wildlife is crazy

maybe i'm just ignorant
but i didn't know that moose could swim.
i went kayaking today at lake eklutna
and during our lunch break
my sister, her husband and i
watched a moose swim across the lake!

truly, we didn't even realize it was a moose until it
rose out of the water and walked on shore.
we'd all seen the odd dark formation
glide across the water but thought it was driftwood,
not a head and huge antlers.

we also found mt. doom.
yep. it was pretty sweet.

-nicole

land of the midnight sun

it's almost midnight and not dark yet
so i'm going to record a video of it in a few minutes.
i won't be able to post it until i get back, unfortunately.

i saw a sea otter today and golly, it was so cute!
i thought i'd recorded it swimming around
but there's no trace of it on my camera
so apparently i didn't push the button correctly. oops.

i'm really tired so this is all i can come up with right now.
still a little jet-lagged, i guess.

-nicole

a northward traveler

i'm flying to alaska in twelve hours.
somehow, i've managed to not pack yet.
thankfully, just having to pack for cornerstone
has me feeling pretty confidant in my swift packing skills.

i've been very social in the two weeks
since then and i can't think of hardly a night that i spent
sitting at home by myself.
phew. i'm tired.

i'm excited to be going to alaska but
i'm already missing my own little room,
my friends, my cat.

anyone wanna come with and keep me company
on the plane?

-nicole

be still my tummy

i'm trying to drink some airborne
but it's just not sitting well with my taste buds tonight.
not that it ever tastes good
but it's so repulsive to me right now
that even looking at the glass makes
my stomach a little sickly.
swallow, gag, shudder. repeat.

i've always had an aversion to medication.
my mom had to bribe me to take that crazy pink
amoxicillin when i was a child.
tablets and capsules weren't much easier for me.
and i have NEVER been able to handle cough syrup.
that stuff tastes like liquid death.
i was a pretty healthy kid and she always said
that i hated medicine so much that i willed myself
to never get sick.

i need to learn how to do that again.

-nicole

here i am, wordless again

i've not posted for a little while.
i guess that's because i'm not sure what to say.
any suggestions? any questions?
for months most everything i've written has
been a disappointment.
this isn't me begging for compliments,
rather i'm just being honest.

despite my lack of actual writing,
inside i'm feeling a resurgence in my desire to write.
this doesn't mean that anything will come to fruition
but being given the desire to create again feels good.
i give up too easily so for now, i'm going to try.
it's been declared here so you can hold me to it.

-nicole