing exciting enough to really motivate me, so i just putzed along. i think i really needed a day like this. i was just kind of sad, tired, in a cloud that not even yoga could shake. i ( Read more... )

years. really ( Read more... )

when i call him up in tears at work in the middle of the day and even though he's been working 12 hour days all week, he takes half an hour to listen and offer good advice over a crisis with my credit card company. he approaches it in such a way that puts it into perspective and makes it feel manageable without belittling my feelings. his voice on ( Read more... )