we had a great visit with kimmy and gregg and i got my house somewhat cleaned up for spring...which lasted about a day! yesterday while i was making soaps for my secondary orders i managed to slice the palm of my left hand in three different places. and i already had a minor--but somewhat infected--wound under my middle right fingernail from scraping out the whiskey barrels and getting a big dirty splinter up under there. between rodney's bum shoulder and my hands, dishes are an extra chore! so they stacked up sunday and monday, but today we are tag-teaming them for a few minutes each. hopefully we can preserve the integrity of our bodies and manage to restore order to the kitchen.
vesta's tenth (!!!!!!!) birthday is on thursday. i cannot believe that my child is ten years old! how exciting and crazy. they are having an indoor sleepover at school that night, so she has been plotting birthday party activities for that--it's great for me, i don't have to host a kid party--something i generally avoid--but she still gets to have one. yay!
the sewing machines at school aren't working, so the girls will have to work on their parade costumes here, i'm hoping this happens easily and with a large helping of fun, rather than being some kind of horrid rush that is stress-filled and ruins the point. and speaking of sewing, i've nearly finished creating the appliques for my first embellished grocery tote. big carrot, tomato, lettuce (all ruffly and multi-layered) and a mushroom. i'm looking forward to putting that together over the next couple of days.
the big hail yesterday battered some of my seedlings that were hardening off before rodney could get them all out of the pelting, but mostly they endured well, a good sign. i'm putting them in the ground tomorrow or thursday. the back garden will finally get some company for the thistles.
i feel good about my cluttered life and hopeful for the future. everything will be wonderful, and, in fact, is wonderful now.
gratitudes:
1) cameras! regular and digital. what an awesome, awesome tool.
2) films. i love them so. and as i said in the movie night mission statement, filmmakers are the modern day story tellers--what a cool medium for an ancient tradition.
3) chamomilla 6x-es...homeopathic teething tablets that REALLY WORK! they help baby and adults alike cope with the seemingly endless task of growing teeth.
4) greens. they taste so good and feel so good in my body.
5) CDs--music to the masses, woohoo! another ancient tradition in a modern format. eat my sony, Luddites--heh.
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an excerpt from a work-in-progress
they ate breakfast together: an omlettle he made filled with spinach and cream cheese and tomatoes and a bagel they split with salmon and more of the cream cheese and some capers she went back to the fridge for. they amused themselves discussing what capers are and how they came to be in jars at upscale markets for them to buy and eat on bagels with salmon. he liked to think they came from the sea somehow, and she assured him they were really little berries of some sort of fragrant bush. she fished the capers out of the tall jar as they talked and ate more than usual, something about their brininess described a hunger for her that she didn’t know she had, and then filled it. they drank steaming mugs of rich coffee with cream (and two sugars in his). she loaded the dishwasher and wiped off the counter while he cleaned the coffeegrounds and little spills from the coffee pot. the sun shone cleanly into their white kitchen and onto their bodies as they moved about their tasks and then they kissed one another and left for work, him to an office in town and her upstairs to her office where she worked as a freelance ad designer. it was a perfect morning. it was the perfect morning.
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