Friday, March 16, 2007
Back By Popular Demand
So Amy wants me to post, mostly because she has an issue with the voices in her head, but also, and this is just a guess, because she’s bored and afraid she’s killed another blog. Fear not Amy, I am just lazy, not dead.
I had some things to say, like:
Bruce and I were at a national sandwich shop chain where I expected to see Jared and things were totally normal. I ordered my sub and wandered down to pick up drinks. Bruce, being the next person in line started his order and then wandered down to the veggie section where he was thinking about the toppings he wanted. The woman who was making the sub looked up and asked the man who was standing behind Bruce what he would like on his sub. This guy apparently didn’t think: “Hey, I didn’t pick this bread or lunch meat why is she asking what else I want on this sub?” He just said, “lettuce, tomatoes, onions…” I hear this an look at Bruce who has yet to twig that something has gone terribly wrong. Bruce, being the smart bunny he is looked at me, looked at the sub girl, and looked at the guy who squatted his sub…and said nothing. I watch this whole thing from the cash register and start laughing. I love that the only explanation for what happened was: “They All Look Alike.” I love subtle racism in action. Sub girl meant no harm, she just can’t tell the difference between two Asian men, who were from different Asian countries. Awesome.
I’ve been having some disturbing dreams. Dreams that I haven’t told Bruce about because they are really disturbing. So that means I can’t tell you all, but just know, I am fucked up.
In my spare time, what with all the not working, I’ve been doing has been taken up with some light gardening. I have some Spring Onions coming up, two types of Lettuce, Sun Flowers, Tulips, Wild Flowers, Prim Roses, Lavender and Irises. They all live in containers because all I have access to is my concrete patio and they all need lots of water in the California sun. These bitches are so needy. Of course there isn’t a water faucet outside so I have to fill a watering can about 9 times to do the watering every day. There are also some birds (they sound like doves but they aren’t white). These birds have taken roost on the light fixture right outside my sliding doors. It’s like the plant watering Olympics here. I fill the can, carefully carry it across the entire apartment to the patio, put it down to open the door, pick it up go out the door, put it down to close the door, pick it up and get to one of the containers without spilling half the water on the patio.
Bruce has been very good about letting me have certain things for the apartment. We’ve done some serious damage at Ikea but I’ve respectfully requested that we endeavor to purchase furniture that we don’t have to assemble ourselves. To that end, I got a desk. It was on ebay. In New Jersey. The shipping cost almost the same as the desk. The desk, is made of real wood, (no particle board or veneer here) and was delivered two days ago. Bruce and I spent some time in the office just looking at the desk. The office is starting to pull together. Bruce is all about aluminum and glass (it’s shiny) and minimalism. I think that my desk is a nice addition considering that stylistically it has nothing to do with shiny or minimal. It’s got these cool faux alligator finishes on the drawer fronts and nickle draw pulls, there is some minor damage that is easily enough fixed with some wood glue and wax finish, and the wood shines up so nicely it makes me feel funny inside. I’m just happy that I didn’t have to put the shit together and yo, real wood is heavy.
The other thing I’ve been doing is painting. Not walls as this is a rental unit and we expect to not be here that long. All of the wall art are things I’ve painted or photos we’ve taken. Thus far, only the bathrooms are finished. The office is probably the next to be finished, we just had to pick up some wall anchors. I am working on the paintings for the bed room and living room right now. The living room is getting a pair of matched paintings/technology collages. I had an old computer that I took apart. I’m going to hot glue the internal pieces of the computer (all the stuff under the key board on your laptop) onto a pair of blue and magenta canvases. If it all works out it should be really cool.
Okay, that should be enough. I’m going to go watch some HGTV.