today was productive in a totally peculiar fashion.

• I watched Science of Sleep and decided that it is complete rubbish. I haven't disliked a movie this much in a VERY long time. It made zero sense, but not in a charming, artsy way... It simply made NO sense. Parts were very pretty to look at, particularly anything involving stitched felt or taking place in Stephanie's apartment... but that was the only thing I enjoyed about this.

• I read a lot of random articles.

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• I started a new book; "The World Without Us" by Alan Weisman. Excellent so far.

• I bought yeast and oat bran to make soft pretzels. This will be my first foray into any kind of breadmaking from scratch. I'm nervous.

• I bought a new cookbook and a Ginsu knife set on amazon! I'm quite excited.

all over the place.

I know it may seem a little early to be decorating with an Autumn themed tableau, but the second I saw squash and mini pumpkins on sale, I couldn't resist. The flowers were a gift from Seth. He gave them to me 5 days before our anniversary, so I was completely surprised. Plus I was having a bad day that day. He's smart.

I finally took a new picture of myself. Score!

no dead things, please. thank you.

Just now I was taking the recycling out and found a dead bunny by the tree in the yard. I really thought that if I put my rubber gloves on and grabbed a couple of safeway bags, I could bring myself to pick it up and put it in one of the trash bins by the street... but I couldn't go within a few feet of it. Sometimes I forget just how squeemish I am about things like this. I'm not and never have been an outdoorsy person. Sure, I love lakes and rivers and I grew up going to camp every summer. But I need my bathroom, my shower, a semi-real bed, food, and no recently deceased animals near me...

As Seth always tells me, "you'd die if you went on Survivor.". I'm such a complete wuss.

it's beginning to look a lot like normal.

• Silas is back in school. Evenings are back on a schedule. It's glorious.

• I went along on his class fieldtrip to the Wooden Boat Festival friday. We spent about an hour on one boat in particular, The Adventuress. We got to collect plankton samples off the side of the boat, and then look at them through a microscope. Silas and Keagan were completely mesmerized.

• Seth & I played Scrabble twice. Once with our friend Candace (who is British and beat us senseless with random words we didn't even know). And once with our friends Jordan and Chanone. He's an english professor and she's just plain educated... again, we lost. So now we've decided we need to practice Scrabble.

• I slept in until atleast 7:30am both mornings of the weekend. This was unheard of when I was in Starbucks, since I worked the 4:45 - 12:45 shift atleast twice a week. It's funny how you don't realize how much something affects you until you're removed from the situation. I had no clue how sleep-deprived and stressed out I was until afterwards.

• I had a terrible dream last night about my teeth. Two fell out and one broke in half... then I was working in some kind of theater that my parents owned and was collecting teeth off of the floor after each movie. It was not okay.

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• I recently heard about Fleet Foxes on a personal blog that I read quite religiously. Can't stop listening to them.

• I got a facebook. Myspace is so media doused that I can't browse anymore without getting a headache. It's become the ghetto of the internet. It's kind of like Detroit. Nothing against Detroit.

• I got my haircut a couple of weekends ago and it's my favorite cut in YEARS. The stylist hit the nail on the head. Now if only I wasn't freaked out about taking new pictures of myself.

• Silas is now officially a second-grader. So far, so good.

• Checking is going brilliantly! I'm still enjoying it quite a bit. Sure, it's clock in/clock out retail work... nomatter how you cut it. But at this point in my life I'm not driven to do much past that.

• I've been listening to NPR in the car every morning. Who would have thought? And here's the craziest part... I've been LOVING it.

• Someday I want to have a prospering fruit and vegetable garden. Someday I will be a small time farmer. Today is not that day. No rush.

• I need to sew more, but, you see... I've got this family I made in Sims2 that I need to play to fruition. I NEED TO.