Today I wont be at my computer, but at Danny and Michelle’s wedding.

Congrats to the newly weds who will be joined at 2:00pm.

The room had a warm feel to it. The light cream colored curtains blocked the direct sunlight, yet allowed the light to fill the room. The carpet, also a lighter neutral color, was soft and felt new. Not that it was a big room, but the furniture that was present did not subtract from the available space for an eight year old to play in. He sat with his toy firetruck set and imagined he was amid the turmoil and the heroes saving the innocent people within the burning houses. Even though this event happened many many years ago, and the room’s detail had faded from memory, he never forgot the feeling.

I have been extremely busy, and quite lazy too. It seems that I have looked for entertainment before coming here to express my thoughts and writing frenzies. I have had quite the block and that’s never a good thing. So, in order to cure myself of my temporary jam, I’ve decided to write again. I see the time passing by and I realize that if I am going to live my life the way I want to, I need to get things into motion. The book has been written, it’s the editing that is thwarting my progress.

With that being said, I am turning over a leaf and I am going to write each and every day. If I get a line, it had better be a good one, but something will be written. I am going to refer back to the Daily Journal Entries, to get my mind geared again. I am going to play the mood setting music that always helps me. I am going to practice describing my thoughts, sights, sounds, and feelings. I feel confident that I will achieve the dreams I have.

My wonderful wifee turned 26, and doesn’t look a day over 19.

Going to spend a week in California. We will be staying in Windsor, spend some time in SF, and Alcatraz.

As hard as I try, I really can’t think of anything. There was a time when I was with some friends driving down a gravel road. The drivers name is Daniel, he’s from England. He was showing off his smooth technique by flipping the car left and right without ever losing control of the vehicle. I was impressed that he actually tossed gravel up onto the hood of the car, something I had never seen before. I don’t mean a few rocks, more like a handful or two of dirt and rock. I tried a few weeks later… yeah that wasn’t very smart. I almost flipped the car. I have to say that I had never driven a car on two wheels.

She had been down this road before. That was many years ago, when she was a child. Things were much different now. The open alley was cluttered with old cardboard boxes, newspapers and tenants who were chased off daily only to return night after night. She let out a sigh, she would have to take the long way around. It was too late to be running through the alleyway, even though her house was on the other side, there had been too many crimes committed in her childhood playground.

The street lamps were humming softly in florescent tones while the light rain kept rhythm. An occasional car would pass, squeezing the water from the road, which sounded like an applaud emitting from an audience. Up ahead on the opposite side of the road, the lights of a police car, ambulance and fire truck, made up the light show for the entire block. She was the star.

The corner of her mouth pulled into a smile. Although it took longer to get from point A to point B, she was glad to be accompanied with the music of nature and civilization.

My friends laughed as I pulled back the dark purple and blue satin curtain into Madame Curioso’s shrine to the other world. A puff of incense blew past my head like a cloud of exhaust from a ten year old diesel truck, burning my eyes. I blinked and felt my friends shove me into the mysterious dome-shaped room.

“Welcome… Seth,” came a soothing voice. It took a second for my eyes to adjust, then I saw the faint blue glow emitting from the crystal ball on a short table. Did she just say my name? “Come closer, dear. Madame Curioso knows all. You seek love, money, success.”

I rolled my eyes. Who isn’t seeking those things? “What can you tell me?” I played along. I didn’t think she had moved, but she was standing right before me.

“Do not mock the ancestral ways of communication with the departed,” she warned. “It’s not everyday you get a chance to glimpse into the future, find out what’s awaiting you.”

I felt her cold fingers wrap around my hands and pull me to my knees before the illuminating orb. “Okay.” I was curious after all.

She moved in such fluid motions, it was almost ghost-like. “Now, gaze into your future,” she said and reached her skeletal fingers over the ball and touched it with her finger tips. I sat on the edge of the small stool, shoulders hunched forward. I squinted, while fidgeting with my hands. The orb turned a shade of red, then white filling the room. I was transfixed on the images before me. I felt myself lift from my chair, coming closer and closer to the hypnotizing colors emitting from within this small glass object which seemed to be growing.

The wind came from nowhere and pulled at my clothing. I heard a crack of lightning and a crash of thunder, all the while the ball grew. I realized soon that my clothing was growing too. My jewelry fell from my fingers which were small and childlike and fell to the table. I shivered as my clothing fell from my body. I crawled through the neck of my shirt and placed my hands on the ball. I had shrunk so small it was now five or six times my size.

This couldn’t be happening. I heard Madame Curioso laugh and loom down at me from behind the ball. She was getting bigger and bigger, or I was getting smaller. My hand brushed up against a knob on the ball which I instantly jerked away from. But to get out of the site of Madame Curioso, I rushed against the knob, turning it, and stumbled through the ball into a dark thick room. The knob disappeared behind me and I heard whispering. “Who’s there?” I called out. My voice was shaking. All noise from the outside ceased.

“There’s nothing to go back to now,” a woman said. “It wont be too long before you go insane like the others.”

I sat down on the ground and wrapped my arms around my legs. “Is there no way out?” I asked?

She laughed. “Even if there were. I think were about the size of mice.”

Madame Curioso picked up the ball and returned it to the case. She walked back through a doorway to the front of her display and pressed a button. Mechanical arms pulled her tent into the back of her wagon and she sat down on the patient horses. “Yup!” She commanded and the horses began the slow walk away from the circus.

Married  at 11:00am.