I thought it might be interesting...

to see what i was posting around this time last year. Sort of cathartic.

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i don't update this thing very often, do i? cauliflower, cha cha cha... (oh, i love nick jr.) anyway, i think i'll list the things that i love about life right now.

1)it's been gray and rainy for two days. (i also left the windows of my car rolled down a bit. not good.)
2)the leaves are turning. fall was nowhere near this beautiful in colorado. i think it had something to do with the absence of trees.
3)i like my job. i work for a bookstore. i get to take their books home with me to read. it's like the library, but i get the new releases when i want them. hell, i can get anything...on the downside, i had a mocha frappuchino from the coffee giant housed within. i was not impressed. i knew i didn't like starbucks.
4)i have the world's most adorable child. take my word for it, he's gorgeous. every day i thank god that circumstances being as they were brought him into my life.
5)along with my son, i have a husband. maybe not as sweet as my baby, but hell, he's pushing 30. who's still sweet and innocent in their late 20's? the point is that he's a child at heart while living life as an adult. sorta like superman, with the secret identity. he loves me and i love him, even after almost 6 years and lots of changes.
6)i'm getting direct tv. granted, this hasn't happened yet, but i'm still happy about it. there are beautiful television programs out there i'm missing. adult swim (a cartoon, i'm not a porn freak), the awful truth (micheal morre is just plain great. rent roger and me. good movie.), t.v. funhouse (licking is way better than scratching! there's no comparison.)...etc.
7)there is no number 7. to hell with the number 7, i like 8 better.
8)quarters. i really love quarters. don't ask me why. i horde them. they're perfectly good for spending, but for some reason whenever i get my hands on them i don't want to give them away.
9)the onion - a faux newspaper that gets printed from god knows where. i read a book of their atricles last weekend at work. "Washington Monument made all the more touching by the addition of crippled actor Christopher Reeve" (paraphrased from memory, of course) i almost cried, i laughed so hard. yeah, i'll probably pay in some karmic way for finding that funny.
10)damn, this list is getting out of hand...let's see here. toe socks, coffee (or hot chocolate on occasion when it's cold), fireplaces with fires in them, showers, every season but summer, stretching, dancing badly to good music, garlic bread, a clean living environment, halloween (the most important holiday in our household), christmas (holiday #2), getting stuff in the mail, sleeping...and that's all i'm coming up with for the moment.

there. i've purged, i feel better.

"Americans are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier." - Cat's Cradle

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There you have it. Me, circa October 2001. What's changed? Well, I'm no longer working at the bookstore. I sit around at home and clean the house and raise my son for room and board. I finally have Dish Network, not DirecTV (and only 9 months after I thought I'd have it). Everything else is still much the same. I still love garlic bread and getting stuff in the mail, I actually -have- a fireplace now (Joy.), but I don't seem to ever catch Michael Moore's show. The thing with Christopher Reeve on top of the Washington Monument is still really funny. I hear he's making amazing progress. I hope he recovers fully some day, honest.