Another One

Have you been noticing a lot of odd coincidences lately? I have. It's enough to put me in mind of the cosmic spheres coming into alignment, except I was kind of under the impression that the Age of Aquarius already done dawned, yo.

This morning, putting on earrings, I picked one out of my jewelry box I hadn't worn in a long time, probably not since we left Corpus. It's a teardrop-shaped crystal earring, not one of my favorites (obviously), but pretty. But I couldn't find its mate. I dumped out my whole jewelry box and looked through all the contents, but the second earring definitely wasn't there. I hate losing my things! I sighed and picked out another pair and went to work.

When I got home, I had an email from the really cool woman who bought all my bins of diaper fabric off me a couple of weeks ago. She's interested in buying my snap press, too. She also wanted to let me know she'd found a teardrop crystal earring in one of the bins.

My parents are here, after a pretty rough day of travel. They left subzero temperatures early this morning, then got stuck for four hours at Dulles getting de-iced. Originally supposed to arrive at 2:56pm, they didn't end up getting in until after 8.

They are philosophical, though. They find it highly amusing that several people here - a lady at the airport, a couple of check-in clerks at their hotel, their very own daughter - have been tossing variants of "Cold enough for ya?" at them ever since they arrived. As we were walking in my front door, a frigid, arctic blast of wind took my breath away. "What a refreshing breeze," remarked my dad.

There's nothing coincidental about that, of course, seeing as how I believe he's wearing at least three pairs of long underwear.

Maybe tomorrow we'll go ice-fishing in Town Lake, assuming I can find an appropriate pair of earrings.