the joys of being human

Human bodies are pretty amazing. The amount of nasal mucous that can be produced by one head cold, for example, I find to be quite extraordinary. I'm sure there is some amazing purpose to all this junk that is clogging my nose, my inner ears, my throat and lungs...I am not really sure what this purpose is, but I trust it is important.

I am grateful that I work in a job where I can take a day to be home and be sick. I slept 12 hours last night...I can't remember the last time I slept so much. I can't remember the last time I blew my nose so much. ick.

As much as I hate being sick, it is a nice reminder to take advantage of my life and my time on this earth when I am healthy. So those of you out there who are in a good state of health, stop playing on the internet and get out there and do something amazing!

squeaks

You know you need to get out more when....

a. you go on a hike with your in laws and start cracking yourself up by walking like Mr. Peanut.

b. you start typing your blog and crack yourself up thinking about walking like Mr. Peanut.

c. the highlight of your weekend is fixing the squeaks in your floor

d. All of the above

So the in laws left yesterday. I finally got to the gym yesterday after nearly a week and a half. It felt great to move my body again, but I think I'm on the edge of a cold, and I pushed a little too hard and felt crummy later in the afternoon. Michael and I "celebrated" having our space back by fixing the speaks in our floor. We had purchased a floor-squeak removal kit a few weeks ago, and with his folks gone, finally had the time to move all the furniture out of the room we started on. This thing really works! You end up finding the floor joists and putting in these screws that snap off just under the carpet so the plywood is re-attached to the floor joists. I can't tell you how exciting it is to walk on the floor and have it NOT sound like you'll fall through the floor!

I'm working hard to get out more, and will be going out with my best girl Dol tomorrow to celebrate her b'day. I haven't been up for blogging much lately, but will try to come up with topics that are of more interest than cracking myself up.

remember, remember the 5th of November

Well, a few things in my rambling brain today:

today is the 5th of November, otherwise known as Guy Fawkes Day (commemorating the capture and execution of a revolutionary). We watched V for Vendetta on Saturday (again) and I'm feeling inspired to be more radical.

In other news...The Simpsons House of Horrors XVII had a bit about the golem of Prague, a Jewish legend. My in laws are still in town and they watched it with Michael and I. I was cracking up throughout the segment, and the rest of the good catholics were silent...not even a snicker. sigh.

6 eggs today. (and Andie you should tell Dan that they're CHICKEN eggs, not alpaca eggs!)

in laws

my in laws arrived today. michael is out of town until late tonight. I am working on doing a lot of meditation practice and tonglen for myself and for them. They are lovely people, really. They just drive me a little crazy sometimes.

But I have a few bright lights to keep me going...I had an awesome night with my cousin Paul yesterday. I miss seeing friends. I've been too much of a hermit lately, and sucky time for me to stop being a hermit, now that the in laws are in town for a week and a half. I also heard from my friend D that he won't be re-enlisting (or so he says now). I am so happy to hear this news because I worry about him a lot. He's scheduled to be on mission in the spring, and I just want him to get the heck out of harm's way. I appreciate so much the work he does to keep us safe, but want him safe too.

5 eggs today (and for Andie they are from the CHICKENS).

hooray for Ani

For those who haven't figured it out, I'm a huge Ani DiFranco fan. Well, I'm such an Ani nerd that on Oct 3 when I was home waiting for the vet for the new cria exam, I saw that the intern that runs her myspace site announced a contest requesting artwork. I freaked out and made a little photo collage and sent it off. I'm no artist, so I figured I wouldn't win, but thought I might be one of the first people to respond since I was actually home in the middle of the day.

I got an email today that I was one of the first 20 respondents, and I've won a free CD with Righteous Babe Artists...pretty cool, eh? Sometimes it pays to be a nerd. I guess it will give me something to switch out with my Reprieve CD in the car.

In other news, I have been so lucky this week. I am sitting in on a class at the university I work at, and the students all do 45 minute presentations on the major transitions in their lives. I got to witness the first two on Tuesday, and I'm so completely blown away by the beautiful, amazing people that I get to watch through their graduate school journey. I am really looking forward to the next few weeks when I'll get to see more of these presentations, and eventually present my own story. I'm sad that I will only be able to witness 6 of 18...and I once again get frustrated that I have to keep good boundaries with these people...the bulk of them are in my peer age group, but because I'm in a power/authority position and they are just in their first semester (of a 3-year program) I can't get too close.

sigh. time to change the laundry and get to sleep. 5 eggs today.

2:30 AM and 100th blog

According to my stats, this is my 100th blog. woo hoo. where are the balloons?

It is later than 2:30am, and I'm awake. Michael is out in the wilderness camping, and I'm awake. sucky home alone in the middle of nowhere.

I rented some flix tonight and finally got to see Transamerica. I highly recommend it.

i kept thinking I had so much to write about, but now that I'm here and it is nearly 3am, all those amazing thoughts seem to have evaporated into the ether. so I guess I'll try to go to bed.

hello Mr. Studly

The snow and cold yesterday was a true killing frost. The garden looks like a disaster, but we knew it was coming. Until yesterday, the grapevine was still green, the tomato plants still upright and producing, the pumpkin vines even had a little life in them still. Today...everything was brown and wilted and crunchy. The snow was pretty while it lasted, but it pretty much melted off. Ah, fall in Colorado

Today Pokie's new boyfriend came for a visit...I basically waited around all day for a booty call that wasn't for me. Since I had some time on my hands and I had a limited amount of work I could do from home (since I hadn't brought stuff home since I didn't know I'd be home) I baked bread. I've got a lovely loaf of cranberry nut bread now that I'll take to work tomorrow. yo ho! yo ho! a farmer's life for me...