We’ve been spending more and more time out at the lake, and each time it is a little harder to come back into town. The first few hours without TV, internet, or reliable phone service gives me more anxiety than I would like to admit, but after a while I stop wondering if the DVR is recording John from Cincinnati and I remember what it is like to live without all of these extra people in my head. The amount of time I spend wondering about Kate and Sawyer, or dwelling on some strangers angry words online, is a bit over the line sometimes.
It’s not until I am laying on the dock after dark, pointing out stars to Ella (who makes the ’swim’ motion with her arms, and laughs at her own joke) and Tom looks at me like “Can you believe we lucked out like this?” that I start to wonder what I am missing out on by having so many modern ‘conveniences’.
And so, we are back out at the lake tonight. We finished my craft room today and I have to admit it is hard to leave. Do you think I can have a backwoods cabin with a 600sq ft craft room (which, btw, is bigger than our little house I loved?) Head over to Flickr to see the finished-ish version of my new workshop(complete with notes), where I swear to god I am actually going to make things, because check it out - a gated off play area where little people can play and not put their fingers under the rotary cutter! Whoopie!
Occasionally Tom or I will just turn to each other and ask “What about the big foot?!” No, not Bigfoot, but the big foot. The one with four toes (like my sister!) The one on the island?
Oh wait, do you not watch LOST? Umm.. I can’t explain what it is, because 3 seasons later Tom and I are still clueless. Our latest theory is that The Others are Greek gods, banished for some reason, but the term ‘theory’ is used loosely, since we came up with that at 2am, when we were trying to decide why Jacob is invisible. It still doesn’t explain WHERE THE HELL Walt and Michael are (they couldn’t have gone home, everyone was accounted for dead on the plane and you can’t just show up alive when they have already found your body), but whatever. What about the big foot?!
What are you all doing for Mother’s Day? Yet another holiday that screams of commercialism, but that I buy whole hog. This year I get double the presents, right? RIGHT?
Did anyone else catch Bill Bradley’s interview on the Colbert Report? Did you hear him say that if we had the same emission standards as Europe (only about 45mpg), we would not have to import ANY oil from OPEC? Why aren’t all the national security people on this? We hear about needing less dependence on foreign oil all the time, AND about how global warming is going to eat us alive, so…. I am having a hard time seeing why the jump is not made. Hell, if Ford put out cars with European standards, their profits may actually go up, since they would sell in the parts of the world where people can afford to buy a new car. Being raised by the hippies I was, my mind automatically jumps to the fact that some people in government have made a pretty penny off oil, and may not be as keen to break away from oil dependence as they say they are, but then again - actions speak louder than words. I’d be thrilled to be proved wrong.
Along those hippie lines, I am excited that this car is going to be available in 2008. No, we can’t afford to buy it, but hey - guess what? 40mpg isn’t insane. I can see them taking over California.
And to end on a less harpy note, a picture of a lady bug on our craptastic peeling deck:
