a new month, a new plan, stan.

November.
Here it is.

and with the brisk arrival of november
i have decided to undertake a few blog projects.
one is nablopomo...national blog post month...
i considered it last year,
but this year...i'm doing it.

and i am pairing that with a journaling exercise
that michelle suggested from Eat, Pray, Love...
  1. keep a journal and every morning ask yourself what you really, really want
  2. everyday record your happiest moment of the day
  3. refine your mantra because what you're saying to yourself over and over again everyday has power
so here is today's "FRIDAY-I'M-IN-LOVE" with:

-chocolate poptarts
-chunky yummy dark brown yarn
-the winding down of the month of halloween
-new prospects and possibilities that could me oodles of more time
-coming home to eight on the couch watching tv...who said
"mom, did you know that a barrel of oil is 3.00 now and last year it
was only 2.35!"
-twelve having friends over to get ready for a junior high dance

shudder....

can someone please tell me
where the hell
this kid's head is?

i swear i did not alter this picture at all.
i'm sure it is just my eye's tricking me...
but no matter how i look at it,
I CAN'T FIND HIS HEAD.

ps. click photo to make it larger...

tag...you're it


i was tagged by one of my favorite-ist blog-friends
(can i call you that? can i call you a blog friend...i think i will)
i have been reading her blog
since i started my blog
and i believe we were both fairly new to this
at the same time.
i remember my excitement at reading someone else's words
and thinking...she gets it! she feels that way, too!

the tag was when i grow up, i dream of...
i was going to itemize this, number it, list it...
but instead i think i will stream-of-consciousness it....
i dream of having time to create what i want to create, to knit
things, paint things, invent things that people will want to buy,
that i can take to a farmers market, a craft fair, a yard sale, a gallery
and sell and people will love it and come to me and ask me questions
and really what it boils down to is that i want to be an interesting
person, i am an interesting person i feel, yet i don't feel
that my choice of job reflects who i really am so that most
of the day i am pretending to be someone else...selling toilets
and showers and toilet seats that cost three hundred dollars,
it is hard to sell something you don't truly believe in...
i dream of having a van, not a minivan but a van like my parents had,
and driving around the cabot trail just like my parents did,
i want to do it in the fall when the leaves are turning, i want to do
this with my mom and dad as they took their parents on our trips...
i dream of having a studio, a place for me, of writing more, of living more...
of being me more...
i see this lately as being a major mantra playing in my life
whether i plan it or not...this was not what i would have written about
had i chosen to list, i'm sure of it...yet this is the undercurrent that is
constantly running through my head, my mind, my heart, my words...
i want to be me more often. i want to expose me as me.
i want to be with like-minded people.
i dream of being more of me.

hmmmmm.
that proved interesting.

equations

a day off...
plus a drivers licence...
add a full tank of gas...
plus nowhere special to be...
multiply by many back roads
divide by number of sudden stops
and you have a pretty good fall day