Saturday, March 22, 2014

Five Things that Don't Suck, Saturday Edition

1. prepping for a 2nd hive of bees
2. getting some poetry recordings made
3. talking with a good friend
4. getting taxes done (?)*
5. pizza night
*doing them might suck. Having them done will not.

Friday, March 21, 2014

Five Things that Don't Suck, Mystery Theme Edition

1. baking cookies for a meeting means I get cookies
2. as does everyone else I see, since I have no idea how to bake "enough" cookies
3. that C is for Cookie song
4. the Cookie Monster puppet I had as a kid. CM had a slot in the back of his throat and could therefore eat all kinds of things*
5. cookies

*cookies, candy, little green army men, Barbie dolls...

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Five Things that Don't Suck, First Day of Spring Edition

1. crocuses
2. daffodils
3. tulips
4. forsythia
5. that specific green trees get when their leaves are all brandy-new

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Five Things that Don't Suck, Random Wednesday Edition

1. putting together a chapbook and finding a second one in the process
2. being able to draw my own covers*
3. Italy
4. almonds
5. the way greyhounds sleep in positions that make them look like they've fallen from great heights**

*so totally theoretical I don't even want to talk about it
**if their tongues are lolling out of their mouths, that's just a bonus

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Five Things that Don't Suck, How Did I Miss the Ides of March Edition?

1. not getting stabbed repeatedly by your friends and colleagues*
2. having a nose smaller than Julius Caesar's**
3. aqueducts
4. spelling your name with an "ae" instead of an "ea"***
5. considering changing my name to Raeth

*if this doesn't happen today, you're doing pretty well for yourself at work, all things considered
** if this does not apply to you, I'm so very, very sorry
***I'm looking at you, all you Michaels and Michaelas out there. You rock. All 27 bajillion of you

Monday, March 17, 2014

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Five Things that Don't Suck, Last Day of Spring Break Edition

1. not waking up with an alarm
2. starting the week with a clean house
3. being all caught up on campus stuff
4. knowing how quickly the next two months will fly by
5. feeling like my brain is full of poetry