Moving right along

Time is so illuminating.  That's one of the reasons why being able to just be without worry and constantly trying to figure it all out is the way to live.  In balance, with flow, at optimal health.

• turns out we can operate the GPS in our car without Entune.  glad my annoyance didn't mutate into stress on that one.

• the bookshop website has been updated and now explains things pretty well.  being Aquarian, I am often ahead of the curve...I am learning being zen is a key partner quality to embody.

• my life was changed when our goddaughter was born fourteen years ago.  but time and technology (Google+ is proving itself useless in this one important way) have granted me new opportunities to learn from and about her.  love.

• Cap's time away is going by fast, so far.  but the space that is opened up by having one less person here is significant.  this three-day weekend is going to see some deep cleaning.

• speaking of cleaning.  it is no secret I do not like to clean.  but I like a clean space.  how I carry these two opposites peacefully is a mystery.  and deep down inside it's not peaceful.  the tar-like mess of stress bubbles up during PMS more often than not.  how do other people live with this?  how do they deal with it?

It's going to be a quiet-ish day.  After lunch I'm dropping the kids off and going food shopping.  Will fight the urge to buy tons of cleaning "product".  It's going up to 85º today and the humidity will be up about there, too.  Sag's been studying dolphins and orcas.  He read about Free Willy in the course of his research and wants to watch it.  Maybe we'll do that today, too.

Peace and love and orcas.

 

Friday's fibers

Sag made two portals today.  Here's me with one of them.  Our kids are creative/creating early and often, as the saying goes.  But, as with any art, I don't dig it all.  This, I love.

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Today, I drove.  Which I really don't like to do when the route/destination is not familiar.  But, the destination changed last minute to one I was somewhat familiar with which boosted my morale.  And, honestly, I love our new car so much, that I was driving Moomin boosted my mood.

It was nice to socialize a bit, hang out with a sweet dog and be out of the house.

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I've been asked: does your new car have GPS?  The Prius is high tech.  Or...more tech anyway.  And, yes, our model comes with a nifty "screen" package which includes a GPS.  I've been having trouble setting it up and this afternoon finally discovered the reason: our cell carrier is not a match for the necessary interface.

Annoyance.

Especially because our "Entune" account has been considered "activated" since the day I first went to the website to hook the system up, a month ago.  The day it didn't actually connect because as it turns out we don't have the proper cell carrier.  I wouldn't call that "activated".

I said, "well, that's not fair",  she said, "well, our system isn't set up to remedy that, but I can document your call"...I figured I wasn't going to get very far on the Friday afternoon of the three day weekend that kicks the Summer off.  

If we do decide to switch cell carriers so we can use the freakin' Entune (it's free for the first three years), they'll be hearing from me again to make our free period retroactive from when we actually are able to start using the service.

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Read See You At Harry's.  It was okay.  No great shakes.  It had some good moments.  For me, it suffered a little bit in that the protagonist was twelve and yet it felt and read like the narrator was much older.  The storytelling wasn't as transparent as I thought it was meant to be.

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Inspired by some chicken Donna made for common meal, I baked some pastured chicken legs for dinner tonight.  I seasoned them with garlic powder, ginger powder, salt and pepper.  Then marinated them in orange juice and olive oil.  Yummers.  Sag and I were all over the crunchy skin.

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Gem is not having any of his usual pre-birthday angst.  It is so wonderful and eerie at the same time.  I'm happy for him, but it's such a departure.  He still says he doesn't want to grow up/things to change...and I don't know for sure what's going through his mind because I'm in no rush to point out that he has, in fact, changed quite a bit in his pre-birthday mood...maybe he's resigned...or accepting in a new way...or just is in a different way.

12 in 16 days.

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I was floored to find out The Bloggess is coming to our very own local indie bookshop on her book tour!  I picked up "tickets" for Shannon and myself today.  Shannon is a fan, too.  At first I wasn't going to go because it's the night Cap is returning from Japan.  But, now that I'm out from under the dark cloud of a few days ago, I'm feeling like this is a really fun and genuine opportunity.

Funny aside.  I was confused about why the website didn't mention whether the event was free or not.  I didn't see a ticket price, but also didn't see the word "free".  I asked via Facebook whether the event was ticketed and one of the staff responded to say it was and I could drop by the store or go through the store website.

I'd had no luck figuring it out on the website so I dropped by the shop.  And there I learned that the "price" was buying a book through the store!  I don't know if things have changed or what, but I've never had that be a requirement for going to a reading.  What am I saying...  Things have changed.  The last book reading/signing I went to was probably Lousie Erdrich in Harvard Square in 1998 or so.  Before Amazon, before the war on independent booksellers.

Anyway, I'd already bought my copy, from the shop, weeks ago, which they knew.  I love having a neighborhood bookstore where they know my name.

The Bloggess!

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