see all the times I should have turned back
i sometimes lose my faith in luck
i don't know what i want to be when i grow up
i just count the rain
wearing the floor through the boards again
i wish i could find a soul to steal
there are so many great parts of the new brandi carlile album. "hard way home" is just my very favorite.
i have somewhat easily (unexpectedly, randomly) not had any caffeine in a week. a few years ago i reduced my intake of soda, at least for a little while. it slowly crept back up, only with diet coke instead of diet dr. pepper. however, this time i haven't had any. one day last week the diet coke started to turn my stomach. it burned and tasted like (what i'd imagine) gas. i have had no real withdrawals like i did last time. i have been tired but not so much that i feel like i want a soda. weird, right? i spent a year trying to do something i've been able to do in a week. i have no plans to start drinking it again. maybe a root beer out at dinner but certainly not at home or work. i've been drinking water and juice instead.
i've been steadily working on my screenplay. i am still working through all of the preparation exercises, which have given me a skeleton of what should go on. it's been an entertaining process. normally i just work on it at work during lunch. it's too hot to do anything else.
we celebrated four years of marriage last week. life's starting to go by more and more quickly.
a different company bought our apartment complex. so that's weird. they replaced the signs and are making new rules. i am sure raising the rent too. i think we'll find out in august what the new rent will be but if it goes up much more we'll be moving. what we pay is already pretty high for a small apartment but we like the location and the attached garage so much that we overlook it. however, for any more money we could rent a house. i'd like to live in hyde park or terrytown. renting a house in the area we currently live in wouldn't work because a) the houses are huge and b) the school district is coveted and therefore prices are higher because of it.
we saw moonrise kingdom last weekend. it was really, really good. go see it if you can.