O2ed out

Oxygen bars are great. Look at all us flutists at the oxygen bar. Wow. Keith Underwood is chillin' with us, and we take him to the oxygen bar at 8:00pm. BAD IDEA. No one could sleep all night and we are all so strung out that we had to cancel tonight's class. Eek! At least the picture is awesome.

Mid-twenties set to music

Helping the kids out of their coats,
But wait the babies haven't been born.
Unpacking the bags and setting up
And planting lilacs and buttercups.

But in the meantime I've got it hard-
Second floor living without a yard.
It may be years until the day
My dreams will match up with my pay...

-Feist
Mushaboom

Drifting

I just heard that my fake brother/husband Andrew got a job in butt crack Georgia. Grace, my fake cousin works North of Atlanta. I've never seen two people who obviously belonged together being forced apart so suddenly. I've been thinking a lot about relationships, lately. How they start, why they end, etc. But I think that's not a good idea. The more I think about contingencies, the more I realize I'm worrying about things that may or may not ever happen. And if bad things do come down the road, so what? Had Grace and Andrew known this would be happening back in 2002, would it have stopped them from experiencing all of the wonderful times they've shared? I'm sure they will find a way to be true to themselves and to each other. I am a notorious over-analysizer when it comes to relationships. I'm a control freak...not of the other person, but of fate, and that's stupid. This time around, I'm going to stay in the now, and not worry about the future. After all, the now is pretty amazing.

The Family Beach Vacation Was About:

* Eating food that tasted good.
* Swimming in water that was the color of my eyes
* Remembering how good it feels to be surrounded by family.
* Remembering how suffocating it feels to be surrounded by family.
* The shell squat.
* The beach drink.
* Egyptian Rat Screw.
* Watching manatee have sex.
* Getting burned.
* Peeling.
* Being very hot.
* Feeling very hot.
* Watching a grown man murder a beach umbrella.
* Appreciating my brother.
* Being extremely annoyed by my brother.
* Dreaming.
* Blankets.
* Real estate magazines.
* The 'phone booth'.
* Preparing for a transition.
* Missing music.
* 'got my vans on but they look like sneakers.'
* Wanting never to leave.
* Wanting to come back.
* Coffee at 9 with the counsel of elders.
* Learning Kayak tricks.
* Being the teenager I wasn't ten years ago.
* Patience.
* Hope.
* SPF 15.
* Cruises with dad.
* 16 flips in one breath.
* Five novels in two weeks.
* Fun.
* Nancy and JS's Anniversay Lunch.
* Recovery.
* The twelve days of Manatee Christmas.
* Ziploc bags.