i think i'm overdue ...

to write a poem for my boyfriend. So ...

***

when you get like this
i have to be sure and tell myself
'it's really not all that hard.'

it's not that hard for me to make you feel
better.

it's not that hard to take one hand
put it to the side of your face
gently turn your head
with a little pressure
along your cheek (soft) and the line
of your jaw (solid)
(adorably so)
(against the heel of my palm)

in fact
it's the easiest thing in the world
-- my world --
to look into your eyes
and see
the hurting part
i must erase.

the easiest thing
in my world
to let my lips
smile
the smile they always want to

and to glide my fingers
around the curve of
your ear
through the hair
to the nape of your neck

tilt your chin
with the thumb of my
free
hand

so i can brush
my smile
against the lips
it most perfectly fits.

in the interest of patting myself on the back ...

it's april, and i've already broken my previous record for most blog posts in a whole year!

to celebrate, i'm going to be lazy and post this who-cares-but-me post right here.

because you know what?

it's enough that i care, because i care about me.

xoxo,
claire

a new rpg campaign!

this time, it's akane getting her feet wet as dungeon master, so the posts are on her blog. but i'm compiling all the links here.

i'm having tons o' fun so far!

enjoy!

airplane!

msg to me today: i picked the wrong day to quit therapy.

poor guy!

but dude, pretty sure one or more of your girlfriends could wrassle up some therapy real quick ...

xoxo,
claire 

how quickly they forget!

and by "they," i mean, "me." yeesh! people, do you remember back in january when i had the fantastic idea of, if a post topic wasn't coming to me one day, i'd write some on my novel instead?

wow did that not get followed through on!

one chapter!

how did i forget this was my plan?

i may have to call a pow-wow of the whole worthy yam-fam and see about tweaking our turn-taking project where one of us posts every day instead of me always posting every day. some good blogging has definitely come out of it, but i think there are also some posts that have felt like they were typed one-handed by someone with an arm tied behind their back.

i don't mean because they were bad! i've liked every one of them.

i just mean some of them feel like they were a lot more work than they should have been, and this is supposed to be about having fun expressing ourselves, not about producing, producing, producing.

anyway, we'll see how that goes!

xoxo,
claire

i didn't get tough.

i'm so bad at being tough!

it's embarrassing, really.

xoxo,
claire

okay, tomorrow i get tough on him!

yeesh! msg is wasting so much time on non-productive zone-out activities. he's got a borderline obsessive/compulsive side sometimes, i think ... which i won't entirely complain about since sometimes he gets obsessive or compulsive about stuff i and the other girls like quite a bit. like role-playing games, and listening to cool music, and ... stuff!

but when he gets all obcomp about truly pointless stuff, it's time to rein him in, and lately it's getting to that point.

(with any luck, he'll read this and get all chagrinned and whup himself into shape so i don't have to do it, but i'm ready in case that doesn't happen!)

xoxo,
claire