Can't I live in a cottage and make jelly?
In particular I want to move to Martha's Vineyard. I want to move to a little cottage with no neighbors and make beach plum jelly.
I want to walk across fields in rubber boots and comb the beach for pretty pebbles and bits of shells in a grey mist and drink a glass of beer and eat a boiled lobster.
If I sound a little melancholic, well, it's because Mercury is in retrograde.
And also because a recent romantic entanglement blew up in my face, and then today I had a dreadful dust up at work that literally made me feel ill. Oh and also I think I am catching the Evil Twin's cold.
Well anyway, here are a few photos of my favorite things:
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I want to walk across fields in rubber boots and comb the beach for pretty pebbles and bits of shells in a grey mist and drink a glass of beer and eat a boiled lobster.
If I sound a little melancholic, well, it's because Mercury is in retrograde.
And also because a recent romantic entanglement blew up in my face, and then today I had a dreadful dust up at work that literally made me feel ill. Oh and also I think I am catching the Evil Twin's cold.
Well anyway, here are a few photos of my favorite things:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL_8rvK60ZUntah_lF3nIbfFo_ZogyJ4cHhK6go5SH_bzWnGMMGrfp6EHQvKPws2WPTulpD4-RtckYHDPdwLB52hcqbSBhJRKEUKWZRz8jLHXaAnnq2SkBGdpZs9gzHRXxNeNjHGkUHdw/s320/hessfest+2008+013.jpg)
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