This evening Bj and I walked over to Brent and Sciarrino’s (remember they only live a few blocks away) to see their new paved driveway. Their yard is looking beyond wonderful with little hanging lanterns in the big tree, water toppling out of a large rock my brother bore a hole into, and all lengths of grasses. Jealous, that’s what I am. The front of our house makes it look like it is still a rental. Coming back to it I decided to keep walking instead of heading inside. I did a few loops around the little streets by myself. Not something I normally do as I’m a big wimp. No I’m not scared of gangsters, or running into a dead man in a car, like they found last year around here. It’s cats that I hate. That’s it. Now you all know I don’t like cats that go out side, kill birds and fight with each other very loudly at all hours of the night, they freak me out.

But none the less I did walk around by myself tonight. Just before it got inky black, when my white skirt sort of glimmered in the light. I flip-flopped my way around houses and jumped up and down off the curbs as we have a weird assortment of sidewalks/no sidewalks around here. I saw a fat middle aged man with a scruffy beard watching some kind of space invader show on the television and heard a few woman laughing loudly in the back of that house. I saw little children’s toys lined up on a the window sill of a powder blue room. I smelled delicious flowers mixed with herbs mixed with turned soil as people stood out watering. I passed big Victorian style houses and tiny little cottages I hadn’t noticed before.

I paid attention and I loved it. Just being by myself, letting thoughts swirl around in my head. It was wonderful and I suggest to everyone to take a walk around the block tomorrow and see  what you find.

Well the biggest thing to happen around here lately was the Extreme Makeover: The Home Edition coming to Corvallis, a town 20 miles south where I went to school. The reveal was today, and luckily I heard about the whole thing by reading Sarah’s blog. I emailed her as soon as I read they were here with a "what what? details!" to which she thankfully replied in great detail. We found out you could go to a nearby church and park and then take a shuttle in to the site. I was thinking it was going to be crazy with people, but we went last night (after the furniture had already been moved in) and there were probably what like 150 people watching Sciarrino? Including the world’s biggest Extreme Makeover fan, who was standing right next to us. The house is beautiful:


He was all, "I’ll be back out in a five minuets." And he did come back out and was very kind taking pictures and signing things. My first famous person siting ever!


Hey we were both really sweaty so I did us a favor and put us in black and white! It was fun to hang out there with Sciarrino and check it all out. I think we’ll drive by again in a few weeks and see what they do to the neighbor’s yard, because it was full of tents and production vehicles, front and back.  We decided not to go to the reveal today because it would have been an all day thing with how early you had to get there. So if any of you went to it, details!