Coutdown

Packing. It never ceases to amaze me, when I really pull everything out and look at it, exactly how much stuff I have. I have spent the last couple months throwing away and giving away and I still just have stuff. The bulk of it is books and art and clothing, but my hobbies take up a lot of space as well. I have to take four bikes home to Tucson with me. Road bike, commuter bike, mountain bike, cruiser bike. My fifth one (campus bike), I plan to leave here for Meryl.

Every time I look around I think, there must be something else I can get rid of. I keep coming back to my fencing gear. Do I even need it anymore? I haven't been able to get my heart back into that since I got home from Wales. That was three years ago now.

I am excited for the up-coming road trip. I'm going to drive Brian's car to Iowa. I've never been any farther east than Colorado (not counting airports and foreign countries). It will be interesting to see the land my family comes from. And meet his family.

We leave on Monday.

Then I get to go home for a while... take Painting 1 at Pima Community College and cool my jets. And apply for grad schools. Wait to see which direction my future takes.

Old Sunburn

I brush a layer skin off my leg with my hand and wonder how many little pieces I've left around the world.

The monsoons so far are backwards this year. Rain in the morning. Sun in the afternoon. Right now the sky is a multitude of grays and blues and pale yellows.

My brother and sister are on a small piece of land surrounded by an ocean. This time of day won't reach them for three more hours.

Mulberries

I had never really noticed before, but there are a lot of fruit producing trees around NAU's campus.

My road bike works again. Which is to say it has a chain again. Funny how useless a bike is without a chain.

The fourth of July was lovely this year, except for when we got trapped by the parade. The weather was perfect for a mountain bike ride, and Brian showed me some wonderfully fun trails I'd never ridden.

Today I had a former client bring me more of her pieces to frame. It's always somehow gratifying when that happens.

I am tired today. Which is strange because I've been sleeping just fine.

Diversions on a rainy day in summer

Figure out your answers for each of the below.
Put them into a Google image search.
Grab the first interesting image for each answer, and post the images (without showing the actual answer) in your journal, along with the meme rules.

1. The age you will be on your next birthday.

2. A place to which you'd like to travel

3. Your favorite place

4. Your favorite object

5. Your favorite food

6. Your favorite animal

7. The town in which you were born

8. The name of a past pet

9. The name of a past love

10. Your favorite color

11. First name

12. Middle name

13. Last name