[girl right next to me]

you changed my face
i think i like it better now

-goo goo dolls


[another word for love]


favorites:

three a.m. phone call from chuck. i had the distinct pleasure of walking him home (two miles!) in the blistering wind through a deserted oak park. so many of the reasons why i love him were represented in that conversation. life lesson: finding out how things are good is essential to success. *(definition of success to be defined in future entry)

homemade omelette from dad this morning. no one makes them as well as he does. period.

pictionary with my family and some close family friends. picture this: graying, nearly sixty, nearly senile old man standing on his chair, fist in the air, shouting, "Mars! It's Mars!" dying. really. at one point i was yelling "ground slide! ground slide!" i'm glad brian was there to translate that to "landslide". (fyi: in this epic game, kids versus adults, the kids definitely kicked butt.) the recipe for tonight's festivities: mix warm food, red wine, loud games, good friends, and my crazy family, and you have one chaotic evening. i laughed so hard i nearly cried. i remember looking around the dinner table at everyone, and i realized that this was another word for love. no, not the word, but the essence of a kind of love that i am so lucky, so privileged to have in my life.

watching ncis with scott. i'm so glad i get to be home and spend quality time with my brother. that's not something that will be happening very often in the future, so i'm cherishing it now.



word of the day (that's completely unrelated to anything): irascible


so with warm fuzzies i bound off to bed. good night, and good luck, all.


peace.