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beachday yesterday after gym and errands. V. Nice. Swam a mile or so. Weekdays are the best, no crowds. Today im back @ work. Feeling mighty sleepy.

herro blogland

still on the cape and having quite the time.  yesterday lank and mama and i tackled The Breakwater in Provincetown which was amile long rock jetty stretching out across the bay.  This involved lots of jumps and landings and scrambles and leaps and crawls, and MY MOM HANDLED IT ALL!  for those of you who don't know, my mom has Mysthenia Gravis which is a really sucky neuro-muscular disease.  her immune system basically gets over-active and tries to destroy her muscles.  When i was little she was sick frequently, like to the point she had to go to the hospital and be in a wheelchair or on a ventilator.  Well thank g-d treatment has improved and with the new experimental meds she's on have given me a new physically fit mama!!  she came to cape cod last summer for a conference and couldn't walk more than three hundred feet WITH a walker.  Now she was able to do this physically challenging rock wall with me and not slow me down at all. 

When we got to the other side of rock jetty my brother decided we should go on over to the beach on the other side of these dunes.  he was like, it's right over this hill guys come on, and he ran off.  my mom and i slogged through the deep sand to get to the beach, surprised by a new hill after each dune that crested.  we finally got there and i looked out over the ocean and i saw huge black storm cloud.  oh geez.  so my mom took a quick dip in the ocean to cool off and we headed back just as the rain started.  we had the mile of big rocks to cross in front of us, and now they were wet rocks and we were being pelted by rain. then the thunder started and mom told us to climb down into the rocks.  when that stopped we resumed our climb and jump and leap and crawl and walk and finally made it, just as the rain stopped.  it was quite a harrowing adventure and i was so proud of my mama :)

Today I ran FIVE MILES!!! I am totally amazed I didn't realize it was that far until I googled it when i got back here.  that's pretty fricken sweet.  I also worked on the book.  My mom is taking a nap and after that I think we should be headed to a beach for some late afternoon/evening swimming.  and i wanna get frozen yogurt.  my (2nd eldest) sister laura and her bf dave are here too which is nice :)

we are staying at cottage grove in eastham and i recommend it.  i like it here.

cape cod

vacationing with the momster and my brother lank.  good trip so far except my mama's sick. we are staying in a cute little cabin which totally reminds of the cottage i lived in with MR. PRVRT.  Is a good remembrance of a mostly good time.

today lank and i went bike riding from here (Eastham) to Marconi Beach which is kind of very very gorgeous.  We rented bikes from the Orleans bike shop biked about 30 kilometers today and swam in the ocean.  Now I am going to do some work on my book.

we be sittin'

today was super nice!  i had breakfast with a friend, then a bit of shopping at rite aid and trader joes, then headed up to home.  made a super yum burrito and had a shower.  then i went to the beach with brian.  the bay was really dirty and seaweed-y so that kind of sucked.  probably because there were a million people there yesterday and today but that was kind of gross.  now i am babysitting sawyer, who is sleeping.  CENTRAL AIR ON BLAST!  playing with jackson (puppy) and getting ready to do some work.  hitting ten pages a day lately.  jackson is on the kitchen counter!!  lemme go spray him.  BRAHAHAHa i am the mistress of the squirt bottle of doom!  he's contrite.  ok time to get some work done :)  oh~! i also made a super awesome dinner tonight.  i used bagel thins (thomas) I love them they are only 110 calories with great bagel flavor.  I put on marinara (Classico) and mozzarella (don't remember which brand) and tomatoes, oregano and basil from my garden.  IT was fantastic.  jackson just licked my shoulder.  what a weirdo.

I have sand in my bed.

trying to edit, as per usual.  drinking iced coffee... found a packet of splenda in my sister's old purse.  already nervous about tomorrow morning's coffee and the only sweetener we have in stock at the batcave is nasty pink packet sugar substitute and i hate it.  tomorrow morning might just have to a dunkin donuts day.

i gave the pink ponies my first chapter and now i have even more edits to input on top of the conglomerated edits for pages 60-100.  and of course i have yet to conglomerate and then input the edits for the remaining 130 pages.  so... yeah.  uphill battle.  especially because the internet is more fun than inputting edits.  oh well.  the internets never made anyone independently wealthy.... oh wait yep they did.  but not me.  so i need to finish this damn novel already!  but if i do that then i have to begin the super-duper-scary rejection-fest that is shopping for an agent.  so... foot dragging and procrastination.

I spent the afternoon at the beach.  fan-freaking-tastic!  i love orchard beach.  i was the only white girl there, as per usual.  we braved the rain showers and we won because the last two hours were picture perfect beach day hours.  lots of swimming and sunning and fun.  i met a little girl (because i always do, because i am a child-magnet, a baby-whisperer, whatever) and we were playing in the ocean swimming around and stuff and she asked me how old i was and i did what i always do and asked her how old was she?  and she said 8.  and so i asked her how old did she guess i was and she said 13 and it made me laugh.  good times.
*note: i am 27.

I wanted to post pics from the garden so i'm gonna do that now ok?  (you can't actually stop me so just say ok, ok?)

my tomato plant has tomatoes on it!  go team green thumb.

woah brian just gave me half a burrito and it is like nuclear fire ball hot. why is everything so flipping spicy!!! my mouth hurts.
wahwahwahwah

anyway that's my garden. basil and tomato and oregano and strawberry.

i don't have much room so i only grow foods.  decorative plants can be nice i guess but i've never bothered with them, excepting one jade plant that had immense sentimental value.  speaking of which, it had been living at my mom's for about three years, i should get a cutting.

i'm going upstate on the 27th so if you live around there i'll see you then :)

extraneous pictures i've been meaning to post:

one of my young charges is getting fitted for braces:

 her sister saw this photo, which their mom sent to us on my cell phone, and decided to shoot a mocking recreation of this pic back to her sister.  I wish i had saved it.  tres amusing.  Chloe is only five but she knows almost all the steps in creating and texting a  picture message. 

i like ice cream:

i like going to the pool with the children:

and trying on stuff at the mexican jewelry store:

ok my lovely lovelies.  my mouth still hurts and i drank all my iced coffee.  that's as good a reason as any to get back to work.

you like-a dah bronx, ehhhhhh?

holy moly i love where i live.  can you believe these pics?  scenic shit man!

here's my "friend" he is "happy"

zombie happy pirate!

brian and i are watching italy vs new zealand on UNIVISION!  I like saying UNIVISION!  i am not really watching, i am making a blog and drinking coffee but it is not that good because we don't have any splenda, or truvia, or sugar, or agave syrup OR any type of yummy creamers.  so i have the pink packet stuff uck yum cancery.

this is the bronx guys!!  pelham bay park.

I'm A MOTHERFLUCKIN BUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  (he swears because he lives near Co-Op City which is a project.  so cusses help him to express his feeling about his environs.)

I think brian is page jacking my facebook right now.  so if i say to you something horrible right now then it WASN'T ME.

and here's the beach.  i was gonna go to the beach later with ewaen
but i think it is going to be a thunderstorm so probably will go to the store to buy a present for Niyi as he is getting married.

here is my beach it is BEAUTIFUL is it not?

it's about 15 minutes away on the bx12 bus :)  most loverly.
ok what else?

me at the shore and ditty in a box.

better'n that stupid justin timberlake with d*ck in a box. ditty wins!


ok maybe more later  I have to go do editing :)