Is there life on mars?

I love having a family. This may be a relatively weird statement, but it is true. When I was a child my family wasn't really together, and with my father's passing all I have on my side is graves to go to. Yet Charlie...well. He brings family. He has his mother, who is amazing to me and his aunt, who is also amazing to me. It is nice to feel like I'm a part of something again and most of all? It is nice to have Charlie with me. Family is a good thing.

( Private )

Ever have one of those nights where you just can't sleep?

I'm having one of those nights.

( Private to Charlie )

I'm never getting near a horse again, let alone on one.

My arm is broken in two places. Two places! Thankfully it was my left arm, so I don't have trouble writing but still. This cast is a pain.

I miss being in school.

Mostly, though, I miss having a three month break where I didn't have to do anything I didn't want to do. Where did those days go? Can I get them back somewhere? For some reason this summer I just don't feel like doing anything, you know? I want to go lay on the beach, get red like a lobster, relax and drink daiquiris all day. Instead I have to work. Inside.

Not to mention in a couple weeks it will be my turn to go on the retreat and I may very well die. Those three month summer breaks are looking mighty fine right now, let me tell you. However I think I'd get a grumpy look from Charlie were I to just...not work for three months and I can't live with that.

Outside of that...I don't really have too much to say. How about that Barack Obama guy? You know, revolutionizing the country, undoing all the crap that had been done, actually making intelligent decisions while remaining at the working man's level in a lot of ways...did you guys hear he wrote a little girl a note to get her out of her last day of school since she missed it to see him speak? I thought that was adorable.

...and I'm done.

( Charlie )

I think I'm going to go be a beach bum this weekend.

I guess there wasn't really anything I wanted to do from June 21st to the 27th anyway...

Suppose I'll have to get over my slight fear of horses.

...can I just ride one of the ponies?

EDIT: And of course I had to look up how often someone dies from horse-related activities Stupid Aussies.

I'm puzzled about something.

Not just sort of puzzled or remotely curious but extremely puzzled. It isn't by anything deep or philosophical really, at least not in nature. I'm sure someone could make it deep, if they tried very hard to. Or wanted to, which I can't imagine why they'd want to.

No, what I'm puzzled by is an interesting stain on the carpet of the office at home. I'm staring at it as I type this and I just can't figure out what it is. It wasn't there before, I can assure you. At least not before this morning and I didn't happen upon any food source or other substance that could leave such a stain. So I've been sitting here, puzzling over it because I'm tired, sick and want to know what is on my carpet.

For the moment I'm blaming the cat, but I may have to blame Charlie. Not sure yet.

I shouldn't enjoy the Killers so much, but I do. They are one of the more modern bands I really enjoy listening to.

And you know I might
Have just flown too far from the floor this time
Cause they're calling me by my name
And the zipping white light beams
disregarding bombs and satellites
Oh that was the turning point,
That was one lonely night

The star maker says it ain't so bad
The dream maker's gonna make you mad
The spaceman says everybody look down
It's all in your mind

With lyrics like that how can I not love them?

Chaaarrrllllie. Candy Mountain Chaaarrrrllllie.

It shouldn't amuse me as much as it does, but that flash animation is ridiculous and I love it. Seriously. The sequel wasn't nearly as good but the original? Classic.

Being thrown off of a mechanical bull makes James hurt :(

I think I may have sprained something. Or pulled something. When did I start getting old?

I think I need more excitement in my life.

Not that you aren't exciting my dear Charlie, because you are. Quite exciting. I just need something else I think. Something new. Something shiny to catch my interest for a while. Or perhaps I've simply gone crazy. That is seriously a possibility at this point.

Okay, this is an offer to anyone in corporate. A one time offer.

First person interested gets free coffee on me.

Yes, I'm that bored.

I've managed to escape! As in, I've managed to slip out to a local internet cafe and settle in with my laptop away from the family for a little while. Don't get me wrong, I'm loving the attention and the big family Hanukkah but sometimes a guy has just got to get away and take a breather. Of course I won't stay out too long, probably just a half an hour or so because I've left Charlie behind.

New York has been snowy and cold, quite the change from Florida but a nice, short-term change. Made a snowball, threw it at Charlie...good times.

( Phoebe )

Youtube has failed me in helping find the actual clip. So this will have to do.

( Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, I made it out of clay )

( Phoebe )

Get up, shower, drink coffee (my lovely liquid breakfast), go to work, more coffee, paperwork, setting up interviews, lunch, more work, drive home, dinner, second shower, sleep. The days are just droning on and on and it's driving me a bit mad. The only bits of change throughout my days being when my lover decides to pin me up against the wall, or to the bed. They are the moments I crave because I want to break the monotony of my days.

When I was in college I promised myself I'd never become one of those guys who just goes along with his job day in and day out without taking anything from it. So much for that.

So Halloween has come and gone and honestly? I'm not sad to see it go. There are only so many pranks from stupid high school punks that I can take in a year and I've more than reached my quota. Seriously.

I am, however, quite excited about Thanksgiving. It's one of my favorite holidays mostly because I like to stuff my face with food and not feel bad about it...since everyone stuffs their face on Thanksgiving. It's going to be the first Thanksgiving without my dad though which is sort of hard to swallow, you know? But I've got Charlie so it should be okay.

( Charlie )

( Left in each break room at Serendipity Corp )

( Private to Phoebe )

I really don't like it when animals get sick. Kitten seems to have a bit of a kitty-cold and keeps sneezing all over everything. She's also been throwing up left and right, leaving some extremely nasty messes for me to clean up. The Vet said there is nothing to worry about so I don't think she's fatally sick or anything thus I can get annoyed with her.

If she were terminal? Well, that'd be a different story.

( Private )

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[Charlie] Come home. Please.