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Yay – tom is home from his east coast travels! I already apologized to him about the weather being so warm and sunny here – LOL. We’re working on it. *grin* Yesterday got up to 85 degrees – the worse part is that is kinda sneaks up there after a lot of cooler days before. And since it’s California, you don’t notice because you haven’t started to SWEAT because it evaporates before it can accumulate at all. On the east coast, when it got hot, you’d sweat – that’s how you’d know. (Yeah, yeah, besides looking at a thermometer – get over yourself.) I’m going to stay inside today as much as possible and avoid the sun and pollen that’s dusting everything yellow – seems quite active and plentiful this year.

Sometimes I get distracted from what’s in front of me by thinking about the “bigger” context within which all the little things in front of me are happening. Not just the symbolic meaning of it all, but how it all fits together in an overall scheme or arena of life. I’m an impatient puzzle worker however, and sometimes I have to wait for other pieces to show up before I can see what I’m doing. Then I remind myself to just focus on the things I CAN do and enjoy, and not to worry about it.

Thanks to the Drak Net General News page, I was able to browse through the Ten Greatest Phone Pranks as found on the web. Started giving me evil ideas, it did! *grin*

Moose (meese?) references seem to just follow me around somehow. In high school, I had a long dark winter coat that my friend Paul called my moose coat. Then, this same friend Paul got his dream car, an old Delta 88 (don’t ask – LOL), and named it Moose. My dad used to go camping on Moose River in the Adirondacks of Upstate New York, and my sister and brother-in-law camp there as well now. They also visit Maine a lot – definite Moose home, and just sent us a package with a moose blanket, a moose beanie, a moose Christmas ornament, etc. My sister gave me moose slippers one year for Christmas. I have a small piece of marble with a moose carved in it. A few years ago, there was also a mailing list where the subscribers called themselves Meese/Mooses. Moose Ahoy! *grin*

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Okay, the air’s been rather dry and a lot of pollen’s been floating around this spring. As a result, in the morning my nose is all dry and crusty (hey, you were warned! LOL) and bleh. A nice rainy day would help to wash away the pollen, so I’m voting for that.

We took a vanload of recyclables to the recycling plant yesterday – even found a place for old magazines and such, and a huge load to the dump. We cleaned off our entire porch and even stuff in this little shed too. The house is MUCH happier right now and so are we. 🙂 We may not have CONSICOUSLY willed the rental van into our existence, but luckily ourselves DO know what they are doing on those other levels of consciousness too – heh heh.