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It takes a long damn time to crawl back...

When the place you land when you fall is totally KICK-ASS...

Trying to get back 'into the swing of things' is nearly impossible...


So I fell off the face of the Earth for a little while... it rocked...

But life didn't freeze while I was gone (WHAT is up with THAT???)

I've been trying to catch up for the past few days...


Getting there... I think...  damn...

That's what I feel like...

Like all the energy inside me is coiled up tightly and ready to fly off in all directions...

Like there is so much building up inside me that I can't sit still...

I wonder if this is how the trees feel?

It's good day to run and jump and get things done...

If I were a bird I would have the urge to fly someplace far away... as fast as I could...

I wonder if I would return to the same places...

Year after year...


photo: unesco.org

My child (aka babybird aka the perfect one) has always been a really good student, but she's never been what we affectionately refer to as a 'homework extra credit girl'...

She preferred to have a life with her education...

However, partway through tenth grade she 'got religion' and started to get serious about high school and planning for college... and once while we were discussing the high-cost of a college education I jokingly said 'If you get a full scholarship I'll buy you a car...' Well she rolled her eyes at me and we both went on about things, and forgot about that little crack...

Until yesterday, when she opened THE LETTER... The one stating that she has been awarded a full-tuition academic scholarship to the University of Michigan...

I kept reading and re-reading the letter trying to find the 'catch'... I even called the Financial aid office this morning so they could tell me 'Yes, it's true!!!'

It's their highest scholarship...

She ROCKS!!

I'm SO proud!!!

In with the good air...
Out with the bad...
Blue sky...
Blue sky...
Blue sky...

Today: More clean-up, organization, wrapping-up of loose ends...
Next week: Foot steps down on stone of blue...



photo: Flickr Creative Commons
title lyric: The Beatles (duh!)

I finally got a chance to go to John K. King Books in Detroit!!!

Four floors of nothing but books books books (over a million actually!!!)...

I found the coolest things:

• The Universe is a Green Dragon - Brian Swimme; Bear & Co., 1984
• Eve - Katherine Howard; Boston, Sherman, French & Co., 1931
• Science, Prophecy and Prediction - Richard Lewinsohn; Harper & Row, MCMLXI
• The God Particle - Leon Lederman; Dell Publishing, 1993

And those are just the ones I brought home!!!
 
(I WOULD'VE picked up the first edition 'As I Lay Dying' with an autograph and note by Faulkner, but I didn't happen to have $12,500 with me (left it in my other purse you know)... Ok ok so they wouldn't even let me in the ROOM with it!)

 Next time I'm bringing in a sleeping bag and a secret stash of space food sticks and I'll just refuse to leave!!!

photos: John K. King Books North (mine) & John K. King Books Detroit (not mine)

Ok... so she's not new...

But seriously... ladies... pin your girls down and make them watch this...

Over and over and over...

Oh... and when you're done... Throw in some of this...

Really...

They'll thank you for it later...



photos: ninemsn.com & IMDB

She's an angel in the first degree...

I have a brand-new niece… she was born yesterday and she is beautiful…

So YES for one day only…

I can whisper to her…
 tell her all the things I think she should know…

She won’t even be able to roll her beautiful eyes at me and say… ‘I wasn’t born yesterday you know!!’

Because she was!! 


photo: not my niece - Peter Thurin Photography
lyrics: Van Morrison

Ok so I'm in love everyday...

What can I say... my life totally rocks!!

(Do I get points off for having taken so long to get there???)

How did people with way more stuff INSIDE than OUTSIDE ever meet people before blogs???

Yeah yeah I know... it was work...

If I didn't work, I wouldn't know ANYONE!!

(My neighbors? Puleeze... Didn't I mention I live in Stepford??)

Anyway... reading blogs is like a 'Go ahead and cheat FREE' card...

'Look, here is a backdoor into my head... c'mon... take a peek'

And whenever I get to meet one of my 'bloggy-pals' for real, I feel like I have been given the ULTIMATE Sundance-goodie-bag...

I love you guys...


photo: Cambridge Party Bouncers

Thanks
(to all of you)
for making
my life

Sweeter!!!






photo: www.find-a-sweetheart.com/blog/

Now to sweep out the residue...

Not really my idea of a good time, but sometimes things just have to be done... oh... forcibly...

Those have been there a long time and they weren't doing any damage, but really...

Who needs yikky mouldering grabby things contaminating all the pretty sparkly things that are in there now??

Interesting though... when the melodrama starts, I just turn to ice...

Whatever... Now to find a nice big trash can...


photo: Elvgren - nylon.net