Every night, as I’m falling asleep, I have grown accustomed to hearing the incessant roaring of my neighbor’s motor cycle. I’m certain the thing will never run as he wants it to, but that doesn’t stop him from spending atleast an hour working on it each night, usually starting about 11.

These days, a new sound has been added to my bed time routine. Ready for this: the honking of geese. Yes, my other neighbors brought home 4 geese the other day. I’m not sure their purpose. They might be pets, as they do spend their days meandering in the front yard the way a dog might. Then again, perhaps they are only intended to be eaten since currently there are only 3 geese left and we spotted the 4th being captured alive in a bag and taken inside.

My first Whimsey Box came in the mail yesterday. I have been waiting for this moment for 2 months and finally the little bundle of joy arrived. And guess what? I am utterly underwhelmed. The contents of the box were embroidery thread and chain to make bracelets – that’s it.

I have 2 more boxes coming in the next couple months so I’m hoping that this is just a bad whimsey month and my next two boxes will bring me pure delight. C’mon whimsey people! Your concept is so cool, wow me next time!

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.

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.