it's way too late for me to be posting

because i like ot be asleep way earlier than this most nights, or by this time i'm so wrapped up in trying to get to bed that i'm almost there. but tonight is different. we have to leave tomorrow to go to good ol' oregon again. to le coast. for some time. i have to get all the stuff ready to go tomorrow, but i only have to work a very short time.. maybe 2 hours maybe 3.. maybe less. i only have 4 left until i hit 70 for the week, and i'm using four hours o f time off.. so we'll see what i do.. or i'll see. anyway. i'm done with this now. good night to you all. i hope you all have a very safe fourth.. i don't much care for the 4th.. we were talkign about it at work, and several of us agreed that it was just plain not our favorite. lots of paranoia about houses burning down and anxiety about people getting injured by fireworks. i'm new to owning a home, and that paranoia is just settling in. also, i just don't care about fireworks. i mean, i'll look at them if they're going on, but they're sure as hell not magical to me, and i have never, ever cared for loud noises. ever. and i doubt i ever will. because what's the point, if not to scare away demons and ghosts. which it might be about time for anyway. we'll see. ok. so goodnight.

schlepping wednesday

today i was very busy. on the way home i took cat to C(raft)M(art) and was intended to also go with her to le mall du outlette to get some kind of gewgaws. as traffic was particularly bad, due in part to a bus in some kind of mechanical distress pulled to the side of the freeway between everett and m-ville, we had to truncate our errands in order for me to make it to an acupuncture appointment. i have to say i didn't miss going to le mall... but i do wish we could have gotten all of cat's projects done today. so after the appointment i came home and ran some pictures to F(red)M(eyer) for developing. to be retrieved after an hour. i came home in between, talked to Le Shannonononnon, replaced our license plates, swept up some glass from 4 bottles of Corona(r) i dropped on the driveway last week, then sat inside for a few minutes before running back to FM to pick up the pictures. now i'm home and going to sleep. woop.

valmorphisnackalunch

i tried to make some kind of lunch today.. that utilized the things i had, and didn't taste lame. i looked through yesterday's leftovers, some other random veggies in the fridge, whatever else was around.. just sitting waiting for me to eat it. i found some grapes.. they were really good, so i put those in a bowl.. then i found the end of the cottage cheese.. figured those would make a nice snack.. then i found the old celery i got.. it was sitll good.. so i thought i'd want like celery with peanut butter.. but wait.. peanut butter makes me sick. so i went with my substitute. sesame butter aka tahini. boo. let me warn you now. do not put tahini on celery and expect something like peanut butter and celery. something crucial was lacking. it makes great toast, makes an interesting pizza sauce, tahini even makes good dip.. but in two of those scenarios you ahve to do something to the tahini.. suffice it to say, the entire plate (save the one i ate) of celery remains. and iwant something else to eat. so i'll go get that now. so sad. i gotta go to the store for more crap anyway.. hm..

hey everybody

it's my birthday today. oh yeah. you all know how old i am.. so i had the best quiet day.. and i think that means i'm old, because i wanted a quiet day.. and now i'm gonna go to sleep. because i have to work tomorrow. i've been on vacation for a bit. and it's been most excellent. one thing: the traffic yesterday coming back from central oregon was um... unfavorable. and with that i'm going. let us all remember my evil twin, rachel C, who was born 6 or 8 hours earlier than i was on this day june 20 in 1979. good night all.

what now..

so i keep not thinking about posting. because there's too much else to do. i get to take a little time for a vacation this week.. so i'm very pleased. and it's very nice to ge to relax coming up. plus my birthday is coming up this weekend. or next week. however you want to see it. i wonder what it'll be like to be 26.. i guess i don't know yet. i suppose it will start with much the same stress as 25 ended with.. and end with much the same situation 27 will begin with.. whatever those may be. alright kiddos.. one more thing:
yesterday was the wedding of megan and aaron. it was really fun and good. and good and fun. we had a very good time. there are some really good pictures, all on cat's computer by now. on their way to publication. you'll have to look there for them. there was much butt dancing.. and other dancing, with less of my butt. ok.

slop.

So i'm gonna write finally. it's been like a week. i don't even know. I'm feeling much better though.. much much better. I spent the weekend ill.. like the previous weekend. i don't care for that. first i had a stomach bug.. the i ate too much popcorn without paying attention to how fast i was cramming it down my food-hole. recipe for disaster, let me tell you.

So here's some more stuff i learned. boo on president wilson. I've decided he was a bad democrat. More authoritarian than any of the rest of the democrats. i used to think it was cool he had advanced degrees in something. OH.. speaking of.. I was watching hell's kitchen last night, i'd never seen it and had been told that guy was pretty entertaining.. plus i learned some interesting things about hospitality management. anyway, the point: some jackass was waiting for his dinner. and he was really upset because it was taking too long (I didn't blame him for that) but when the guy said he wasn't allowed to have a pizza delivered (i think i'm remembering this right.. it was yesterday, i can't be sure after this long) he didn't understand the liability issues of eating someone else's food on the premises of a restaurant. anyway. when accused of being ignorant of that he started screaming at the host about how educated he was .... get this.. he had a doctorate.... IN MUSIc! ... i'll just say: completely irrelevant. and he kept screaming "do you have a doctorate?? DO YOU HAVE A DOCTORATE??" now i am NOT a lawyer.. nor do i have a doctorate. and i can tell you that having one is absolutely NO guarantee the holder will know everything. even (i might add) in the field in which they hold said degree. so i have a feeling (just judging this poor humiliated man by the one thing i've seen) that this guy got his because he figured he needed the extra credentials.. (where music performance is concerned, the music sells itself, music education or history is another, far more academic story.) so i was alarmed by his hubris.. check out the stretchmark commercial. hmm.. anyway. i feel so recovered tonight. i bet i'll sleep well. i hope so. i had brussels sprouts for dinner. they were good. other food too. made me happy. i'm a dork.