in my CD player... Belle and Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister

on the page... Lloyd and Rees's Come Together Trifling British fiction that I picked up at Melanie's house and can't put down

sincerest thanks... To Melanie, for her gracious, award-worthy hosting of a most enjoyable weekend

in my comment field... "Once you decide to fall in love with someone, you just have to go with it. For whatever might be planned out and how perfect everything's gonna be, there's also this randomness: I could do all this for you, or I could just spit on a stranger." Stephen Malkmus

in my random memory... Riding in the passenger seat of my sister's old blue truck on countless trips back and forth to her house

bizarro moment of the week... Picking up a People magazine at the grocery check-out to see a picture from my high school yearbook

toys we took to the beach... sand crab bucket, sifter, and shovel; bubbles; velcro paddle ball game; winnie-the-pooh beach ball; volleyball; frisbee