reason #197 why i love seattle:

because when you finally have a day off and it's perpetually cloudy and rainy outside, staying in bed, watching movies and drinking coffee is a perfectly acceptable way to spend it. whether or not watching sleepless in seattle while in fact in seattle is acceptable - well, that is an entirely different matter but i'm willing to take the risk. don't look at me like that. rosie o'donnell's role as meg ryan's sassy but suppportive friend is downright shakespearean. there i said it. 

the main reason i'm laying low on my day off is because of the debilitating pain i'm in. three months of idleness came to a crashing end this past saturday with three hours of basketball. and while i consider myself the muggsy bogues of women's street ball, my body clearly does not agree. also, i'm not that good. as a result, i can't even sneeze without my eyes watering, and laughing is quite out of the question. i've never felt so old before. if this is indicative of my life at seventy, then no thank you. i'll take a cougar cruise at sixty and be done with it.

the upside to engaging in activities far beyond my actual ability is that i'm branching out and meeting new people. after all, it seems only appropriate that i attempt to you know, actually live here. so, in addition to basketball saturdays, i will also have volunteer wednesdays at the local soup kitchen. and if i play my cards right, getting lucky fridays. what? i didn't say that. 

  with that hanging awkwardly in the air, i leave you with your found item of the day: