last night I wrote in my journal,

my dream book, and my notebook from Ashland.
first time I'd written in ages. I like writing. I love black ink pens.
and the reason for that was because the power went out for awhile and I never felt like turning my computer on. I also like writing in my journal for the sheer fact that it is completely private. well unless somebody steals it or something.

my mother told such a great story last night. I called it The Plight of the Urchin Peoples.
it was about this guy w/ a shucket in his bucket that was attacked by a giant clam. then a sea witch named Ursula (no relation to The Little Mermaid) stole his voice. he fell through a trap door in the bottom of the ocean and met the urchin peoples. apparently they were disenfranchised and the man brought them back "into the fray". then after 20 long years of searching he found the sea witch and got his voice back by hugging her. hahaha.
I recorded 13 minutes of it on my phone. the women in my family definitely have a knack for storytelling to say the least.

my mom won these yummy chocolates from her work xmas party the other night and at one point I had a Grand Marnier (it's Belgian chocolate) and I said aloud "I almost asked a really dumb question: Where is Belgian chocolate from?"
to which my mother so astutely replied "It's from Ghana. Belgian Ghana chocolate."
so I asked how it got there and she said "Well the cocoa bean used to be grown in Belgium, but then...-"
"It moved!"
"Yes, it moved."
hahahahaha. I love my mother :D

today I've been drinking A LOT of water. and I have no idea why. but it tastes really good to me for some reason. which is good.