waiting in the closet

on the way home from vacation in the western carribian i left my favorite old dirty faded nj nets hat on the plane. i realized this while claiming our baggage at the airport, and announced it out loud. my mother-in-law said "yay!". i guess it was time to retire that old hat. i have a new one waiting in the closet.

thought

i miss spending significant amounts of time sitting in cafes/diners- drinking coffee and reading, even if it was for school. a simple pleasure, long gone. lately, we've been very very busy- but hypothetically, yes, i could skip out at night after the baby and my wife are asleep and go to a starbucks and order a latte and read john fante. but right now, it feels as if it's a lost art from a dead, forgotten age

snack warrior

so i went to the snack machine and got a pack of M&M's. i poured the content onto my desk, so i could pick through them and eat each color in succession (obsessive-compulsive, i know). first blue (my least favorite), then green, red, yellow, and orange; i left brown for last. when i had finished all the other colors, the remaining nine brown M&M's formed the unmistakable pattern of the constellation orion on my desk. what does this mean? is aurora warning me to beware of scorpions? or is it just a sign that winter is beginning?

hot milk

i'm pretty sure that, in heaven, after making the long journey up the tunnel with the light at the end, trudging through acres of knee-deep snow through the rolling hills of limbo, you are beckoned and finally greeted inside the pearly gates by the angels with hot milk and raspberry cookies.

(man-lo day memories, of frolicking drunk in the snow, drinking jd by the boat, and coming back inside to "hot milk" and cookies.)

doors and all

ah, so i took yesterday off from work... we had movers move all the big stuff from our condo to the house. i was helping a lot because they were paid by the hour- so now i'm sore here and there, especially my back. have you ever taken a apart and put together a fridge, doors and all? it's fun, fun, fun! but really, everything went quite well. i did have to rip the moldings off the basement door to get my desk into the house. thank goodness, it fits in the low-ceiling basement office. and the fridge fot too! i was there late last night again after dinner, moving furniture into its likely final resting places. it was exciting to feel like it was really coming together! it feels like a home finally, not just an empty shell or whetever. we're still not moved in- staying at my in-laws tonight. technically its ready to move into, but with the baby we want to wait until it's really 100% ready. as long as one or the other set of grandparents is willing to take us in, we'll keep goin'. more work to do the next few nights after work, but it's coming along. ...i met the mailman yesterday, he seems nice.

movin' out

i came to the computer to post a song title in my song blog and i figured i'd post here as well and say that i'm abotu to move out of this place, and therefore i soon have to pack up this computer and stuff. what a pain in the ass moving is... especially when it's a blizzard outside. anyway, off i go!

sunny sunday

so we closed on the deal for our new house, and i spent most of my thanksgiving weekend painting and scraping and sanding and stuff. on sunday, as i was working on one of the windows in my son's new bedroom, i saw him and my wife out in the front yard. she was talking to our new neighbors, who are also a young couple with a 1-year old. my son and the other kid were walking around in circles on the lawn in their cute little winter coats with fur-fringed hoods. it was a brief moment of levity in an otherwise monotonous day of house-prep work.