:: anne in the attic ::

Create Your Own Countdown

:: Thursday, March 23, 2006 ::

This posting of my small but much-loved lantern collection is for my Virgo friend in Corvallis, with whom I got to hang out yesterday in what seems to be our typical annual way. We're always able to pick right up where we left off without any loss of comfort or understanding, it seems, good because of the sparsity of visits. For me, there's just something about the way another Virgo's mind works that's comfortable. I like the forthrightness, the honesty, and even the bluntness cloaked in wry humor that is so Virgo: blink and you might miss it. I have always had other Virgos in my life and hope I always will; I truly enjoy that dimension (dementia? haha!). Music, beer, food, stories-- all good. I didn't start the drive back until almost midnight, which made it a bit harder than usual to get up early for work, but it was well worth it.

Before that, I'd stopped in for lunch with mom and to take care of a couple of chores that required two people. And also to see the photos and receive the gift of vanilla she'd brought back from her month in Mexico. It was a very nice afternoon.

I've decided not to go to Seattle in April for a two-day turnaround. Though I'd like to see my friend there again, especially since she's just going through a series of chemo treatments right now, it's not as economically plausible as it was last Fall; air fares have tripled. And though I would have made the trip also to stop in at the Lark in the Morning store there, I'm leaning more towards making the drive to the one in Mendocino now. According to the website visuals, the San Francisco store looks like the one to see, but it's just too far south to extend the drive within the time I have to spend on it. Isn't that always the way? I'd really like to spend a few days there, but maybe this time I can at least stay overnight. Then the end of the week is the choir outreach in Newport, and I'm going up to the house (I asked my Yachats friend whose house our family has used for years for summer weekends at the coast if I could have it for this event, but space is limited) early on Friday to just hang out and chill with possibly a couple of other folks. Then Saturday I'll be filming the outreach (if all goes well), Sunday will be decompression/last minute chores, and Monday it's back to work.

So that's my next week off and it's already fairly booked at both ends. Somewhere in there, I'd like to spend some quality uninterrupted time in the studio to finish some things, if possible. Good thing I'll have another week in May (for the choir's Spring concert at the Hult Center, which isn't until the tail end), and yet another in June for the Song Selection retreat. And somewhere in there is a bowl-a-thon, making arrangements with my dad and that side of the family for his 80th birthday celebration, a TON of yard work, going back on the overtime list at work in a week, and getting my taxes done. Guess I'd better get it in gear. I'll be quite relieved to land somewhere in that June vacation....

:: Anne 8:04 PM [smartass remarks] ::
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