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bluegreen17) wrote2003-06-16 11:58 pm
bluegreen17) wrote2003-06-16 11:58 pm
hearts and crafts
god,the weather was gorgeous today.
i went for a little walk in the cemetary down the street.
later on in the afternoon, i met my friend megan and we browsed in an art/craft supply store. that was fun. i love the paper supplies,stickers,wooden boxes...i bought some strips of decorated paper that is sold to use as borders on scrapbook pages,but i bought them to make bookmarks. i made my own christmas cards and valentines a time or two. i get creative ideas,but more often than not i'm not motivated to actually do them. a few weeks ago i bought a photo album and i was going to go through old magazines and take out pretty pictures and put them in there to make a picture book for my mother. i may still do that,this week,while i'm on vacation. there are so many things i want to do or get done. mostly the get done stuff! as for doing,i'd be just as content reading and writing and socializing a little bit and taking walks. but the stuff that needs to be done bugs me in it's notdoneness,and the only remedy i currently know of is to do those things i don't like doing to get them done. unfortunately,many of those things need to be done over and over again and otherwise new things pop up like weeds to be 'done'. 'doing' people would be a lot more fun, to be perfectly crude. anyway...
megan and i both had fun browsing in that store. she especially like the paints and brushes because she likes to do different arty stuff than what little i do.
after that,we went out for supper and had hefty sandwiches and fries and our bottles of water. i had a yummy hickory chicken sandwich...with barbecue sauce and cheese. yummy. but really it was way too filling. between the chicken and the fries. heavy. nevertheless,it was delicious. and it was fun hanging with megan. it's funny,because she's 21,therefore 24 years younger than i am...i'm older than her mom!...but we get along great as friends. my sister sara,who's 17 years younger than i,is one of my best friends. i tend to like a lot of people younger than myself. of course,when those folks are male,one therapist asked if i was having a 'mid-life crisis'. i told her only if i'd been having one since i was 17 or so. when i was a senior in high school,some of my friends were freshmen,and when you're that age,those few years make a huge difference. anyway,it may or may not have been because i have three younger sisters,who are 5,10,and 17 years younger than i. i even got a romantic love letter from a 'younger man' right after i graduated from high school. i think he was 16. my mom told me to ignore the letter. i didn't take her advice because this guy was a friend and i didn't want to hurt his feelings. so i wrote back and told him something like he'd meet some great girl his age and i was going off to college...this was in the summer. that fall,i came home from college one weekend and went to a soccer game at my old high school. i bumped into him and things were friendly. i was even happier that i'd followed my heart and not taken my mother's advice. i would have felt so terrible.
geez,when i was eleven i had a 'boyfriend'...we hung around at school,he called me up,and he came over on his bicycle to visit me...who wrote love poems for me. when i was 12,i had a different boyfriend who wrote me love letters on a daily basis. they were really sweet.
i think romantically i peaked early or something. then i ended up being a silly old spinster. a couple of years ago i ran into my high school boyfriend. i hadn't seen him in more than twenty years. we'd both acquired some grey hairs in the meantime. he said he was married and had two boys. he asked if i was married and he couldn't believe i'd never even been married. do you think this is all because i wore my hair long when i was younger,but have worn it short for most of my life since i broke up with the high school boyfriend? that would be pretty freaky if i only had boyfriends because i had long hair...weird. well,i did have boyfriends when i had short hair,but they weren't quite as romantic. probably just that boys are sometimes sweeter than men!
ah,so anyway. maybe guys get sweeter when they get older again...but since i often like younger people,i guess i wont know until i'm 80?
then again,a big romance could be right around the corner. somebody sweet could be right under my nose. yeah,that's the ticket. you know what would be cool? to write your own horoscope...you know,power of suggestion and self-fulfilling prophecies and all...
*wink*
i went for a little walk in the cemetary down the street.
later on in the afternoon, i met my friend megan and we browsed in an art/craft supply store. that was fun. i love the paper supplies,stickers,wooden boxes...i bought some strips of decorated paper that is sold to use as borders on scrapbook pages,but i bought them to make bookmarks. i made my own christmas cards and valentines a time or two. i get creative ideas,but more often than not i'm not motivated to actually do them. a few weeks ago i bought a photo album and i was going to go through old magazines and take out pretty pictures and put them in there to make a picture book for my mother. i may still do that,this week,while i'm on vacation. there are so many things i want to do or get done. mostly the get done stuff! as for doing,i'd be just as content reading and writing and socializing a little bit and taking walks. but the stuff that needs to be done bugs me in it's notdoneness,and the only remedy i currently know of is to do those things i don't like doing to get them done. unfortunately,many of those things need to be done over and over again and otherwise new things pop up like weeds to be 'done'. 'doing' people would be a lot more fun, to be perfectly crude. anyway...
megan and i both had fun browsing in that store. she especially like the paints and brushes because she likes to do different arty stuff than what little i do.
after that,we went out for supper and had hefty sandwiches and fries and our bottles of water. i had a yummy hickory chicken sandwich...with barbecue sauce and cheese. yummy. but really it was way too filling. between the chicken and the fries. heavy. nevertheless,it was delicious. and it was fun hanging with megan. it's funny,because she's 21,therefore 24 years younger than i am...i'm older than her mom!...but we get along great as friends. my sister sara,who's 17 years younger than i,is one of my best friends. i tend to like a lot of people younger than myself. of course,when those folks are male,one therapist asked if i was having a 'mid-life crisis'. i told her only if i'd been having one since i was 17 or so. when i was a senior in high school,some of my friends were freshmen,and when you're that age,those few years make a huge difference. anyway,it may or may not have been because i have three younger sisters,who are 5,10,and 17 years younger than i. i even got a romantic love letter from a 'younger man' right after i graduated from high school. i think he was 16. my mom told me to ignore the letter. i didn't take her advice because this guy was a friend and i didn't want to hurt his feelings. so i wrote back and told him something like he'd meet some great girl his age and i was going off to college...this was in the summer. that fall,i came home from college one weekend and went to a soccer game at my old high school. i bumped into him and things were friendly. i was even happier that i'd followed my heart and not taken my mother's advice. i would have felt so terrible.
geez,when i was eleven i had a 'boyfriend'...we hung around at school,he called me up,and he came over on his bicycle to visit me...who wrote love poems for me. when i was 12,i had a different boyfriend who wrote me love letters on a daily basis. they were really sweet.
i think romantically i peaked early or something. then i ended up being a silly old spinster. a couple of years ago i ran into my high school boyfriend. i hadn't seen him in more than twenty years. we'd both acquired some grey hairs in the meantime. he said he was married and had two boys. he asked if i was married and he couldn't believe i'd never even been married. do you think this is all because i wore my hair long when i was younger,but have worn it short for most of my life since i broke up with the high school boyfriend? that would be pretty freaky if i only had boyfriends because i had long hair...weird. well,i did have boyfriends when i had short hair,but they weren't quite as romantic. probably just that boys are sometimes sweeter than men!
ah,so anyway. maybe guys get sweeter when they get older again...but since i often like younger people,i guess i wont know until i'm 80?
then again,a big romance could be right around the corner. somebody sweet could be right under my nose. yeah,that's the ticket. you know what would be cool? to write your own horoscope...you know,power of suggestion and self-fulfilling prophecies and all...
*wink*