this is what I want to be

i'm sort of in jealous love with this woman. her husband is "Cranky," her garden is amazing, she is in awe of it and she knows she is blessed.

awesome.

lola: home: swimming: boyfriend in denial

big weekend, yo.

i have now:

suntan
east bay girlfriend (not for sex, just for boy talk)
new bed
new home
boyfriend in denial. we're good friends. we spend a LOT of time together.

i hope he helps me move.
hehe

also: papa

today's my dad's birthday. happy birthday papa.

i might have to move

not because i have to, exactly, but because i'm pretty compelled to move into this spot.

i may need to let my friends just be my friends. it feels like a wall, but i think it might just be a healthy boundary. mm hmm.

it's also hard for this control freak to let go of the work i've invested @ pine ave. but if i have be there to keep it alive, well, that's telling too.

can you say:

transitional (not bouge) neighborhood
7 roommates. yikes. 2 kitchens. ah.
big garden, fig tree!!
used to be a freakin zen center
rainwater catchment
no hierarchy
conscious communication
1 mile to these top 3 places: work, lola's, paki trailer park?

i'm drafting the "yes please!" email right now. we'll see if i send it. eeeee!!!!!!!!!

ps i did it again with the sex panda. man do we get WILD!

i want to read this

when i can pay more attention.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070730/johnson

so i'm sharing it with you too!

isn't it interesting what makes it into a blog?

i mean, there is A LOT of stuff moving and interesting in my life. i will not bore you with the list.

what gets me to blogging today though is a lil task at work: i am about to remove the words “the right to organize” from a marketing piece for everyone's favorite megaplex of "natural" foods. at their request.

yeah, they hate unions. one more reason to keep it local. did you know there are 18% more farmers markets than there were THREE years ago? you know what that is? f'in radical, man.

and for the record, this place's produce is [a gajillion] times better than this place's. in case you're shopping on the way to my barbeque!

4.2 @ 4:42

earthquake! we had a lil panty party @ the cathouse when we all jumped up and ran to the living room...and then we went back to bed. there's broken glass on my floor though!

lola comes back today!!!!!!!!!

i rule at parking

i am a city girl again! also, this is reason #435 that if i am going to have a car, this lil number is the one to have.

where are the flying pigs?

hell appears to have frozen over.

that's right. the jus is gone.

like margarine

this is what happened on gmail today when my timing was off:



so what i'm expecting will happen is i will go to the movie with my housemate. (wah wah)

or, maybe i'll get some serious action. pa-pow!

garden philosophy

yesterday we (me & miro) finished pulling out the madness of bolted bok choy & mustards in the front. aaah. we harvested radishes & snap peas from the back bed, added some stones (thanks, Duncan) to the walkway, and while she thinned the radish/turnip albatross, i shoveled compost. We have harvested the first of our home grown! It's in the front now, where we planted some yummy white fleshed heirloom melon (neighbor side, for maximum growth) and ferry morse cucumbers (walkway side, for maximum harvesting).

I hear that's how you're s'posed to plant melons. in a pile of compost. how convenient we had one just right there!

it's way more fun to garden with a friend, though it is really soothing when i'm mad at the world or otherwise out of sorts.

then i harvested dino kale, collards (from the trees! i love them. they had a lot of aphid pockets though. ew.), a mess of nasturtiums and a bunch of green onions. yummmmmm. guess what's for lunch today?

omg!!! ponies!!!

it's a great weekend, i think, if i dunk my feet in the ocean, laugh a lot, meditate, turn the compost or otherwise enjoy the garden, see old friends and new ones, ride a ride that costs "tickets" and kiss.

so i missed out on one of those, but the rest- check!

and THEN, on the way home last night, after 45 minutes of bridge traffic and about 4 hours of freeway in general, i saw the best bumper sticker ever. it went by too fast for ms miro to see, so i chased it down! that lil adventure got us over the hump and well into alameda county (ahh, the hooome stretch). the sticker said:

omg!!!!!!
PONIES!!!!!!

i guess this is some geek meme. whatever man, i love it.

xoxooxoxo
r

color me converted

i sang "Matt for mayor," that's for sure. but damn, Gav, you're convincing.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/06/san_francisco_m.php

dinner date

i don't want to go to the city (as planned) tonight, but i do want to have a dinner date.

hmm. maybe by the time i get out of my office, take the shuttle to BART and walk home, someone will be there to eat with me. I think my chances are good.

cause i can't spend a third evening with that waki paki. that would really be codependent. and energy sucking, too, maybe. but fun.... ahahahahah i have 2 o'clock meeting. guess i better put on some lipstick. oh, and read the memo.

"come & get me, god"

i let my mantras come to me. usually they're pretty basic: "thanks, god" "help me be more truly me" etc. last night, after a lil secret ritual of manifestation, this one came.

and today i got 2 job offers: 1 for dancing, and 1 for cash.

i made a big deal of this corporate sell out, but what in the hell for? oh yeah, for the money. and the stability. but my 3 goals are for love, health and peace. can i have peace without a 9-5? and can i get healthcare working for {dance co}?

5 month review (we get a little slammed here, and put things off) is thursday. under consideration.

i heard it on NPR

in a story about barry bonds, and why his SF fans don't care if he does use crazy drugs. it's because they're from "notoriously tolerant San Francisco." I think it's an extension of "California values," and i like it!

earthhugger

yes yes things are changing

i am out about my desire for wedded bliss

i am zen about the current prospects

i am also still a smelly treehugger. no wait! a sexy treehugger. here's my latest carbon score:


Thank you for supporting Live Earth and
for completing the Live Impact calculator.
You are taking the first step to a more
environmentally balanced lifestyle!

YOUR ECP SCORE IS: 204

YOUR CARBON OUTPUT IS: 6.5 TONS PER YEAR

damn, gina! i thought i was doing ok! i guess that car has something to do with it...

independence day

i had a feeling this morning that something important would happen. some of it was the dramatic eyebrows that smash & the zaz gave about special k and the shorty both being here, and some of it was otherwise. i knew something would come of it. that i would be cool and easy, and not be on a date with either one, and that they would see that, and they would see each other, and would respond. and it was true. i think they both responded well. eheh

but most of all, i'm happy to be sleeping alone tonight. when i tolk K that the girls were trying to seduce me (whic was true, and a little scary), he said "they're smart." jesus.

i was not allowed to have a date for the party because i rock when i am just me. and it's the most fun to rock.

yesyesyes! i DO got grapes.

this one breathes a lot

this is what i look at when i leave work. or when i look out the window. and it doesn't really make me want to live in san francisco, as much as i love a bunch of people who live there. it's sunny here on the east side. and see how SF is under a blanket? paradoxically, it's not warm under there.

SUCK IT!

thank you Maggie, for being Super #1 Tier 1. you save my life a bunch. thanks for being real and hilarious and hot and broken and awesome and whatever you really are in whatever moment we find each other. "Did oyu feel that?" Even if you can't come to the bbq with your sexy beyonce, i still love you the most. I don't even care about your other friends, cause I know there's enough SuperMaggie to go around.

as for you tier 2 dissers and mass emailers who can't return phone calls, please see this posts's title! booyah.

oh yes

I'm free! Here's a tidbit: until this weekend, I had a home in Austin. I had a lease, anyway, and was occasionally nervous about how that would work out. I live in Berkeley, right, and have for the past 7+ months. Well, it worked out fine! I'm off. I live here 100% for real. For sure.

(on the DL)

i started doin it with the shorty (who is pretty tall, really) again. it's fun, it's easy. it suits my life. Biz made it happen. well, the Biz and gmail. weird how technology changes our lives. that and the real estate market.

it's a good weekend. the deck is turning yellow, and the boy (the jus) is talking even as he's leaving. the countdown is serious. it's an excellent weekend, maybe.