So, my Love calls me Friday morning on my cell as I am at work and asks me how tired I'll be at the end of the night. "Why?" I wonder...he says that he had an idea. He got paid, I got paid, and he'd like to go out and have a nice time with just the two of us together. Get out. (something we don't get to do often) He suggests going out for dinner - in Downtown Disney. *lol*
So, we get home, hop in the car, and drive out to Orlando. It's only a couple hours away, but we don't think about going out there that often. We had a nice time just walking around, looking at the shops, and eventually eating dinner at the House of Blues. When we got out there though, it was after dark and the wind was blowing pretty hard. During the day, it had been cool air, but hot, hot sun. Once it went down though, it was actually quite cold. It was a good excuse though to buy this REALLY cool warm fuzzy...it's this grey/blue/purple color with the La Nouba sun logo on it. It's one of those "micro fiber" fleece, so it's really lightweight, but it keeps you super warm. Cost me a whopping $50, but seeing as it was the first thing I bought for myself in literally 8 months (beyond the fact that I was freezing and in a tank top) I splurged. Making money now, so I didn't feel quite so bad about it. (although, eep! it WAS a lot of money). BUT I LOVE IT. Now, I just need to go see the show. *lol*
Anyway, I'm being pestered to get off the net, so here I close. Just had a really fun night last yesterday and wanted to share. I'll try to take a pic of me in my fuzzy on Rand's digital camera so everyone can see why I couldn't pass it up. *laughs*
==ps: Good news on the domain issue. I've gotten a $15 donation, plus my $28 commisson, and another donation coming in the mail, so I'll be buying the domain and starting the hosting within the next week or so. Just in time. Thank you thank you thank you to everyone for your help.==
Just some thoughts I had last night as I was showering before bed…
In the summer of 1977, my mother went up the road from our house looking for something special. The road lead to the pond in a clearing of the forest. There she found a small saproling cherry wood tree which she carefully uprooted and transplanted to the yard in front of her house, directly in front of the two large, living room windows. There is grew and prospered.
Each spring, I would stand in front of that cherry tree and smile in the warm sunshine. My mother would take my picture in celebration of my birthday. I would gaze up at the towering branches of the tree, brushing the blue sky itself, as the rich, red glow from the bark caught the light. For you see, it was my cherry tree. Planted for me in the year of my birth by my mother as a celebration and tribute of life.
Eight summers came and past, the tree standing tall through hard Pennsylvania snows and brisk autumn winds. And each spring, as I stood before it, it bloomed. But the time came that I could stand in front of it no more. For we were moving away; far away to a place called “Florida” and my tree could not follow. I cried and cried, not understanding why we had to leave. I remember the woman who purchased the house tell me, as I sobbed to her that it was my tree, “It will always be your tree.”
Twice again as long has past now and always, in the back of my mind, I’ve thought about getting back up there one day to reunite with my beloved tree. But this fall, my mother did just that and had sad news to tell.
The tree was gone.
I do not know the circumstances of its death, but it is nonetheless, gone forever. Dead and empty where once there was vibrant life. My tree… And it made me realize how fragile things are. If this magnificent tree could not even live my 24 years, then what hope do any of us have on leaving a truly lasting mark? The world spins and changes and the things we love fall away into nothing. It’s sad, really, that when this is all said and done, there won’t even be memories left.
So, this is my small, temporary reminder of something that I expected to remain true through time. A reminder and remembrance of my beloved cherry wood tree. May the warm spring sunshine never dim in the Summerlands beyond.
No time really for an update today. Not taking a normal lunch because we are having a meeting with food for all employees. So, I just wanted to make a quick note that this will probably be my only update for the day. I had a very nice person make a $15 donation to the site (I don?t know if they want their name listed or not, so thanks) and man, was that a surprise! Thank you so much for your kindness. As I?m sure you noticed if you?re reading this, the site is allowing me to make updates again, but I don?t know for how long. So, in the event this goes down, or is not updated within a day or so again, try one of these locations as an alternate:
I had this great rant to post about how this guy in front of me (in this totally beat up Dodge Omni or something similar ? all the identifying marks were missing) this morning had nothing but a handwritten note stating, ?Lost Tag B087890? on his car in lieu of an actual plate, but I don?t have time to get into it with the lunch meeting, so I?ll leave it at man, some people!
Ok, just a quickie. (that is, if I can remember how to type! Eek! Coming from typing on a standard keyboard all morning onto my ergo one here, I?m getting all mixed up!)
It?s been so odd not having the journal to make updates to the last week or so. I?ve gotten so used to keeping a record of my daily events, thoughts, and ideas that it?s now almost unnatural to NOT record them. Weird, hu? Something that so many people ask me why I do this has turned into something that I truly enjoy doing and miss when it?s not there. I still don?t know what?s going to happen with the site?seems that it?s universally not allowing updates anymore for anyone (not just me) which means that I have no way of redirecting people to a new location pending that I even had one in the first place. It sucks.
Had a really weird night?s sleep last night?I still feel asleep stupidly early on the couch (well, actually, truth-be-told, both my Love AND I zonked out at the same time) but, I had the oddest dreams all night. Just plain goofy things like having the character ?Angel? making a guest appearance. Things like that don?t usually happen. All sorts of mystical and other weird things out of a faerie tale, but taking place in the ?real? world. Very, very odd. On top of it all, I woke up several times throughout the night as well and each time, I didn?t know what woke me, but when I closed my eyes again, I was back in the dreams like before. I felt a little more refreshed from the fact that I dreamt, but I?m still pretty sleepy overall. Seems to me like it should be Friday and I?m almost confused as to why it?s not. (I hate when I REALLY lose track of any sense of time. It gets so confusing!)
Why is it that whenever I sit down to write an entry, all the things that I?ve been spinning ?round and ?round in my head suddenly disappear? I?ve been thinking of all sorts of content that I want to touch on, and here I am, _flat_ for ideas. Stinks. I think it has to do with the hurried nature of trying to write a post, plus the frustration of not knowing for sure where it?s going to be posted too. Grr.
Well, for right now, I guess I?ll run to lunch (at 1:46pm). If I get a moment and/or think of something to say, I?ll try to add to this and hopefully even publish it somewhere. Tonight, Joolo?s coming over and we?re going to play some video games and watch some Buffy. Silly, fun stuff all around. A good night though. *smiles*
Out for now?.
5:00pm Looks like I never got back around to adding anything else. Going to publish this and then head for home. More hopefully tomorrow. Have a good one all!
