hooray for change!

Filed Under life in LA | Leave a Comment

recycleIn my condo building we do not have those fabulous blue bins in which to put all my glass bottles, aluminum cans, mixed paper, etc, for recycling. This has always caused my crazy, Northern California, recycle-minded self some stress. I hoard all my recyclables in bags around the kitchen and when I am overflowing I take them to the recycle place for my $3.00. And I don’t do it for the $3.00 ~ in fact, if the line is too long I leave with someone who has collected a lot more than me. It’s annoying only because I don’t really have room for a lot of recycling and so it gets cluttered in the little nook by my fridge and so I trip over cans and bottles more often than is necessary.

Finally, my HOA prayers have been answered. Our building has signed up for the *free* recycle program and we now going to have blue bins in the garage…

I am over the moon about this. Like a little more ecstatic than a normal person might be. Every day I come home from work hoping I will find the new blue bins and feel ultra-disappointed when they haven’t arrived yet. So, while I wait I study the list of things I can place in the blue bins upon their arrival so I am a responsible recycle participant!

casual, simple, perfect

Filed Under love | 3 Comments

Valentine’s Day and all it implies is not my favorite holiday. I do not need a special day to ’show how him much i care’ because I work hard to show how much I care everyday. And luckily, he does too.

But yesterday, February 14th, my love showed me how much he cares by sending a text message at the end of the day asking me if I wanted big wangs. And before you get worried I am sharing too much information, read on.
Read more

i know we’re related

Filed Under journal | 1 Comment

mag

My brother rocks my world. We are very different, but are also very much the same.

I know I am related to my brother because of the following statement he made in an interview recently.

“I really believe that music, rythmn and dance are revolutionary elements in the human psychology as well as in our basic physiology. To move, to relax, to let go, to resist, to get in tune with others, to cheer, to sweat, to sway, to flow is a spiritual experience.”

Exactly. Right. It’s what I teach, it’s what you do. We’ve got different mediums, but we feel the same thing.

And he also said this, which really resonates with me right now…

“…if anything can happen, then very often, nothing does.”

I know why we get along so well, even though we don’t talk that often and the moments we spend together are fleeting.

sun.shine ~
I. Heart. You.
~

(And why didn’t you send that f-ing amazing interview to me? I had to get it from our parents! You’d be so mad if I did that.)

~
If you’ve read this and you’re not my big brother, then click here and listen to ‘higher’ and if you like it, then everything else. Shazaam!

a love/hate relationship with my flea

Filed Under internal monologue | 3 Comments

You know when you’re completely and utterly, madly in love with someone who also drives you mad? And you want to ditch them, but you love them too, too much? Yes? You know this feeling?

Well, thankfully I do not have this experience with my boyfriend, but instead with something else.

I must speak very vaguely here since you never know who might decide to read this someday, but I am being driven mad very slowly…

I try very hard to breathe deeply and welcome each new day afresh, but by the time I’ve been with this ‘flea’ for a couple of hours I feel as though I just might pull each hair out of head one by one out of frustration.

I love my flea and I keep hoping everything will get better, but we’ve been together for awhile now, this flea and I, so a separation seems utterly impossible. And I’ve become quite co-dependent, too, which is always tricky.

So, now that breathing deeply isn’t working as well, what now? What now when it seems like there will never, ever be another flea again and certainly not one that “gets” me like this one does. The fear is that there might not be any flea better than the one I have right now and I am clinging to the hope that things will get better if I stick it out just a little bit longer.

Tell me, dear friends, how long is too long to live this way? Must I stick with my flea even though it bugs me?

*that pun is for erica

bragging

Filed Under goings on, love | 1 Comment

runningRJ is doing something that I’m not sure I’d do for money. And he’s doing it ’cause he wants to.

He’s training for the LA Marathon. He’s been training diligently and aggressively for a while now. And my favorite thing is that he now craves junk food from time to time, like me!

A weekend ago he ran in the Surf City Half Marathon for practice and experience. Well, he did awesome!
He was 477th out of 8418 total runners.
He was 394th out of 3519 men.
And he was 63rd out of 508 men age 30-34.

That’s pretty rad for a first race, I think. And in the pouring down rain, no less!

I can’t wait to cheer for him along the sidelines early next month as he ups the ante to the full marathon…go, my guy, go.

keep looking »