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i lasted two whole days.  two whole days of fruits, vegetables, and today a whole wheat tortilla with lentils and brown rice.  but when i arrived back home to a small tray of cookies with the words “To Louissa, From Lisa” written on them, i felt conflicted to the very core of my being.  should i [...]

i fell asleep last night remembering her smell, laugh, and wonderfully goofy grin.  i wondered where she is and who she’s with.  i wondered why-oh-why we had to let her go.  and i wondered why there must be such heartbreak in life. you’re not supposed to have favorites but she was mine. [...]

i’m too tired to narrate much so just two pictures.  be happy.
1) dream come true.  you better believe that’s me on a zamboni, baby.

2)  some of the people in the world that i love.  i’m not sure there will ever be one picture that holds everyone i love.

today was spent around the house.  well, okay — so i was gone from 9:00-3:30 — but it felt like i was home for a good long while!  i’m tired and hot and very glad to put pajamas on at 9:15pm and think that the day is almost over. want to see some of what i did [...]

sometimes habits just fall into place without you noticing.  for the second weekend in a row we found ourselves sitting around a table too late at night playing a game that involves dominoes, trains and well, with my rowdy group of friends — a whole lot of talking, random outbursts of song, and much laughter.  i’m [...]

i may have a smoothie with cinnamon-and-pudding-filled bread for dinner because i:
a.)  have a sweet tooth
b.)  find it a waste of time to prepare a “real” meal for just one person
c.)  enjoy simpler foods now and then
d.)  all of the above

if i’ve learned anything this summer, it’s how special my friends are. meet bubs the snubs (or snubs the bubs or snubby dubby bubby or bubsie or just plain old ben): (sorry for the blurriness.  cell phone doesn’t always equal the best quality photos.) basically everyone thinks the world of him.  he plays the violin like no other, can [...]

sometimes i find things in these small towns i’m surrounded by that just amuse.  my discovery today was mr. robot: huh.  not the usual graffiti one might find. mr. robot wanted a picture taken with me.  don’t mind my not-so-joyous expression.  i was pondering the phrase and considering whether i might be more robotic than human. [...]

a long day was worked by many.  a quiet dinner was had of cornbread and salad.  a kitchen was cleaned.  an evening walk beside fields of corn was taken.  and i kept thinking of this written bit that spoke to this quiet soul today: “Love of my heart, my stream runs dry; O Fountain of the heavenly [...]

i didn’t set my alarm correctly for my waking this morning.  you would think that after using the same exact alarm every single morning for a whole year i would have the system down.  guess not. there is nothing that i hate more than sleeping later than i planned.  especially when i have things to do and [...]

i’m one of those annoying people who 99.9% of the time has music playing in their car.  perhaps it’s bad.  or not.  i haven’t decided.  at least i’m not one of those people who keeps my music at such a ridiculously low volume level that you don’t know whether to scream or cry from the frustration [...]

it’s right now at 1:40am that i’m regretting this decision i made.  i knew it would happen eventually but didn’t think it would come this soon.  whatever.  today’s photos: i tried a new recipe.  it was mostly peaches and blueberries.  can’t go wrong with that, right? well, it called for a cornmeal sweet biscuit of sorts to be plopped on [...]

i went for my first motorcycle ride tonight.  while relaxing by my sister’s new pool after a strange day at work i received a text from a friend asking if i’d like a ride.  did i want a ride?! of course!  i’m not sure i’ve ever been so excited about something.  so with a helmet and one of [...]

best after work snack:

right now there’s nothing that i’d rather do more than curl up and fall asleep to angela lansbury’s voice in her old show, Murder, She Wrote, but it would be rather pathetic of me to quit on day 2 of a photo a day.  so here, here’s a little man who i spent my afternoon and evening with: [...]

i’ve been an uninspired blogger of late.  the desire comes and goes — and comes more in the cool months of dark settling in at 5:00pm, warm apple pie sustaining your very existence, and afghans wrapped around you being a must.  the hot long days of summer beckon me to gallivant in the great outdoors and not [...]

i looked after one child this evening.  for an hour and a half it was just the two of us and we played trains, split a chocolate chip scone, took a walk down to the water where he worked up the courage to place a finger or toe in, and laughed a lot.  that’s what he [...]

i looked after one child this evening.  for an hour and a half it was just the two of us and we played trains, split a chocolate chip scone, took a walk down to the water where he worked up the courage to place a finger or toe in, and laughed a lot.  that’s what he [...]

- cups of coffee every morning – being surprised with 2 quarts of strawberries – a black leather bound Bible that’s slowly being worn in favorite places – campfires, campfires, and more campfires – canoe rides at 11:30pm – a mums that comes in my office on a regular basis (when i’m in desperate need of [...]