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Cookies and popcorn

My mom came to visit for part of my four-day weekend. She had a bike race in the region, so we did some hard care race preparation including carb loading and relaxation techniques, i.e. watching movies and playing scrabble. Mom did what moms do: made chocolate chip cookies with walnuts, cleaned my apartment about four times and fixed me breakfast.

My freezer is now stocked with enough cookie dough to hold a bake sale. Hmmm, maybe that is what I should do to raise money for the speeding ticket I got the other weekend.

Anyway, it was nice to have the company and be taken care of for a couple days. I needed it.

Lessons learned: When you're an adult, your mom lets you have popcorn, beer and cookies for lunch.

Farewell to my coffee table

My living room is now empty, my coffee table gone.

I know this sounds like the beginning of an ode. Maybe it is.

Four years ago, my boyfriend at the time, Cavan, left a coffee table he made by hand at my place as he set out for a new job in the Boston area. The plan was, I would bring it out to him when I moved there. Well, obviously our plans never came to fruition, so the table stayed right where it was.

I sort of hoped it always would.

Cavan, who now lives in Kentucky, was in California for the week and came up to pick up what is rightfully his. It was really good to see him, catch up and do a little reminiscing over lunch. It is crazy to think it's been about four years since he was here. Seeing him reminded me that there really are selfless men out there - that there is much more than what I've settled for from my relationships since. I think we both know our lives took different paths for a reason, but our relationship carries a special kind of nostalgia.

I think that's why it may be so hard to let go of that coffee table. Because it is one of the last tokens I had left from that time.

Lessons learned: I will have a hard time replacing that table.

So connected

It's official. I now can write e-mails from two different accounts. I can leave my updates on Facebook, then put them on Twitter. I can then turn around and write all the same friends on Myspace. I can network on LinkedIn. And if I'm still bored, I have this blog. Seriously. What happened to the girl who didn't have Internet just a couple years ago? I could spend all day hopping from one social networking opportunity to another.

Who needs a real life?

Ironically, I was just reading a blog post about why people get stuff done, like write that book, or record music or exercise more. Hmmm. If I thought real hard I might be able to pinpoint some distractions in my life.

Lessons learned: I need to consolidate.

Thought I'd stop by

Fourteen. That's the number of blog posts I've had this year so far. So I haven't been very prolific in 2009. Now that I have lost all of my loyal readers, I thought I would show up.

Anyway, as you can see, Mom and Ben, (the two who still read), I have a new template. It really wasn't my choice, since Blogger decides ever so often to do overhauls. I have to admit, I was over the last design, but it's such a pain to change over links and ads, I just went with it. Till now. I also have added my Twitter updates. Fancy, I know.

Well I'm back for now, and I'm going to try to be better about updating.

Lesson learned: Leave for a minute and they change everything.