Sometimes There is Just Nothing to Say

I hope you all have a wonderful 2008.

Good Morning

Dear Family,

You are all in my thoughts every single day and I just wanted to say that I hope you are well and I miss you so deeply. I hope that we will see each other again soon and that it will be joyous.

Love,
Naomi

P.S. My life in California is pretty good but it would be so much better if you were here with me.

I Just Realized I'm Obsessed With the Radio.

I got rid of my television when I moved here and haven't bought another one. So I miss all the TV commercials people are talking about. Big whoop. (Yeah, people still say that! Whatever!)

But when it gets dark at 5:00 just when you are getting off work and it's cold, your after work activities are limited. I read a lot. But that's not so much interactive. So Mike and I listen to the radio and play cards or board games. Cook dinner and wash the dishes. Argue over if we want to watch a DVD or not (me: yes; him: no), argue over whether or not I own good movies (me: yes; him: no), argue over whether or not he owns terrible movies (me: yes; him: no). Go back to playing cards or board games.

Anyway.

So I have discovered talk radio and how great it can be. I always used to think it was boring. If you suffer from this "affliction" as well (yes, that would be the talk-radio-is-boring affliction; it exists, so whatever), you should just get rid of your television and then run out of things to do that are free. You too will discover talk radio. Maybe.

I'm bored at work today because it's the calm before the storm of a big project I've been working on all week. I'd go into detail, but it's probably boring to anyone who is not here experiencing it. Basically I'm at an impasse, waiting for something to happen until I can keep going. Tomorrow is the big day. La la. And blah blah.

In case anyone who is reading is wondering why I'm posting here all day instead of working. I am working. Just kind of waiting too. Waiting to get sick, or to meet this deadline and be done with this week, or waiting for the sun to stick around longer, or who knows what else. The waiting game. It's what life is all about right. Hurry up and wait.

Ugh. I can't stand my whiny self today. UGH.

Also Just Heard on the Radio...

Just in case you think I made up this humboldt honey thing, HARDLY. (Not that any of you actually thought I did make it up.)

Click here: http://humboldthoney.org/. The Humboldt Honey 12-Month Calendar is Now Available for Purchase (that's the part I heard on the radio)!

Also, if you click on the honeys, the first one is "Hayley", spelled the same way as the one and only (in my world).

That's all.

Heard on the Radio on My Way Into Work...

"Humboldt County, Home of the Nation's Highest Gas Prices."

Really, is this something to brag about? Really?

Sometimes I really really wonder why it is I live here. I've met some wonderful people, but I've also met some really really crazy/lazy/weird/eccentric people and it seems this area attracts them like flies. And this area attracts flies like flies too. Which is just yucky.

Now I just sound judgmental, don't I? Well I'm tired and crabby today. I've been fighting something for weeks now and my immune system, while it hasn't succumbed to it, is TIRED of FIGHTING. I almost would rather just succumb to whatever flu bug is trying to bring me down and just get it over with. Almost.

Since I'm clearly in a complaining mood right now, I will tell you what winter is for. It's for making the bugs and spiders go away. Maybe it's so cold your body hurts back in Wisconsin, but here the bugs are around all the time. All the time!

Really really.

So THIS is Winter

It started on Saturday. The wind has been blowing so hard that it sounds like waves crashing outside my window while I try to sleep at night. I live close to the ocean but not THAT close.

Today I asked my coworker if this is normal for winter. He replied in the affirmative, and the eavesdropping cleaning lady (OK, I directed the question at anybody listening in the room) gave me a look like I was an idiot.

If you don't think wind can blow hard enough to blow a person away, you should really give this place a try. Really.

Then again, it could be snowing. I heard Wisconsin got a huge snowstorm, and I can't say I miss THAT.

PLUS I have a really fun umbrella, which makes rain more bearable. Of course, I have to wait until the wind dies down a bit to even go out there in the first place because the rain sort of seems to be falling from the ground up when the wind and rain get together for tea. But I mean, as far as umbrellas go, this one comes with a lifetime warranty if it fails me. That's how hardcore it is here.

Anyway, it's still relatively warm and the sun was out this morning. So all in all it's not that bad... ask me again after a week solid of this and we'll see if I feel the same...