Archives for the 'Moments' Category
Blinking Yellow
Saturday, September 26th, 2009
One my favorite moments is when I am stopped at a red light and instead of turning green it starts blinking yellow. I enjoy being there at that exact moment when the traffic lights change from their typical yellow-red-green cycle to blinking yellow on my end and blinking red on the other. I am not [...]
Wisdom
Monday, August 24th, 2009
An old man told me yesterday, “I am not proud of what I can do, I am just grateful.” He kept chattering about how if we don’t try anything we will never know what we are capable of. To not be afraid to fail. He makes portraits of people out of clay. He does it [...]
Turnpike
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Driving west in Ohio down 80/90, Rachel and I decided to stop at a rest stop for a bathroom break. It was beautiful and sunny outside and we were just heading home from five nights of camping. We pulled off the turnpike and into the rest stop, parking near a large pickup truck with [...]
Rubiks
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
Haik and I were on the subway in Tokyo yesterday heading from our couchsurfers apartment into Shibuya. We had only three stops left to go until we reached ours. We were standing, holding on the the hanging handles when Haik says, “What the hell…” I asked him what and he told me this kid on [...]
Three Monkeys
Sunday, July 5th, 2009
So in Nikko we found this awesome cafe. There are some interesting magazines to pick up and look through and a handful of antiques around that give the place a cool atmosphere. It was comfy and cozy and on the second floor of this little run-down looking building. When still outside and across the street, [...]
NBA updates via text and my Pa
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Text messages from my dad make me happy. Especially when they are updating me on game six of the eastern conference NBA finals while I am driving across the country…
9:51pm
Orlando up 18 at the half. They held Lebron scoreless in 2nd qtr. Its 58 to 40. Yea ha baby.
10:31pm
Magic up by 16 at end of [...]
Eggs y Conejos
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Easter morning I went into work and Juan asked me, “Adrienne, why mucho eggs y… (he puts his index and middle finger up on each hand and holds a hand up to each side of his head), you know, the animal… conejos?” “Yea, bunnies… o, rabbits,” I reply, thinking about how funny the charades can [...]
We are toys…
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
From my sister:
Today in the car Caitlin said from the back seat, “Mama, there are giants playing with us.” I replied, “There are?” And she said, “Yes. We are actually their toys.”
Then I said, being clever, “Well then, tell the giant to pick us up and put us down in Florida.” She, never missing a [...]
Runaway
Monday, April 6th, 2009
I parked my car across the street around 1 AM the other night, gathered up my things, and started to make my way towards my house. I heard someone yell “Hey!” but ignored it and kept crossing the street. I didn’t even look back, not wanting to be bothered by whoever was wandering the neighborhood [...]
Convertibles and Dogs
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
I had just finished rollerblading and was sitting on the trunk of my car, observing and enjoying the weather at the park today when the car a couple spaces down slowly backed out. I had been paying more attention to the people in the space directly across from me, two average looking women in jogging [...]