penolin,

the boys have gone to the market for dinner so i have time to type. i just gave myself bangs. we'll see if that was a mistake or not later. i started the day with an early swim and then i made it to the frye museum where i was actually disturbed by art. i could feel the creepy evil of it all- from the von keepler? (during the spiritist movement late 1800's) paintings which were mostly of seances, ecstatic moments, and mediums to some weird performance art shite called implied violence and it was literally implied and disturbing and gross and very unsettling. and 15minutes was too long to stay wandering any of the halls. though the permanent collection is restfulbliss . also in the gift shop i found Hildegaard of bensons selected writings for %50 off in a drawer. so i rescued her and then matt, his friend luke, and kyle got me to the Vietnam house, which was tasty. the boys tried tofu but clearly not nearly as good as my herb wrapped beef. lets be honest. we tapped that off with a trip to gasworks park and assembled matts pirate shaped kite and launched it to much acclaim. of course having exhausted ourselves we went to baskin robbins. good thing we're going on a hike tomorrow. also on the way out the door this AM i went to fred meyer and bought some fancy arch supporting socks and a banana and pineapple bits for post swimming... and ok, i may have bought 2 pairs of pants (which i then found totally on sale! lame) there as well earlier this week- cath and amber convinced me i should look there as my pants died on the day of the underground tour so i was indecent most of the day- so now i have some brown and grey cargo pants to bring home with me. which will forever be called the fredmeyer pants. but anyway- who knows what else the evening holds. maybe farkle. certainly not pro-run. so lame. but this heisted internet connection is totally a step in the right direction.

i hope you are not sinking into mires and that there is fresh air and sun sparkling moments to your day and that the tea et al went splendidly. the weather here continues charming despite what they say about a storm. but we'll see.

more anon,

xo, m .

the internet connection is spotty as its shooting through wall upon wall to wall to something. blip it goes. i think this is the longest its held which is why i'm risking it. this AM i made breakfast, did laundry, the clanging of buttons and such ringing in my ears right now along with matts itune collection. i went for a walk in his backyard forest and those were a nest of sparkly you know whats. i just couldn't get any closer. i mean i sort of surprised them anyway. and that car in the garage seemed familiar to me. most likely from forks is all i'm saying. and now i'm waiting for matt who is late- by 40min to come get me so i can drive to olympia with him to do who knows what.

in the forest i got an image of me being helped on with a backpack with loads of pieces of wood, all with indecipherable writing and sent on a raft with a long paddle to guide me. i look back not particularly confident and yet there i go. i checked back with the image later and there was a big barrel of little red fruit plum things. which couldn't be budged if i tried. so i sat on the rim of it instead....

so matts here so any other forest revelations will have to wait, except i'm finding little bits of things to add to shadow boxes when i do those again one day... also i just ate a pickle...

my love,

m.

And Then There was 1, by M

There's a new blog in the neighborhood. A fancy travel one. So all of you that have left November feeling robbed over the startling low number of posts, lowest ever actually, besides that one month where we went on hiatus, and were beginning to see that December was going to show much of the same, there should at least be some travel bloggings happening on the horizon. We can't promise that there will be copious # of posts but we hope, all the same, that Schu is going to do her best to post post post and bring that writerly wit to bear. And with some much needed assistance from Penelope and Cath, there should be some interesting and humorous things to read inbetween. Naturally it will dazzle and astound.

http://schutravels.blogspot.com/