I've ridden this roller coaster before. I'm started to get back on track again.

I went on a pumpkin quest today. My city is surrounded on all sides by farms and more farms. In the fall, you can purchase all sorts of goods: those silly oddly shaped gourds, corn stalks, indian corn, squash, tomatoes, and pumpkins, and more.

I can never remember where I bought pumpkins the year before. I hate going to Wal-Mart or something to get pumpkins... I prefer to give my money directly to the farmers. So I drove around a bit until I found my pumpkin patch. I selected two pumpkins - one large and tall, the other short and squat. I have plans for them! Mwahahahaaa!

I'll probably carve the little one tomorrow.

I traipsed over to my parent's house for dinner. I gave my mother her shirt, and showed them the first roll of pics I've had developed from my trip to Canada. Nothing terribly interesting... All the really cool pictures from the zoo are on the roll that's still in my camera.

However, on the front of the roll were about 7 or 8 pictures from a little... photo session I had in my kitchen. When I was showing my mom the pictures, I tried to skip over them. Of course that made her really want to see them. My mom, Min and I all ended up rolling around on the floor laughing hysterically. My dad just thought it was a waste of film. Sometimes I think he has no sense of humor.

So after I got home I scanned in the pics and arranged them like I had planned when I took them. You can see the results here if you like. Oh, and just a warning: the page is rather graphics-heavy, and may contain humor that appeals to the Very Odd.

Dave and I talked online last night about the entry from October 14. (Yes, he reads my journal. Or rather, he does now. grin I've made it clear that if I have a problem with him I'd rather hash it out "live" rather than him reading about it in my journal first. And conversely, if he has a problem with something I've written in my journal, he should talk to me about it.) It was kind of a relief that he was thinking almost the same things I have been.

We decided it's Way Too Soon. Not that I was expecting him to appear on my doorstep tomorrow and pop The Question, but just the fact that we're thinking about it... That says something. Our one-year anniversary of knowing each other (in person) will be June 30, 2000. Because we can only have limited contact with each other, I can't imagine deciding anything firmly until we've known each other for at least a year.

I could argue that we've known each other since at least August of 1998, since that's when we really started talking a lot online. But I'm looking at the time between August 1998 and June 1999 as our "getting to know each other" phase. It wasn't until he first showed up on my doorstep that I knew this could work.

Ah, yes. Patience, young grasshopper...