Wednesday, July 25, 2007

living like a kid




I took the afternoon off (it kind of felt like i was a kid playing hooky) to spend with Lynn who was in Des Moines for the day from the Virgin Islands. You know you have a good friend when you can go a year and a half without seeing them and pick up a conversation like you've never been apart. We ate lunch in the east village, wandered around a few shops, got gellato and then took the obligatory walk through Drake campus. To top off the evening we ate fresh iowa sweet corn and hot dogs and lynn made her famous corn bean dip. and we even made s'mores. It feels like a Friday. too bad i have to go back to work tomorrow.

does any one else have an urge to run through sprinklers when they see them on in the summer. it was a hot, hot day and still pretty muggy tonight. The first set of sprinklers I saw were at Wells Fargo. I couldn't resist doing a little rain dance and twirl through the sprays of water. By then I was already wet so when we came to the nice old houses South of Grand that have elaborate built-in sprinkler systems I had no qualms about prancing my way through those too. There's something wonderful and thrilling and refreshing about getting blasted by the cold sprays of water that makes me giggle like a little girl. I think Adam was a little embarrassed to be seen with me after that, but he has to realize that's who he married. I say you have to embrace your inner child whenever possible.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

the joys of wireless internet

It is a beautiful cool night. I was able to go for a run and not feel like I could barely breath because of the humidity and it's finally cooled off enough to open the windows and turn off the ac. I can't complain about the heat too much, it is summer in Iowa and in my mind that is much better than winter. Life is good. Especially when I can sit out on the balcony enjoying the afterglow of the sunset and type away while connected to the internet.

It's that time of month when I get new issues of every magazine I subscribe to (blueprint, esquire, relevant, radiant, no real simple yet, but i'm sure it's coming) It can be a little overwhelming, so many pages to flip through! But then I remind myself that it's my job to flip through them, gotta love that. One of my favorite pieces every month is Esquire is 10 Things You Don't Know About Women (remember this is a men's magazine) This month my favorite point is: We only want to date men who can troubleshoot computers. The broken laptop is the leak faucet of the twenty-first century. I had to laugh when I read this because Adam is definitely my computer guru.

I'm random tonight, but we have been talking about creating a playlist of sorts with the best songs to remodel to for the remodelingcenter.com website and I found the best roadtrip playlist here. Check it out and tell me if it doesn't make you want to burn a few cds and take a road trip right now.