Celebrate good times

The Magic of Disney
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Some ideas for 2008
(Hopes/goals/suggestions for the coming year, in no particular order I won't sabotage myself by making resolutions)

1.Blog more. I like the idea of blogs. I read other people's musings on various things. Many times in a week I actually think "wow, that was interesting, I should post about it". Sadly, that almost never happens. But not in 2008!

2. Organize. Papers, photos, desktop, closet, under the bed (aaah)

3. Correspond. KIT, yeah. I love the idea of writing letters, and sending them off, and getting mail, and reading letters.

4. Budget. Make one, put it in a visible place, and try to follow it.

5. Cook more. Cuz, why not?

6. Yoga. Keep it up.

7. Margins. I want to be more intentional about having down time in between scheduled activities. More space in the day to do nothing in iparticular.

8. Visit my nieces. At Christmas my 8month old niece Sonai didn't recognize me :-( That can't happen! By next Christmas we will be good friends.

9. Get a digital camera and take pictures of my life.

10. Continue playing scrabulous.

civic duty

Today I reported for jury duty. For the first time ever, I actually had to go into the courtroom. Well the courtroom waiting room. There was a lot of waiting. Correction: there was only waiting. I brought a lot of things to keep me busy. I weighed my bag when I got home. 10lbs of stuff to keep my busy! I'm not proud of that by the way. Jury duty is a great people watching opportunity. If I could sketch people I would have done that too. But i can't so I to mental notes instead.

The guy sitting on my left spent the day playing his old school nintendo game boy. I haven't seen one of those in years. I almost didn't know what it was. A big gray box with with the 3 buttons. The guy on my left stared into space. He doodled for a bit on the one of the handouts they gave us. but other than that he just sat. I observed many others around the room with the same agenda. sitting and staring. How can you show up for a day of waiting with absolutely nothign to do? What's that about? I was distracted by these people . I felt a little concerned for them, like "isn't there something you should be doing now, or working on? Why don't you get a magazine from the rack over there. you know just to keep yourself occupied"? After lunch the guy on my left had a magazine.

There was a couple siting in front of me that was working on a puzzle. A 1000 jigsaw piece puzzle that was left in the room. They were kind of together but it wasn't clear. definitely an ambiguous relationship. Did they meet at jury duty? Did they know each other from before? Did they arrange to report on the same day? There was a lot of flirting going on. One person kept reaching over the other to get to a puzzle piece and such. There was an exchange of phone numbers at the end of the day. Maybe they'll keep in touch.

The hour ahead of me

The end of the day sucks the life out of me. If I have to stare at a computer screen for another minute...absolutely nothing will happen. I want to go home. In ten minutes I will get to ride my bike for about 10 minutes. I'll pass through the campus, then the by the elmentary school, then by the house where belizian men play pool and watch t.v. outside. Then I will be in my little house. I will set the timer on the oven for 30 minutes. I'll pull out my space heater into the living room. I will curl up and read my book. For 30 minutes. The timer will go off, sadly, then I will read for about 7 more minutes. Then I will be responsible. And I will pull out my laptop, and start my work for the evening.