Pedestrian Parallax

monthly grocery shopping trip
helped Steve write 10-page paper
summed up the conflict in the Middle East with the Itchy and Scratchy song: “They fight, they fight, they fight and fight and fight, fight fight fight…”
discovered that cooking the onions with the meat results in a better flavor than placing them on top
finished Season 2 of The Shield

Happily Ever After…Almost by Judie Wolkoff
The Girl With the Silver Eyes by Willo Davis Roberts
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth by E.L. Konigsburg
The Real Me by Betty Miles
Ramona Forever by Beverly Cleary

is my super cool friend and I wish she lived closer.

5 Things I Dislike:

Drowning in tasks for work. Made a to-do list today and ran out of room.
Is this rain ever going to stop?
Two meetings scheduled at the same time.
Didn’t do something I should have done, and it’s coming back to haunt me.
Election Day keeps my man at work really late.

5 Things I Like:

I got to see my mom for a few hours yesterday. Hectic, rushed hours, but still.
I find it hilarious that people were getting married on a sidewalk and using the crosswalk as their “aisle,” holding up traffic and everything.
My birthday is coming soon.
Sorting through my fabric stash to determine what I will make… whenever I get time to actually make it.
New shoelaces!

 

Five Things I Like Today

Steve and I have been together for nine years.
We ate a delicious dinner at Epcot and got dessert for free after a kid threw food at us.
We watched the fireworks.
You can now e-mail yourself the little video from the end of the Spaceship Earth ride.
I saw a little girl doing the cheer from Bring It On.

Five Things I Like Today:
The PTSA at my school is amazing.
Steve brought me home a doughnut and a cruller from a nearby cafe.
I had a nice conversation with a coworker.
I get to decide which country to eat in when we go to Epcot tomorrow evening.
Registration Day is calmer when the freshmen have their own separate day.

Five Things I Dislike Today:
A coworker yelled at me for no reason. Then he denied yelling at me and stomped away.
I had to work the bookkeeper table at registration, and for the second year in a row my envelope came out short on money.
I bought some steaks on sale, then left them at the store and had to go back for them.
I didn’t realize I had left the steaks until I had peeled off my rain-soaked clothes and put on warm, dry ones.
No birds again today.

Five Things I Like Today

We got our new shirts at work today - with my design! I’m so excited to see everyone wearing the shirts I designed on Friday.
There was good music at the morning meeting.
I updated the staff directory.
My new skirt was really comfortable.
I got a new employee ID.

Five Things I Dislike Today

There was a lot of griping at work today.
The birds that Mohinder likes to watch didn’t come by today, and he sat by the window sadly waiting for them.
I noticed a flaw in the shirt design.
It was hard to get anything done today with so many interruptions.
The complimentary breakfast was really bad.

Five Things I Dislike Today

It’s the last day of summer break.
Mohinder clawed a hole in my shirt.
The electricity was out for an hour, and one of the computers didn’t recover.
I didn’t accomplish anywhere near as much as I’d hoped to this summer.
Some of my cool work friends won’t be coming back this year.

Five Things I Like Today

I have a new homemade skirt to wear for my first day back to work tomorrow.
We ate breakfast for dinner.
I rediscovered a song I haven’t heard in about 20 years.
I watched an MST3K movie.
I looked at my summer task list and realized I accomplished more than I had thought (although not nearly as much as I had originally hoped to).

Smitty’s Smoke House restaurant
making skirts
How to Be Bad by Lauren Myracle, E. Lockhart & Sarah Mlynowski
Project Runway
new mp3 playlists
free cake
my cat Mohinder birdwatching
videotaping my cats
braided (not woven) elastic
a new toothbrush