all the leaves are brown

howdy.  how ya been?  things have been pretty busy here.  work is good; i really like my job and my co-workers, which is a totally new and wonderful thing for me, as it’s usually one or the other.  well, excluding the music store, but that wasn’t really a job.  any place where you’re allowed to sleep off your hangover in the back of the store during your shift isn’t what you’d call a proper work environment.   ah, good times.

home is good.  after a short-lived, ill-fated day care experiment, the bean is back with his initial care-giver, a wonderful stay-at-home-mom/teacher, and he’s as smart & sweet as ever.  dave is finishing up his first semester of math classes, and has entered a new world music phase, which is kind of hilarious.  we have friends, too!  that’s exciting!  we met a couple back in the summer at market square.  we’ve been on lots of, like, blind platonic double-dates before, but this is the first time something’s really come out of it.  i’m glad dave has a pal.  making friends hasn’t been as big an issue for me as for him, but i never seem to keep the friends i make.  could be because i tend to make friends with people who are already so entrenched in their own pre-existing scene that they don’t really have room or time for new people.  dave tends to be more cautious with people, whereas i’m so desperate for what i have with some of my out-of-town friends, but local, that i’ll throw myself at anyone with a dry wit and cute shoes.  anyway.  finding a couple with whom we really mesh has been so cool.  it’s a nice reminder of how important good friends really are.

and speaking of cute shoes, i am totally on a mission to get some dansko marcelle clogs.  one thing i hate about this time of year, though, is that you’re constantly reminded of how much stuff is out there for you to buy.  it is way too easy to start thinking that you need all kinds of crap that is completely unessential.  unessential, but awesome!  i have to throw away the williams-sonoma, pottery barn, and crate & barrel catalogs without even opening them.  i’m also not really allowed to go into a target unsupervised.  it’s pretty dangerous.

i can’t believe that it’s already almost thanksgiving.  wow.  i love thanksgiving, maybe even more than christmas, because you have the whole intro to the christmas season thing going on.  after christmas, it’s like everything just ends until spring.  i mean, i guess you’ve got presidents’ day and mlk day in there, but…  not that i live for holidays, mind you, which is how this must sound.  anyway, my whole point about thanksgiving was that this will be our first vegan thanksgiving.  i have a vague idea of what i’m going to make; now i just need to find an extra eight hours or so between wednesday and thursday.  and i really need a dvd with all of the “friends” thanksgiving episodes on it.  why don’t they run that show in syndication anymore?  who the hell wants to watch “two and a half men”?