Fluttering

"You said, 'Ain't this just like the present, To be showing up like this.' As the moon waned to crescent, we started to kiss." - Bon Iver

On a scale from 1 to 10, I give this day a 5. It was neither good nor bad, just neutral. I've been pretty tired all day, given the fact that I didn't get to sleep last night until 3am. I tossed and turned, listened to music, watched music videos on You Tube, and then tossed and turned some more. I despise insomnia! I really hope to get a good night's sleep tonight.

My boss is trying to convice me to take off two weeks in the Fall and take a class at this art school to learn how to design and make clothes. My boss is "Mr. Risk-Taker." He has all these crazy ideas and then he actually follows through on them. I have no problem with thinking of crazy things I want to do, but I never actually do them. He's got this whole scenario planned out for me. He says I need to not buy any more clothes, just get ideas from the clothes I want to buy. Then I can use all the money I save from not buying clothes to take the class. When I finish the class, I need to go to New York and shop at Mood for fabrics just like they do on Project Runway and then make my own clothes. He is so crazy! It sounds wonderful, but it will never happen. At least he's given me something to dream about.

Today, I'm wearing the Fluttering Obi dress minus the Obi belt. I decided to wear the Lap Around Belt with it instead. It was in the 70's here today, so I went sans tights, and I actually didn't have to wear a cardigan for once. As I walked to my car after work tonight, there was a warm breeze blowing my hair. It felt so good. I looked up at the dark, cloudy sky and just wanted to stand there forever. Simple pleasures, right?

The song of the day is "Blood Bank" by Bon Iver. I freaking love this song. I love the part about the moon waning to crescent and then they started to kiss. So romantic! I've always wondered what "the secret" was he refers to in it. There are alot of different opinions on what this song is about. I found this one, and I liked it the best:
"The simple conversation in the first verse is just a simple conversation that started a relationship, and the narrator reminisces about the simplicity and innocence of human interaction. This song is quite clearly about past, present, and future. Two people meet at a blood bank, a simple unassuming random location, and soon realize that presently, they are falling in love with each other. Neither of them expected to fall in love, it just happened. The present just showed up. And in that moment, it was cold and day turned to night, and the moon became visible. At defining moments in your life, small details are everything, You can't forget them, and this is a description of them. The last lines of the song clearly depict a view of the future, but it is not a concrete view, but its obviously a reference to a future together with children. The secret that we know, that we don't know how to tell, is love. Love is random and beautiful and undefinable. Sometimes you literally don't even know how to say it or how to describe it." - snakes11

I'm going to try to get some sleep now and hopefully dream of designing clothes, warm breezes, waning moons, and the like. Have a good night!