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Yesterday was SUCH a windy day! I went for my walk and I loved it. I wouldn't have loved it if I were trying to have a picnic or riding a bike into it but walking was great. It fluffed my hair up nicely, too.
What wasn't so great was that when I got home, my balcony looked like it had been ransacked. The plastic covers for the chairs had literally been blown off the chairs. One was missing altogether! I have no idea where it was blown away to. The chair cushions has also blown off of one of the chairs on the other side of the chair you see in the photo. No idea how it jumped over this chair without flying off the balcony...
See the green chair cover there? When I went to look closer, it had somehow wrapped itself totally around a pot:
The worst part was that I had planted one of those upside down tomato plants and the wind sheered off the plant at the point where it came out of the bag and flung it half way across the balcony. Bummer. I was really looking forward to fresh tomatoes from my patio! I think we have a tornado watch this evening. I have no idea where I'm supposed to go if the sirens go off but I have a feeling that staying in my third story apartment and watching it from the balcony would not be recommended...
Michael Franti & Spearhead's song Shake It! Shake It! Shake It! is how every man who's with a woman should feel about her. The song is GREAT and he is sooooooo sexy!! I can't find the lyrics or even the song to download anywhere but I heard it on Sirius radio today -- catch a video on Vimeo video. My favorite line is: I love it when you shake that little extra bit of butter, when I see you move your body well it makes me all aflutter. Cute.
Check out the return address on a package I received today -- I'm knitting a little baby blanket for my friends Kate and Matt who just had a little baby and this was where the yarn for it came from...
It cracked me up to think there's actually a "Fulfillment Center." Apparently, yarn is one of the things they have there, which doesn't surprise me, of course. Maybe they have other items like happiness, love, a rewarding career. I'll be placing more orders with them, that's for sure!
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool. -- Chinua Achebe
I'm starting to learn about an approach to therapy called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. I've known about it for years and have had a book about it sitting on my shelf forever. In the move, I found it again and my interested was piqued.
I tend to buy books a lot and assume that just having purchased them, the contents will somehow magically travel from the book into my head without any effort on my part! No matter how long I let them sit on the shelf or how much I enjoy reading the spines, that never seems to happen.
I don't know a lot about this approach so far but the gist of it is that it's more therapeutic to move into pain and suffering than to avoid it. I think the idea is very Buddhist in the sense that the more we try to control or eliminate suffering, the more it makes us suffer. We also don't want to "wallow," though. There seems to be some emphasis on how language traps us into becoming attached to certain ways of thinking about ourselves and our suffering. I don't understand this part at all yet. I guess I'd better go read the spine again.
I think this is a timely topic for me to explore personally as well as professionally. We'll see what I learn!!
Well, today we went to sign the contract to sell our house. I'm absolutely in shock. I have mixed feelings, of course, but mostly, it feels good to know we won't be waiting for months or years to sell. I think the fact that we maintained it so well over the years mostly because of Geoff and because of my amazing design and decorating abilities :-) our house showed pretty well. Or, maybe we just listed it at the right time and the right buyers happened to be looking at the right time.
Geoff saw the family when they first looked at the house and he recognized them from the UU church. At least we know they probably won't be putting Chief Illiniwek memorabilia in the yard and if their kids are gay or date someone from a different culture, they'll probably have a safe haven in the home.
All the pieces of our life together continue to fall away one at a time. It's less devastating than it was but every time is still like a punch in the stomach. I have to remember that it's for the best. We'll both be happier.
Well, I've just learned that the position I was hoping to apply for in Boston is not going to be filled. As Susan noted, the good news is that at least I didn't apply for the job and not get it! Nice reframe.
In all honesty, I think it's for the best. It would have been a relief to have a job with a consistent income and benefits but it feels too early to pick up and move across country. I'm a bit relieved that I'll have time to stay in this cozy little place and make some decisions about what's next for me.
I might still try to find something in Boston but the possibilities are endless! Maybe I'll move to where Lisa and JT retire. Maybe I'll move back to Pittsburgh (sorry Sarah, but this would be toward the bottom of the places I'd want to live - you and Tom and Pepe are the only draw!). Maybe I'll move to where Maddy's going to school (just joking, Maddy). Maybe I'll just stay right here. Who knows? I'm not as stressed out by not knowing as I would have thought.
I'll just be taking it a day at a time for a while.
Well, our house went on the market today. Too fast for me but that was a battle I decided not to fight. It was hard when I turned the corner this evening to finish up a few things at the house and to actually see the sign in the yard. So surreal. And sad.
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