after work today, i went for a half hour walk. yesterday it was warm and sunny and beautiful - about 78 degrees and sunny skies! (in the middle of january....i know!) i assumed it would be the same today.....and i was wrong. ha! when i finally jumped in the car my fingers were so numb i could barely bend them. my lips had been blue for hours since work is a constant ice box, too. now, sitting in my pajamas and over-sized sweat-shirt, i'm still shivering a little (and it's been three hours ago now). i'd really like to turn up the energy on my body's heating element. how exactly does one do that?
i'm going back a few years today on a jimmy eat world kick. mmm mmm, they are good. remembering music from years ago is like closing my eyes one night and waking up five years ago.
our little pond is growing in attractions lately. the winter birds that flock there involve ring-billed gulls, great blue herons, a snowy egret, grackles and starlings (as always), and northern mockingbirds. i love how much the birds change with the season. the snowy egret is absolutely beautiful! but a big part of me misses the summer scissor-tailed fly catchers (my favorite). curiously, the robins have disappeared. they claim a whole corner of campus in the summer and we assumed they would almost double since many robins migrate to texas in winter. but it seems that abilene is a part of texas they migrate away from. i miss them.
lastly, i love friday night. after work on friday it feels as if the whole world is free. free as a bird! here's to the weekend.
