Happy Easter!
Apr. 16th, 2006 08:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pacificpikachuY'know, I barely thought about the fact that it's Easter all day... Hmmm.
Today was a good day. Contemplative, a little sad, but not in the desperate, terrible, clawing way that it is sometimes. It was also...quite beautiful.
I got up at about 10 AM and cleaned the cat litter, put another layer of varnish on my mask, and basically after that we headed out to Davis.
The car ride there was nice--we listened to mainly Ayumi Hamasaki and Sousei no Aquarion. It was a little hard to hear over the rain for the first half of the trip, though--after that, the rain slacked off. We went straight to the Club (a fancy restaurant, pool, and golf course my Grandma is a member of) for brunch with my Grandma, aunt, uncle, and one cousin. It was a huge, fancy, wonderful buffet, and it was delicious. Mmmm. I ate so much--I was stuffed just to the point of not getting sick. I was a little worried I would get sick, though. ^^;;
From there, we went to my aunt and uncle's house, where we did the usual sit-around-in-the-living-room-and-talk thing. My aunt is really nice and a former veterinarian and quite the fellow animal-lover, so Mom and I always have a good time chatting with Gramze (what we call my Grandma) and Aunt Marybeth. Uncle Tim usually kind of keeps to himself--he's brilliant (he's too many doctor-ly things to even name), but rather quiet. Ryan and Todd mainly played basketball and video games. I read Time and Newsweek magazines during the discussion. My Grandma noticed how much I enjoyed reading them, so now she's getting me a subscription. That was really sweet of her. :D
We went on a really gorgeous walk around the neighborhood and through a park/wildlife preserve after that. The clouds towering in the sky and long, waving grass grass and everything...man, I can't even describe how beautiful it all was. Just...breathtaking. I started contemplating things as I walked along, but they took on a slightly more optimistic tone than usual because I was so stunned by how gorgeous everything was. I started thinking that maybe I could move on and everything would be okay after all... I'm not sure if I still feel that way (probably not, to be completely honest), but it was nice to be able to breathe again and feel some degree of freedom, at least. I tend to underestimate the power of nature in rejuvenating my spirits until I get out into it and become awestruck. It was a really nice experience, to put it mildly. There was most certainly a sheen of sadness to it all, but that didn't change the fact that it was almost euphoria-incuding.
Not a lot happened after that that was worth mentioning. We drove home, I thought a lot, Yoko Kanno music was present, we stopped at Dairy Queen for ice cream... That's about it.
Augh. Definitely not looking forward to school tomorrow. >.< Not at all... I sense an emotional wreck coming on. Maybe I'm wrong, though. I hope I am.
I'm hoping to get Mom to watch AMVs with me when she comes back from visiting Rivi, though she might get back too late. ._.; Oh well.
I hope everyone had a nice Easter!
Today was a good day. Contemplative, a little sad, but not in the desperate, terrible, clawing way that it is sometimes. It was also...quite beautiful.
I got up at about 10 AM and cleaned the cat litter, put another layer of varnish on my mask, and basically after that we headed out to Davis.
The car ride there was nice--we listened to mainly Ayumi Hamasaki and Sousei no Aquarion. It was a little hard to hear over the rain for the first half of the trip, though--after that, the rain slacked off. We went straight to the Club (a fancy restaurant, pool, and golf course my Grandma is a member of) for brunch with my Grandma, aunt, uncle, and one cousin. It was a huge, fancy, wonderful buffet, and it was delicious. Mmmm. I ate so much--I was stuffed just to the point of not getting sick. I was a little worried I would get sick, though. ^^;;
From there, we went to my aunt and uncle's house, where we did the usual sit-around-in-the-living-room-and-talk thing. My aunt is really nice and a former veterinarian and quite the fellow animal-lover, so Mom and I always have a good time chatting with Gramze (what we call my Grandma) and Aunt Marybeth. Uncle Tim usually kind of keeps to himself--he's brilliant (he's too many doctor-ly things to even name), but rather quiet. Ryan and Todd mainly played basketball and video games. I read Time and Newsweek magazines during the discussion. My Grandma noticed how much I enjoyed reading them, so now she's getting me a subscription. That was really sweet of her. :D
We went on a really gorgeous walk around the neighborhood and through a park/wildlife preserve after that. The clouds towering in the sky and long, waving grass grass and everything...man, I can't even describe how beautiful it all was. Just...breathtaking. I started contemplating things as I walked along, but they took on a slightly more optimistic tone than usual because I was so stunned by how gorgeous everything was. I started thinking that maybe I could move on and everything would be okay after all... I'm not sure if I still feel that way (probably not, to be completely honest), but it was nice to be able to breathe again and feel some degree of freedom, at least. I tend to underestimate the power of nature in rejuvenating my spirits until I get out into it and become awestruck. It was a really nice experience, to put it mildly. There was most certainly a sheen of sadness to it all, but that didn't change the fact that it was almost euphoria-incuding.
Not a lot happened after that that was worth mentioning. We drove home, I thought a lot, Yoko Kanno music was present, we stopped at Dairy Queen for ice cream... That's about it.
Augh. Definitely not looking forward to school tomorrow. >.< Not at all... I sense an emotional wreck coming on. Maybe I'm wrong, though. I hope I am.
I'm hoping to get Mom to watch AMVs with me when she comes back from visiting Rivi, though she might get back too late. ._.; Oh well.
I hope everyone had a nice Easter!
