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On Sunday I went to Great America with Gene, Christine, Adam, Nuala and Garren. It was an excellently sized group, a gorgeous day, and there was a new ride titled “Firefall”. Let me tell you a little about Firefall.

This:

was Christine’s reaction upon first seeing it.

And then the water burst into flames.

It was AWESOME. “FIRE!” I would yell at random intervals when halfway across the park.

As is to be expected when Great America-ing with Christine and I: we went on Delirium three times. One of those times, I tried to explain my love affair with the ride to Garren (who had been a Delirium virgin up until yesterday).

Me: Delirium is like great sex.

Garren: “Wha…Wha..What?”

Me: Well when it’s good it’s like your whole body is swirling around and you get sort of light-headed and then at the end you feel fantastic.

Garren proceeded to chortle through the entire ride. Which I guess might also happen during great sex. I can’t tell if it’s just because I’ve been reading too many romance novels lately or because I’m reaching the peak of female sexuality (getting old, people) but I could have ridden Delirium all day long. I’m just saying.

More pictures HERE.

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the last 5 minutes = so awesome i need to share.

i saw that the mail had come so i went out to get it. imagine my surprise to receive multiple letters:

1 from miramonte

1 from christine

1 from nuala

1 from lacey

so much mail! i love mail!

plus the random miramonte mail was a check for $130 for vacation days being paid out or something. i’m not questioning it even though i haven’t worked there since december. $130, all mine.

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Catch up with pictures

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It’s been a while since I posted. This is not because I’ve been doing nothing, oh no, quite the contrary. I have been busy busy. There was baking a wedding cake; going to Nuala and Garren’s Engagement Party; the Legion of Honor with Ellie; a Finer Things Club meeting; Nuala and Garren’s Wedding; playing at the park with Ellie, Lucas, and Tyler; mmmm….and probably some other stuff for which I don’t have photographic proof.

Here in a mish-mash jumble is some of my fave moments from all the above activities. Click on any picture for more from the same event.

make sure you read on page 6 of the engagement bash photos about the saga of the bug and how garren is the resurrection. genius. it starts with this photo.

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taking it to the creek

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some good and bad points of vacationing in oregon.

pro:

7 nights at $170 per person

con:

having to share a room with my mother

pro:

getting to stay in an amazing house

con:

hitting head on abalone shell shelf in shower THREE TIMES

pro:

spending time with family

con:

having 14 year old cousin discover i’m 30 and mock me for it

pro:

pictures!

con:

breaking my camera the 2nd day there

pro:

cake and ice cream for breakfast. the best pro of all.

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Naamah

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Life is full of tiny joy. Sometimes I forget this and am depressed but every once in a while, something happens and I remember. Today I finished the newest Jacqueline Carey novel–Naamah’s Kiss–which makes me glow and cry as great literature does. There’s something about Carey’s characters which produce this reaction in me; and it’s not just all the sex they have.

I started the book yesterday in Oregon while swinging in a hammock next to the river. Mosquitoes rose above it in clouds and I cursed them ineffectually. The tiny chipmunks that make a nest behind the house scurried underneath my swaying form without fear, gobbling up all the bird seed I’d spread on the sauna’s deck. Sun dappled through the trees and the river burbled away as I read about a girl born in a land almost Ireland who worships a bear goddess.

I read today again while my mom drove us home for hours and hours as Moirin traveled from Terre D’ange to Ch’in for months and months and I fell in love at least four times.

The problem with my ability to finish a 645 page novel in two days is that my ability to read fast outstrips my ability to digest the language. I read so quickly that the words barely register anymore and I tend to come away more with an impression than the actuality of events. I found myself desperately trying to remember exactly how and why she stole into the twilight and pulled out a dragon like a magician with a rabbit. I would flip back a page to re-read a sentence again and again trying to make it compute; to really hear what was happening. If you quizzed me now I could answer you anything having to do with the plot or events but my brain is still processing and will be for at least another day.

Katherine asked me this week how I could start another book so quickly after finishing the last and I was blasé about how easy it is to just go from one to another. Now I remember that actually it is horribly difficult if the book is fabulous. I have a new MacDonald Hall book which was awaiting my return and even though I’d love to devour I can’t actually contemplate entering a different world yet when mine is still so intricately tied up with hers.

I lost track of how many books I read while on vacation this last week–it must have been at least 10. By far Carey’s was my favorite so it is funny that I saved it till the very end–admittedly this is my habit with most things I love; so not so funny, I guess. The MacDonald Hall books by Gordon Korman and Suzanne Collins’ Gregor the Overlander series were both fantastic as well.

Now I will have to wait an interminable and unknown amount of time for the next in the series to come out (no doubt it will be a trilogy like her Kushiel ones [SCOIN]) and I am a little made depressed by this again. But I strive to remember that I can reread Naamah’s Kiss before the new one arrives and be delighted all over again by the bits of language I didn’t manage to ingest this time around. It will almost be like it’s new again and I get to re-meet Jehanne, Snow Tiger, the dragon, and Bao–most of all Bao.

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3rd day of projects, please let it be the last; my back hurts. today has consisted of 3 projects and one failed attempt.

number 1: today i thought i should clear everything out of the guest bedroom (including the eight fucking boxes i just put in there) in prep for finally, FINALLY finishing the hardwood floors in there. remember that time i had kittens with ringworm and we opted to rip the carpets out in lieu of trusting the bleaching process? well that was a year ago and the floor is still …unfloored. i’m going to try to convince my mom we should do it this weekend. maybe adam (fat chance snort) will come to help us.

so i cleared everything out and stashed stuff all over the rest of house.

project the 2nd: i painted my toes and fingernails with a new color–“artful dodger”–i like the name. the color is growing on me. it’s quite blue.

failed project of the day: exercise for at least 15 minutes. instead i made cookie dough and ate it. when i fail, i fail big. you gotta risk it to take the biscuit. i’m just saying. (nuala: fired up is still delightful on a second viewing! maybe we should watch it at your house tomorrow again after going to the wedding superstore. i can bring it! cheerleaders!)

3rd project of the day: appease kristen with a new project post. and DONE.

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