random thoughts – Day 2,117 (Friday) – inside looking out

Kiki looking out.

It looked cold outside so I stayed inside and looked out the window. Kiki spent some time this morning also looking out the window before trading sitting in the living room for lounging on my bed. She now alternates between laying at the foot of the bed and nestling up against the pillows at the head of the bed. She will allow me to join her on the bed to pat her head, stroke her face, and feed her treats from my hand, but I must approach slowly and calmly. One sudden move and she is gone.

There was briefly a general idea to go out to some vague and nebulous “somewhere.” While drinking coffee, there was briefly an idea to take a ride to the beach, but it was dismissed. The freezer and fridge are loaded and the pantry is full, so grocery shopping would result in unnecessary purchases and storage challenges. I could easily hide out for a month (maybe more) before needing to restock, which is a pretty good situation. It’s fun to imagine hibernating, but it couldn’t just happen for real. Dance groups begin again this Sunday and Tuesday and those are great reasons to leave the house, so maybe I’ll just plan to hunker down on the cold non-dance days.

Suddenly it was lunchtime, then suppertime, then “too late” for any grand adventures I hadn't yet thought up and didn’t really want to go on anyway. For most of the day, I continued the momentum of my year-end reading frenzy and read a book I started yesterday (Brace for Impact). It’s a well-written memoir by a midwestern roller derby girl that makes me nostalgic for my own roller derby days and the workouts, the team, and playing in bouts. During reading breaks, I arose from the couch and worked on dance combinations and tried balancing a dance cane on my head which is a lot harder than I thought it would be because it feels too light to stay put.

The moon and the tree.

As the sun set out beyond the back yard, the practically-full moon rose out beyond the front yard. I forgot to look outside until it was already pretty high behind a tree. Before it was dark, it looked like a fuzzy ball or a balloon caught in the tree.

And that was pretty much the day. It was a really good day. So far, this has been a great year.