It is Thursday morning, and the birds are chirping outside. Sun is shining through the used-car-style flags we have hung up outside our apartment, which I snickeringly thought of to celebrate James' 29th birthday last month. Some traffic passes by every now and then, but I think for the most part, people are at work, as it is 10:23. Yes, I shall be attending the old coffee-sling routine in just an hour; today is one of my short days: 1130-330, on other days I work 7-3.
So, what should I start with... well, I have been spending a lot of time recently coordinating a food drive, which I titled FARE FOR CRONIES. I was going to call it FOOD FOR FRIENDS, but that was just a little too cheesy, so I checked the thesaurus for synonyms and laughed as I made some arrangements: Fodder for Fellows, Cheer for Peers, Cuisine for Cousins, Bites for Buddies, Chews for Chums. Hey, no reason why a little do-gooding can't be a very fun time! I went around to all the businesses with a letter explaining what I wanted to do (have them host a drop-box for a full week starting this Sunday) and got 19 businesses to participate, all within three blocks of the Business District of Park Boulevard in University Heights, which is where Twiggs is located. Twiggs Coffeehouse is where I work. I have been taping up big bright orange posters at local grocery stores and this weekend I will be passing out flyers at the Earth Day Fair, and possibly the Adams Avenue Roots Festival, which, annoyingly, both occur on the same weekend every year. Wish me luck in gathering tasty healthy treats for the less-fortunate. I have already gotten three shopping bags full and it hasn't even started yet!
Besides the food drive, I have been excitedly tending my container garden outside our apartment! I have some decorative flowers, some cactus, some plants I don't know the names of that came from James' old apartment, HUMONGO broccoli, onions, carrots, dill, peppermint, butternut squash, bell pepper, and a poinsettia which I snagged from a line of almost-dead ones at one of our favorite bars, brought it home and back to life, only to have all the leaves be eaten by one Dorothy Snogboggler, who sniffs a piece of grilled chicken with a snooty nose, but would devour all of the leaves of my plants if she had her way. So, again, I am trying to bring that one back to life, and be tender to the broccoli and pepper plants, which she has graciously munched on quite a few times.
Note: none of my plants have produced edibles yet, although there is a very tiny broccoli baby hiding in the leaves!!!
The insatiable Dorothy Snogboggler, or El Gato Dorotea Snogboglier (the g's are silent).
Other snaps from recent times:
(Sorry these are kind of hap-hazard... James has a lot of the pics on his computer, so next time I will try to be more prepared with better pictures!!)
So, James's band the Hi-Lites just released their first full-length album titled Hi-Altitude. It is very good indeed and they have been selling copies at shows. They just signed on with Megalith Records, which is owned by a guy named Bucket, who is the singer of the band The Toasters, a second-wave Ska band from England. The Hi-Lites are planning a ten-day tour of the South-West for the beginning of June! James just finished his latest song which is a voal piece called Golden Paved Road. SO AMAZINGLY GREAT, and I have only heard it played by computer interpretations of musical notes... just wait til the band plays it live!
Also, we bought our tickets for our east-coast appearance, coinciding with the ever-comical 4th of July. J&B/M&D have been giving me updates about the person count and bedroom assignments. IT IS GOING TO THE BEST, I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE ALL OF YOU!
Besides that I have been making up recipes for sweet snacks and hearty dinners, also finishing Ayn rand's Atlas Shrugged, which I have been reading for 1.5 years and have about 75 pages left!! Also, riding bikes, walking, sniffing the air, going to the beach, trying to save some money, anticipating Marveller #3, new RI! products, and thinking about the world.
Well, it is time for me to go to work and make slurpy warm caffeine concoctions for the public.
More to come on the blog soon, as there are many shows, events, fun times and deep thoughts going on out here.
I hope all of you are feelin real good.
Love you!
-em
Ps. how do you make the text-size smaller?
2 comments:
Good to hear from you em!!
-Molly
Em - Nice post (you too Molly)! Thanks for getting in on the act.
To make the text smaller, when you are on the page where you write the post, click the "compose" tab in the upper right corner of where you are entering text, and then the button next to the drop down Font menu should allow you to make the text smaller or larger.
You can also do it by using html tags. before the words you want smaller, you would write "< small >" (without the spaces) and after the set of words, write "< / small >"
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