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2005-12-24 - 8:52 p.m.
the night before xmas
so Xmas eve rolls up on the time line and I find myself alone... Precious is up north visiting family... Rasputin is down south with his new girlfriend's family... I've got the place all to myself all weekend, which is a wonderful gift I have been enjoying (it's a weekend of optimal comfort and relaxation, sitting around naked again, just like the ones I used to know)... more information than you want on Xmas even, perhaps, but heck, at least you don't have to have visions of me shimmying down your chimney in my birthday suit... well, at least you didn't have to have visions of...
yeah, I know...
and so it is Xmas, and one thing I've done is I found myself on the LifeCycle for thirty minutes just a few hours ago... this comes as a shock to me, even more a shock to this body... the scale says 220, which is good actually cuz it means that is still the set-weight limit in my hypo-whatever in my brain... I have rarely seen the scale go above that and even though I do feel infinitely better in this body when this body is in the 180s or lower, it is good to know I have an instinctive max set-weight that keeps me from becoming grossly obese... all I've got for Xmas is my pit belly, that is good in this context...
maybe I'll give myself the gift of getting to the gym tomorrow too... or at least again before this week is out and more often as the new year begins... I was thoroughly crushed by my performance... I seem to have misplaced my abs and stamina and mind... I feel pathetic, physically... definitely not good for the spirits (but having the unexpected gift of space all to myself for a few days has my spirit bouncing off the walls {no worries, spirits seldom leave stains} and inspired me to get to the gym for the first time in months so all in all, it's a wonderful life...
speaking of classic Xmas films, the TV gave me a choice between It's a Wonderful Life, White Christmas, Gladiator, A Christmas Story, A Christmas Carol, The King and I, Dr. Doolittle 2, Harry Potter, The Mummy Returns, Murphy's Romance, Phantom of the Opera, Meet The Fockers, Bram Stoker's Dracula and dozens of other offerings, including Bozo, Gar, & Ray WGN Classics (how can it get any more exciting?... well, at least in Chicago)... I turned on ESPN and caught up on the sports that happened while I slept and will leave it on because the football game they have on will not distract me as much as everything else (it's the local team, UCF, who had their best year ever, losing their conference championship game, playing in the Aloha bowl) and I think I shall browse the internet tonight...
yes, I'll be visiting internet friends for Xmas...
it's the best I can do since I don't have a home to be home for Xmas to, ya know?...
I shall return to update this entry throughout the night, so it will not be done until it's done, so stop by tomorrow if you actually want to see what happens in this entry... yes, Christmas Day... there's great places to visit linked below too... if you're too busy to visit this weekend, no worries, I hope you're having too much fun to even put into an entry and I hope you are not sitting around alone and moping cuz you don't have to... you can write or call and I'll listen to your story or tell you mine or answer any questions you might have or just feel connected (I won't mention you if you want to keep private, just say so) and less alone... your choice, I hope you make the choice that is best for you...
I'm gonna go make myself some Xmas lasagna now, so see ya later...
and back again, finally, hours and hours later... and so it is Xmas now, and what have I done this year?... well, so far I read Smash's entire diary and dropped a few comments... along the way some heart-wrenching-and-lifting movies played in the semi-background and many different sorts of tears fell... tears of missing the sharing I once knew, the sharing I watched on the screen... tears of sadness for the world who fears love, who fears the magic of believing in love, who fear themselves... tears for the way we neglect and ignore the world we live in... tears of joy for the hope that still rises in me to let me fly high above the sorrow and pain and gives me energy to believe...
such love there is in the world, in me, without fear... Phantom of the Opera just ended... and I hear the music of the night and feel the loneliness of the monster, the misunderstood child who strikes out in some futile attempt to ease the pain, but it never words, it only creates more pain... if we'd only understand that... if we'd only live the love instead of the fear and doubt...
and the passions (imagine a body shivers somewhere to the music of the night) that so many call, out of fear and misunderstanding, wrong, perverse, or evil... the damned damn us all with their fear and oppression... not a very Xmasy thought, I suppose, but then, as I said, the music of the night still dances in my head and I do relate as much to the Phantom as I do to the dream he and Christine shared, for a few brief moments, the unconditional trust of passion and lust in innocence and hope...
I have heard that Xmas is a time for wishes, for dreams, for miracles... and I wonder if that could possibly be true, or ever was... or things we don't want to ruin by asking too much...
and then, spontaneously, suddenly, and quite impulsively when you meet someone and wish, without thinking of consequences or anything, "I wish I could have been her first" (adjust pronouns as necessary), is that a miracle or a tragedy?...
amongst humans, the unconditional love is so rare and unconditional trust even rarer, if it is actualized and shared at all here in this world... and along the way I've scarred myself deeply, given up everything to become the bloated pauper just to see if beauty could truly love unconditionally and I found, more than a few times, that it could not...
humans will choose the golden calf almost every time...
and yet I stay, I do not die, and sometimes I wonder why because it seems so futile sometimes it seems so brutal here...
and yet, I try, to believe in love I give it all for love and the chance that love might appear...
yes, haunted by the music of the night, I am... Yoda would be amused, I'd say... and to segue away into more lighter fare, into less dark refrains, I remember listening to bornearly as I drifted off to sleep last night and I feel the smile that her voice inspired... she took me back to days at the fair with Judy Collins and Joni Mitchell and Christine Lavin and the sweet sounds I find in flowers and trees and meadows and the breeze...
and now, in some form of conclusion to this immaculate Xmas eve celebration, I shall put more beautiful music on now and enjoy the bliss while endeavoring to read the complete entirety of Dandy's current diary from the start... I suspect I will fall asleep along the way, as I did with Smash last night (that does not sound like it was meant to sound in any way), which is absolutely no reflection on the writing but has everything to do with the fact that I have been awake a long time and it's approaching my bed time... and I enjoy falling asleep listening to music and reading... it's almost like I'm not sleeping alone, in my head...
my head is easy...
the Xmas lasagna was delicious, the movies were emotional roller coasters, and now, the reading was fun and thought-provoking, and the music reminded me of music (which means a lot more than it sounds like)... I suppose I could have articulated the wild and wooly party I was throwing for myself in my head for the past twelve hours (yes, it is morning), but then, I didn't and that's just the way the cookie crumbles sometimes... hopefully you got a taste somewhere throughout this babbling...
and that was my night before Xmas...
so now I will say Merry Xmas and Happy Sunday and blessed be and you too, be of good cheer in your own way as I wander off to the bleary eyed portion of my readings while you consider visiting some of the most wonderful people in the world who just happen to be linked below the helpful links for the people who are still rebuilding their lives after the hurricanes and you who just happen to want to help them some more...
I really enjoyed my solitary time, but even still, I hope for next year I'll be sharing all these intimate emotional roller coaster moments with someone who just happens to share a mutual love for me and themselves...
bless the dog and us, every one...
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