Hot August

So, with Bono and the boys in my ear I set out on my walk this morning. At 6:45 a.m. it was already steamy outside - around 79 and humid!!! I really missed the beach this morning - there wasn't even a breeze. My goal was 5 miles - I did it. But, I am sure it was because of the wonderful music in my ears...like getting to that really big damn hill and hitting Elevation on the MP3 player. Oh yeah!!!

Do you ever have that really excited feeling and can't quite put it into words or know what it is? It's almost like anxiety but it feels good instead of worried. I have that feeling today. So, my first thoughts are cool, something neat is happening, something good is coming. Then, my very next thought is whoa, something bad is probably going to happen and I've jinxed that something good is going to happen. I was talking to my 19 year old son today and trying to explain that to him - he told me he thought it would be really hard to be me with all that weird stuff going on in my head. I told him he was so right. I guess once you are a parent and you get those feelings that you're not really sure of, kind of like a 6th sense that something's going on, you almost automatically go to worried! Weird, huh!!!

Yesterday I went to the bookstore, picked up the new Rolling Stone magazine, the new Economist AND a new music mag called Paste, and the War CD. Got home, the youngest son took Rolling Stone (article on Led Zeppelin and sex), the older son took Paste and my daughter took the Economist. That left me with the War CD - I was so excited. Since I am still so new to U2 I have so much music to discover and absorb. It's such a great thing. Maybe that's the great thing that is going to happen to me today - I finally got to listen to the whole CD!!! What I don't understand though is why they don't put all the lyrics in the liner notes - I'm so hungry for the words and they aren't all there. It is such a drag!!!

Anyway, I am up to bike early in the morning, then to work for a few hours. I'll probably have to come and take a nap (at least a little nap). My husband has been traveling all week and will be home late tomorrow night - I'll be waiting!!! Hopefully the wine bottle won't be empty.

It was a great day!

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