9:51am / Chicago
tryin' to pull it together this morning...
get it organized.. my head.. to actually be productive...
all i have to do .. is start...
it's that simple..
start..
heh! ..
sometimes i just stare and become overwhelmed by everything .. so i end up just getting tired and restless.. goin' in circles that go nowhere..
but once i start..
im ok..
im 'occupied' ..
by something more than that 'void'...
and that gets my motor running..
that .. and a good cup of coffey.. ;)
it's the first day back in front of the computer again.. reX.'s workday.. after a holiday in houston, texas last week..
tY wHas doing work out there and his sister live's in houston .. so i met him out there for a few days.. and we hung out ..
we did the water park with his nephew who is 15.. and damn if it probably has been about 15 years since ive gone to a water park..
it wHas fun though.. getting wett.. laughing .. watching everyone.. (the wett eye-candy of teXas aint too bad!) .. tY getting scared of the first waterslide and going back down.. heh! his nephew liked that! .. we teased him all day about being a chicken..
and speaking of chickens.. i barbequed a couple times.. as i have become more of a bbq fan this year.. (i usually bbq once a week with buds).. tY and i tried to get to see the 'woodlands' .. but ended up driving around for about 2 hours tryin' to find a path or somewhere to eat the lunch i made us.. almost got into a fight but both of us wanted to wait to fight in front of family!.. heh! .. we didn't but we both admitted that we felt that wHay which made us laugh..
i liked teXas.. what i saw of it.. tY and his family don't like it much.. but they have spent more time there.. and being black they also get a different treatment.. amazing.. that there is still that fear of different colour.. or whatever it is..
i wanted to braid my hair while i wHas there but didn't have the chance.. i still want to see what it looks like..
we got outta there right wHen hurricane eric hit.. and were delayed a few hours in the airport .. but we finally made it out and later ty's sister called and said she wHas stuck at work because the roads had flooded..! ..
now im all concerned about the new hurricane dean.. cause it's headed right in their direction.. and am getting worried for them..
oprah's on now.. it's time for me to upload this ramble and work out today's schedule...
i do well with a timeline these days..
i finished a couple books while i wHas there..
anne rice's "taltos"... (which wHas one of laWrence's books.. i took his collection of anne rice books after he died.. they are a cool reminder of him.. he also signed his name and year he read the book on the inside cover)
chris hayden's "the curious incident of the dead dog" a great simple story of a special needs boy.. which i found the people who have special needs are really us.. the so-called "normal" people.. tY's 'husband' keith reccamended it to me.. and sHigi so-happened to have it in her car trunk at the time.
then i started "if you meet the buddha on the road, kill him" by sheldon b. kopp. a book about the pilgrimage of psychotherapy patients - 'a fresh, realistic approach to altering one's destiny and accepting the responsibility that grows with freedom' (the lady who sat next to us on the plane home said she's read it twice.. and now seeing me read it.. she say's needs to read it again... ) shiGi also gave me this book.. right after laWrence died.
im readin' alot lately .. and love that about taking holidays..
look's like im writing too.. well at least here.. and that is starting something...
mZ. cosmos has reminded me that it's time to switch tracks now..
she's such the true organizer of the caSa.. loves routine... and makes sHure we are all doing what we should...
heh!..
ok.. no witty ending..
just a scratch on the back of mZ. cosmo's head and a final letter or two trickled to...
the end.
