Not here, Sillies. In Wisconsin!!! And a lot of it too!!!
It may appear that I'm rubbing it in, but mostly I just feel for the fine folk in Wisconsin who should not have a huge snow storm in the almost-middle-of April! And also, I am GLAD I'm not in snow right now!
It is, however, raining here in Eureka. Raining hard. Like too hard to go for a walk. So everything isn't just dandy here. But still better than snow.
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These are the love letters I am writing to my family in Wisconsin, while I am here in northern California. It's a way for us to stay connected at a click of the mouse.
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- "Some people may have thought this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business." ~Anne Lamott. This is me, this is my life, and it is personal. Welcome to my blog. I write it for you (and for me too).
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This is how it works: You're young until you're not, you love until you don't, you try until you can't, you laugh until you cry, you cry until you laugh, and everyone must breathe until their dying breath.
No, this is how it works: You peer inside yourself, you take the things you like, and try to love the things you took, and then you take that love you made, and stick it into someone else's heart, pumping someone else's blood, and walking arm in arm, you hope it don't get harmed, but even if it does, you'll just do it all again. - "On the Radio" by Regina Spektor
No, this is how it works: You peer inside yourself, you take the things you like, and try to love the things you took, and then you take that love you made, and stick it into someone else's heart, pumping someone else's blood, and walking arm in arm, you hope it don't get harmed, but even if it does, you'll just do it all again. - "On the Radio" by Regina Spektor
2 comments:
You can't go sledding in the rain though. Or at least not as well. :)
That is very true, Russell, you can't actually do much of anything in the rain. You can walk in it sometimes, but only if it isn't too cold or too hard, and you can kiss in it, but only if you are in a music video. Which as of right now, I am not, nor have I ever been, in a music video. So I think all I can really do is wait for it to be over. Which is much less interesting and active than sledding!!!
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