back in town

after the tedium and logistical oddities of the day before, i made a point of sleeping in REAL late. time to let the body realize it's back in PST and reset so i can handle the rigors of getting up in the dark and hauling myself off to some schoolin'.

now you'd think a thoroughly sensible person like me (okay go ahead and laugh at that statement, i know it's a bit of a stretch) would know better than to go to a mall on the saturday after thanksgiving...but no sometimes you just gotta be crazy. and yep it was wild up in there.

but it's not like i have tons of free time and am getting to the point where having a new pair of glasses is starting to sound mighty attractive. i thought these were only 3 years old, but actually i realize they're 6 going on 7. amazing that they've survived for so long, and what time's they've seen. urther proof that they're over 5 years old, when I bought the frames they were $29.99. Now yer hardpressed to find something that's under $80. An eye exam was around $50. Now they're more like $70. None of these things are good news for someone as chronically broke as me...but oh well. time, it is.

while walking around the mall trying my damndest to avoid toxic clouds of perfume, and watching latino men in stylin' cowboy hats, and tripping over kids runnin' every-which-a-way, i observed that i'm feelin' pretty lucky. i feel utterly content in a lot of ways, i pretty much already have everything i need in my life. watching people run themselves ragged on a quest to shop til' you drop, i got to thinking, for the most part, i really don't need or want anything (except for the aforementioned glasses, because seeing is kinda important) and i'd be perfectly happy if no one gave me anything other than a card with a letter inside or maybe some tea for when i run out of what i have. having a roof over my head, a loving husband, a purpose in life, a wonderful family, and the rewards at the end of the harvest season, i'm feeling pretty good with where i'm at, thank you very much.

after all that capitalist immersion, i was glad to git on home and sit down with my big project, organizing and puttin' away all the seed i've been saving all summer for planting next year. you wouldn't believe how much seed i've got lying around here (or maybe you would if ya knew me) but let's just say that if you have a community garden program you might want to get in touch.