It's a new summer and I've come to terms with becoming an adult and knowing that I am going to be living on my own again soon, hopefully, so I'm going to start adventuring into a few cookbooks that I have. I need to start gathering my own recipes for when I live on my own, and I need to become more adequate with reducing amounts and just cooking in general. Rules for myself: Once a week, I will pick a new recipe from the few that I own. Most of them will probably be vegetarian. Just for funsies. I haven't picked one yet.
It's just about midnight and I should be going to bed soon. I put the kids down around nine and wrote my article for the UNEWS this week. I am not cut out to be a journalist. Good thing I'm an English Lit major. Babysitting these five little hooligans has made me think a bit about children. I enjoy being around them but they're so exhausting. My stance on children of my own: I would really like to know what it's like to be pregnant. Also, I'd like to be a mother, raise someone who depends on me completely at all times. Watch them grow and mature, develop from little alien babies to real living humans. That has been the strangest thing for me to watch in my nieces and nephews, seeing them become real living humans. I feel like I'm watching the future, and really I am. The way some of them have turned out so far is confusing, I guess I just don't expect them to have complex thoughts yet but they really do. I would really like to have at least one child. I hope...
I am sitting outside the snow falling silently softly lands on my dark blue jeans. My surface body temperature cold enough for the minute flakes to linger. Seconds later melting into tiny water-spots covering my body: 99.2 degrees. The quiet beauty of snow silences the bustle of trailer-park repairs and renovations. I’ve fallen off the bandwagon today, this cigarette led me to the outside releasing me into this white world. Slowly puffing I regret torture done to my lungs as a wave of nausea brings me to my knees, repent. The dropped cigarette burns slowly into smoke down to the filter, carbon monoxide. From my knees, weak with pain, I retch defiling the soft, pure snow. Three days meals gone uneaten, pure acid wastes through the frozen ground. I rest lean back on my heels to settle the stomach, enjoy a moment in this winter. Our winter.