Today I Saw (#4, #5)

(From Friday, April 2nd):

• blush of lake at the glowing compliment from the sky


• the woman I married in a Taco Bell matured to the beauty of self-actualization


• sillhouette of blackbirds taking to the trees in twilight


• nest nestled in the branches of a birch that doesn't know it's spring yet

(From Tuesday, April 7th):

• lace pattern of branch shadows casting aspirations at the ground


• coffee black ant braving the grass jungle past watchful giants


• crushed strawberry descent into the soothing pool of vibrant lemonade


• the juxtaposition of seared brussels sprouts and fish tacos in order to follow the Golden Path to the child's natural response

To Review:

1. "Today I Saw" are intended to be on-going. It is my attempt to regularly exercise my imagination by documenting the beauty (and sometimes nightmares) I witness on a daily basis that some might not see or acknowledge. The other goal in this is to work on finding ways of bringing together my ideas in concise language that at the same time allows for maximum visualization of the scene. If you have comments/critiques on them, I would welcome feedback. If you just like 'em, then great! Maybe I'm finally learning something about writing.



2. Poll form last night. At first I thought everyone was loving my idea. I'm curious for those who don't like it or who haven't responded or might ambivalent about it, please comment and explain. I'd like to understand people's take on it. Sure, it's my decision what I title/subtitle my own journal, but getting feedback often helps me see the mirror of my own doubts, assurances, and the like.



3. NORWESCON! Ok, so this part isn't review, since I haven't posted about it in some time, but, we're going. There are still discussions about logistics (childcare, friend finally coming with, when do we leave?, etc.). But we'll be there Friday night thorugh Sunday morning. At least that's the plan. I forgot though to see if anyone is available to feed kitties Friday night and Saturday afternoon. Any takers? Any takers what need a little extra cash? Kitties need fed, need watered, need scritch behind ears. Just a few minutes of care, but like, long drive, yo.



4. Sleeping a bit better, but now cramming in information to augment missed days of classes is cutting into nappy-bye time. Bitch. I'm rather cranky and forming speech that is relevant to class or even coherent to human beings has become difficult. I can't hold onto a thought for more than ten seconds. What was I saying?



5. Facebook. Is bad for me. Ok, so it's good in that I'm reconnecting with old friends and keeping in touch with new ones that for whatever strange reason don't have LiveJournal. You don't believe in power of Livejournal?* Anyway, so the drama for me is I'm a gaming addict. And now there's farm games that take up my time and Bejeweled obsessions that are getting mixed up in my head with Neopets' Destruct-o-Match; when I close my eyes I see my avatar tilling the fields of rocks that collapse, and sometimes I'm able to switch them and cause them to blink out of existence and like DUDE I don't even do the Dew anymore, so why am I jittery? JUST HOOK IT TO MY VEINS!!! And one of the games I quit because they didn't give me the promised credits I should have gotten for filling out stupid third party ads because I just had to have the fucking yellow house just sent me enough points to buy it so every time I think I've gotten out they pull me back in MOTHERFUCKERS. /insert gasp for air



6. How does one read a 354 page novel in two days when you've already got 600 other pages to read, class time, travel time, child nurturing, sleep, and fooding of family to cram in as well? She gave us an extension ... across Norwescon weekend. Am ok to be dead now?



7. Oh yeah, and my daughter and I are getting along better**, but I'm not sure how to teach her not to procrastinate when both the adults in our household do it. I'm also not sure how to keep her from handling her food instead of using a fork, teach her to pick up after herself, turn off the lights in rooms where we're not being, put on her seatbelt in the car, or put dirty dishes from dinner into the dishwasher for the same reasons.

*This is reference (for those who don't know) to Order of the Stick, which you should be reading, and the religion of Banjo. Do you believe in the power of Banjo?

**Ana and I weren't getting along because I find her to be overly confrontational and argumentative ON EVERY SUBJECT like a teenager and she finds me to be inaccessible in and too busy to spend time with her. So I noticed that her relationship corner was rather empty and mostly filled with a big poster collage about herself. Then I found a pretty drawing of birds and fairies singing along in harmony with a WHITE RAVEN in the corner of the image and a pretty brunette fairy conducting. We hung it last week. I'm not sure about Feng Shui, but just putting the energy out there and an image as a focus probably helped some. La!