Things I Want In My Life (general goals/vision)

Herbs (as in, an herb garden or potted herbs).

Fresh, local food. When I'm in a place long enough, and when I have someone(s) to share it with, I'd probably like to join a CSA. Or an urban farm. Or a co-op. Or all of the above. Maybe this has something to do with shopping mostly at a crappy Safeway since September, but increasingly I want to feel good about the food I put in my body. I want to have a sense of where it came from and what went into it. Especially with my meat. Meat grosses me out a little bit (this is a lifelong affliction) and meat from animals pumped full of antibiotics and hormones and fed who-knows-what and kept in cramped, gross living situations really grosses me out. At the same time, from time to time my body wants to consume meat. I guess it's a protein thing. So I'd really like to be able to afford good, local meat.

Housemates with whom I can share cooking and enjoyment of said food. I miss cooking with the people I live with. I think that's pretty high on my more immediate list of Things I Want In My Life.

A diverse and interesting community of friends and family. By community in this case I mean a community that is geographically close to me. I do feel right now that I have a a diverse and interesting community of friends and family -- but that community is limited in DC. I want to live close to people I love. I want to run into people I know at the store or on the street. 

Babies. Yeah, I said it. My biological clock is ticking in a big way this year, and I want babies. But not before I have a local community and, ah, an income slightly higher than "subsistence."

A beautiful home. It doesn't need to be big. It doesn't need to be lavish (in fact, I don't want it to be lavish). But I want to live somewhere where you walk in the door and feel your shoulders relax. Light and color and comfort. Side goal: friends' art on my walls!

I can't really make this list without including my current #1, my dog. He's not a goal, because he's already in my life, but I can't see my life without him. So he goes on the list. 

I hab a cold

My head:

My nose:

(Thanks for the photos, flickr)

Tick-tock

I just remembered about Babies.

I can't wait till April 16.

Snow storm (BLIZZARD)

The last storm (snow storm beta version) was nothing. Last weekend we got dumped with 2 feet of snow, and then on Tuesday and Wednesday we got dumped with another foot or two. Federal government (and therefore FCNL) was shut down Monday-Thursday because (except for part of Tuesday) the buses were shut down, the metro was shut down aboveground, and the grocery stores were pretty much picked clean. It was:

Snopocalypse

Snomageddon

Snobliteration

After a while it started to feel like snogatory.

Snoverkill

But at the same time, it was also really pretty.

And Raleigh LOVED it.

And Colin came over and we made a snow fort in the front yard.

(Which Raleigh now uses as a bathroom.)


Note: All of the pictures above are from the first blizzard, because by the time the second one came around I (seriously) just wanted to go back to work. Or at least be able to get around the city. Now the streets are passable, and sidewalks are more or less shoveled, and the sun is shining. Life is pretty good.

Things I want to do before I die

Dog sledding.

(image from The Big Picture)

Snow storm (beta)

I keep knocking DC for its wussy winters, but when it snows, it does it for real. I woke up this morning to a winter wonderland. Apparently the snow brings out the crazies because I swear I woke up to a police loudspeaker saying:

SIR.

YOU HAVE OPIUM.

I was still pretty asleep, so I'm really not sure. I think what happened is some guy felt compelled to shovel the sidewalk repeatedly, all night (I did definitely wake up in the middle of the night to the sound of shoveling). Maybe the cops thought that was weird?

By the time I went to work it was warm enough that the snow was already falling from the trees in clumps, but the Capitol was still really pretty, in a sleepy kind of way.

They're predicting 12-20 inches this weekend. AWESOME.