Today

Today was a strange day, my memory of it seems very disjointed and I feel like I was mostly in a bad mood. Fortunately I was also in the mood for snapping pictures, and looking back things were pretty nice. And here is a bit of it, in alphabetical order (apparently).

Cookies and coffee.

Tom's coworker, Kyla, brought him back some cookies from her trip to Bruges. We quickly polished off the little stroopwafels last night. These big ones are filled with soft and insanely-sweet almond paste centers and are best eaten a tiny bit at a time with an unhealthy helping of black coffee.

Lane left her lanterns the other night that I had given her for her birthday.

They've looked great on these sunny mornings! They've given the kitchen a spring-time, Easter-is-coming feeling, or at least that little corner of the kitchen. I'm unusually excited about this spring.

Here I should add laundry, only two dollars worth as I've run out of quarters; and Lykke Li who I've been listening to for the past few days and am pretty happy about. Some of it reminds me of the The Parent Trap, some of it makes me want to be in a dance club; one song reminds me of Fleet Foxes. It's good.

Package. We've had a few packages lately, it's always exciting! This one was thanks to Brooke.

So thank you, Brooke!

Pepper still-life drawing. This I will be continuing tomorrow.

I will get to know this guy very well.

It takes much more planning and effort than you'd think to draw a pepper. It is supposed to fill the page and be fully rendered - every shade of gray.

This took me way too long. I have to do 6. By Monday! And should do 6 other drawings in my sketchbook by then too. And did I mention I have three other classes for which to study/write/read/complete online blogs and quizzes... This might be a good place to end this post.

But no! My alphabet day goes on...

Yoga. This is how I, more-or-less, ended the day. My thrice-weekly, evening yoga class. It was great, again. I'm going to learn so much! So much about me and my body. And they teach you with the assumption that you will take what you've learned home with you and practice on your own. So my hope it that by the time I stop being a student and my Y membership fee goes up $20 I will know enough to keep up with yoga on my own... and that sounds really good. I miss it on days I don't go and I would love to work more, everyday, on my shoulders and neck.

Alright, you know what's next, you know after shower, dinner, reading, etc. Zzzzzz.

Night night.