5 hours of bliss

i had the best day yesterday-wanna hear about it?



1) for lunch i got an iced tea and a chocolate-chunck cookie and walked through the garden/grassy null in nolan plaza barefoot. took a nap on a bench by the fountains.

2) got off work & got my hair cut by my cousin. he has an aveda salon. it smells nice, is designed with maple wood and he cuts me a deal. pun intended. we talked about family and his travel through the country in his big black motorhome.

3) went to mondo's and ordered myself a glass of chardonnay and my favorite salad, rice and black bean. it's big. i usually eat everything but the cheese. lemon caper vinegarette. i brainstormed about my future at the table by myself. people watched.

4) drove to the urbandale library and picked up some books on optimal health, anatomy, a book on why the chinese have a lot to teach us about health, and pilates. they had a great selection of CDs. i barrowed jeff buckley (mine has disappeared), toad the wet sprocket and chemical brothers.

listened to chemical brothers with the windows down on my drive towards the sunset.

5) at the end of the road (university) in waukee, there is a benadictine church with a gigantic plot of land behind it...with no one there. i blasted jeff buckley out my car windows and sat in the grass & read. i also danced, prayed, did cartwheels, laid on the carpet-like tufts as though i was doing snow angels, danced some more, cried, and left anew.

6) got some sorbet on the way home-strawberry

7) ate sorbet & read about anatomy & physiology & the wisdom of dr. weil till i fell asleep.