May 2, 2003

• Back when I was in high school, we used to swagger down the hallways chanting, "Hurray, Hurray!  The first of May!  Outdoor screwing starts, Today!!"

  
  

  We thought we were so cool....=-)

  
  

  Today was, in fact, so beautiful that if my partner had been closer than 3000 miles away, I may have considered such a thing.  Alas, he was not.  And frankly, I just haven't been in the mood, lately. 

  
  

  On the page for the day was a little early mother's day shopping, for myself,as it turned out!  My mom is swell!  She bought me a little bird bath for my yard. It's so pretty!!  Gawd I'm old.  If ever I'd thought, whilst shouting sexual May Day cheers through the halls of my 'ol alma mater that one day I would be thrilled at the prospect of a new bird bath, I would have run for the highest mountain and engaged in some kind of sexual, drug ridden, anarchist ritual that involved killing of as many memory cells as possible.  But there it is, beautiful, and sitting on the stump of the sacrificial Chestnut.  The next tree to go will be the huge (taller than our relatively small two story house) overgrown christmas tree, planted by the past tenants.  My mother, who is, to my advantage, also the landlord, has visions of a pink Dogwood in it's place.  I'm down wit dat!  (I'm tryin' to be hip here...tryin'!) I have had guilt about chopping the thing down.  It is a beautiful tree, however, it was planted in the wrong place at the wrong time.  I remember driving by the place after they planted it and asking, "what were they thinking?? In ten years, that thing is going to dwarf the house!".  I was right.  I just had no idea at the time that _I_ would be the one living with it. 

  
  

  I also emptied out my storage unit that has been my catch-all for about 3 1/2 years now.  Most of the stuff left there is junk.  I've got it in the garage waiting for our late spring/early summer garage sale.  if all goes well, I'm going to make a crapload of money on all this junk!  I have an attic full of stuff we haven't layed eyes on since we moved in two years ago, and a book about feng shui that is very convincing.  Clutter be damned!!  And in the process of clearing space for more junk in the garage, I actually did some good rearranging, so that you can actually get to stuff!  Wow!  My bicycle was sitting in there, too, throwing guilt at me from being neglected for so long.  Hold up your handle bars!  We'll be out for a spin in no time!  My son rode his trike up and down the block for a while. Now that he's got the peddling down, we have to get him to steer....

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