Three years

Congratulations Sarah and Joe!

My good buddies got engaged. They deserve a headswap!

 

 

You make me happy when skies are gray

I’m not sure how to phrase this exactly right, but there are moments in life when I especially miss having a mom. Of course, I always miss her, and of course I miss my dad too, but seeing friends interact with their mothers occasionally knocks the wind out of me. Sometimes you just need a mom hug, right? There is absolutely no replacing that.

Will you be my Valentine?

I’ve known you for so long now, I feel you imprinting on my memories. You’re in the bushes on the Easter I had chicken pocks and couldn’t search for eggs. You’re guiltily giggling at me as I am the only little kid putting in fake teeth to eat dinner. You’re grimacing with me as I do my physical therapy, my tiny legs shaking with pain, in the living room of my childhood home.

And I find myself in your stories, rooting for you as you escape from a menacing goat. I’m behind a telephone pole the day you sprained your ankle on a trampoline. I’m blending into the landscape when you’re sulking around Grand Canyon, too mad about not getting candy to care about the massive chasm in the ground beside you.

These memories converge and overlap, like double exposures kept for humor’s sake. They see a future lifetime shared and buckle from exclusion. They refuse separation. They hug close together and bleed through, superimposing and impressing on each other until the mingling is complete and irreversible.

I’m there the night we met, looking over my own shoulder at you, seeing all the things I don’t remember and finding details I’d hate to forget. At that moment I love you doubly, as I do today, as I will forever.

Update on what-in-the-hell

I know I haven’t posted in a long time – I have been quite busy for someone who is unemployed. I have had two responsibilities while being unemployed:

1. Find a way to pay bills while unemployed. This led to The Big Sofa Cover Project 2010. I took out all the sofa covers from the sofa cover room, organized them in the living room – which they absolutely filled! – and then slowly put them back into the sofa cover room in an organized, itemized, inventoried system. In order for me to do so, Tara was kind enough to create a database for me, so I know exactly how many of what I have. I then spruced up my eBay account, started regularly posting on Craigslist, and created a web site – http://sofasogoodslipcovers.blogspot.com – and I basically became a regular, run of the mill, slipcover saleslady.

2. Become un-unemployed. I just recently accomplished this, and am scheduled to begin training tomorrow in a sweet work-from-home job. I am too excited about this to really talk about it – I wholeheartedly believe in jinxes.
So that’s what I’ve been up to, and while you might think I would have more time to create stuff while unemployed, that has proven inaccurate. I hope that once things become more regular, I’ll have more time to doodle and write – I have a few ideas I’ve been cooking up, and would like to finally follow through with them.

 

In the mean time, I wanted to post a couple neat images I found around the internet. I know these have floated around a bit, but I really appreciate how neat these artistic interpretations of movie images are.

 

 

 

I truly, from the bottom of my heart, hope that your life is fantastic.

Prison brain

Sometimes lying in bed with a friend watching an awful but sensational show until four in the morning is absolutely the right thing to do.