following your dreams

so i totally forgot, about 5 weeks ago, we had to partner up in class and i ended up with eric, who is probably in his late 50's or so, real nice guy. married, two kids. after we did our assignment we were talking about my unemployment and what i want to be doing. i told him that i was taking time to assess what i want to do and where i want to be and that it is really important to me to do what i really want to do to be happy. eric told me that he has been working at PG&E for 30 years! and that its not what he really wants to be doing! that he started working there very young and all of a sudden it was THIRTY years later. man. i don't want something like that to happen to me.

shai kitty has a dream and he's been following it for the last few days. everytime i open the back door he takes the opportunity to charge out of it. an open door is so enticing. especially when your friend (the not so) stray cat, eduardo, is out all the time! hey! eduardo gets to roll around in the dirt! hey! eduardo gets to poop outside! hey! eduardo gets to eat grass! ironically, as soon as the door gets opened and shai charges out, eduardo charges in. i suspect eduardo's internal monologue is hey! shai kitty gets to sleep on a bed! hey! shai kitty gets that yummy food *in a bowl*! hey! shai kitty gets to poop *in a box*!

shai kitty (bottom of the steps) sneaking out and eduardo telling on him.

here is me building trust with eduardo.

yesterday negmeddin and i went to lake sonoma. that's like my new favorite place. you know why? because it's hot there AND you can swim in the water. so we hopped in the car with food and drink and after our mandatory "taking road trip must stop at bakery" stop, we were on our way. it was a little trafficky on the way up, but we were there in no time, set up our stuff and got down to business. scrabble. negmeddin kicked my ass with a score of 375. jeesh. he even laid down HEMATITE. wtf? H.E.M.A.T.I.T.E. i was all, use it in a sentence! damn. we spent an amazing SEVEN hours on the beach. the weather was just so perfect. we just swam and ate and talked and surprisingly there were only like 15 other people there. it was practically perfect. except for when a man dressed in a giant beaver suit came around and distributed WHISTLES to all the kids. yeah. thanks guy! nice relaxing day on the beach. TOOT! TOOT!

the beach at lake sonoma.