Am I allergic to Saturday?

So, um, I am under extreme stress. So much so, that for the past two Fridays, I have dreaded going to work, knowing I would be working the next day. And the next day (the past two Saturdays, well, including today) I have left work early.

Last night watched Lars and the Real Girl. Wow. What a great movie.

My mother sends text messages now! Bird and I love it! The 'rents are in Texas right now, visiting bro. Well, the visiting part is over now, they're going to San Antonio? and then back home on Wednesday.

Well, that's it. I wanted to just update, since my last post was Tues.

Off to get something bland for dinner, which means going out into the heat. I am so NOT a summer person.

Gosh, this is a depressing post. But I'll hit publish anyways. Cuz yins are my community too.

Okay a few things I love so that this is not a complete downer:

• I love that culieann loves poetry.
• I love Twitter.
• I love my online friends.
• I love Kiki--I'll post the picture of the pot she made me soon. My kitchen is back in complete disarray.
• I love Bird (my sister). She and I talked for maybe 45 min last night.
• I love Google Reader.

I finished Garden Spells last night.

ttfn,

SL

Three more...

There is nothing more beautiful than a good sports movie. I laughed, I cried (well, they were laughter tears), it was better than Cats* (but don't tell my sister.)

Tonight I watched The Mighty Ducks, a movie I remember watching on video in college. It was an odd night--a girl I barely knew from the Christian fellowship on campus invited me to hang out with her. We got take-out? and went to the the video store, where she asked me had I seen MD and I said, no, and she said, "oh, you gotta see this!" I don't remember that we became best buds or that we even hung out after that night. But I was in a funk, and the Ducks got me out of it. It was actually my introduction to hockey, a sport I now love. I would put The Mighty Ducks in the category of movies that can cheer me up, no matter what:

The Mighty Ducks
Adventures in Babysitting (Which I can't believe I don't own.)
The Full Monty

So here are three beautiful things for today:

1. A beer with the Mighty Ducks--quack quack quack
2. Snow--I'm crazy, and I don't enjoy driving in it anymore than the next guy, but it is beautiful.
3. My sister is back online!! (She's been down with a nasty flu for the past week.)

Oh, and bonus, I drove past the toe dazzling house on Siebert (yes, on purpose, I probably will drive past it every day I work until Christmas comes.)

[We pause for Sarah Louise to compose herself. We pause for station identification. We pause...and the moment passes...and life goes on.]

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*from the Memphis Flyer: "Throughout the 1980s it was common to review any lame-leaning event with the deadpan comment 'I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats.'"