i gues list-keeping is sort of an obsessive-compulsive thing. but on the other hand, without a list, i’m always thinking WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO BE DOING THAT I’M FORGETTING ABOUT?
so, in cleaning for the party we stacked great quantities of things in various places in order to get them out of sight. lots and lots of stuff that was piled on the counter in the kitchen went into the office, this horrible nightmare mess that i’m sitting in right now.
BUT WHERE IS MY NOTEBOOK WITH MY LISTS IN IT?
i know it’s here somewhere.
but it isn’t.
and it’s MAKING ME CRAZY.
i said to myself, ok, you just have to remember what was on the various lists, and you can re-creat them.
BUT IF I KNEW WHAT WAS ON THEM I WOULDN’T NEED A LIST IN THE FIRST PLACE.
i know there’s nothing earth-shattering right now, but i remember that there’s a list of things i definitely want to see in NYC in three weeks. perhaps that, at least, i could re-create.
but there are other lists in that little book, lists of things that surely must be important, lots of stuff that i was putting off before but now have time to do IF I COULD JUST FIND THAT DAMN BOOK.
when looking for it here in the office i came across various layers of things, stuff that has been sitting here for a long time, stuff that needs to be recycled or thrown away. but i didn’t want to do that because i wanted to focus on the task at hand.
but maybe it would be good to start cleaning this office, finally, so that more than half of the floor would actually be exposed. who knows what i might find.
right now i don’t want to think about any of it. here’s a few more hawaii photos, this is only the second full day of our honeymoon. we’re on the Pali Highway on Oahu, this very scenic road that leads to Honolulu. There were some lookouts along the way and somebody else stopped here when we did and we took each other’s pictures. this happened quite a bit in hawaii, since of course the place is mostly full of tourists, more specifically, honeymooners.
this is the spectacular view from the top of the highway, the Pali Lookout.
it was SO WINDY up there. kevin took this photo of me as i was trying to videotape and not get blown over the side. SO WINDY.
we drove down to honolulu and took a photo alongside the road before we actually reached the city. it looks nice from a distance.
once we got into the city, though, it was another story. i will go back to hawaii at least once in my life, but i hope to avoid honolulu altogether. too many cars. the highway signs weren’t very clear, either, and we didn’t get on the right road and it was annoying and congested and it reminded me of LA. I don’t want LA in Hawaii. at least if i’m in LA i’m prepared for the nightmare of traffic. In hawaii i want palm trees and crystal blue water and not lots of people.
we didn’t stay in honolulu that long, though. more photos later.
ok then,
grace