Is it just me....

Or is the rain getting anyone else down?

Things to do when it doesn't stop raining for eight days:

Watch a good movie
Bake
Drink wine
Play board games
Read
Exercise
Have friends over
Play records
Pretend it's not raining

Moving Up or Selling Out?

Thanks to bathroom walls...

Let's not call them New Years Resolutions, but...

Things I want to work on in 2010:

-Have kinder thoughts

-Complain less

-Drive less

-Watch more movies

-Say yes more often

-Write (publish?)

-Get out in nature more

-Go on a real vacation

-Save my money

-Stay in better touch with old friends and family

-Volunteer more

-Get back into yoga

-Create things (not babies!)

-Sing and dance

-Read more books

-Play the guitar more often

-Be less anxious

-Learn new recipes to cook

-Keep my fingers out of my mouth

-Remember to have patience, compassion, and understanding!!

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Out of this world!

Avatar: By far the best movie of the decade!

and tomorrow makes five....

Five years ago today, it was all the same. I had my life, my job, my friends. I lived in a city where I thought all the good men had moved away. It was winter. I worked in a basement. I couldn't afford to heat my uninsulated house. I spent hours writing my thesis with gloves on. The passenger side door to my car froze shut. I had to drive alone. After work, I went upstairs to the bar. I ran into a friend who I had seen with a cute guy earlier. I said "Is that your boyfriend? He's cute." She said no and asked if I wanted to go out with him. I said no. I drank some more and then went home with allergies to all the cigarette smoke.

Five years ago tomorrow, I woke up and it was the same. I went to work. I got off early. I met my friend's friend. We drank a pitcher or two. We listened to Hank Williams and Johnny Cash on the jukebox. I sat on his lap. He climbed in through my driver's side door. I didn't have to drive alone. Or sleep alone. Or worry about the heat any longer.

Five years ago day after tomorrow, I woke up and it was all different. And it still is. And wonderful. Happy anniversary (tomorrow), C.