stranger things

Cousin: "I dreamt about marriage the last two nights. Last night it was unknown royalty -- even in the dream I'd only met him once, wedding was to be Christian and I had to wear something vaguely nun-like. Now that I think about it, there was even more Christian imagery too. Very, very strange."

Monkeyhippy: "Want to marry Jesus, do you? That would be an interesting turn of events."

Cousin: "If I wanted to marry Jesus, mostly it would be an interesting turn of events for Jesus."

next time you have an hour free...

...please watch this.

unintended consequences

I'm trying to wrap my head around this. Sometimes I'm so incredibly grateful to have been born into the family and country I was.

multifaceted

Yesterday I chopped wood for a while and then got my ears pierced (for the first time in my life! It feels WEIRD!). Maybe today I'll change my oil and get a pedicure.

A long time ago my friend Hillary made me a great t-shirt (ah the perks of working at Kinko's) with one of those '50s housewife cartoon ladies looking horrified next to a thought bubble that says "Oh my God! I think I'm becoming the man I wanted to marry!" Maybe I'm becoming both the man AND the woman I wanted to marry (except for the necessarily "wanting to get married" part). Sure would make some things simpler.

Other things, not so much.

snippets

The best bumper sticker I saw in Israel was on my cousin Susan's car: "We will have no peace until we talk to each other." (p.s. it's been ripped off her car more than once by people who are apparently don't share the sentiment.)

Second best bumper sticker I saw in Israel was on a car in front of us on the highway near Tel Aviv: "The car climbed Mt. Washington"