For a little up date on what's been going on in my life right now, I present you with A Thousand Days. (Like the heading I made specially for the occasion?) A Thousand Days is journal like thing that I will attempt to keep for a thousand days. Unlike many journal/diary situations each entry is no more than a paragraph long. The idea is to have a short entry every day, but for an extended period of time. In this case, every day for exactly one thousand days. So far it has been surprisingly difficult. Either I almost forget and have to do it after I've already gone to bed, or I don't really know what to write about since it is hard to either pick one thing after a busy day, or the day has just been empty of anything but unpacking. I'm hoping to post my thousand days entries about twice a month.
A Thousand Days
Everyone has a story to tell,
every person a journey yet ahead of them. For a thousand days I will tell mine.
I single paragraph a day I will write which may not mean much for one day, but
over a thousand, and it will tell a story, it will show a journey.
November 2012
Day one: Uhg, day one and I've
already messed up. Technically it is early day two. Also I'll have to write the
first several days in a different notebook and then transfer them to the
journal I would like to do this in as I have already packed it. Take a deep
breath; this is the start of a new adventure.
Day two: This morning when the
movers arrived it was all stressed excitement as they arrived early and we had
a few things lift. It was crazy frantic stressed energy, then it was a tedious
calm while we hung around outside. Cleaning up the house after the movers were
done was bitter sweet. I'm moving away from the only house I've ever really
known. The house felt so strange and empty, no longer quite the home I knew.
While the three little kids sleep over at the Craig's the rest of us are
staying at the Red Lion Hotel, the hotel we stayed in when we first moved to
Bend. (Not that I can remember but I still appreciate the poetic balance to it)
Day three: Today was crazy.
Several hours of driving, and because of incorrect traveling calculating we are
going to have to drive a lot more each day. Yea. Luckily today is day light
savings time, so at least we get an extra hour of sleep after a long day. Also,
time zones are driving me crazy, and we've only passed through one so far.
Day four: Oh my word, today
was incredibly awful. There was all kinds of stress, and house and house of
driving. Tomorrow should be a shorter day since we will be visiting Megan. It
was strange; as we drove through it state each had a certain smell. In fact,
the smell changed more frequently than the scenery. The scenery was either
brown grass lands, or brown hills.
Day five: Today was much
shorter, and much less stressed filled.
We arrived at Megan's house at about 2. We'll be staying all of tomorrow
and leave Wednesday morning. Sean made us dinner, and they even invited Sugar
Timm, (his first name is actually Andrew.) Since I have nothing much else to
say, I'm going to go ahead and talk about the shoe tree we made, since I do
want to talk about it since it is kind of connected to the move and stuff. In
Bend there was a tree we called the Boo Radly tree, because it looked exactly
like the Boo Radly tree. It was near the center of down town off of (insert
later.) On Wednesday we ate dinner at Chan's one more time and then threw old
pairs of shoes into the Boo Radly tree. Chances are people will just think it
was a Halloween trick and the shoes have already been taken down, but it was
still fun to do.
Day six: Buggy is so much
bigger now. Today we went to the Garden of the Gods. It was pretty cool, and
then after that we went to eat dinner at Chilies. Tomorrow it is back to the
grind. I also read a lot. A book called The
Name of a Rose. Monks are weird.
Day seven: Another looong day
of driving. To pass the time we've been listening to the Dragon Rider
book. When we got to Topeca we had a
late dinner at Panera Bread, which was supper tasty. I hadn't realized how
starved I was for vegetation until I had finished the entire salad.
Day eight: Today the driving
wasn't as long, we finished at about 6. It would have lasted about a half hour
longer but the switch to our head lights suddenly busted, in the middle of the
highway, after the sun had set. So yea, we stopped at a town about 30 miles
before the town we had planned. At the hotel I will probably change the e-mail
I use to log into various sights. My old e-mail account uses a cable company
which we will not be using in Tennessee.
Day nine: We arrived to
Columbia today! The house is absolutely amazing. It's all old and stuff, but
not dilapidated. There are all these twists and hidden secret spots and small
attics. Yet despite that we are still staying in a hotel as all our stuff is
not being unloaded from the moving van until tomorrow.
Day ten: The house is now
filled with all of our stuff. It is kind of over whelming. Despite the fact
that we're here and so is all of our stuff, all I can see is how much we need
to unpack.
Day eleven: The more things we
unpack the stranger it seems. Before it wasn't so weird to be sleeping in a
weird house, especially since I've just spent the last week sleeping somewhere
different. Now that more things are being unpacked, it is becoming real, and
surreal, more and more. All of our things look strange in this new house.
Day twelve: All of the days
are kind of running into each other. It's hard to swallow that it is November
12th already. Most of the time I feel no different from usual, but every once
in a while it will suddenly hit me that I've moved, and for a few moments I
feel nothing but this over whelming weight on my chest.
Day thirteen: This thousand
days things is harder than I thought it would be, and I'm not even half way
through the first month. More same ol' same ol' today. Just unpacking some more
and going around the town. We checked out the library (no pun intended,
seriously, I'm actually sorry for that one.)
Unfortunately it is a small town library, which means it's small, which
means fewer books.
Day fourteen: What to write,
what to write. The house is really coming together, which is grand. The house
is so big. There aren't really many more rooms than in the old house, but all
of the rooms are just bigger.
Day fifteen: Getting to this a
bit earlier today, at 8:30 instead of 11. Where has all of the time gone? I
can't believe it's Thanksgiving in only a week. Quite a bit of October and
basically all of November has been eaten up by the move. Obviously how late it
is surprised me quite a bit. Looking up I've realized I've complained about
this before.
Day sixteen: The one day I write the entry a
little earlier something interesting happens later at night. Well, not super
interesting to the rest of the world, but I and my family are weird enough that
it counts. Last night we saw a (I think "a", there is a slight chance that it is
supposed to be "an") opossum! It was just, walking all around the place outside
of Colleen's window. We opened the window and tried to scare it so it would
play dead. DIE YOU STUPID OPOSSUM!!!!!! I believe is what I said. Hopefully
none of the neighbors knew it was us making the noise. On to today, I've made
great head way in my next novel A Place
Not so Far Away.
You know what would be fabulously, positively awesome? If you, dear intrepid reader, joined me in my journey of a thousand days. Sure we wouldn't have all started at the same time, but that really doesn't matter when you get right down to it. If you start now, we'll still have over two years to clasp virtual hands and hearts together in this fantastic quest. Invite your friends, invite your family, invite strangers, invite your enemies, invite your pets, invite anybody and everybody. It will be great!
To even make it even more official, I present you with my first button ever!!!!! I made it using the tutorial that I found at the blog Code it Pretty. I need a tutorial because I actually know nothing about html code. To use the button just copy the code in the box bellow, and then past it into a HTML/JavaScript gadget if you use blogger, if not, past it in what ever widget thing you need to post it into.
If you don't join, that's cool too. No not really, actually that's pretty lame. Come one! It's one little paragraph a day. this is a perfect journal idea for people who don't actually want to journal.
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