Monthly Archives: June 2012

Today in Highlights and Lowlights

Highlights:

1. Our copy editor at work, who endearingly told me I could call him “Homie” the first day I met him, bought me a cake pop as a gift and told me that I’m doing a really great job. Seriously, sweetest gesture! and THE highlight of my day.

2. This evening I sat on my porch in my rocking chair, ate dinner that included cantaloupe out of a ramekin, and read the Great Gatsby in the sunshine.

3. It’s light till 10:00 these days! So, I also had time to pick strawberries with my housemate and sit at Jefferson Park – eating strawberries and chatting about life’s complexities.

Lowlights:

1. While I feel much better than yesterday, I did have a throbbing headache the first 8 hours I was awake as well as several awkward spastic coughing fits mid-conversation with multiple different colleagues.

2.This is lame and I probably should not state it on the interweb, but it’s okay since only 3 people read this so called blog. I am pissed about a long silence in a string of text messages. Lame, I KNOW.

3. I am uber aware today(as has been the case in recent months) of how very undecided and uncertain so many big things in my life are(you know career, love, a place that is home). I am trying desperately to come to terms with this – as this is just how life is, but as a person who likes things decided the ambiguity, at times, unravels me.

GROWTH :: I may have had to rescue my tomato plant from the frigid June temperatures and bring it indoors so that it will survive the elements, but my chard and squash are thriving outdoors in their grand urban oasis. I planted them just a month ago and look at them! I am quite pleased with their progress. GROWTH, both of the physical, organic, and personal variety is a funny thing. Sometimes I hardly notice it. Sometimes it seems slow and painful. Sometimes it’s too fast. Sometimes its surprisingly painless and natural. Sometimes it makes me smile and other times it makes me sob. For the moment, I’m glad my swiss chard is making me smile [celebrate really] and I’m thankful my tomato plant’s near death hasn’t quite brought me to tears. As for life in general, I’m coming to terms with the extremes I seemingly notice and feel more deeply than many and for now am happy that my growing pains are more analogous to my chard than my tomatoes.

Favorite Slide :: These are some of my favorite kids sliding down my favorite slide in Seattle. Bet you didn’t know I had a favorite slide in this city. Apparently, it is MOST fun to slide down it backwards and lying down.

Gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover

I have been failing at my post once a week resolution. Apologies to the one of you who I know checks in here regularly!

I’ve decided to re-read the Great Gatsby for the first time since high school. The inspiration came after going to dinner where live jazz music was playing and while I could remember very little about the plot of the Great Gatsby I momentarily felt like I was a character in that book – I think it was the music.

Anyways, I have yet to begin reading, I’ve only taken the book off the bookshelf and added it to the stack of half read books by my bed. This quote, however, prefaces the entire book:

“Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;

If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,

Till she cry ‘Lover, gold hatted, high-bouncing lover,

I must have you!’ ”

-Thomas Parke D’Invilliers

Somehow, struck me as blogworthy.