Well, tonight, after work, kind of ended up being a happy reprise of our adventures with our spontaneously adopted friend yesterday.
It was a good time, and very enjoyable.
However, the fact that the Waterwall was off before its actual closing time was a Huge bummer… we took her all the way over there just to see it, because it is one of our favorite parts of Houston…, and then it was just super underwhelming in comparison to when the wall is on… hmm… just a big sigh to that all…
Anyway, I am exhausted to a whole new level tonight, and so just sleep now.
Therefore, I will share our Sunday adventures today’s tomorrow, instead of yesterday’s tomorrow. ;P
Goodnight. ❤
P.S. If you don’t know the Houston Hines Waterwall, go check it out – itnis well worth visiting, so you can stand in the center, and walk to the edge and gaze upward, head dropped back… it is spectacular… 🙂
Today was a wonderful day, filled with wonderful happenings and lovely people.
I’m exhausted and need to sleep now, so I’ll share about it all tomorrow, but I’ll mention that it included procuring a German girl from a hostel – no, we didn’t even know of her existence until we kind of ran into her – and bringing her around town to do fun things with us, none of which would have been in her Houston guidebook, but all of which she seemed thoroughly to enjoy.
We had a blast, too, my mom and I.
That violin, however… I’m not too sure it had a good time… that was rough…
I am leaving for Japan in only a matter of weeks… and I am slightly terrified.
I trust that it will be a perfect trip, however, that doesn’t mean that everything is automatically sorted for me for the trip.
I still am figuring out where to stay and when.
My Japanese needs a serious boost in preparation.
I need to figure out price options for when my brother is there with me, and then find and book that place, whatever it will be.
I need to reach out to everyone else I want to be sure to see.
I need to figure out if I can manage dance shoes in my packing.
I need to figure out what to bring.
I need to pack.
I need to relax just a bit, and still get my stuff handled.
Today, I started a bit of Japanese review, by watching the next episode of this silly Japanese Netflix Original I used to watch when I lived in Japan, “Good Morning Call”.
And it felt good.
It actually excited me about my upcoming voyage, as opposed to leaving me stressed about it all.
I looked up this week Airbnb options, and now have a bit of an idea as to what I might end up doing for all three parts of my Japan time.
I have reached out in the past week and a half to all but one of my super important visit people (the one had already agreed about my visiting a month or two ago).
My knees are continuing to heal, and I am gaining confidence that they will be okay by the time I am in Japan.
Hopefully, they will be healed and at full, comfortable function well before then.
Also, I am exhausted…. and my teeth hurt… my lower teeth, especially…
I had to change my aligners today, so my teeth are all sore and in pain… however, this is the first day of my final month with these aligners all the time(!!!).
The other day, I was sharing how I love doing photography for people… that we meet up and go have fun and take some wonderful photos…, and that it really happens like that, that we always go out and have fun…
And I found that interesting… I hadn’t considered it before then, but I realized how true it was.
Every time I go out and do photos with someone for him/her we have fun.
And, as it happens, we end up with some pretty, stellar photos… however, that is not my point tonight.
It is the fun that matters most right now.
I love that it is a sort of adventure, and that it is always fun for us both.
Today, after having completed an afternoon of running around with someone, doing photos of a vehicle, I reflected on the time we’d had together.
And I found that it was fun.
Wow… it really is true that we always have fun whenever I go out to do photos with someone… Cool
😀
It was lovely to discover.
Another wonderful discovery of today happened about twenty minutes ago…
I have known the voice, and I knew what song has had me know it so well in my life, but I couldn’t have said the owner of the voice… but, when a different song from that usual one came on – iPod playing connected to the speakers again…. I really want to make that even more regular, now that I have started it… anyway – I went to find out whose voice it was.
I know I love his voice and style, so I wanted to be able to listen to it more.
Turns out it was James Taylor.
So, I love James Taylor music.
🙂
And I will listen to much of it in the near future.
😀
Goodnight. 😀
P.S. Today was National Tongue Twister Day, so I read my mom (over the phone) one of my favorite books from childhood, Fox in Sox by Dr. Seuss…, and it was lovely and funny for the both of us. 😀
Today was really cold… And it was raining… And I only have my bike (Vespa) now…. so that kind of sucked.
But I bought – at long last, though out of immediate necessity today – a rain suit, so that helped tremendously…, but it was still cold out there, riding.
Burr…
Fun fact: My body is getting closer and closer to working normally again… though I was spider-crawling up the stairs, and sliding down them this morning, I was able to do almost the whole workout today at the gym, and my knees feel almost normal now, as I am getting ready for bed.
I mean, I won’t be able to run in the morning, and I probably still won’t be able to squat all the way or rest on my knees for another several days, but I at least will be able to walk without hobbling or being in pain.
So, that’s really cool.
It’ll leave my only main issue as going to the bathroom: every time I have to pull down it up my pants/underwear, it’s like a hammer to my bruised right leg… burr…
Also, another fun fact: I got a hug from a new person today… and it was lovely to have. 🙂
I love hugs, and I’ve kind of been wanting, possibly needing, hugs this week…, so this was perfectly timed and somewhat out of the blue, making it all the better and more loving.
Makes me wonder how I can be more loving to those around me on the regular… hmm… I’ll think on that one tonight while I do some henna… yes…
Post-a-day 2019
Three things:
1) I burn a couple tissues together that have old oil all over them (peppermint, eucalyptus, rosemary, lavender, and Texas cedarwood, not olive or petrol), and all is well, and my room smells amazing.
I take a hot shower on this same really cold night, and, upon opening the bathroom door afterward, the steam sets off the fire alarms on both the second and third floor, leaving me to run around, fanning the alarms with the towel that had just been wrapped around me to dry me and keep me warm as I entered the cold, cold rest of the house…
::face palm
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2) I actually am totally spacing on what the other thing was that I had wanted to share here tonight… hmm…
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3) This conversation happened just as we were leaving my friend’s apartment tonight to go to Target before she drove me home:
Friend: Okay, are we good? [turns toward me] Hannah, your outfit is throwing me off… It’s cold out – do you want some pants?
All laugh, as we take in my wool beret, thick scarf, leather jacket, leg warmers, and short shorts.
Basically, I am cold-weather-dressed up top and summertime dressed in the bottom, with the leg warmers just thrown into the summer bit.
Friend: I mean, your legs look great. But are you sure you don’t want some pants? ‘Cause you can borrow some.
I assure them that I really am okay, and that I actually had been wearing pants earlier, but that it was just too darn hot… shorts were what I needed, if I wanted to keep the top half on (and I had wanted to change as little as possible earlier, when I was adjusting my outfit for the weather for the rest of the day – because pants and a long and heavy skirt had gotten to be just too much by early afternoon), and so shorts were what I was wearing.
Plus, the scarf really warms the whole body rather well – I was really surprised when I first learned how amazingly scarves work… now I wear them all the time for warmth, much more often than sweaters or jackets.
Anyway, we all laughed about my unbalanced outfit, and then three of us continued happily on to Target. 😛
We decided that I was, in a way, a perfect representation of our Texas and Houston weather. 😛
Man who appears magically next to us: My girlfriend and I saw how you were dressed, and we were just at this party, and they gave us these cookies, and we wanted you…
He trails off, proffering a small, white papered bundle.
Said white bundle
Hannah: [Big and quick inhale] Are they calaveras?!? Are they skull cookies??
Man, smiling: Yeah, yeah they are.
Hannah: You’re giving us cookies?
Man: Yeah…
Hannah & Mom, slightly off from one another: Awww, thank you(!).
I accepted the package graciously and peeked inside at them, expressed another but of bouncy joy and expressed my gratitude again, both to him and for him to tell his girlfriend, and the man walked off, all three of us smiling.
Not so bad for dinner at a Thai place – my mom had wanted Mexican food to end the holiday, but everywhere food was, naturally, packed…, so, we just stopped for a warm meal at the place down the street from my house, on our way to take me home.
When we fully opened the package and took them out, we found handmade, adorable calavera cookies.
So, in a way, my mom got her Mexican food to celebrate the end of the Día de Muertos days, after all. 😛
For the first time, I was informed today of something that traditionally would have caused me extreme stress, self-doubt, and annoyance…, and I was okay about it.
I trusted then and still trust now that God will put me always in the perfect place at the perfect time.
And so I do my best to be the best version of myself that I can be…
That alone is something inspirational for boys to manage in terms of building up their… we, of course, shall need. 😛
For the second late night in a row, I raced my mom to the bathroom to shower before bed tonight… and, of course, I won, again.
It’s not like it matters all that much, but it certainly is fun, when discovering that we both are about to head to the exact same spot for the exact same thing, and knowing that only one of us can shower at once – a practically freezing, heartless shower, by the way – and so, the first to arrive will be the one to shower, we know to haul butt to get to the spot first.
But I keep winning that tiny game, and she still ends up in bed, sleeping, long before I do…
I experienced friendship today, and with people I mostly only had just met this weekend.
And with a cat, whom I met this morning.
It was wonderful.
It was musical.
I cooked dinner to share with everyone, and everyone made noises of intense delight upon first tasting his or her serving of the food – gratitude poured forth in their delight, and also in their verbal reinforcement by words… and the food really was delicious.
And, the fact that the food was warm made a huge difference for us all – in a cold, air-conditioned house with no gas turned on – that means miserably cold showers and no stovetop cooking – a warm meal, especially when unexpected, after a long day and in a chilly room, is just one of the best things ever.
And we enjoyed it all together.
Tonight was what I long for in my life, in terms of my living situation.
I want the community and love and concern for one another that was present in our constant talkings for hours and hours after all of our classes finished for the day.
Yes…, that is something I want to generate in my life…
hannah ananas 