a kind of painful progress
had an good long weekend...honored the memory of those who died to protect our economy by buying things, namely makeup for me and shoes for Kermit. we didn't actually spend that much money. we're bad Americans.
haplo184, kermix & i all went to Golf N' Stuff on Saturday, half as a goodbye to Dallas and half becuase we had been planning to for ages. xantus was suspiciously absent, but we made do. and now Dallas is probably halfway to Nevada enroute to Traverse City, Michigan, where we will meet back up with him and the rest of the family mid-July.
the parents are...somewhere in Colorado, i'm betting, also enroute to Michigan. it's so weird to think they may never move back to California again. it must be so hard fro them to be completely uprooted out of their lives like this, unwillingly at that. i hope their trip is going well and that an entire summer at the cabin up north turns out to be just the mulching process they need. people never stop being just as petty as the are in high school, which is also odd and kind of sad. karma. it's funny how predictable things are sometimes, both reassuring and stupifying.
my grandmother on my dad's side turns...like...1,000,000 or something soon and we're all going up to San Francisco (well, San Mateo) to party mid-June. it's going to be a joint birthday-family reunion thing, which will be super weird. i have an uncle and a cousin i have never in my life met before who will be there. i also have another cousin who i haven't seen since he was 1. he is now, like...14. that means i also haven't seen his mother in that long...she used to be my favorite aunt :) anyway, it should be really nice to see everyone again. i got an e-mail from my step-mother informing me that one of my aunts has gotten fat, and that said aunt has requested that we all pretend not to notice. family is so weird :) i told her i'd keep quite about her if she kept quiet about mine.
speaking of which, YOGA. recommend me your favorite Yoga, Pilates, etc...DVDs. i'm planning to do an hour of it every morning for the next month to help with the aforementioned weight issue. i'd prefer a woman instructor, preferably not blonde, but if she is, i'll deal. they always look like my mother when they're blonde. any help will be much appreciated :)
hope you all had a nice 3-day weekend, if you had the time off.
haplo184, kermix & i all went to Golf N' Stuff on Saturday, half as a goodbye to Dallas and half becuase we had been planning to for ages. xantus was suspiciously absent, but we made do. and now Dallas is probably halfway to Nevada enroute to Traverse City, Michigan, where we will meet back up with him and the rest of the family mid-July.
the parents are...somewhere in Colorado, i'm betting, also enroute to Michigan. it's so weird to think they may never move back to California again. it must be so hard fro them to be completely uprooted out of their lives like this, unwillingly at that. i hope their trip is going well and that an entire summer at the cabin up north turns out to be just the mulching process they need. people never stop being just as petty as the are in high school, which is also odd and kind of sad. karma. it's funny how predictable things are sometimes, both reassuring and stupifying.
my grandmother on my dad's side turns...like...1,000,000 or something soon and we're all going up to San Francisco (well, San Mateo) to party mid-June. it's going to be a joint birthday-family reunion thing, which will be super weird. i have an uncle and a cousin i have never in my life met before who will be there. i also have another cousin who i haven't seen since he was 1. he is now, like...14. that means i also haven't seen his mother in that long...she used to be my favorite aunt :) anyway, it should be really nice to see everyone again. i got an e-mail from my step-mother informing me that one of my aunts has gotten fat, and that said aunt has requested that we all pretend not to notice. family is so weird :) i told her i'd keep quite about her if she kept quiet about mine.
speaking of which, YOGA. recommend me your favorite Yoga, Pilates, etc...DVDs. i'm planning to do an hour of it every morning for the next month to help with the aforementioned weight issue. i'd prefer a woman instructor, preferably not blonde, but if she is, i'll deal. they always look like my mother when they're blonde. any help will be much appreciated :)
hope you all had a nice 3-day weekend, if you had the time off.