Late Night Rambling. . .

It's almost 2am

This has been the longest day!

and the longest week!!

 draining

Been doing too much

yet

  still so much to be done

. . . 

For one,

I NEED TO GET BACK TO MY HEALTHY LIVING!!!!!!!

I don't know what's going on with me and my weight gain

Even though I work full time

My brain somehow got the idea that it's on summer vay-cay

and has been convincing me to chill out with all that healthy living nonsense

'go ahead and get that pralines 'n cream from Baskin Robins'

'one chocolate chip cookie from Subway won't hurt'

'chinese food would be great for lunch'

'pizza late at night will really hit the spot'

'you deserve a cupcake'

Sigh

. . .

And now my poor body has to pay 

Gotta snap out of this before it gets out of control

Anyway,

Just because it's late

It's Friday

I'm exhausted 

and

 Feel like rambling

. . . 

A completely unrelated topic:

I've fallen in love again

With a man I've known for some time

Although I had heard of him

We didn't officially meet till a little over a year ago

I liked him a lot

but I guess life got in the way and I forgot about him for a while

Every now and then I would think about him

but lately

I haven't been able to get enough of him.

His name is Pablo Neruda 

and he was the most awe-inspiring poet to have graced this planet.

His art stirs my soul 

and elevates my heart

He is

My Sweetest Escape

Lately

 I've been reading one of his poems, 'Don't Go Far Off"

Don't go far off, not even for a day, because -- 

because -- I don't know how to say it: a day is long 

and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station 

when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep. 

Don't leave me, even for an hour, because 

then the little drops of anguish will all run together, 

the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift 

into me, choking my lost heart. 

Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach; 

may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance. 

Don't leave me for a second, my dearest, 

because in that moment you'll have gone so far 

I'll wander mazily over all the earth, asking, 

Will you come back? Will you leave me here, dying? 

Call me a huge weirdo

but I can't stop reading this poem

Over and over again

It's just so pure and deep

Love.Love.Love