Tuesday and Thursday

Tuesday was one of the best days of my life. It had been planning to go over to Beth's to watch the inauguration, but I didn't really make it all the way to the door and ended up on the couch asleep. Stacy stopped by to see what we were up to and we ended up listening to the event on NPR together, squeeing and giggling a lot.

After all of the hubub died down, we decided to go to the coast together and took Baldr with us. It was a fabulous day, full of good conversation, giggling, and running around on the sand.

From Beauty

Matt and I went to dinner on Broadway and during dinner a spontaneous parade of people carrying flags and cheering walked past.

Then we went to Stacy's birthday party and that was all kinds of fun. All kinds. That includes friends, cuddling, tickling, cats, fire, cheesecake, surprises, and many other kinds that I won't list here.

And I realized that the long winter that Master Chi'ang warned us about is finally coming to an end and that makes me so very, very happy.

This morning I had breakfast with Beth and then biked to Paul's to sing with Beth and Paul. Today isn't over and it's still pretty damn awesome. Why haven't I been biking or singing for the past few years?

success?

From Cats!

Well, whatever I'm doing seems to be working... Some combination of diet change, activity change, and attitude change has left me feeling pretty good about the world for many days in a row. Oddly, this means I feel like I have less to talk about in this space. Just sayin'. So here's a photo of me that I took late at night with a kitten on my shoulder.

a moment of Portland surrealism

I went to Portland last weekend to visit some friends. It was pretty awesome and there were kittens. But I'm still not as self-confident as these melons.