my favourite quote ever!

" If you lack the iron and fizz to take control of your own life, if you insist on leaving your fate to the gods, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked. The dull and prosaic will be granted adventures that will dice their central nervous systems like an onion, romantic dreamer will end up in the rope yard....the price of self destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought."
-Tom Robbins

add it up

7 years
9 addresses (together-12 if you include the cities I lived in during our odd courtship.)
4 home cities (Santa Cruz, New Orleans, Shibata, Beijing)
4 countries visited (China, Japan, Thailand, Korea)
1 marriage
3 affairs (Sarah, Autumn and Miho)
1 separation
1 tsunami
1 major earthquake, many aftershocks
1 typhoon season2 plagues (West Nile and Avain Flu)
1 song recorded together (that funny French thing)
2 university degrees
2 art exhibits
8 websites
3 favourite restaurants (Linda’s, Bluebird Café, Babylon)
13 jobs
4 trips cross-country
3 cars (Suzanne, Mick and the nameless one in Japan)
4 bikes
1 ipod
5 computers
1 long winter watching the Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel Box sets
5 video memberships
8 library cards
3 weddings (Kathy & Walter, Bryan & Lynne, Kevin & Hannah)
1 funeral (John’s)
4 beds
2 fat phases
2 Kosher Thanksgivings
2 lost grandmothers