old lady

last night i was summing up the last 2 or 3 years of my life to an old friend that i haven't talked to in several years. it was weird summing it up in a paragraph. ha... i feel like i've lived a full life already. so much has happened in the last several years. now i'm about to head on another adventure. i'm going to Asia for the first time!!! i've never been before and i'm stoked because i'll be snowboarding.

it's been raining all morning, and i've been listening to it on the window above my bed. nothin like waking up to a rainy day. reminds me of memphis rainy days.

a friend asked me if i've written any more songs recently. nope. i feel constipated. i've decided since last night that i've got emotions boiling inside but no words for any of this. thus, the lack of blog postings.

i also realized last night that i know foreign cities by the view out the coffee shop window. ha... i'm ready to find some amazing new coffee and warm coffee shops to chill in this christmas. pa! for now!

thai, cold, partay, birthdays & definitely some incense burning

last night was fun. it was sarah's bday. i met her and erin at a thai/cantonese/japonese/sushi restaurant. i fully expected to have canned corn in whatever i ordered but to my surprise... this was actually authentic. the sign on the door did not lie. it was really thai food. i had chicken peanut curry. AMAZING! it burned the heck out of my lips but made me warm and cozy inside.

before supper, i had gone early into the city to actually buy the eyebrow ring because the store had been closed the day before. closed on a monday... that's normal... just like java cabana. i got it surprisingly quickly and then had nothing to do for about 1.5hrs in the cold. so i just walked. and walked. and walked some more. found a cool park. wandered down streets i'd never seen before and past people i'd never seen before. then realized i was going in the wrong direction. jumped a tram in the right direction. jumped another tram to get to the restaurant and went inside early to wait in the warmth instead of in the cold.

my fingers were freezing because i'd been carrying sarah's present in a bag. it was biscotti that i'd baked and i put it in a small bag i found in the office. the bag had a pretty picture on the front. i definitely carried this bag that said, "a happy world is a clean one" all around the great city of krakow.

krakow is a difficult place. every time i go into a shop or a store and i try to explain what i need in polish, the people just stare at me with a blank look. there's no attempting to understand what i might be trying to say--they just stare at me with no response. so i flop around like a fish out of water until i've tried all the phrases i know and then finally ask if they speak english. and of course they do. duh... what was i thinking? however, this doesn't really help me. sometimes when they respond to me in polish, i need them to repeat it. however, when they see that i'm not understanding, they change to english and my hopes of practicing my language skilz or lack there of are lost. needless to say, i wish for language learning purposes, that this wasn't a tourist town and that they would stop speaking to me in english.

brazil and tatoo parlors

so i had to take my eyebrow ring out the other day. and when it was time to put it back in, i knew (from experience) i'd probably drop it a few times before successfully screwing the little tiny ball back onto it. so i closed the sink drain and shut the toilet cover. and all was ready... sure enough, the little ball fell right out of my fingers and bounced once in the sink and then... NOTHING! i bounced perfectly toward the sidewall of the sink into the open hole for the extra sink drain.

yesterday i went to the mall to look for a new one. to no avail, i wandered through 3 floors of stores and found nothing. finally i was about to give up when i saw a couple of girls getting their jackets on to go outside. one of the girls had a really cool eyebrow ring in. i kept walking and then said, "screw it" and i turned back around and said, "excuse me. do you speak english?" she did so i explained my problem. so my surprise she offered to take me to the rynek to go find a tatoo shop that would sell that kind of thing. it was really cool.

i was really thankful that i sucked it up and actually asked for help.

i've been thinking about getting a small tatoo for a while, but i haven't known what to get. now i'm thinking of getting a tattoo in polish that says, "i want to live the way". or something like that. who knows.

today i went swimming!!! that was exciting!!!

yesterday i got my butt handed to me by some teenage boys at kids klub. i honestly feel like i'm in middle school when these 2 girls used to call me Michael Jackson (they were making fun of my hair cut for like a year straight) and laugh their heads off non stop. I'm just defenseless against these kids. All I can do it sit there and take their crap and try not to react. Most humilitating experience ever.

tonight is thai food!!! i'm not getting my hopes up though... it'll probably still have canned corn mixed in it with ketchup somewhere.