Today at the park I...
... rode a bike
... shot two rolls of film on an ancient camera
... took photos (digital) of a raptor
... met some new people
... spent some time on the phone with Reagan
... ate an ice cream sandwich... from an ice cream truck!
... drew in my sketchbook while four other people drew in theirs
... made use of props made for a photo shoot.
... took another (good and healthy) step away from my past.
... was inspired and energized by fantastic company, old and new.

Can you believe that was only the second half of my day?

AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO gear_halo!!! He's 1/4 of a century old! Keep going, man!

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Three years ago I got married. Now my husband is 3000 miles away and I won't see him for several more months. We're missing spending our leather/crystal/glass anniversary together! Whaan!

So go look at the photos I posted from my 6 day vacation with my mom



and tell me how cool they are so I feel validated and happy even though Reagan is sooooo far away and has been for soooo long (and will be for soooo much longer).

:D

state of mind: occasional attention whore

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After multiple weeks of being sharply under the weather, things really started to look up on Monday, despite my car failing its smog test.

The catalyst that brought me around to seeing the bright side of things (or at least not loathing everything in sight) was discovering that my car's trip odometer had flipped over from 9.9 and was scaling up nicely through the teens. It still lags at x9.9, but tends to get with the program eventually. A ballpark trip-distance is better than no trip-distance at all. (I mostly use it to calculate my gas mileage.)

In any case, after that I shook out the cob webs a bit and got it into my head to spend the summer splitting my time between the trails of SoCal and the LA Zoo. Things to do! Hooray, right?

Today, however I'm feeling low again. Lonely, despite spending much of the day with Draco. The crankiness really kicked into gear while we were coming back down the mountain, though. I pulled my sunglasses out of my pack to discover a great whopping gash on the right lens, smack in the center of my field of vision. And I scraped the scratch with my fingernail... which set my teeth on edge for most of the drive home.

UP was a pretty good film. Lots of laughing and crying for me. But, ugh, miss-spouse much?

There are things I could do to pull out of this funkiness, but I should be trying to get some sleep. ;P

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