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The Long Involved Version

Woke up yesterday and opened my eyes to see Habanero’s face a little less than an inch from mine.

He was lying on my pillow, purring hugely, peering into my face in a fascinated way, reaching out every once in awhile and patting my mouth with his paw. I tried and tried not to giggle but finally did and he stomped off, affronted. What a dingbat.

Friday night was great, we went over to Sarah’s and watched the X-Files. I started telling her this long involved story about something on the net that had happened, basically people are accusing me of being anti-women-in-business because I don’t link commercial pages on Web Weavers. I’m anti commercialism on the web, whether it’s by a woman, a man, or an alien who just popped off a spaceship. That’s the short version of the story, I was telling Sarah the long involved I’m-really-pissed-off version and whenever the tv ads came on I would tell her more of the story — by the time the show was over I’d finally finished telling her the whole story (you think I interrupt myself and digress frequently in my journal, in person I’m much, much worse) and Sarah’d yawned a couple of times when I was telling the story and laughed and assured me that it wasn’t me, she was just feeling sleepy. When we’d gotten all our stuff together and were saying our goodbyes I said, “Sleep well, if you have any trouble give me a call and I can come over and tell you that commercialism on the web story again.” Tee hee.

We came home to a message on the voice mail from Sean and another one from Svea — after two days of phone tag Svea finally got in touch with us and we were both able to talk to her. What a sweetheart she is! It was good to talk to her again. Sean’s off in another state, visiting with his father’s new wife’s family for christmas. When Todd and I were walking to 7-11 to get milk to make hot chocolate on Wednesday we were talking about Sean and realized how awful it must be, how frustrating, to not be able to spend time with the people you want to spend time with (Svea and her family) and instead spend time with people you barely know and certainly don’t like. When I talked to Sarah today she was just getting ready to go and spend christmas with her parents and sister and sister’s husband and said that it wasn’t that she felt like she didn’t want to do it, but more a “what’s the point, anyway?” kind of feeling. Interesting.

Yesterday was a very weird day, I felt extremely grumpy and out of sorts for no reason and then even grumpier and more out of sorts after we’d watched the movie “Bye Bye Love”, a movie about weekend fathers which was SO DEPRESSING I cannot tell you how crabby I felt by the time it was over, and really wondering about the film company that produced it and labeled it a “comedy”. I don’t know, maybe it’s just me, but in my opinion divorce + screwed up kids + fathers who don’t give a damn because they’re so busy with their 14 year old girlfriends does not equal funny entertainment. And then the moral of the story was “Ah well, everyone gets divorced, what can you do?” which made me want to kick the tv screen in. How about “marry someone you like at least as much as your dentist” for a moral? Oh, no, sorry, that’s not the American Way.

Ahem. Anyway.

So then Todd made salad with homemade scallion and garlic dressing (yum!) and veggie chili with cous-cous which was delicious and we both felt much better until one of the kids of the weekend father next door started throwing a temper tantrum. We decided to get out of the house before we ended up in the basement because at least then we couldn’t hear the kid banging on the walls, and saw a movie at the artsy theater, had an absolutely wonderful time and were very glad we’d gone. I dreamed over and over again that I met Ani Difranco and it turned out that her song “you had time” was about web pages (*grin* there’s a chance that that song could be farther from any connection to anything even vaguely connected with computers, but I doubt it).

Today’s been very quiet, Todd has a godawful headache as well as a bad cold and has spent most of the day sleeping. I’ve been working on my web pages and drinking a lot of tea.

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