multi-faceted

on my coffee table right now...in various stages of being read & finished being read....

1. harry potter & the deathly hallows (read the whole thing in one night - now i am reading it againg...and i didn't even peek ahead to the ending!)
2. allure "the #1 beauty magazine"
3. vogue
4. mere christianity - c.s. lewis
5. death by love at first sight - jvo

what can i say? i'm a complicated woman.

speechless

1. hilarious!


2. how concerned should i be that meg looks like she's trying out for america's next top model? and like she could win!? look at her body language! add a louis vitton bag or some gucci heels, and she's that wierd, high fasion girl! OH NO!
   

3 points & a poem

• curtis took aretha, my laptop, to his conference. i don't have my IM, or my web favs... i miss her...
• i read some c.s. lewis last night - mere christianity - and his brilliant intellect is so accessible, completely lacking in grandiosity or verbal strutting... and even though my pogo stick strained to follow his neatly laid railroad ties, i think i found my new favorite sentences..."Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. it is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect." story of my life!
• i had a terrible sleep last night. there were 'bad guys' behind every cricket chirp, and i was up at least every couple of hours to peer out between the slats of the blinds. i slept with the machete beside my bed...

"am I in here?"

once I was a girl who
relished the grass –
rolled
lay
picked
nibbled
on in it

now i carefully prop myself
in chairs & on blankets,
if need be

once i was a fleet footed
indian warrior princess,
racing
whooping
gathering
singing
in a deep wood

now I carefully wash,
clean & despair
at the mess & clutter of childhood

until
suddenly

a young mermaid crowns me
with a twist of vines
and declares me

The Mermaid Queen

and skips away laughing

luxury nail salon

so, go to the nail salon on fayetteville beside wal-greens, and ask for a facial with Ivy. but you will have to wait til september, because she is going home to the phillipines for the rest of the summer. anything that begins with, "i have blankets for you" and ends with someone gently combing your hair can't be bad! ha! reallly though, it was so lovely - my first facial since we moved here - and i am totally going back...in september.

in other news, my husband is a yeti. not his fault - but there haven't been any confirmed sightings, if you know what i mean. sigh. to say that he hit the ground running after we got home from our vacay is an understatement. he worked all day sunday after church, and worked 13 hours on monday, which is supposed to be his one day off. and to top it off, he is at a conference today and tomorrow (including overnight).... sasquatch, indeed. i am not bitter at him - truly not his fault - but i am lonely, you know? and that makes me grouchy. damn.

singing over me

my brother jordan vincent has started singing a song over me - naming gifts & abilities he sees in me, calling me by a new name, if you will. (this is an odd reversal - sort of amusing to have my baby brother doing this) it comes on the heels of an experience that left me feeling like i live my life as an extra in someone else's a movie...so it's been especially provocative in my heart. it is quite something to have someone believe in your innerself...and tell you that out loud, over and over, until you start to believe it, too. it's a gift. maybe i will be able to learn the tune...

monday morning

i rebel.

shout out to my momma!

so, one of the cards waiting when we got home was from my mom, (who included $20 so we could order pizza and not have to get groceries right away - what a great mom!), that said 'welcome home & happy anniversary!", along with a wine bottle candelabra thingy (very pretty). curtis read it and said, "she knows our anniversary is in august, right?" because she forgets every year. and i replied "she knows it's in the summer" :) (LOVE YOU MOM!) any way, all this to say, this is the front of the card she sent (sorry it's blurry):

that's right, baby! make your own damn dinner! can i just say one more time that i love my mom? ha!