i had a smoothie for lunch yesterday.

pineapple and coconut at the lakewood mall, it was really good and last night i made a point to tell pretty much everybody i talked to about it, some people i told two or three times. i was with marissa and sarah, which was nice, marissa and i usually go to the mall for lunch on wednesdays, i think the smoothies were her idea, and that was definitely the move, i think that made her yesterday's hero of the day.

so going to the mall sort of reminded me of christmas and shopping and stuff like that (i've been writing about stuff like that a lot here lately, we'll speculate why another time perhaps). i'm not sure what to get anyone this year, i've done best buy gift cards the last couple years i think, so i'm pretty sure i don't want to go that route again, freakin variety, i tell you. last year, i didn't do the bulk of my shopping til i'd gotten to dallas, so i guess i'm hoping for a stroke of creative genius to strike me by then.

i talked to laura today, and i was sort of structuring my trip home in december around her, i really wanted to be sure that i didn't miss her, so that was helpful. i was planning to be there the weekend before, and it looks like that'll be the plan that shakes out. she gets sunday, which i'm excited about, because by the time i see her, it'll have been a whole year. so now i guess, you can look forward to updates on me making travel plans again like the ones i gave whenever i was trying to get my tickets to north carolina to see katie.

it could be worse, i could tell you what i had for lunch yesterday.

feeling: full of anticipation
thinking of: nicole
music: "el rey" vicente fernandez