July 25, 1998

I really should come up with a new color scheme for these entries... I use the same one way too much, I think, but I'm too lazy to experiment right now. I really don't think I have much to say tonight.... today was a lazy day. I slept until 1:30pm, then my mom and I went shopping... and actually had fun. :-) Then we came home around 6 and I Went back to sleep until 8. When I got up my mom was searching the kitchen for something to eat, and we ended up ordering pizza, which is something we never do, because they don't deliver as far out as our house is. My mom drove in and got it... a small one with anchovies and pepporoni for her, and a large veggie one for me and my dad. :-) Then I went back to bed around midnight, read and listened to Ani until around 3. Then my body decided it wasn't staying in that bed anymore and ordered me to get up. Not that I got far- just downstairs to the computer. But oh well.

Yesterday I read this book by Alice Hoffman called "At Risk". It was pretty good. I have nothing more to say about it.

I'm starting to think I'm wasting everybody's time by writing this.

When we were in the car today, my mom asked me if it was me or "Alex" who had pointed at a no trucks sign (You know, the kind with the red circle with the line through it) and said "Look, mommy! Truck Busters!"

Neither of us could remember whether it was me or him... but I had this bizarre wave of grief pass over me... there I was, sitting in the car, listening to my mom tell me stories from when I was little... that's a pretty rare thing, my mom has a few stories she really likes that she tells over and over... getting new ones out of her is impossible. You just kinda have to wait for them to come..

Anyway it just occured to me sitting there that "Alex" can't do that anymore... and it was probably one of the saddest thoughts I've ever had.

And I just don't think I'm up to getting into that tonight, so I'm just gonna quit here.

And all those nights
When you would
Come to me in my dreams
Thought I was losing my mind
But its the sanest I've ever been
And on those days when life
Seemed too much
I hear your voice
and I'm
Comforted by your touch
~Soraya "On Nights Like This"