I got these pics late last night from my aunt who lives about 5-10 miles from the Santiago Canyon fire. Thankfully, everyone J & I know down there is safe and sound.

About 30 min ago I'm getting ready to start washing a few dishes when I hear someone yelling outside. I didn't think anything of it because the kids across the street have been playing outside all day. But then I realized this was no kid's voice but a grown woman's voice.

Wow, that's just incredible!

Who: The Mother Hips. Opening is Hiss Golden Messenger & Cabinessence

When: Tonight! - Doors 8p, Show 9p - $14

Where: Doug Fir

6pm inStore appearance at Music Millenium NW

and I mean that in the best possible way. Check out these comparison pictures -- totally trippy man ;)

There are few times that I am glad that I'm hundreds of miles away from friends and woo boy, this week was one of them. One friend, we'll call her T, found out that another friend, who we'll call L, had sex with T's ex/current boyfriend (those details are still unclear). So T's pissed at L and L's feeling like shit and neither of them are speaking to one another, not yet anyway. And somehow we've all been involved in this mess in some fashion or another. The sordid tale just keeps getting murkier & murkier and things are not what they appear to be, at least to some parties involved. THIS IS ALL BULLSHIT -- what, are we in high school again? Blargh.

What is so hard about keeping your genitals in your pants? It's really not that difficult to NOT have sex with people. 

I just feel so bad for L & T. I love them both and they both love each other & it's heartbreaking watching this friendship explode.

Man, I really stink at keeping this thing updated, which leads me to thinking about my uncle.

I just got a letter from him full of encouragements & articles about the act of writing, the process of writing, etc. I never really expressed my interest in pursuing writing to him - I was so singleminded about wanting to teach until I graduated and then I started feeling differently. My sister told him, which is just fine -- it wasn't a secret or anything, I just never got around to telling him. But I don't know, now that he knows, I feel like I have to try my hardest and not give up. It's so easy to say, ah fuck it to yourself but when a relative/friend/mentor pushes you & knows you want to pursue writing (just like he's been writing for decades & decades), well it's get a bit harder to say fuck it. So I best cut it out with the excuses & get to getting. Buuuut, first I better finish my shift. See, I feel like writing now that I'm working. lol. 

If my now self could have told my year ago self that my self would be up at the ungodly hour of 5am on a Saturday, I do believe my year ago self would have clocked my now self. And this self completely agrees with that line of action.

This one's always made me wonder. Yes, I understand the point of it way back when. But it's not way back when any longer. 

And my inability to create cogent, clear sentences is because I've been awake since 5am 4am. So working is definitely low on my list of priorities right now. Actually, my priority #1 is to stay just awake enough to not sound asleep if I happen to talk to the boss man.

I found (finally!) old copies of a Richard Scarry book & a Sesame Street book. I contemplated buying the newer editions but it just did not feel right. ;)

I've been on a Richard Scarry/Sesame Street kick for a little while -- looking for pics, using icons on ONTD, etc. But I finally found 2 older ones that I had when I was a kid. And :o I found the Scarry one at an antique store! 


                       

** I'm not a fan of THE ELMO but the pic was so family portrait-ish that I couldn't pass it up **

Today & tomorrow is all that's left, then 2 glorious, wondrous, beautiful days off. Geez, is the point of life really to live for your days off?!? 

I am looking forward to heading into the city to scope out our intended neighborhood again. 



We seem to get so distracted by other things that we haven't really been too focused on the plan at hand. But this weekend, dammit, it's all business. Ha! Yeah, we'll see...the Ram's Head will probably beckon us in. Just one or two pints ;)

I should work because I do have things I could do. None are urgent or urgent enough that my boss would have a tizzy if not done today, so yeah, just not motivated to do much. 

Seeing as how I only have 1 LJ entry (ha!), I figured I might as well hit this thing up. 

So, I have this site http://www.gullible.info/ saved on my Google desktop and the randomness of the blurbs on there are great. Here's a few:

• The Oxford English Dictionary (Unabridged) is the only English dictionary that contains an entry for "pompitous", a word made infamous by The Steve Miller Band's song "The Joker". It is defined as the pluperfect tense of pompous. 

• In the Dutch language, the restaurant idiom "let's go American" means to not leave a tip.    {LOL, we're known as cheap bastards, I guess}

• Two thirds of the world's heads of state are related within three generations to another head of state.

Now, this site is called Gullible and I'm not about to verify everything but if all is true...some pretty trippy shit on there.