then lovejoy's.

am just sayin...

my procession vision

so everyone has been rounded up to the upper field to the grove
chillish music cocktail hour
it's twilight
conversations are everywhere
everyone has had an awesoem flipside and they are preparing to burn and release
as the effigy and safety crew prepares the rest of us are interacting and enjoying the company
then the Burninator signals me and I gather some announcers that let everyone know to start the procession to the effigy
the flags from every themecamp are held up and people rally around them
people bring their things that want to burn their ideas of their old self that they want to release
we walk
together
onward towards the future that we want to create together
we are one community
we circle around the effigy with our flags and torches
and we distibute spaklers to all of the people gathered for the burn
we are the spark that lights this fire
each of us has a light that shines
we have arrived
we are ready
we are one

Hill Country and pushing northeast and east.

Chances of measurable precip in our area going up as afternoon-evening progresses.

Opinion chances of measurable precip in Austin:
Remainder of afternoon-eve: 20%
Evening-Night: 40% 8PM through 2AM, then decreasing to 20% by morning

Some of these developing storms may easily produce large to very large hail, especially over the Hill Country, in addition to technically severe hail, strong to damaging wind gusts, very heavy rain, and perhaps a few tornadoes. Most of the risk to remain over the Hill Country and then east and northeast towards I35 in central Texas.

Dude! J says it's my weekend. Suh-weet! It's MY weekend.

So, uhh, what do I do with my weekend? Right now I'm just enjoying the A/C. I finally relented and turned it on today, and it is so cool and wonderful in here! I am not even sweating.

That reminds me, I should do some exercise. Maybe I'll hop on the treadmill for a bit. I just wish I didn't feel so completely beat. This sinus thing is wiping my ass out.

I've scheduled yoga with Missy on Sunday. We're gonna actually go this time, I swear. And I might have lunch with G tomorrow. I'm waiting to hear back from her. I'm thinking we need to have some kind of Mexican food, because my Yankee husband is never in the mood for it. How someone can not be in the mood for Mexican food totally mystifies me. But then again, that's J, and you just try and understand him.

We've had a fun day so far. I took the kids to story time. Moira played with Molly, which Moira had been looking forward to doing for DAYS. We had some lunch and ate Italian ices, and the kids played in the sprinkler. Me, I'm too chicken to put on a bathing suit these days. But anyway...

I tried planting my aquarium, but there's still too much dirt swirling around to see what I'm doing. Once that settles down, I'll put in my plants. I'd hoped to get my fish tonight during FISH HAPPY HOUR at Amazonia, but I don't see that happening. Dang, I wanted some cheap fish, too. I guess I can either wait a week or pay regular price.

Ho hum, Mo and Luke are starting to bicker, and I expect Eliza to wake up soon.

My Page-a-Day George Carlin calendar says, "Wouldn't it be interesting if the only way you could die was that suddenly your head blew up? If there were no other causes of death? Everyone died the same way? Sooner or later, without warning, your head simply exploded? You what what I think? I think people would get used to it."

LOL

I got an ice cream off the ice cream truck that tools by the office every now and then. I haven't done that in years! It was kinda fun.

Gov. Rick "Governor For Life" Perry, on why we should give him a third term:

"I look at it like this, is that if Texas were a corporation — and we would be one of the most efficient, most successful corporations in the world — and if you're a stockholder in that corporation, why in the world would you want to change your CEO when things are going well?"

No comment. Okay one comment - ANYBODY BUT PERRY IN 2010.

Much love and gratitude to those who prayed for me and sent healing energy Monday, and the days after. Surgery went well. Recovery is progressing. My energy level is up, lung capacity strong, and pain moderate. I have high hopes that by the end of the weekend I will be very well indeed.

Here is the link I should have sent


http://www.keyetv.com/entertainment/story.aspx?content_id=EEBA2264-7EF3-4ED8-B496-1C098B1BA891&gsa=tru

I'm not in a good mood and my meds aren't making it better.


Enrique is sick with as 102 fever. He more than likely has the flu.
Right now it's like I'm taking care of a baby.

I was sick during our vacation, but I was pretty much pushed to get up and do things. And when I got mad at him or snapped at him, I was being horrible and mean to him.

But here he is saying the most retarded things, arguing with me, begging me to do this and that. And I'm still the horrible one.

I can't really explain all this. Just that he doesn't realize how he treats me when I'm not feeling well.
And here I am taking care of him and our almost 8 month old child.
It's hard and I want to leave but I will not because I love him and I want him to get better.
But seriously after this I'm vacationing away from everyone except baby

1) I can't wait until October. One 100+F (that's 40C, for you folk) day is enough... But it's not going to cool down until then, so I might as well deal with it. Even in the AC, the dog is passed out and hasn't moved in 3 hours.

2) One week to go!!!

My daily happening and thoughts if you care:

• 17:49 Chocolate Dipped Strawberries. Yummy Spring! #
• 01:59 Aw look how happy it makes him #
• 10:15 Strangely happy that my doctor's office has Highlights magazine #
• 16:05 "The sight of the flames maddens me with pleasure"-Walt Whitman #

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I have a rare night on my own. Eric's going to some photography thing, so I'm trying to decide what to do with myself. I'm sorely tempted to just chill at home, since I'm usually not good for much else after a day at work- and what a day. There's also a party I could go to; I'll see how social I'm feeling.

My employee-attitude just stinks right now. I'm antsy, feeling restless as hell... I really wish I could just walk off this job, but I have no idea what else I'd do. If I didn't know so many other people who felt the same way... well, I think it's a common malady.

The weather guys are saying we could have some serious storms later today. I rode the scooter, but Stephen said he'd take me home if things went to hell. It's strange weather; yesterday was pleasant but now it's hotter than the devil's balls, and as sticky. So while you could sort of say the sky is clear, there's a lot of clouds' worth of wet up there. It's not a blue sky, but that pale, bluish-greyish-white that is hard to breathe.

Argh. I wish this day would hurry up and be over.

I can kind of understand your intention to keep your country totally isolated from the entire rest of the world, and rule it by fear for the most part, under normal circumstances. I don't agree with it, to me it seems like the worst kind of totalitarian dictatorship, but under normal circumstances, I can kind of see how that's mostly none of my business.

Under normal circumstances.

When your people are dying by the thousands thanks to a really inconveniently timed natural disaster, and humanitarian aid is waiting in international waters for your permission to come ashore, it's not the time to get into a territorial pissing match with people who are only trying to help save at least some lives, especially in the areas where your own army can't get its s*** together enough to be able to get aid to. (Especially if they have their hands full just taking care of what your *capital city* needs, much less the rural outlying areas.)

If you need to save face, you can kick us out later when the crisis is over and the country's infrastructure is working well enough to stand on its own again. Fine. WTF ever. Kind of wish you wouldn't, but if you have to make a show of keeping up the isolation, we can agree to that. Just let the aid in, before your own people drag you out of the palaces and hang you from the lamp poles, and if possible, before the rest of the world loses what remaining scraps of respect it has for you. Now is not the time to try to prove whatever the f*** it is you're trying to prove. Your people are dying, and they don't have to.

I have onions that are growing.
Can I plant these?

i never told you this: we went to austin on march 1.

we went to visit our friend (technically, brian's friend, but i'm pretty sure he likes me better), ricky, who recently purchased a new house in an olde style in the northeasterly quadrant where tejano blasts from parked trucks and cock-a-doodle-doos blast from parked roosters reign supreme and you are assaulted by all manner of ice cream men and their tunes who come both on foot and on wheels. there are two pecan trees. yet, we were without pecans all winter long.

we arrived saturday afternoon and quickly left for a late lunch at veggie heaven.

then, we lounged about ricky's living room while he told us about his 101 real life ghost stories, including the one from his trip to peru last year where he and another member of their three-person party both saw a shadow man hovering over them during the night. ricky has had many encounters with shadow men. and i'm not talking about his dating life. he believes his mother attracts spirits. the house they live in now has provided several incidences. i have been there before. i am not certain i will go back. i can't remember if he said it's built on an old burial ground or an old indian tribal ground or an old indian burial ground or just an old cow pasture.

we eventually made our way out the door, across the street, and 20 yards to the park. pretty much anytime i take oliver to a place where there are other children, there will inevitably be at least one odd child who will do things like block our path or take away a toy or try to step on oliver's fingers. on that particular day, it was a boy who was wearing a grill. on his teeth. on our way out of the park, i cowered as we passed the only gangbanger ice cream man i've ever seen pushing his cart up to the jungle gym.

we dined at the recently re-opened mother's cafe that evening with evelyn and hank. and ricky, of course. i was finally able to luxuriate with an order of mushroom alfredo. i considered eating the plate once i had finished. oliver seemed like he was fairly strung out until i checked the time and realized we had, somehow, been there for two and a half hours. this meant he had actually done remarkably well. despite our lengthy stay, i somehow manged to feel that i had barely talked with evelyn. i hate when that happens.

brian and ricky tried to find a movie at i love video while i sat in the car with an increasingly agitated oliver. they failed. so we sat in his living room eating take out apple pie and then moved to his bedroom, it's not what you're thinking, to watch an episode of kinder-... kinder-... i'm forgetting now. and googling kinder comedy skit for 45 seconds is of no help. but, anyhow.

sunday morning, we spent all kinds of time youtubing ghost videos and scaring the crap out of ourselves (have you seen this one?) before meeting with a friend of ricky's at trudy's for brunch. from there, it was bookpeople and toy joy and i'm pretty sure that's all the energy we had left for the rest of the day before heading home.

i failed to take many quality photos.








the neighbors had some kind of dog farm.

This critter got me so excited that I called curculio  right away to tell him that I'd found a caterpillar that had a lizard's tail. He asked me a bunch of questions (a significant one was did it have eyes). And then he said that it might be a Rat-Tailed Maggot. When I got home I looked it up and he was right. He is a genius! Thank you curculio  .

I found it in a bucket of water, but it didn't seem happy there and there was another one dead at the bottom of the bucket. So after I took the pictures, I released it in a dish that had water, wet leaves and sticks in it so it could choose to be wet or dry.

According to Wikipedia, "Rat-tailed maggot are the Larva of some species of Hoverfly, commonly "Eristalis tenax.". A characteristic feature of rat-tailed maggots is a tube-like, three segmented, telescoping breathing siphon located at their posterior end. This acts like a snorkel, allowing the larva to breathe air while submerged."