Saturday morning, over coffee and Dave Matthews

Good morning, everyone.


I have a drum lesson in an hour. I'm waiting on breakfast (eggs and toast), drinking me mornin' grog (coffee), and talking to some silly goose who works all night and is too tired to sleep.

Well, I'm feeling better and better, but I still have schpilkus in my gennechtagezoink (hooked on phonics, baby). It takes one hot shower to clear the air waves of all that pools up in my head while I sleep.

Meanwhile, as I have my calm little morning of coffee, nose blowing, banter and breakfast eating, someone somewhere is getting bombed, or fighting for their life, or suffering some private hell. Here I sit, quite safe in suburbia. Sometimes the contrast disturbs me. It's moments like these that I am grateful for all that I have, and all that I do not have, and the fact that I do not have super-powered senses to pick up on all the suffering going on out there. In this, I do not sense the divine. I sense only chaos. What grand odds for me to be born in life with such pitiful obstacles to overcome. I certainly never deserved such good fortune.

And then I'll change gears. Thanks to phinnia, meet Drew. Don't drink while you hit that link, for some of you sensitive folks.

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Ah, a relaxing day at home.

I have done my practical work for the day, shy of making dinner, which shall commense shortly, and feature my homemade bolognese/primavera hybrid. I should try to come up with an Italian name for my sauce that is unique...

Music is on, cooking shall be on, my relaxing evening shall commense.

Zarathustra got her cape!!!

That's almost as good as Annie getting her gun. :-)

Here she is in all her caped glory, and her two costomes:

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So there be your hot capey action.

For brittadotcom

I went to the store in search of a book that features my longtime friend, brittadotcom, and her Harry Potter party ideas. For her edification, I have taken pictures of my purchase.

First, here are the four copies that are available on the bookshelf of the Elk Grove Borders:



Oops, there are only 3 copies left now.

It was really hard to get a shot of the outside of Borders and get the sign, so here is the location of purchase. Alas, I didn't get myself in the photo: