when it is cold outside

it's gotten cold. reeeeal cold. we're all working our winter wardrobes out. i'm wearing my snowpants basically all the time and paul is looking like a Stanfield's spokesmodel in his all gray, long john outfit. the wood burning stove is roaring all the time. the river is frozen and begging to be skated on.

everyone's mostly been working inside the house - working on our cold room, butchering ducks, fixing the leaky bathtub.

i'm still on the reading train, i had put a bunch of holds on books at the library so i have to keep up with them. i'm halfway through American Gods by Neil Gaiman. it's pretty wild.
also reading a book called Natural Birth Control Made Simple. sometimes i feel like all the women i know are way ahead of me on the fertility/cycle awareness... but better late than never.

two thousand and ten

heyyylo,
i'm feeling pretty fine right now with some extra time, so i thought i'd drop into the blog zone ya'll.

had some pretty good holidays. paul came with me to vermilion with me for 5 days and hung out with my parents, grandparents, and caylie. nice to be back though with books to read and hammocks to lay in. i'm reading a ton of books right now, all of them are really good. i have going:
The End of Money & the Future of Civilization by Thomas Greco
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Change your brain by Tim Leary
No Gods No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism by Daniel Guerin


new years eve, resolutions blah blah. apparently i didn't put any down in the blog last new year, which is disappointing. i'd like to look back and see what my priorities were.

anyway, here are my 2010 resolutions:


1. be more connected with people. my friends who i suck at keeping in touch with. new friends who i will never meet if i keep this shit up. my family even. ways i will do this: more hanging out, letter writing, getting more out of time spent, being a better listener, cultivating hobbies, creating circles of people. ways i will probably not do this: facebooking, phone talking, making plans in advance.

2. learn to knit. for fuckin' realz.

3. keep learning, reading, and getting smarter. improve on communicating ideas. open mindedness and peace. get better with bikes.

4. write more letters to politicians.

carfree and carefree

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i finally got rid of the car!
applied for a pre-employment trades program.
got some things out in the open with my ma.
i raised over $400 for the ms walk (without putting any effort in really).
sunday crafternoon at broken city!
kriyayoga
stretching my ears, fuck ya'll.
bike riding
reading a lot (see below)

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my place is the most gigantic mess
the program doesn't start until november
sometimes i talk too much
rookie moves that cause me great stress
working too much


books i finished:
the bell jar - sylvia plath
the stranger - albert camus
siddhartha - herman hesse

books i'm on:
the cost of living - arundhati roy

there's more, but i'm off to work #2.