"breathe it in"
today, which was the last day of freedom before the 3 months of working-for-nothing, grueling and tight schedules, we took juliet for a ride on my father's small boat. his big boat got kind of fucked up in the big ernesto storm last saturday so he needed some insurance photos. so i thought it would be great. i really wanted to do something so fun for her. so my dad's like, juliet, wanna go for a ride on the boat? to which she replies, "will we go fast?" just like mommy! she rocks.
the ride was thrilling and fantastic. flying across the choppy waves with the wind and saltwater stinging my ears and eyes and throat, bumping up and down violently, laughing quite hysterically with my wild eyed baby clenched in my lap...it was the perfect ending to a beautiful summer...and after juliet started chanting "grandpa the grouch!" my dad even took us to the island. shell island. which was devastated (ish) in the storm...there is now a circumfrence of beach where there never was a beach. that is shown in my picture. how beautiful this day was. it was totally spontaneous and free (no packing lunch, drinks, bathing suits, calling up every relative, etc) and it was just fucking awesome.
much to my astonishment, i got REALLY cheap tix to see Rent next week. (i saw the movie which i instantly fell in love with altho trish tells me the movie sucks compared to the play so i'm so excited to see it!)i belong to a theater ticket discount group @ tdf.org (its for people who are educators, work in schools or are students). they have specials on certain plays on certain days/times. i NEVER expected to get the tickets so cheap and i nearly peed myself. we are going as a big, fun, wild group, and i cannot wait. i've listened to the soundtrack on repeat for 2 days (i watched the movie last night. this all transpired rather quickly).
on that note, i must comment on how much i love the day and age we are living in. vinny from less than jake said in one of his blogs (pickyourpoisons.com) that he is disheartened more or less by the technological advances of music and the fact that people don't buy cds anymore, they just copy a friend's iTunes list. to that i say, poo. i love the fact that i long to hear a cd that i don't own and at 11pm on a saturday night can open up napster or iTunes and either download it or purchase it. instant gratification. and from a music obsessed girl, instant gratification is a welcome change from spending my youth pining for a poison tape ($10 that i could NEVER afford) or begging my rich(ish) friend tara to bring in all her metal tapes so that i could make a copy of them. i do NOT long for the days when you had to have your mother drive you to a far away mall to purchase a tape because there was no place cool enough around for you to but them. i love the computer age. i want my music and i want it now. lars ulrich can suck my balls. (p.s. we pay for napster each month. don't sue me).
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