i've been feeling pretty tired lately. it seems i can only muster up THOUGHTS of productivity...not actual PRODUCTIVITY in itself.
we had dinner with new friends tonight. they live in an eensy little studio-1 bedroom-274 sq foot place that was "handcrafted" by the owner of the main house. words don't do it justice, but it has open cupboards and a dutch door and a multi-colored ladder leading to the "bedroom" and a garden out back. abby and i talked about our love of "little house on the prairie" books and being born in the wrong era. when i was in fourth grade i wrote essays about living in the 1800s and what a joy it would be to churn my own butter. in her spare time, abby sews and makes jam...it's not just a passing "that would be hip" thought for her, it's her reality. she even has her own sewing shack out back. and i'm jealous...she seems to be VERY productive in her hobbies.
i often go to these places in my mind - daydreams of not having to have a job at all. i think of all the random projects and journals and picture essays i would create in all my spare time. but will i every really get around to them? would not having a job and having all the disposable income i wanted be the things that would make it all happen? would living the simple life on the prairie be the key to my contentment? probably not. i would have to milk cows and sew my own dresses and pickle my own pigs feet - and that would go from being my glorious dream to the mundane work of my everyday life. boooooor-ring.
and geez, i get tired just thinking about having to take the dog out at 7 AM. imagine how tired i would be if i had to think about milking the cow at 5 AM.
song o' the day: STRANGE MAGIC...elo
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ok, several things:
whenever i'm on vacation from school i make lists of things, productive things, i'm going to do and never do them.
i agree, having to get up at 5am to do anything sucks! i have to wake up at 5 every morning and every single morning i wish for sweet death to take me...
i've been feeling super tired altely too. weird. i went to the doctor to see what's wrong with me and as always i was told i am perfectly healthy. good news, but always no answers.
this comment is getting to be as long as your original post.
lastly, elo. i used to listen to them back in the 80's! back in the xanadu days. oh my. rollerskating movies. hmm. i just recently saw a movie that had that song at the end. i forget what it was. you must have seen that movie too. what was it?
the song was probably "mr. blue sky"...and for the life of me, i can't remember what movie it was just in.
tiff would know. that song holds some meaning for us.
was it martian child?
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