I know just how a butterfly feels to fly.

Things I love about the weekends/days off: Being lazy. Going barefoot. Riding my bike. Making YouTube videos. Wearing my oldest, comfiest t-shirt and jeans. Taking Sable on long walks. I always take him on a short walk before I leave for work and on my lunch breaks, but I feel bad pulling on him and making him hurry. So whenever I can, I take him on a long-as-you-like walk, and afterwards we sit in the sun and he rolls around in the grass while I read a book. I just started the children's classic A Little Princess -- about time, given how often I've seen the two movies. After I finish I want to try to watch both of them, one after the other.

Daylight Savings Time is here! I hate having to get up an hour earlier, but I love having more time to ride my bike. And I certainly appreciated having a longer day today, because Athena and I went over to her mom's house this afternoon, and I got to spend a lot of time playing on the swingset and the trampoline with Eva. That girl is a hoot, and I absolutely love their swingset.

I've always loved swinging. I basically grew up on a swingset. We had a rickety metal one, then a rickety wooden one. I was a tall kid, and neither one was good enough for an intense swinger like me. I know because the chains on my swings kept breaking. In fact they broke so many times over the years that I lost count. Sometimes I went flying off, and sometimes I just plopped down in the dirt. Twice when the chains broke one of my fingernails was ripped completely off, but I bit my nails so much as a kid that it was hard to tell. I love the wind in your face when you're swinging, the way the sky rushes down at you, and being able to see the rooves of houses.

Just now I realized that I forgot to ask to borrow their DVD of Pan's Labyrinth while I was over there.