waiting is: Oh World.

So, Alexis asked me to go to the fourth folder on my pictures folder and choose the fourth picture to explain. well the fourth folder happened to be empty, and the fifth folder happened to have a pretty unflattering picture of Alexis the day before Sam was born as the fourth photo, so I went with the third folder and the fourth photo in that folder.

This is Charlotte on New Year's Eve. This was early in the evening before things got rowdy. I think she's doing very well and her pose is quite cute. It's kind of an aw, shucks pose. We had a great New Year's at my house this year and so many of my closest friends were there to surround me with love. LUCKY!

Since New Year's I have been working at the restaurant, applying for new and interesting jobs, and being inspired by almost everything I come into creative contact with. Here are just a few of these inspirations:

Now, I've known of Kate Bush's music for quite some time thanks to Charlotte. She's been a wife and an inspiration to me for a long time, but I had never really let myself fall deeply enough into her music to seriously understand her or it the way I do now.
I spent an entire week downloading her discography, reading every article I could find, watching every youtube video, and of course, dancing around my apartment to her songs. It's been lovely.

The God of Small Things. I hope that you will at least consider reading this amazing novel. It broke my heart a million times. It is a book that I wish I could have written, and by that I also mean that I believe it is written the way that I would want to write a book. I don't yet know if those mean the same thing.
Please read this book. If you have had any experience with India or South Asia, I believe this book will have special significance to you, but also if you find great significance in personal history, then I think this book will rock you.

Name All The Animals by Alison Smith got me. This is one I really want my mom to read. I'm so very lucky to be personally familiar with the author of this memoir. Reading her novel was so revealing and truly the most intimate way to understand someone's past. It was strange seeing her afterwards because I wanted to tell her so many things about the way her book made me feel, but instead I just told her I loved it. It was a profound experience for me. It's a special book for siblings.

This is the picture of Alison and her brother that was used for the UK release of the novel. It is the cover she prefers, but I couldn't find a picture of the cover anywhere online.

Well every day I find more. I started reading Fables the other day. It's getting me. Not only is the art amazing, but the stories are twisted and so fun. I haven't read a comic book series in so long. It's so fun to go back into a fantasy world. I really need it right now.

Well, Justin and I are getting ready for a weekend of visitors. Catherine has a presentation this weekend, and Marcus, Justin, Charlotte, and I are going to be there to support her. Zero and Charlotte are taping it for them, and they're all going to come here for Saturday night! We're going to have snacks and movies all night long. YES! Now that's real inspiration for you.

Well I'll leave you with a couple of final thoughts.