1. I like all kinds of good food

2. I like to dress nicely and make an effort to be put together when I go outside the house

3. I like dogs

4. I like not needing a car

but mostly

5. I like to walk really, really fast. I do not like dawdlers and slowpokes. If you are shuffling slowly along the path, admiring your loafers or the sky or whatever, I will fucking draft you, then I will pass you. I am not in a “hurry” per se, I just do NOT like to walk slowly. Ever.

When I visited Manhattan several years ago, I swear one of my most favorite things of all was to merge into sidewalk traffic and feel like FINALLY the rest of the world was going at my pace. Walking there was like a dream.

That said, there are many other reasons I could not live in New York, but anyway.

It’s the six-year anniversary of our first date. Wow! Also the night we met. We’ll celebrate by going out for Brian’s favorite food: pizza.

In the oven right now: pumpkin walnut muffins.

Yet more tulips to plant tomorrow — the last of them. It’s kind of cool to be planting something in the ground that will hibernate for several months before showing a stem. I am dropping the bulbs into their wells with a bit of black kitchen compost, a nice snack to get through the winter. In spring I’ll spread a mix of soil and compost all around my plants. They are all going to be fucking huge.

This week has felt interminably long. Tomorrow Brian’s away at a martial arts seminar much of the day, but I will have the car, so I’ll be grocery shopping and taking Kona to the dog park as per usual. At the store I’m getting t-giving ingredients, mostly a ton of spices, and stuff for a pumpkin pie.

Today I decided to do most of my xmas shopping at Whole Foods. They have so much rad stuff there, and it’s two blocks from my office. I could get this all taken care of by the first week of Dec.