1. My job. I love it HARD. We're getting busy and I can spend 8 hours bending over tweezing pubes in high heels and I drive home full of energy and the most obnoxious sense of joie de vivre ever. I have never loved my day job more than I love being a Brazilian waxer.
2. Natalie Merchant. Why do I not own any of her albums?
3. The "Madonna" channel on Pandora. Fer realz.
4. Fleetwood Mac.
5. Days warm enough that my spaghetti straps get to come out and play.
6. The awesomeness that is dyeing my own eyebrows (and my clients!). Not having to shade them in is saving me the most difficult part of my makeup routine every morning. So, like, you know, ONE WHOLE MINTUTE.
7. The most recent season of Mad Men on iTunes. I love Joan. I will always love Joan. I will also always covet her wardrobe and her posture, but never her dress size because it's the same as mine.
8. My BFF Sara just graduated from dental hygiene school! I am so proud of her I could spit. I can't wait for her to clean my teeth!
9. WE GET TO GO TO THE BRIDGE TOMORROW. For Father's Day! Remind me to stuff my purse with tissues. I just re-read my original post about that church and cried again. It made me cry that much harder because of how much I adore my Bridge People now that we've gotten to know them so much better. Definitely the best people we've met along our church journey. (Which we would TOTALLY continue, if not for the COMPLETE AND UTTER BULLSHIT we're getting from a certain religious website/blog host that can suck it with their dentures IN.)
10. My man. We're rapidly approaching two years together and we're only getting better with age. He infuriates me and maddens me and yet... a single text message from him and I'm more smitten than that stupid bitch in 50 Shades of Grey.
11. Summer! It has arrived! I can't wait to explore Portland with my kids. All three of them.
12. It feels like my life is coming together in a way it never has before. It is REALLY REALLY hard. Impossible even. And yet I've never been more satisfied or challenged or desperate.
Easy is for the birds. And not the kind that chase Tippi Hedron. Real life is gritty and scary and wonderful.
I only wish I'd met it in my twenties.
I was wondering what happened to the church thing. I really enjoyed reading both you & Joel....what's the scoop on that?
Posted by: Elizabeth | June 17, 2012 at 11:31 AM
Good post !
Hope we can hear more about Year of Sundays.
Posted by: Faraway Reader | June 20, 2012 at 05:52 PM
No regrets girl! You're the person you are because of what you've been through. And that person is pretty kick ass!
Posted by: jules | June 20, 2012 at 10:11 PM
The church project was very enjoyable. But like most of Amanda's projects it seems to have died on the vine.
She's blaming Belief.net and I see she has mentioned something on her twitter about a lawsuit. This girl loves throwing that "lawsuit" word around. Of course, they never amount to anything either.
Curious to know what she's going to give up on next? The chickens? Her quasi Portlandia farm life? The pube pulling that she talks about loving SO much it is kind of suspicious? This medical marijuana set up that she's kind of sort of but not really involved in? THAT one remains a headscratcher.
Posted by: Diana | June 24, 2012 at 06:14 AM
I have a friend who is an AMAZING operations/office manager and was just laid off I think. In portland....I will send her through your company's site...she's amazing (not a user either) and damn, I digress. I will send her through the clinic's website.
Posted by: Ulli | June 25, 2012 at 10:27 AM