mellow sting music for my mellow afternoon:

moon over bourbon street
until
when we dance
fill her up
brand new day

i know i've said it a million times...but i have such a thing for sting's voice. :)

Mister Rogers died today. Ryan and I found out at the same time, this morning before I left for class, and it was so sad...

At least there are 30 years worth of reruns for our kids to watch. But it still makes me teary to think about him. Poor Mister Rogers! :(

17:55:09) Al0929: ROCK ON, GHETTO LOVE!
(17:55:24) Al0929: wouldn't it be funny if your buddy icon mango could wear a ghetto gold chain? heh

i love you ally :)

i keep dreaming in buffy's world. last night i was fighting demons with a slingshot. i won through trickery and cunning. ;)

britney showed up with will ferrel on SNL's weekend update tonight :)
i was feeling sleepy and groggy at the time, but she perked me right up! hee hee :)

The Vagina Monologues rocked my socks. Really, it was great, and everyone should see it. And I was so glad, it was packed with people - even some really old people (who I was very, very proud of!) I bought a V-Day t-shirt. I want to be in it next year. Ryan really liked it too, and I was glad. I am just bursting with enthusiasm right now. :)

it's so warm out, i just brought the laundry up and down from the laundry room without even a sweatshirt.

i am about to walk to my aerobics class entirely coat-free. there is a window open next to me. I am just giddy over all of this warmness. :)

And tonight we are going to see the Vagina Monologues!!

today was my last therapy session, at least for now.

i am proud of myself. i feel strong and whole and capable, and that is a really good feeling. i'm happy. :)

but classes were cancelled because of the snow, and the RDC was closed too, so Ryan and I had a snow day today. Yay for snow days!

woke up hungry and achey and thinking about helping ryan get the car out from under the snow - without a shovel, and then trudging to classes through the snow the town never removes from the sidewalk along this road. welcome to the post snow day ughs.

phoe toe blog updated with some sunny pictures :)

i painted today. i painted swirling, veiny things. it was viscous and thick and rich. i want to do more in the morning. but now, i must sleep, because i know i am tired despite the tea i drank a little while ago telling me i am not.

night night. :)

this thing you call Love
she smiles way too much but
i'm glad you're on my side, sure
i'm glad you're on my side still (tori, taxi ride)

this has been stuck in my head all day.

mm...i am eating leftover, thickened chocolate fondue off a spoon.

we did a chocolate fondue with fruit for valentine's day. it was lots of fun, and also ohmygod yummy. :) i highly recommend chocolate fondue (this one didn't even require a fondue pot!) for future valentines days.

now i must shut down the computer in order to put it on my NEW COMPUTER DESK!

tricky - evolution revolution love
sting - until
sting - moon over bourbon street
counting crows - american girls
counting crows - i wish i was a girl
david bowie - the man who sold the world

download:

tricky - evolution revolution love

it's cool. :)

(i'm going to florida in the spring with ryan and kelly and family. where people go to feel delicious. :))

you caught me lingering
in another girl's
paradise
the way she paints
the world --
I want that in my
life

Emeralds, you should know,
are renting in her meadow
with a stroke
beauty lives
how could I resist
you are Desire (tori, another girl's paradise)

"This one place that's, where alot of people come to soak in, to feel sensual and warm and healed and delicious. So she's in Florida, and goes to another land where people go to feel delicious. Another paradise. And she finds that there's room enough for both of them, that they're both very different. And desire is very much a part of all this. And at the end of the day, Desire will do what she does best, which is make you desire that which is not yours. She moves on to away, and then comes back to Florida. Not feeling like she needs to betray one or the other. That she can value both of them, that there's room enough for both of them. I think there's healing all along the way in different parts of this. But that's really for the reader, and the listener to sense, because it's in the music alot of that. Those are clues that it takes you, I think, to our real feelings. The music is always the place where the clues are." (Scarlet's Stories)

there are a few more new ones at the photoblog

i am excited so please tolerate my many hair cut pictures. :)

today i had a random, but powerful craving during speech class.

it was for blueberry pancakes and a walk in ogunquit, maine.

yeah, i don't know. :)

"Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance."

- A.E. Newton

SARAH GOT A HAIRCUT BAYBEE
(one more picture at photoblog)

i didn't sleep well last night, it was weird - i couldn't fall asleep and then when i did i kept waking up, dreaming of lists, and getting tangled up in the blankets.

it's not morning enough this morning, and i feel like i'm still sort of sleeping. maybe my walk across campus will wake me up. i'm just not in the mood to freeze out there right now...

i am excited because i just got the dates for V-day stuff here, and there is a production of The Vagina Monologues at my school!

So we are going to see it on February 21st, 22nd, or 23rd. Yay! :)

i took a big fat nap today too
by accident, sort of
we were watching Minority Report and i fell asleep and slept for a whole hour - it felt like ten minutes (see the migraine)! i was a little bummed to have missed most of the movie, but i did see it already in the theater, so :)

i had a migraine today, actually, i fell asleep with it last night (which was not easy) and i woke up with it today. i went to my first class, but by the time it was time for the second i was sick to my stomach, so i got a classmate's IM to get the info from and i went home.

and all day and all evening i had a migraine. and then after dinner, we made some coffee. coffee can either hurt or help, but at that point, i was willing to risk it. there was also a face and foot rub involved, and guess what? i feel better! so yay for rubs and coffee! :)

notes to self:

make 3 bean salad when you get home
call rock star piercing to make an appointment
write the paper for speech class
get healthier!
order from burt's bees

:)

more of the ghettoliciousness from ally (thank you so much!! *smoochies* i wore it to school today and i felt fabulously ghetto! ;)) along with a dorky shot of my glasses (i'm looking over my glasses at you!) i wanted to get another one up, but i failed :) so more glasses pictures sometime that are less dorky. :)

this weekend, we went to barnes and noble and i bought a book (Dangerous Angels, which is the collection of Weetzie Bat books by Francesca Lia Block all in one big book) and Ryan got me some pink grapefruit green tea I had been wanting.

I haven't started re-reading the book yet. We did have some tea. I can't wait to read the book while drinking the tea. :) I keep examining them, my treasures. The tea has a pretty canister with a pink top, the book is smooth and nice and new. Books make me drool. :)

i never knew i would become a buffy the vampire slayer junkie, but here i am. it all started when we got a copy of the musical episode. i really liked that and got the 1st two seasons from the library and neither one of us could stop watching them. i am enamored with it, Joss (the creator) is a genius, I am in love with Spike ;), and I am dying to watch the third season because the end of the 2nd was so sad and i want to see everyone happier.

:)

i want to see The Hours next weekend. I can't believe I forgot about it this past weekend!

http://www.brunching.com/dangersymbols.html

thanks to shawn's info, i remembered to read brunching.com today and i am glad. :)

ha - it saved this morning, so i have won. ;)

i have pictures to put up later, of my present from ally and my new glasses. stay tuned until i get showered and fed and stuff, then i'll start uploading. :)

FOD isn't letting me save this entry i've been trying to save for three days. it's not like it's a big deal of an entry, but now i just want it to save because i'm mad at FOD for not letting me save it. sometimes i think they're not even bothering to maintain it anymore.