lazy sort of Saturday

Somehow my home is magically being cleaned. Could it be my actually loading and starting the dishwasher? Or my using baking soda and vinegar on the sink...wait oh wait I hear the mop calling me. I must be under some kind of spell!

The Children Teach Us Again

I want to right a poem, but keep thinking of the word quiet and how overused is that?

Maybe instead:



boots on packed dirt
dogs barking
speeding past my turtle pace

trees and stone command attention
navigating through shades of brown
birds spotted above the treeline

huddled over plates
wind returns a plate of field greens
to the field

calves clamor for attention
oil in his hands takes away the pain
kissing into the night

Cloudy

I sooooooo do not want to go work out today. As in really really really really really really really really don't want to go. But I am paying probably 1/4 of what the other people are paying my trainer so I have to go. It is our deal we worked out, I have to be committed, and I am not talking an asylum. I am trying to get some energy going there, but honestly think the weather/season changes has my head so cloudy I just can't my energy going.

ugh.

Sunny Saturdays

I feel so good. Yesterday am, productive then lazy. Back in bed around 10am, then up for walk and stairs around 11:30am. Aaron comes back from his workout. I am watching Adventureland, he makes me a turkey sandwich, and a big glass of water. Then he gives me a foot massage. Later we go meet Amy and Alex who are becoming new friends. Alex is a multi-discipline artist - writer/photographer.. his photos are great, I can't wait to read his work. Amy is a super cool sort woman who I met through work. She ran track for 12 years so likes to do park walks and they both love food, oh and are just fun people to talk to. I think Aaron and Alex might go see the new Freddy Krueger movie together when it comes out- boys! Amy and I will check out something else, not our thing. I guess it won't be out for a while so not really sure about that, but it sounds like a fun idea. Anyway we went to Hidden Lake past Shoreline where the Frank Lloyd Wright house is, very cool. I wore my new hiking boots and even though I hit the water once no wet feet. Yay!

Then we went to grab a snack (Whole Foods salad bar, still being good)and came home. We were going to go to the glass blowing/art competition/extravaganza thingee at one of the studios downtown, but felt old and tired. Instead he gave me another foot massage (plantar fascitus- don't ya know) and watched Angel.

What a lovely day. Oh and we saw the cutest ducks on the lake. They had black heads with big white spots almost a white head actually. Very cool. Sunny Sunday, think I will work on the garden today, Aaron has to go ---oh no daylight savings time, spring forward....got to go can't be late.

sickly glitter-white stalk
Jade leaves on a diet
atrophied limb
like today's chickens
unable to support their own weight
new growth
somehow
new growth
firm solid leaves
flourish when freed from the host

hmmm

Beautiful sunny day, happy about many things and very frustrated about one. Argh :)

Thursday

Ok it is Friday now and I am exhausted. Certainly not in the mood for snuggling maybe later. Work is just exhausting these days, it is how many balls can I keep in the air.

Today the nurse just told me a teacher wanted to start our Healthy Losers again which means they will want me to spearhead, and I am working with my trainer and while I may participate I plan on saying no to organizing. I am already because of my own doing starting a health fair, right smack in graduation time. Who is the stupid secretary? Ok more like who is the secretary who doesn't want to be bored at her job. Luckily they indulge me. I just started reading Spark and it now has me wanting to track starting next year, student stores after PE class. Such amazing insight into how the brain and body are connected. So much that our sedentary lives are actually are basically allowing our brains to almost decompose. Crazy. Definitely made me go for my walk tonight. Not even out of a should, more of a damn, I want to be able to think and reason and not be on unnecessary medicine.

Ok, hmmm think I will go read now.

Friday

It feels like Friday. I want it to be Friday. I want to have my honey at home and cuddle up in bed and go to bed early and not have to work for a full weekend. But no it is Thursday. Not Friday. I know Friday is tomorrow, but I want it to be now.

Peas please

My peas are getting so big. Unfortuately they are still inside. I suspect they will start climbing up the kitchen window border. A friend told me her peas used the corn stalks they were planted by as a trellis. Aaron and I are building a new frame. Then I have to get some new soil in as the old soil had some kind of disease that ruined my broccoli and zuchinni last fall. Hopefully there will be a small respite from the rain for our framing project this weekend. Fingers crossed!

Outrageous!

Aaron had his hearing at the library today. In addition to having a description 15 years his junior he apparently was scene with a "Caucasian" woman. And although they are going to let his exclusion expire early as they have absolutely no proof of supposed missing items (and he also doesn't reshelve the materials properly, hmmm aren't librarians paid to do that?) he was advised to warn said "Caucasian" woman that I am being watched now in the library. Really. Really? Really.

Lets just say I sent an email to the library representative indicating the correct date - January 2nd when I was using a Greenlake library computer because my monitor had expired and I was checking Craigslist for free monitors. Let's see I think I was in there for 15- 20 minutes. Um at the computer. So when did I steal something, must have been mindreading, because instead of searching for a monitor I was probably casing the place. Basically I asked the representative to advise me if the warning -oh after I advised her I was not a "Caucasian"- is serious, because it sounds like defamation of character and I will contact my lawyer if I need to. And yes I will. Because I hate scare tactics and bullies and I will not be bullied!

In his absence I will bite the habenero and chew with dry eyes. And that is not the
only time I have dined on fire.

They have my Latina fire raging and who doesn't love a good fire.