Yay!

The blinds for the bedroom shipped out today! That means they might even get here by Friday! Hooray!

huh. Just went to check the tracking, and it looks like they are being shipped rather separately and coming in on different days. Whatever. Soon. I'm excited.

I'm also super excited about my trip coming up. End of the month. San Clemente! Rental by the ocean! 3 days off work, plus a weekend! YIPPEE!

I've been muchly bad at getting to bed these days though, and methinks I have many less reasons for staying up late now. The moving madness has somewhat settled down, there's still boxes everywhere, and there's still quite a lot to organize, but it's not out of control anymore. So time to reign the bedtime in. THAT'S going to take some doing... argh.

I started listening to a podcast called "Marriage Doesn't Suck" and I think it's totally fabulous. Very raw, very real, uncensored, sorta just like having a few cool, intelligent, irreverent friends in the room honestly talking about their life in New York together. Found out about it through Alexis, who knows them. I can relate to them in quite a lot of ways, which is kind of amazing on the one hand, living out here in Iowa, slower paced life and all that, and not all that suprising on the other hand - young, married, trying to figure out life on this planet, and the joys and rough patches that come from trying to do it while living every day with another person -"for better or worse."

It's always inspiring for me to hear about young people working their marriages because 1) my parents=my direct model of how marriage goes. They are divorced, so that didn't work out so well, and I sometimes have irrational fears that I've inherited some gene that will explode at a later, unexpected time and blow up in our faces. Probably because it seemed like that was what happened with my parents. When really it was something that was growing for some time because of lack of emotional honesty. And I've been fighting to promote and maintain my honesty ever since. 2)Even when I can find good models of successful marriage, it's good to see one with people somewhat in my age range, because it seems like a different mindset/philosophy somehow. And on top of all that, Sage and Hella are both artistic, creative type people trying to figure out how to work that in with jobs that pay the bills too. And that's something I can majorly relate to as well.

Why does my creative stuff always get pushed to the back burner, when it's the stuff that makes me the most happy and brings me the most joy? sob.

oh yeah, and now I'm all curious about trying out podcasting too, haha. Although I don't know what the heck I'd have to talk about... Wish I had time and equipment to pursue all this fun geeky web stuff. Seems like such a neat outlet for sharing. and somewhat safe in a way too, you can share without having to do it directly in front of someone, and psych yourself into thinking you have this big audience, even if it's not really...