June 18

It was birthday day today! I teerned twenty five! I was spoiled spoiled spoiled by my dear ones (exhibit A pictured below) - and there was lots of notes, and frosting, and flowers, and sun, and splendid people. It was one of the best!

 

Sarah asked me what five things I want to accomplish this year, and after thinking long and hard, I think these are them:

 

1. Travel with my boo.

2. Volunteer and sign up to teach ESL in some way.

3. Read Anna Karenana by Leo Tolstoy and East of Eden by John Steinbeck.

4. Get a car (and also leather pants).

5. Run a half marathon.

 

...and maybe start a children's book.

 

 

 

Thank you everyone for the love, I appreciate you so much!

June 16

 

It is beautiful here at home, with it's wide skies, and showy sunsets, and the smell of pine needles and heat and hay. I don't think I'm ready to go back to the city yet.

June 12

 

Live in the sunshine

Swim in the sea

Drink the wild air of your imagination

 

- Ralph Waldo Emmerson



May 31

(Work today looked like this.)

 

Happy Friday - sleep, drink, be merry!

May 9

No sleep = Long work day = Nap in the park with Jenni = Perfection.

No sleep = Perfection? I've never been fantastic at math or at being realistic. But I am an optimist, and I will be true to myself.

January 20

The sun returned today after a good long sabbatical behind curtains of fog and cloud, and it was a wonderful thing to welcome her back. And really, she was in spectacular form. There is research that speculates that better weather causes better moods, and I am a firm believer in this research as fact. Markus and I walked along the water and sauntered through the Sunday Market and I hemmed and hawed over a pair of whitewashed mirrors...

"for my future house one day, you know?"
"What are you going to do with them now?"
" Oh I don't know...nothing probably, but..."

This kind of behavior gave birth to the show Hoarders.

Other things to be celebrated: The long life of this weekend. Tomorrow we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. with a day off work, a day in bed. And probably a cake. It means today is another day to play without a care.

January 11

It was this kind of winter day. Complete with the company of Hannah McMillen.