its friday and i love....

it's raining here.
it's dark and damp
and cool.

i don't mind it too much
really...
but i do
feel that
the weather is
greatly influencing my
list of loves
for today.

listening i have renewed my friendship with tori amos
and sarah mclachlan. we have been friends for a long time,
pretty close friends really...they spent many, many nights
with me singing softly in the background of my life.
i have been playing those two on repeat for about a week and
a half now, when one ends the other begins.

reading i finished reading the book the pact by jodi picoult
and honestly, it did manage to pull me in about 3/4's of the
way through...i read frantically to the end in order to find
out what the real story was...it was not the best read i have
ever had, but by far not the worst. i'm not sure if i would
read more by her...definately not if i had to buy it myself,
lent? well, maybe.

next on the reading list, the lovely bones...with an open mind.
(hmmmm...i didn't realize that was going to be a movie?)

watching greys anatomy, of course....i adore that show...
and planning on watching the break up tonight...i like
jennifer aniston (heh. and i really do despise angelina
jolie...not just because of the whole pitt/aniston/jolie
love triangle, but just on a matter of principle. hee.)

eating brown sugar on toast. i know. but i like it.

knitting a green on green blanket for one of my best
friends for christmas....and it feels like it is taking me
forever!

and doing all this while basking the glow of lamplight,
and breathing in the scent of warm apple candle tarts.

mmmm.

poetry thursday...

i didn't really have a type of
poetry that i actively stay away from
although i tend to be drawn
to darker, shorter, terse words.

so i opted on doing
found
poetry instead
which means that
i opened a book i normally
keep lists in
and found this poem,
these words,
making me wonder
what i was doing at that time,
what struggle was i facing...

so...today's found poetry:

i feel sad today
irrefutably sad
sad like you find on
cereal box tops
collect me send me in i'm your prize
sad
while waiting for you
to speak
to me...
bad backwards driver
red tinged anger
my last line of defense
of explanation
of why
a plaintive
"well?"
before the silence
began.

playing catch-up on a tuesday...

it is tuesday, right?

heh.

anyhow.

i'm so behind in posting
and even moreso in reading...
i have totally had no time to catch up
on anyone's blogs
and am hoping that there may be
some time today to do that
but before i start
here's where i've been...

my boy, my sweetness, my monkey
turned seven on sunday
so we had a party for him and that
encompassed a great deal of my time...

this was his "cake"...
with 15 kids and half a dozen or more adults
it was fairly chaotic
but thankfully, it was sunny and nice
and the trampoline got loads of use.

my sister in law dropped off these books
for me and i can't wait to start them,
but first i have to finish this one
that i am sort of ambiguous about...
but who knows, it may get better.

my sister in law and i have the exact same
taste in books...it is really almost uncanny
and she told me that she was deeply disappointed
with the lovely bones so now i am a little
worried about that one...i'm going to try to
go into it with an open mind but...
maybe i will just tell myself that she is testing
to see if we really do like the same books,
and maybe she did like this one, but she
is pretending that she didn't, so i should
give it a fair try, just to make her imaginary test
possible....

heh.
i'm such a loser.

other than that, work has really had me going lots
leaving not much time for anything else
on top of the usual things...homework, baths, lunches,
suppers, groceries, laundry...blech.