mesmerized

today when i was buying lunch at my fav mexican place, some young gorgeous thing looked deep into my eyes as i got up to the register. i could hardly concentrate on what i was ordering. as i knew i wasn't the cat's meow today, i figured it was his m.o. and tried hard to pretend i didn't notice that when he said "your change is 96 cents" i was all flustered. i couldn't even remember how much money i'd given him for about 30 seconds. i walked away to get jalapeno peppers, trying to protect myself from looking lovestruck.

made my day. i don't care what the hell he thought of me, or how many women he did that with, damn, he was fine.

odd how a look can give you bedhead. much like cologne, except cheaper.

single's weekend in

last night played scrabble with my late grandmother's game. i was given it after her funeral when i remembered aloud the fun we had making up words. it was nice to have the game we used to play when i was little. the wooden pieces are now polished with time, dog-bitten on some corners, and watermarked. i love it. also was fun to win both games, with words like foxy on a triple word score, vacated, feudal, plains, and other such scrabble funsters. think my highest score was 45 for one play.

am reading fun stuff like steinbeck's tortilla flat (just bought cannery row), william bradford's diary, william martin's backbay (just finished cape cod), arthur hailey's overload (loved hotel), crichton's timeline, grisham's king of torts, and clancy's executive orders. not all at once. but that's my new list. got a few new others as well for fun, but am working on finishing all works by steinbeck, crichton, clancy, martin, et. al.

then of course i'm meditating upon myself, my dates, where i'm going in life, and what i will be like when i get there. am taking advice of friends who tell me i don't know what i want, and figuring out what that might be. all in all, a very thinky time, full of good coffee and good thoughts.

there's nothing like a good cup of coffee on a sunny morning in a bay window with great music playing, a new book, and the radiator hissing. the only better thing would be a fireplace on a rainy night with a cat, a cup of hot chocolate, a big pillow, and another good book. of course you add a warm body to both of these scenarios and it all gets better. but you have to make sure you get along with them first...i'm working on the warm body part. all good things come in time. ;)

even another superbowl win by the pats...