just shy of a month

it seems like it's been forever since i've released my thoughts in this capacity. alot has happened in the past few weeks. most i've forgotten to be quite honest. mom and dad are in paradise and leave for their cruise this sunday. i'm so excited to hear how it goes. cupids day came and went with a smile and a starlight. work is busy, and they've let people go. the economy is continuing to tank and it looks grimmer by the minute. i'm looking forward to summer adventures with lovely and have thought about dabbling in the art of farming chickens. i visited a junkyard. grilled out. swung in the rain and went to a yard sale. i still have the beard and may shave it off any day now. i'm suppose to be training for the marathon. umm... this past weekend i took the jeep for a ride. it was a beautiful day and speeding along the country roads help the cobwebs disappear. i came across a yard sale where i bought 'the book of virtues: a treasury of great moral stories'. a thick book. more pages than i've read in my lifetime. all for a dollar fifty. seemed like a good deal. i thumbed through the pages before i bought it... and decided i wanted it after reading a note that had been written from a father to a son on the first page. i could tell the book contained many treasures. those of the literary nature as well as discovering a financial treasure. i discovered a crisp two dollar bill sandwiched between the pages once i had brought it home. moments later the lovely discovered another. i bought the book for a dollar and two quarters... and it now has paid me four dollars. it is a magical money book. i've flipped through every page since hoping to find more bills. no luck. but i will continue to search for treasure in that book. a book of virtues and moral stories... and i know that i will come away from it richer and better off than when i found it.