Author: Allegra

Born when atmospheric carbon was 316 PPM. Settled on MST country since 1997. Parent, grandparent.

Today is shaping up to be the kind of day I envisioned when I quit

I gave up on Grieg – and got Give Me Five, Give Me Ten done in 1 hour flat.  Then Alex and Darwin (and his IMMENSE font of charm, appetite and ENERGY) came for a visit and we played in the park and it was merveilleux.  Later today I’ll wander over to Planet Bachelor and Paul and I will go to an Indonesian dinner at Bareld and Marylke’s.  (Fellow churchgoers… and it’s somebody’s 50th b day so I will have to ensure I have a proper card for the occasion.) Keith and Jeff will probably get together to replay campaigns or kill zombies or such like.

The weather is of unexcelled glory, the expression on Gizmo’s face the first time he saw Darwin was priceless, and all is as it should be, most wonderfully.

I can haz video of Darwin playing with a three and a half year old girl although darn, I missed filming him getting his face licked by a very sweet and gentle Jack Russell terrier in the park (that was so funny).  When your kids are old enough to drink and be cynical with, how fast we forget their marvellous baby playfulness and those mischievous grins.

Free lawnmower! Rrrowr

birthingway (her LJ name) GAVE me a perfectly fine gas mower, so that potentially expensive matter has been put to rest.  We had a lovely visit.  I had previously advised her to put one of her kids in Purpose School, so this is my karma coming back at me… I hope.  I also did a small shop that turned into 129 dollars, but $20 of that was maple syrup, which has gotten quite expensive, and another $10 was butter, and another $10 was cheese, so these things add up.  Also, how did I end up with two kinds bacon in my hamper?  Oh well, I got flour, which I CANNOT run out of because then we no can haz wofls.  And waffles, candidly, are like currency around here.

Not much done on creative projects today except a tiny bit on Grieg, and a tiny bit on the atheist liturgy, but any day that includes saving $200 on a mower can’t be a toetle loss.  I also did the minimum daily walk – I walked back from Highgate and got pappadums and picture hangers (how gloriously and alliteratively Vancouver!) I am trying to get the strength together to get going to Kopper’s show tonight but my innards are warring with me.

Finally! A job I can do!

Reddeer sends me the following link:  Get a Job in Wookey Hole!

I can cackle! Anybody knows I can cackle.

Yesterday I made up the downstairs bed, made banana bread, added a new verse to “Give me Five, Give me Ten”, made an appointment to get Miss Margot’s stitches out today (I chickened out of doing it myself), found a FREE LAWNMOWER (now that was a good day’s work) which now I have to borrow a car to collect.  I also filled up more bookshelves, bought some more of the Santa Cruz lemonade – Gosh I love that stuff, and so does everybody else who comes into this house and drinks it all; made Thai Basil Beef for supper, had an idea for a science fiction short story, had a FANTASTIC idea for the McGuffin in the zombie movie, thought very sadly about a friendship – if I can call it that – I have, which I am going to have to jettison (all in the “Allegra, stop hurting yourself on things that you know hurt you” vein), talked briefly to Mike, visited with Paul, managed to call my son without making stupid noises about how it’s his 23rd birthday today and how does he feel about that, discovered his potential job (he’s on tryout this week) is working out, so far as he can tell, practiced guitar for a while, played with the cats – all of them, they appeared to be in a good mood and much more kindly disposed to me these days, and shot, edited and uploaded a youtube video; and I slept in a different room than my laptop, and thus slept way better and longer.

Today I am going to FORCE myself to finish Grieg so I can work on Give me Five, Give me Ten, which seems to want to be worked on a bit more.  And take Margot to the vet.   She’s not gonna like it.