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today was a fantastic preview for the summer ahead of us. beautiful. perfect. my ideal season. i can't wait! driving with the windows down. sleeping with windows open. awesome. when i walked out my door this morning the freshness of the season caught me like a kiss. i then sideways danced along my walkway and across my front lawn. i was giddy. summer makes me feel in love with the world.

i babysat joelle, caleb, and liam tonight. it was fun. we went to the park. i tried out the monkey bars but remembered how they make my hands burn. joelle had me go down the firepole – similar burning affect as the monkey bars, but more bearable. we went down the slides, and i tried to dig rocks out of liam's mouth. we ended up having to go home early because there was an accident involving underpants (not mine). so instead we played in the backyard, blew bubbles, played on their climber, i swung in the swing (and found my womanly hips didn't fit very comfortably on the swings). i pushed the kids on the swings (although joelle is big enough that she knows how to pump her legs herself). i liked being barefoot in the backyard with them. i always try to toughen up my soles so that i can go without shoes. i feel i made some good progress in that regard tonight. i really enjoy one-on-one (one-on-three?) time with the kids. it's important to me to have a good relationship with my niece and nephews because i grew up so detached from my uncles and aunt – mostly due to distance, but also disinterest on my dad's side. as i read them a dr seuss book at bed-time i discovered there was a lot of pages, and a lot of words. i started skipping pages, but joelle noticed and "helped me" by pointing it out. so instead i started skipping entire paragraphs, she then said "did you read all of that??" i told her i did, but then started reading ALL the words on the page. i eventually had to tell them "this book is too long..." they were ok with that, i think it was too long for their attention span too.

i had a good laugh in my cubicle this morning as i read bombardier related news. every morning, someone searches the web for articles related to bbd, then they distribute them to a group of people. i am in that distribution group. there was an article about how the bombardier designed olympic torch resembles a lit joint. another person felt it looked like a pregnancy test indicating you're giving birth to satan's baby. that totally cracked me up. read this article, it's freakin hilarious – although mildly offensive as well (pardon the redundancy :p ).

i found my rhythm at work today. that made me happy.

the way i follow fashion now
is emblematic of my misspent youth.