Tuesday, June 26, 2012


3 things that make you happy:
  • balls & other round things
  • blocks & other square things
  • amoeba & other amorphous things
2 things you are looking forward to today:
  • rain
  • music
2 long term things you are looking forward to:
  • sun
  • music
1 person you are going to appreciate:
  • elvis
3 things that make you happy:
  • Bouncing
  • Camping
  • Tasha
2 things you are looking forward to today:
  • Talking with Lisa
  • Music
2 long term things you are looking forward to:
  • Seeing Tasha turn into an adult
  • A week of warm, sunny weather
1 person you are going to appreciate:
  • Lisa

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

3 things that make you happy:
2 things you are looking forward to today:
  • therp
  • short walky
2 long term things you are looking forward to:
  • mountain trails
  • mountain lakes
1 person you are going to appreciate:
* at 0:20 I said "I know what railway that is ... uh ... uh ..." - I finally had to look in a book to come up with the name - Kaiserstuhlbahn - now a museum operation [ala Snoqualmie to North Bend] - nice train action & singing but the dialect is a bit thick   ;)

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Mineral

3 things that make you happy:
  • giant rocks in rivers
  • sand on the beach
  • glacial erratics
2 things you are looking forward to today:
  • concrete
  • dirt
2 long term things you are looking forward to:
  • channeled scablands
  • mountains
1 person you are going to appreciate:
  • harlen bretz

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Back on the road again

3 things that make you happy:
  • back on the road again*
  • foxgloves
  • osprey
2 things you are looking forward to today:
  • therp
  • bookstore
2 long term things you are looking forward to:
  • back on the road again
  • 'mostly harmless'
1 person you are going to appreciate:
  • mineko
*back on the road again - For several years i have had intermittent head trouble driving alone, so have kept close to home unless someone was with me. I also had problems listening to music as an accompaniment to another activity, including driving. A while back, after seeing a "singing cowboys" book at Goodwill, I started listening to cowboy songs, then expanded to other kinds of music. Last week I started playing music while I was driving, using my Kindle Fire (through the car stereo) with a playlist of German female (mostly) singers. It worked. Yesterday I drove to North Bend & into the mountains a bit. Success. Drove home via Fall City - Redmond road ('old highway' - US-10 before the floating bridge was built). As I headed up Perkins Way, in Lake Forest Park, I realized that one of the ways the music was helping was that almost all the lyrics were in German, which put my head in German mode & discouraged random or triggery thoughts. 

Sunday, June 10, 2012

3 things that make you happy:
  • Frankie in the living room
  • sun through the trees
  • camping
2 things you are looking forward to today:
  • some sunshine?
  • friendly visitors
2 long term things you are looking forward to:
  • Getting my car back!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Getting my taxes done
1 person you are going to appreciate:
  • Barbara

Friday, June 08, 2012

perpetual penultimacy

3 things that make you happy:
  • cannibal socks
  • perpetual penultimacy
  • tawdry toes
2 things you are looking forward to today:
  • weather
  • water
2 long term things you are looking forward to:
  • cherries
  • apples
1 person you are going to appreciate:
  • jo

Thursday, June 07, 2012

3 things that make you happy:
  • Fridays- whether they come on Thursday or Friday
  • Franklin purring while playing
  • Fezz being his sweet, mellow self
2 things you are looking forward to today:
  • Leaving work at 4:30
  • Giving a sustainable design tour to Cleveland High School students.
2 long term things you are looking forward to:
  • Playing games with Nae & co.
  • Skiing
1 person you are going to appreciate:
  • Julie

Horns

3 things that make you happy:
2 things you are looking forward to today:
  • lunch with eliza
  • rain
2 long term things you are looking forward to:
  • dancing on bridges
  • wading in rivers
1 person you are going to appreciate:
  • eliza

Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Golfball

3 things that make you happy:
2 things you are looking forward to today:
  • beach
  • libraries
2 long term things you are looking forward to:
  • cummulative declutter 
  • grandtwerp
1 person you are going to appreciate:
  • WWII Allied soldiers of D-Day, 6/6/44

Monday, June 04, 2012

Lolly

3 things that make you happy:
2 things you are looking forward to today:
  • rainy walky
  • decluttering
2 long term things you are looking forward to:
  • Lale Andersen* CD(s)
  • declutter benefits
1 person you are going to appreciate:
*Lale ("LAH-lay", quite similar to a relaxed pronunciation of "Lolly") Anderson's stage name of "Lale" comes from being called "la la" as a child, for her constant singing. She grew up in Bremerhaven, learning many seafarer songs there. Her German often has a very comfortable, familiar touch to my Bremerhaven-trained ears., though her voice was judged "harsh" by Berlin critics in her early performing years there.

Sunday, June 03, 2012

3 things that make you happy:
  • Cantaloupe
  • Cedar Waxwings back again
  • Quiet work mornings
2 things you are looking forward to today:
  • Fun visitors
  • Time with Steve
2 long term things you are looking forward to:
  • Time with Eliza
  • Floyd swimming?
1 person you are going to appreciate:
  • Steve

Saturday, June 02, 2012

3 things that make you happy:
  • Floyd's new trick
  • car talk
  • nae
2 things you are looking forward to today:
  • going to the farm
  • planning camping
2 long term things you are looking forward to:
  • Camping with Nae- not that far away
  • My car all fixed
1 person you are going to appreciate:
  • michelle

Friday, June 01, 2012

3 things that make you happy:
2 things you are looking forward to tomorrow:
  • day with jo
  • an outing?
2 long term things you are looking forward to:
1 person you are going to appreciate:
  • jo