The only item on my list that I haven't gotten to so far today is laundry. We don't have a lot of it, but I ought to keep up this put-the-clothes-in-the-washer-when-we-happen-to-have-enough-quarters-and-the-basket-is-full so as to prevent having to do a bajillion loads. Maybe after this post ( Read more... )

it was a nice day for brunch in the mission today. t'wasn't too hot, nor too cold. (it was just right.) we went for a walk down valencia, and i got distracted by all the dogs out on leashes for some air ( Read more... )

It's been a day where the universe feels like it's asking me to get in touch with my dad. I watched the episode "Last Words" from "How I Met Your Mother"...after which the song "In The Living Years" by Mike + the Mechanics blasted from my Pandora account. I finally caved in in the evening and called back my mom, and found out that my dad was on a ( Read more... )

it's hard to leave the apartment sometimes, but i try to make it a point to. today was cleaning and grocery day -- i find these little OCD tendencies becoming more and more apparent as the years go by, but a clean house affects my mood, and cooking saves needing to order in. i don't always have the time and the patience to cook and clean, so for ( Read more... )

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I'm thinking about friends I haven't seen in a while. Blame it on a song I happened to come across today. It was about regretting the past. I guess that bodes the question ( Read more... )

On the way back from buying groceries today, the train stopped after leaving the departing station and promptly stopped in the middle of the track, underground. It was a two car Muni train, and in front of me was a mother with a baby, while next to me was an antsy young man in fashionable sweatpants (it's not an oxymoron if it has fancy graffiti- ( Read more... )

I remember being 22. And meeting people who couldn't stand other people. I feel strange around them, but I try to see it as a lesson: what about these people can I find pleasant without judging them? and what is it that they're saying that unnerves me so, and why ( Read more... )

Thought I'd make it out of the house. It didn't happen. Ended up doing some major cleaning, although we still have piles of laundry taunting me. Time is such a funny thing in how it slips away like that ( Read more... )

i wake up gloriously happy. happy in the most possible way, feeling like a cartoon in a WB cartoon. we go to brunch in a place we haven't gone in a while. we laugh. we talk. he chides me for using bleach to soak the dishes in. am i trying to poison us over time? i feel-- well, i feel ___ . insert something that feels appropriate ( Read more... )