I want to try and be terrific. Even for an hour.

If I'm honest, today has bummed me out. I saw all the signs lining up for it, and it was almost exactly like I expected. Now, in its hollows, the rain started up again, I went home late, made a good dinner, cleaned up, and put away laundry. Now I'm sitting up in my upstairs window listening to the far off noise of someone screaming at his wife. I have like a terrible tangle of things I'm excited to write about on this thing, but at the moment, I just feel kinda worn down. I so often come across wrong; not just wrong, but the worst idea of myself I can imagine, and that bums me out. I think I'm just so tired.

Something funny/horribly stressful that happened today was that I went over to feed the cats for Chris and Katie, and the key they'd left for me didn't work. I was going crazy, dashing around rattling windows, trying to figure out if the key was wrong or if I was just that stupid, and feeling pretty bad about myself. I kept imagining both their little mean tiger cats dying under my bad inattention while they were at a funeral in Canada. I called them, verified that yes, it was the right key, and continued flailing. Eventually, I went back to check the hutch I'd been originally told to find the key in, and... sure enough, there was another, second key there on a different shelf.

Apparently, whoever had owned their house before them had stored their spare key, unnoticed by Chris and Katie, in the exact same hutch. Who would have thought? People have much the same ideas.

Here's one picture of many of a castle we went to this weekend. This wasn't actually the castle itself, but a landscape castle in front of the main castle(s).