Green Light

Driving around after an ice storm is a beautiful experience.

What I mean is the trees buckling under the weight of this beautiful ice, strong and immovable trees, not breaking but yielding to the wight of solid water.

My favorite part, though, was when the ice began to fall. It was as if God was glittering the earth. The sides of the roads I drove on were covered in shards of bright, sharp, glass-like ice.

Speaking of glitter, have you ever noticed that glitter glue never works?  Ever. It's like, you buy it, and the tube his too hard to squeeze, or it only squeezes in the middle and you can't get any out of the ends. And then you get frustrated and put it away for a year and it seals SOLID shut, because it is glue, after all, and then you end up cutting it open. Why doesn't Roseart just give us a dang jar?

I'm sitting on a train now. This train is constructed in all shades of gray and has fluorescent lighting that gives a yellowish cast.  The funny thing is, I think if I redecorated this train in rich blue velvet and gold-leaf ceilings and French wallpaper and dark wooden hand railings, it would still be the blandest place on earth. Even if there were incandescent lightbulbs. It's just the nature of being on a train - the movement, the feeling of necessary evil-ness of getting from here to there.

I am also wearing lace floral tights, a peach dress, floral boots, an aqua long-sleeved shirt and a light blue scarf.

Dress code at school is all.  Black, and Today is Saturday. 

I saw a quote by Will Farrell that goes something like this: " before you marry someone, you should make them use a computer with really slow internet to find out who they REALLY are. "

I'm glad no potential mates were with me in Kenya. Kenya has pretty sketchy internet.

When I ran track as a sprinter during high school as the slowest member of the team (every team needs one of those), starts were very important. Hear the gunshot and GO!  I felt that I was not a pro at this. I always waited for other people to start just to make sure I wasn't false-starting.

Ladies and gentlemen, these days things are different. I am redeeming myself while in my car.

If I'm in front of everybody at a green light, I GO.

At first, I waited, hesitant because if other cars weren't driving beside me then I must be doing something wrong. But then I did a little self-talk: if the light is green, you can GO! 

So now, while drivers to either side of me are just realizing the light us green, I'm catching the next green light down the line and earning a few points for my former runner self.