ephemera

the weather has been absolutely gorgeous this week - cold nights, warm(ish) days. it's perfect for the trees, which are getting prettier and more multi-colored by the day!

i was really jonesing for chai tea the other night, and so i made a late-nite trip to the grocery store. E: "Bring back cake!"

chocolate cake is delicious with chai tea.

there is a baseball player named Coco Crisp. i am not making that up. he must've caught hell for that in school, lol - some people should not be allowed to name their own children.

after a weeks-long nom-a-thon (it must be the cooler weather - my body wants to add a winter layer), i'm getting back to eating more fruits and veggies, and also going back to the gym. i will still be eating cake and burgers (and so on), just maybe not EVERY. DAY. because as much fun as that is, and as much as i looooooooove food, i do not have extra money for new clothing in larger sizes. and that's the road i was heading down.

tonight, Mom and i (and Mom's friend and her grandkids) went to a local park to see the International Space Station fly by! there was some confusion about which direction it was coming from, and Mom's star-tracking app failed...and um, we're near a major airport, so there were lots of false alarms. in the end, only the eldest grandkid and i saw it. i had it in my binoculars for a minute (definitely NOT a plane), but then there was a shooting star and the kids were shrieking with excitement and when i looked back, it was gone. but - I SAW THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION!!!!!!!!!!!

last Friday, E and i celebrated our one-year anniversary! it was wonderful - we went to an Italian place for a delicious dinner, and then we saw Gravity in 3-D at a local theater. being a total space geek, i wore my NASA flight suit to the movie, and the high-schooler behind the concessions counter was very appreciative. He said the whole movie was "just breathtaking", and boy, was he right! It really did look like you were orbiting the Earth. just amazing.

I AM OUT OF GARAM MASALA AND THIS IS AN EMERGENCY. 

oh! progress has been made on the purging - i condensed four storage bins of stuff down to two, threw away two giant bags of trash, and took two more giant bags to a resale store. i've also managed to bring my credit card current, and am committed to paying it off entirely, after which i will begin to tackle the giant mess that is (are?) my student loans.

(this is where i visualize/trust God for 20 clients a week, minimum. 25 would be even better, but 20 will get the job done short-term.)

and now, the time has come for all good Dragons to finish their giant bottles of water and get ready for bed. E's night shift schedule is really messing with me, lol. i've always been nocturnal, and looooooooved working midnights (for 5 years)! anyway, it's like this: when E crawls into bed next to me at 8am on a Saturday or Sunday, we curl up and i go right back to sleep. on a good day, i'll get up at 11am-ish; on a bad day, well, 2pm isn't unusual. this makes it very hard to go to bed at a decent hour that night, and then it becomes a vicious cycle. so tonight, the goal is to be asleep by midnight, even if i have to pop a benadryl to get the job done, lol.

sweet dreams, blogland!