Yellow

"Look at the stars.
Look how they shine for you and all the things you do
And they were all yellow.."

- Yellow by Coldplay.

Things are bit crazy. I'm a bit discombobulated, but hanging tough. So much to expound on, but so little time to do so. Life is progressing well. 2009 is in full swing. The pace for the renovations have quickened. Walls have been placed and plastered. Closet doors are in position. The master suite bathroom appliances are being installed along with the copper pipes for the plumbing.

The Snickerdoodle's new room is a goregeous lemon yellow. Bright and airy. I felt a bit freaked out when I saw it. Not that I didn't like the color, but it was the exact color I had planned for her initially when I was pregnant and was making plans to move to Old Town Alexandria, VA. My vision was... or rather is.... her room a shade of yellow and my room the Tiffany blue hue. My room will be last to work on since it's still on the old part of the house. The budget only called for paint and stuff for the new addition.

The Inauguration was crazy! In a good way and in some instances almost scary as I witnessed overwhelmed people falling ill and passing out. Still This city was flooded with people from.... every corner of the earth. I didn't do too much over the weekend. Just a night out with Papi. We had to see Notorious, the biopic on Christopher Wallace aka Notorious B.I.G.  

Tuesday, Inauguration Day, I was in the thick of things getting a story. Though for much of the whole day I was in warmth, covering the watch party at the Wilson Building, it was still a sight to behold.

My photo album via flickr is here -----> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahoganie/sets/72157612628442877/

Currently I'm working on two journalism assignments. It's nothing big, but it's bugging the hell outta me right now, especially when the deadline is tomorrow. I can't concentrate today for some reason. I have a lot on my plate, especially those with deadlines of March 1. I want to knock those out of the way before my birthday weekend in Feburary.

Ah! The birthday. I still don't have any real plans. Perhaps a small gathering for dessert/happy hour at Coco Sala, a boutique-ish chocolate bar/lounge on the F Street corridor. Actually I wouldn't mind if it were just Papi and I for this. Really though.. my mind can't wrap around my birthday right now. Too much to do before it. Ha!

What I am loving right now is how I'm (re-)connecting with old.. old.. OLD friends. I finally broke down and joined the dreaded Facebook. For one I'm completely floored that everyone and their momma (literally) is on Facebook; even A LOT of well known who's who of my community and other affluent DC circles. Anywho, on my first night on the site, I surfed around trying to figure it out. I stumbled across my old friend "Kay." Normally I don't claim any best friends, but I had to Kay would be one and my other close buddy "Nik." All three of us practically grew up together as we attended the same school from pre-k to the 8th.

We kept in touch every now and then, but by adulthood we had lost touch with each other. Well more so Nik and I lost touch with Kay. With Nik and I anytime we reconnect it's like we never missed a beat. We would have to play a little catch up but otherwise things would flow smoothly. I haven't really seen Kay since Nik had a house/pool party during our freshman year in college and I hadn't really talked to her since a year after the party. So to run into her Facebook was totally ... AWESOME!

So far we've been exchanging emails and added each other on Twitter. Hopefully we can find time to really connect in person. In a lot of instances I really do miss the "tight as glue" bond I had with Nik and Kay. These are the chicas that have known me the longest... practically since birth. Granted a lot as changed in our lives and our bond is a little looser.. we still have remained connected. More than likely we'll be connected, especially since our families were each other's families. Our families apparently still ask us about each other.

Aside from connecting with Kay, what has me even more vexed is that once I linked to Kay on Facebook, the site dug deep(er) into their database match making system and found more of my old friends from the same school. I'm linked up to quite a few of them and while it may sound corny... it's exciting. It's like a mini (virtual) reunion. Folks I haven't seen since the 8th grade or at Nik's party in college and to have them remember me and moments that we had with each other. These folks were part of my extended family. All of us traveled together from grade to grade, growing up as a group of siblings. We fought like cats and dogs with each other, but really we were thick as thieves if you messed with our class.

As I've read through some of the profiles I was shocked to see who hooked up and got married, who has children, who is gay, who is still in school (like me), who grew up to be such a butterfly, who grew up to be such a "stud," and etc.

Ironically I miss those days more then I do my high school and (intial) undergraduate years.

Yet.. such is life.