Today was a good day. I woke up at three, which was annoying and then again at 6 with my alarm and then again at 8:30 without it. I lazed about for a little while and then got to work. I dropped by my sponsor's office who wasn't there, but I talked to our secretary, who is very nice, and so it wasn't a complete loss. The weather was beautiful today. There is nothing so green as my town right now. Maybe it is because of the contrast it has to the rest of the year, or the very good mood that I am in, but I find it that it is quite.. beautiful!

I went to the gym and had a pretty good workout (found out that I have NO IDEA how to exercise my triceps) and got a FREE exercise magazine called Runner's World which gave me the idea that I should run a 5K. They have a way to prepare for a 5K in a month, but I think that I am going to just aim for "getting used to regular exercise" for this month and then have the goal for the summer be the 5K. My sister says she might join me too, which makes me happy.

Then I went to our local gaming shop and met the shopkeeper there. He was a fascinating person, had done all sorts of gaming, knew all sorts of people. He told me I ought to check out this play, which I might if I can get to it. I found out that they game on Sundays mostly, so I'm hoping to join them some weekend soon.

So yes, all in all a fine day. Tommorow, I will have a friend over for some salmon salad avacados (which I hope are good) and then perhaps... I don't know. Whatever folks do on Wednesday nights...

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The park

Today's 'translucent' still

New character finalized! This is Nutmeghan Oak (or Nutmeg for short ^_^) She (he?) will be on three pages of Piccolo's Party.

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Where is the strangest place you ever met someone? I am working on meeting more people and I thought this might be an interesting question to know the answer to. I guess I should say mine... the strangest place that I met someone was on the end of bus route in the middle of nowhere... but I don't know them anymore.

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Is marriage dead? I came across this question in an article I was reading today. The article argued that it wasn't dead, it was just changed. In other words, marriage isn't a sort of thing that lasts anymore. In further research, there seemed to be a lot of people who thought that shacking up together was just a better deal than tying the knot, particularly for men. Getting tied up in marriage can lose a man his ass, these days with trends in divorce law, they say. Why take the risk. Besides, the old adage is still true: "why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free". Many people said that it beat the way that things used to be: people got abused a lot, they say, and people got stuck in marriages they weren't happy in. Maybe marriage is dead, others argue, but who really cares? Why hold on to the fantastical fancy of 'true love' and 'till death do us part', everyone knows that half of marriages fail anyway?

I am not in this camp. While, I agree that marriage seems to be coming apart around me, I have the foolish inclination to just... believe all that nonsense about true love and happily ever after. I want it. I want to be hand in hand with the one I love on my golden anniversary, I want to have someone strong and loving by my side through the good times and the bad. I'll accept having to shout with him, if only I can have the privilege of forgiving him. I'll accept his illnesses his injuries and his death so long as I can share his life and his health. I have decided all that... and I haven't even met this person. I don't know his name or where he came from or anything about him, but I know... I know that if I love him, I want him to be with me in these things and I know that when I find him, he will want the same things. So, fool that I may be, heresy against nature, I am going to try and commit a miracle: I am going to find and stay in love.

I am not entirely alone either. Apparently, commited married people report better financial stability, better health and better sex than other people. I hope things turn around and turn around before marriage is just a word, tainted by controversial politics. So, I end here... with hoping.

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