things that are hard.

writing the invitation to mom's party is proving as difficult as i had imagined it would be.

i started at around 11am, and i have been working on it, off and on, for hours. i keep having to take breaks, though.

now i am going through mom's aol address book and getting all her email addresses, so i can send the mail out to as many people as possible.

i have some other stuff to talk about, particularly my trip to new york to see lu, but i am not in a place to go into it right now. i have to leave soon to go to tab's house for pizza and cake, for tab's birthday, which is today. we're having red boy pizza for dinner, which was my mom's favorite. it's my favorite, too.

i'll have plenty to talk about next time, though. among the highlights will be...
1) how amazing lucy's apartment is.
2) how great her roommate is.
3) how great her nabe is.
4) how much more i like brooklyn that manhattan.
5) the way i am in love with lu's friendfam already.
6) things i purchased while there.
7) places i went while there.
8) famous people i met/TALKED TO while there!!!
9) mosquito bites, the acquiring of.
10) tippicanoe, our maybe new dog, and the meeting of her
11) various and sundry other tidbits of interest

i cry a lot when i am home, and stop when i am away, which makes being away very tempting, but that's an urge i am not planning on succumbing to. i have really a lot of business to attend to, so i need to just shove some wads of kleenex up my nose (to manage the sniffles) and get to work anyway. and, while being away from the immediacy of my sadness is nice and necessary, coming home to the familiarity of our new house is also nice and necessary.