lady hump day

yay it's wednesday!

ok, so i'm not going to post a lot of photos here, that's what flickr is for, and now that cara has discovered flickr love, it's updated almost everyday. there is a link on the right that will take you there, or you can go to http://flickr.com/photos/grendelsdj and see teh same thing. this blog will be primarily devoted to writing. i need to write. a lot. it is the saline wash of my soul.

i would just like to say a few things today. first of all, and this may seem redundant but obviously not everyone sees it that way, fat people should not wear skinny pants. and by skinny pants, i mean that particular cut of jean, not just pants that are too small. even pants that are too small look better than skinny muffin pants. *shudder* why would you intentionally do that? i'm a fat girl and know that no matter how punk/mod i want to look, i just can't pull off the skinny jean, literally.

secondly, as much as i would like to be starting pt school in a month, i am so excited about my upcoming two month paid vacation. and my job is pretty cool. the kids are doing taks right now which is giving me a chance to get more familiar with the collection here and to do some research on new acquisitions. i love that bonnie totally handed the graphic novel section over to me to maintain. my job rocks.

thirdly, we did not get to go camping this weekend because the weather went all bipolar on us. so, i did what comes naturally, i sulked. seriously, i sulked all day saturday. dum dum dum. so i drove out to where we would have camped on sunday and it's a pretty cool park. not the most beautiful by any means, but the campsites are super secluded and it has 35 miles worth of trails for hiking and biking. we will definitely have to go back to ride there.

i think we are going to try and go camping this weekend either at hill country (discussed above) or at pace bend if we don't want to take the bikes. i am so excited about trying out our new camping hammocks that i will sleep in the yard if need be.

fourthly, i love architecture in helsinki, the band, although i'm sure the buildings there are nice too. because of them and muscles i am going to start paying a lot more attention to pop coming out of australia.

fifthly, i want to go to australia. or mexico, or the bahamas, or anyplace with a pretty beach. i am in such a beach mood. i have been for awhile. i need me some sun and sand, but nobody else i know likes the beach at all. cj is supposed to be learning to swim better but as our last trip to the pool was a complete disaster, the goggles we got her might go unused forever and i will never get to the beach. boo. oh well. there is always the river. the beautiful river.

i'll end on that cool blue note.

xoxo-jp

caturday post

ok, so here's a post. i've been meaning to write another post but we have been amazingly busy over the last couple of weeks.

i am happy with my job at akins high school. it's been a period of adjustment, having a job and all. and working with high school kids is going to be a challenge to my zen, but it will be good.

we've had some other issues: a death in the family and grendel and marco trying to kill each other, the result of which has meant bathing grendel twice a day. on top of that, i've been trying to get all of my plants and seeds in the ground and keep it all watered, blah blah blah....

in other pet news, all but one of the golden girls (chickens) are laying now. one of them is laying giganto-eggs. they are like 40% larger than normal eggs. it's crazy.

vs.

impressive, no?

this weekend we are having a zombie party and i'm hoping to get new front page up to my website. i would like to start using it more than i have, it would be nice to integrate flickr and blogger into my site. we shall see.

maybe i try and write tomorrow too.

xoxo-jp