dashed plans

i was going to start this post in a different manner, but i just titled it "DASHED plans" which in turn reminds me of Dan Ashley, which reminds me of yesterday. so there, i shall begin.

yesterday, i was the one who took a sick day. as you can imagine, balmy, blue-skied saturdays are not the best days for being sick, especially when you have NO responsibilities to handle for the day. my head and throat just werent in it, though. so i stayed around the house alone, watching movies and drinking tea. i honestly must have had over ten mugs of tea. this house doesnt deal very quietly with wind- so the whole day i listened as air crashed into the sides of the house and rattled around outside. it looked so nice out, minus that. but i finally got the courage up, and made sure to get bundled up (well, i mean i brought a hoodie) and took a step outside for the sake of fresh air, planning on making my way to Fisherman's Cove and back. upon entry into the outside world, i realized that it was warm /despite/ the wind, and i peeled my hoodie off and found myself to be quite comfortable sporting a tanktop, sandals, and some cords.

i dont think there's been a much more beautiful day since i've been here.

i arrived at Fisherman's Cove and the tide was way high. the highest i'd seen it yet. the waves were rowdy, but the sun's heat was radiant and powerful, and so i hopped onto a ledge that was part of the cliff by the shore and sat. Fisherman's Cove is not a beach, more of a little inlet i'd say. a guy came down with a windsurf board and zipped right into the midst of the bay, till i could roughly make him out in the distance- then he flopped over, disappeared behind the waves, and in another 7 minutes he was back to the cove where he had started. an older woman in a wetsuit sat in the waves on a floatie noodle for almost as long as i ended up sitting in my spot, which was at least half an hour if not more.

now some of you are waiting for me to get to the Dan Ashley part. as i sat there, meeting the tide nearly face to face on that rock, i thought of everyone i know who surfs or has surfed. this includes my mom, josh and dan all of ex-bromley 101, jer, miles, etc. the waves werent well-developed in such a small little cove, but i imagined that they would be at least the equivalent of New England waves if not better-- and that they would be more rideable on a full beach, down the road at army bay or the like. still nothing like Cali of course. at least, they werent yesterday.. but people surf here, that's for sure. so perhaps i have yet to see :) i'll check them out today, perhaps- it's raining out now and likely for the next few days (good call shuff, your weather report has proven true).

so yes. that's it, no big story about dan. i just wanted you to know that i was thinking about you. after that excursion, i came home and watched more movies and drank more tea. Mandy had bought me medicine, a movie (well, rented), and cans of soup among other things and dropped them off before going to rob's. so incredibly kind of her! unfortunately, the can of soup that i opened, which had initially sounded promising (something like malaysian red curry) turned out to both smell and taste like it had green pepper-flavored broth. i love green pepper, but i hate the flavoring of green pepper- here's the difference: green pepper is fresh, crisp, watery; green pepper flavoring is none of the above- have a pizza with green pepper as the topping, then take the green pepper off and eat the plain pizza. then you'll taste what i'm talking about. anyhow. egh.

today i am going to at least one, if not two, church services. i am also going to talk to the manager of a small cafe down the road in Manly about getting a very part time part time job. like, a-few-random-shifts-a-week-type part time. and that's the agenda. my throat still hurts but i'll get over it. i'm going back to bed. i had gotten up early in hopes that the rain hadnt started yet so i could catch the sunrise, but it's 7:30 and there's still no light coming through the kitchen windows, which means basically that there IS no sun today.

buenos dias/noches!