In which I ramble.
NLW, when she came to pick me up to go on our vacation, brought me a box of hair dye (I now have three boxes!) and a set of iPod headphones, so I now can hear both channels. Which is so awesome I can’t even deal.
My bro-there was going to send me his 5th gen video iPod (since he’s more in love with his PSP), but his roommate’s rent check bounced and now he probably has to hock it instead. Which is sad. Dumb roommate.
My maternal grandmother’s birthday party will be held at her home in Walla Walla on September 15th. My aunt Pedgy said she’d buy me a ticket so I could attend. (I haven’t been to the Hall house since my grandfather died, before I was married. It’s my favorite house in the whole wide world, and the only one that’s been in the family my entire life. It’s more home than any place else and I miss being there. Plus it has The Greatest Porch in the Known Universe, and a patch of catnip where the neighborhood cats get stoned, and novelties in the freezer in the basement, and it’s home, damn it, and it sounds like the whole fam damily will be there, and shit I’m feeling nostalgic.)
Tonight I’m going to NLW’s, not only to see her and the Ever Gorgeous Mr. J, but to have her clean all my blackened, tarnished jewelry. She makes jewelry for a living, don’t you know, and so she’s got this device that vibrates that she fills with jewelry shot and fills with jewelry and plugs in for an hour and it makes things all shiny and new. My farm-basement tarnished jewelry will look new again! And if that weren’t excellent enough, she’s making pizza for dinner. It’ll be awesome.
Since I saw Amma, I’ve been waking up at five every morning and meditating. If that’s not divine intervention, I really don’t know what is. (No worries: I’m still a heathen because I go back to bed after I meditate, yo.)
In other news, Vuboq reminds us all that they’re still doing it wrong [and that link is totally NSFW, btw] in our nation’s capital:
Because everyone knows watermelon is usually sold by the pound, and I did the exhaustive research to prove it.
Update: Bro-there sez I may still get the iPod after all! *snoopy dance*
Update the second: I’m going to Walla Walla! YAY! *snoopy dance*
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The rest of you are wrong. I am right.
So there. 😛
Totally wacko nuts, but cute. -m
Geez, if’n you’re coming to the NW – you should come down to Portland. You could take me on the Mush way-back machine memory tour.
Yeah, right – like I know anything at all about PDX any more. The clubs I sang at no longer exist, the neighborhoods have all changed… they don’t even have the Mt. Hood Festival of Jazz in the same place! But damn I would love to hang out with you anyway! You could show me your Portland! -m
Yeah dude. I’ll be there. You could hitch a ride with me back to p-town. You could even crash on the couch for a few if’n you have that kind of time to burn. Just try to get your return ticket from Portland so I don’t have to drive you all the way back to Walla2.
If you can commit to being my ride to and from Walla Walla, then I’ll book my flight to PDX instead of going to Walla Walla via Seattle. (IE, go out the Gorge Friday night, stay at grandma’s for the weekend’s festivities, and return to PDX on Sunday?) I could probably hang a night or two with you, yeah, if that’d be okay with your schedule, because I just have this piddly little P/T job so they don’t seem to care much if I’m out for a few days here and there. And OMG, it would be SO much FUN. Except I’ll be really broke, so we’ll have to hang at your place and watch TV or something rather than eat Mexican food or go see some live jazz. Maybe we could we meet 80 for lunch anyway, though, somewhere cheap. DUDES! OMFGWTFBBQ!!!!1!!! HOW MUCH FUN COULD WE HAVE ON THE SAME COAST FOR ONCE THIS DECADE?!? -m
Yeah – there’s tons of cheap eats around here. Make sure you get a hold of me or ELSE…
Okay then! -m
That weekend is a payday for me. I should have enough for both of us! It’s perfect cuz it’s smack dab in the middle of the month and no bills/rent will be due! It’s like free money when that happens! We should definitely paint the town whatever color is on sale that week. Paint can get really expensive when a whole town is involved. Hopefully it’s greenish. I like green.
I don’t really like painting. Can we just get drunk instead? -m
Oh, btw, the Gorge is closed Friday nights… to many kids “cruising” ruined it for us all. We’ll have to leave in the afternoon. Or something. It’s 2 months away jeeze!
Closed? The entire thing? What does the river do with all this time off? -m
I’m happy you get to go to Walla Walla. TFG has a family place like that in Kentucky (stop laughing!) We will have to keep in touch about dates because this could throw off our plans to meet up. If it does, there will be other opportunities, I’m positive.
I won’t laugh at “Kentucky” if you don’t laugh at Walla Walla! When will you be through? Can’t we knit on my porch or something? -m