- it has rained here for 5 days. heavy rain. thunder, lightening. power outage at the local favorite sushi joint yesterday just as i arrived to have fab food. dammit!  i'm not one to complain (ha) but.... enough already!  oh, and today i went....still no service "plumbing problems"! WHAT?

- chelsea wanted to drive to pick up raven from a friend's last night. by. her. self. well now, she will be 16 in 3.5 months and capable legally of doing this on her own but.... i just couldnt let her. if she lost her license before she even got it....i'd be screwed; i need an errand runner. so, i sat in the back really quiet. we pretended i wasn't there. she turned wonky once and raven said, "good thing mom isn't here!" and "where is that weird giggling sound coming from?"

- there was a homeless man sleeping outside the studio a few months back and i called the police.....now i have been subpeona'd as a witness! wtf!! i talked to the assistant state attorney for the court and told him i was useless 'cept "i might be able to identify his big ole black feet." because thats all i saw sticking out from under our porch. i still have to go! ugh!

- sometimes if you are very quiet, you can watch people paint themselves into a corner.

- every night before i go to sleep i tell myself that 'i will go to the gym in the morning' and every morning i wake up and say, 'i will go later.' tomorrow when i get up, i am going to the gym! for real! i promised chelsea my iphone if i do not go! i also made an appointment with a trainer. it's all about reinforcements baby!

- i cooked dinner tonight and took a vitamin and shuttled children and visited with long lost friends and blogged. i can hear a surprisingly quiet hum of 5 adolescents in my home. telling stories, bonding, laughing. i feel content.

- i have mostly been a white bed girl. big fluffy white on white sheets, pillows, blankets, comforter. now, i am venturing out...on my new king, i have red. soft fabric, deep blood red sheets and i feel warm and cozy and sexy! 

- tomorrow is friday. i will be ultra productive at work and then finish off my day listening to good music and dancing and being with sweet and good friends. saturday i will be with my beloved lisi and her sweet baby in their new home with the amazing mary. a fish fry and a drive to pensacola pleasantly trapped in the car with katie from NC, swapping stories and catching up....my weekend is growing more and more pleasant by the minute.

 

- it surprises me so much that i can hear chelsea blaring the beetles and cat stevens! i smell patchouli wafting from her bedroom and she likes to bake rosemary cookies with her shirt off at midnight. my little hippy.