this is way slower on my moms' computer.

if i knew how to put photography up here, i'd show you these weird plants that were following us on our hike today. they looked like salmonberry plants in miniature, but i don't think they were. they have three leaves on a single stem, but one must scrutinise heavily the plants to see the stem, so they look like they're floating. the reeeeeeally mysterious part was that EVERY ONE OF THEM WAS THE SAME COLOUR OF KHAKI. creepy. it felt like when we stopped looking, they got up and moved. there was also a raven following us, making woodpecker noises. creepy as well. my "hiking friend" talks a lot, though, so i felt okay. actually, my "h-f" is a kind and humourous girl, so i felt better than okay. and skookum falls is WAY cooler from up close than it is from the highway. and ravens are supposedly old loggers who've passed on, so maybe it was my grandfather saying "hi!" and we just didn't know it.

Is this a test?

WHEN did the "hermit club" turn into the "helmet club"? Tell me "just recently".

I remember walking our dog in The Scratch, and always turning left at the street and left at the next street, and eventually turning left at another and again, and again at our driveway. I knew all the "sights" like the back of my whatever.

For some reason one day, I made all RIGHT turns, arriving -- yes, you guessed -- back at my driveway. Essentially the exact same route but it was as if I'd traveled to another state. Everything looked totally different, or at least I saw things I'd not seen before, which obviously were always there. Perception (or not) is a funny thing.

Hey! A new best score!

I neglected to tell all you guys who have been plugging for me, that I got a new high score in Boggle yesterday. I am no longer in the middle of the Very Low Scores, and have achieved (once at least) the middle of the Low Scores! I was like I don't believe it! I was like so pumped. I was like can I go even higher?

And the strange thing is, I got points for words I was like guessing about. When I saw them okayed, I was like ----- words fail me, like duh.