Yum Wednesday, 9.23.09

I declare Wednesday a day to be extra grateful & love-filled & a day to share that with everyone.  See this for roots.

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# language.  I started Italian a few weeks ago, & am finally getting out of that first awkward phase where nothing sticks or makes sense WHATSOEVER.  It also makes me appreciate my various levels of competency in other languages.

# Lucky Strikes.  Bought my first pack yesterday & came to realize that they are my new favorite.  Expensive though, so mostly good for special occasions.  I also intend to learn how to roll my own cigarettes soon.

# sore muscles.  You know that feeling you get the day after you exercise?  It's like an internal well of vitality, bubbling around inside while you swing & stretch & smile, knowing your body-machine is being worked like it's supposed to.  Eating well tends to increase this feeling.

# Bohemia. Cigarettes, letters, caravans, scarves, empty bottles of wine, that certain audacity towards life... I have been in a very romantic phase & want very badly to believe that life could be all emotions & art & profound.

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Tonight I am making chili dogs; I am very stoked.  Might clean my room or offer to begin renovations on the kitchen so my dad can sell his house.  Tomorrow is pay-day [& champagne thursday...], then I am up north for the weekend, so posting is possibly going to be sparse until next week.

Have a good one, lovelies!

Good news.

It's Champagne Thursday. 

I love Zooey Deschanel [we've got a bandwagon for that], & the character she played in Failure to Launch.
Paula: Hey, hey.
Kit: Hey, Paula. Good news. It's Champagne Thursday.
Paula: It's Friday.
Kit: Uh, yeah, Thursday came twice this week.
Paula: For the third straight week.
Kit: There's talk of making it permanent.
Paula: Oh, kind of like Daylight Saving's Time?
Kit: Right, but for booze.

Anyway, got class from 2:00-4:45, then a commute & work until 9.  


Then I'm comin' home, kickin' off my shoes, & pourin' a glass of Chardonnay. [Which I figure is close enough to Champagne - first three letters match - since I don't have any of the latter in current supply]

Ha!

Who says I have to post daily?  I can go a full year without a good post, obviously.  It must be something in Fall that brings out the rant in me.

Today I went to the laundromat & washed every piece of clothing I own.  Intention being, I want to purge the stuff I don't wear anymore so that I feel fabulous & inspired & grateful every time I open my closet. 

My stuff only filled about three and a half washers, which I don't think is too bad considering this is pre-downsizing.  The point of going to the laundromat [when I do actually have a functional washer & dryer at my house] was to see all my clothes grouped together in an unfamiliar place, and whatnot.  I think it worked; I left two shirts in the lost&found already & have a renewed perspective on everything else, so when I dig through it all later, I won't be coddled into keeping something that I only like in the sanctity of my own bedroom.

I am going to go put my laundry away, & everything that I haven't worn lately is going in a box.  If I don't miss it before I move in January, it's staying in the box & the box is not going with me.

By the way, I work at the laundromat.  I am a laundress?  Laundry lady?  Mistress of accoutrement?