life has been catching up with me lately.  

things that i appreciate these days: luna sitting on my lap (i don’t think she quite understood it before), having a job, putting on mascara, heidi swanson’s recipes (i heart you heidi), joe’s telepathic music selections (uncanny really), my new high-tech patagonia fleece jacket (thanks joe), marveling at how fast my succulents are growing, salvaging pyrex from thrift stores (and prompt research afterwards), reducing my usage of !exclamation points! in emails (fake enthusiasm is unbecoming), and increasing my usage of parentheticals in my writing.  

oh and i’m also turning 30 in ten days.  which means that i have to renew my driver’s license.  drat.