water lily

it's odd how hair can change from one week to another, or even one day to another. today i feel like at the rate my hair is growing, and in the manner in which it's growing... it will some day be quite the mane! i a little bit like that!

it was a full weekend. saturday was taken up by domesticity. i worked on the bedroom, brendan worked on the backroom. then we went out to sears to purchase items off our registry and we came home with a vacuum and a coffee table! b is quite enamored with the vacuum. i've never seen him so blissful over a bissel! then on sunday we went up to little long lake to spend the afternoon with david and sue. we went swimming and canoing, had a lovely dinner. it was very nice. the perfect day for the cottage. their country road is quite hilly and curvy. at one point we were driving up a steep hill and it became clear that i was in too high of a gear. at nearly the top i had to stop. i took a deep breath and said to brendan "get ready to see my mad skills of starting on a hill". i released the clutch and pushed the gas and after a bit of spinning tires on the gravel we got up and over the top. to be honest, i'd been a little afraid. but brendan was so impressed that he said he'd never been more attracted to me in his whole life. hahaha :D

i was feeling a bit whiny on saturday night. i was feeling sorry for myself that i no longer have cable, and that i'm cutting back on sugar and salt :( i'm enjoying tea less than usual. however, after last evening when i sat reading in the new listening station corner of the living room (b has a vast vinyl collection and record player, so we got that all set up on saturday), i felt very content. i'm encouraged, maybe i'll end up really enjoy having no tv after all.

i love corn on the cob. it tastes like summer goodness.

today was my mid-year performance evaluation. once again, i passed with flying colours, which is encouraging. it's very nice to know that i'm good at my job. the change of boss is just great, and emma was very impressed that i continued to be highly productive at work while still managing to plan a wedding. this has been one very full year - this time last july i was in peru with jill! there's part of me that thinks there'll never be another year as full as this one. it's been a special one that's for sure.

lovers, keep on the road you're on.