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?

Blue!

I've been a bundle of nervous energy for days and days... I'm not handling this election thing terribly well this year. I was more collected in 2004, possibly because I didn't care for Kerry as much as I disliked Bush. But Matt and I are listening to OPB's coverage of the results. I'm dealing with some of my nerves by baking brownies and frantically refreshing electoral maps and news sites. If you told me four years ago that I would spend this evening eating spaghetti and sitting mostly quietly at my computer...

These brownies are celebratory and not drown-your-sorrows.

Day 4 Gratitude:
President Barack Hussein Obama

(I don't feel like this is real... We've been waiting for too long.)