upward.

for the moment my doom and gloom is over. today its 50+ degrees and only partly cloudy. i see actual blue in the sky. things seem lighter and more manageable.

plus, well, jamie's coming home tonight TO SAVE ME.

aside: i was just outside in the backyard and found, inexplicably, a pair of tennis shoes (seemingly in decent condition) and a very old-looking rusted metal trash can stuffed with newspaper and other trash-like items (all ancient-looking, incidentally), both stashed behind some shrubs and trees in the front corner of our yard. additionally, on the other side of the fence in our neighbor's yard, there was a pink girl's bike, complete with training wheels and those handlebar streamer thingies. i can't explain why, but this arrangement of objects seems somehow sinister, and i've been thinking about it for a good while, trying to decode the significance of and relationship between these items as if they were a part of some secret language of inanimates. i'm coming up with nothing, but i felt like an archaeologist as i picked up the trash can and its bottom burst outward, showering the mulch beneath it with wet paper and flakes of corroded metal.

Comments

[beth]

Do you think it is odd that we our boys always dig up marbles in our backyard? I have never ever purchased a marble?

(I have to carefully state that so I wouldn't do the gender thing. tee hee hee. Pink bike with frills ends up in our yard, blue marbles, lots of blue marbles in our yard.)

It is sunny this morning. My S.A.D. is doing much better for the moment. glad to hear that yours is too.

[schmutzie]

Has someone been leaving you presents?

[carol]

by now you should be really happy - jamie should be home. Take a break - take a bath - do whatever you want, but do something just for you.