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the universe and i, a long short story by jessica
is there a such thing as being overwhelemed by a plague of AWESOME THINGS? no? well. lots of crazy things have been happening to me lately and i take them as a sign of whatever the opposite of the apocalypse is. because a giant flock of ducks in auburn, the most beautiful night sky i've ever seen, and a double yolker egg just CAN'T be a sign of anything bad! seriously.

alright, first things first.

a week or so ago i was driving home and the sky was that CRAZY orangey color that it seems to be turning an awful lot and it was so beautiful i couldn't believe it. i was driving home and i thought to myself "i am happiest when the sky looks like a maxfield parrish painting". and it's true. it truly did look like that too.. the sky was vibrant blue, and the sun was casting gold onto everything.. the clouds were puffy and thick and they all seemed to have a bit of gold to them too... but i couldn't get a good picture of it till i got home, because i forgot my camera (a bad habit of mine lately.. whatever happened to having a camera at all times??). so by the time i was there the beautiousness was almost gone. but





and after that! sometime last week my sister and i went down to pejepscot to visit my mom and my grandfather and we decided to go to an antique shop as well. one of my favorite things to do is to buy photos from this antique store.. because she just has boxes and boxes of them. i've only been once, and that was a while ago, but i bought a bunch then.. and they're some of my favorite things. because.. to me, it just seems like the saddest thing in the world to get rid of family photos.. or photos at all. the owner of the store was saying that what usually happens is that when someone in a family dies and their children go through their stuff they don't know the people so they just get rid of the photos. and i just can't bare the thought of these poor people sitting in boxes, collecting dust and being unappreciated. it's silly, but i almost think it's disrespectful. SO! this time i went there and ended up buying like 20+ photos..i was going to buy some skeleton keys, but they wanted too much money for them so i passed, and offhandedly said to my sister "i bet they have some at gramp's house anyway" and she laughed and agreed, because my grandparent's house is like an antique store in itself. i was talking to my sister and my mom in the kitchen then all of a sudden i just walked across the room and grabbed a skeleton key off of a hook on the wall and held it up to my sister, who just stared at it. thank you universe! then i got home and realized that almost ALL of the photos i had bought were connected with the ones that i had bought before. my sister and nick and i sat on the floor and pieced together all the clues... that child is standing in front of the same house as those people... the writing on the back of this picture is the same as that one.. it was so neat! so now i have a whole series of photos of some family's vacation in maine with their cranky kid, a whole bunch of members of a creepy old man's family, and someone's favorite car. that makes me so happy! and now i'm just trying to figure out a way to get them all up on the wall.. it should be neat :)

and then! last week.. nick and i were driving down minot ave and all of a sudden i heard a HOLY SHIT come out of his mouth. i was like what the hell is going on? instead of answering me, he made a u turn and went back to a street off minot ave where there was... my dream come true.




there's a brook right by this house, and it goes over to our road into a little pond thingy.. so i'm assuming they came from there. but MAN i dont' know if i've ever seen so many ducks!

i was excited!

nick's too cool to get excited. WHICH IS CRAZY. because his side of the car had FAR more ducks to look at

and um, here's four more pictures of ducks. i told you i was excited! i have about a million more but i'll refrain!











SO! fast forward to last night! we decided to drive down to portland because i love to buy shoes. and on the ride home i looked out the window of our fancy rental car and said "ho-ly SHIT that is CREEPY!". what i was referring to, of course, was the moon. in some sort of odd atmospheric issue or something... the moon had plopped itself in the middle of a spot in the sky that was practically dead. there were clouds, but they were really light and feathery. and encircling that was a super dense layer of clouds in a perfectperfectperfect circle. i was trying to explain it to nick.. since he was driving.. and the best way i could think to describe it is: you know how if you look at a drop falling into a puddle of water? the drop is in the middle and it ripples out and there's like a wave all the way around the outside. well.. the moon is like the drop. and the clouds along the outside were the furthest ripple. that's a lame way to describe it, but trust me. it was probably one of the most amazing things i've ever seen. we pulled off the highway just to look at it, and right after that it was gone. and of course, it being one of the most amazing things i've ever seen... i didn't have my camera with me. because of course, i am a jackass. but it made my night

and this morning! i decided nick and i needed some breakfast, so i went out into the kitchen to make some scrambled eggs. i cracked two eggs into the bowl and i looked down and.. to my amazement.. THREE YOLKS! i was beyond impressed. i called nick into the kitchen to look at it and everything. i think he was impressed too.. but again, to cool to flip out. i, my friends, am not too cool to do anything. I WAS SO EXCITED! and i said that about twenty times just to let nick know. A DOUBLE YOLKER. MY KITCHEN IS NOW THE HOME OF THE DOUBLE YOLKER.. TAKE THAT BITCHES! and um, i forgot to take a picture of that too. instead i whisked it, cooked it and consumed it. whoops again. but i take that as insurance that today is going to be a fine day.

and i think the universe is just telling me that everything is cool. i keep getting sent this awesome rarieties of events, as small as they might be... but it's perfect for me, because small things are what makes life amazing in my opinion. oh i am just so happy.