Things I'm Looking Forward To:
1.  getting a haircut at 8:30 on a warm, spring, clear Saturday morning
2.  going to Costco for three worthy items on a warm, spring, clear Saturday morning
3.  donating blood on my way home from Costco
4.  having a drink with a new girlfriend on Sunday night

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My restless mood has continued into today's afternoon.  I uploaded some pictures from my trip to Europe (TEN YEARS AGO) so I could gaze longingly and talk about them.

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It never fails.
Now I'm restless.
Well, to be honest, I was restless before, but now I'm very restless.
Italicize very. 
Underline too.
Very.
But with a period, not an exclamation point.

Instead of my usual fantasy (about the west coast), now I'm ruminating on cobbled streets, skinny alley ways and five hundred year old buildings.

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I stuck another couple dollars in my stashing-tip-money-away tin hidden in the basement and thought "Oh, I wonder if I have any more cash in that little side pocket of my purse that I regularly forget about."  Sure enough, I found nine one dollar bills.  I added that to my tin.  While I was in that side purse pocket, I looked through the few other ( Read more... )

I am debating between purchasing a new set of pots and pans or an eye exam and two new pairs of glasses.  This is, of course, assuming that the birthday money my aunt is sending me is really the $100 I think it is.  My pots and pans are five and half years old and completely scratched up.  It grosses me out to cook in them.  Danial bought me a set ( Read more... )

I came home yesterday to find a card from my sister, Kate.  Inside the card was a letter she had found in a file somewhere at Grandpa's house.  It was a letter from 1993, from me to my mother.  At that point in time, my mother was still a recent and painful omission from my household, however my letter does not ring with too much sorrow.  I'm ( Read more... )

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Last night D and I sat down to a movie.  The Pursuit of Happyness.  Nothing like some sap to make your day complete.  Typical inspirational story, Will Smith coasting through bringing his boy along for the ride.  Uplifting, moderately so.  Slightly depressing, at times.  Lots of tears and bear hugs.  It all turned out okay in the end, as is the ( Read more... )

It got cold again, but no snow.

I feel like I'm walking on the bottom of the ocean, with weighted boots, against the current.

I want to write illicit things here.

I wonder where the lake-gulls go during the winter.

Do they migrate south?