"We love to watch you try..."

Sometimes I wish they'd just knock it off. They left 3 hours earlier than they had last told me they would, because Mom was in a tizzy about getting a ride home from the train station, and was apparently having one of her everything's Dad's fault moments. Problem is, they wound up leaving about 10 minutes after I woke - Sir had to leave at 5:30 this morning for California, so I didn't sleep much, and wound up sleeping longer than I intended after he left. Second time this weekend this happened, and it annoys the hell out of me.I've been exhausted, putting on the party face and acting like I'm actaully enjoying being surrounded by dozens of people wears me out quickly, but still, I would have liked getting some relaxed, quiet time to spend with my family, as I don't see them often, and Mom is leaving for NM the 24th.

Honestly, looking at how Mom gets so incredibly worked up about the smallest things, it's no wonder there isn't much that gets to me that badly, after observing what it does to her and the people cloest to her, I can't understand why one would be that way if they could help it (she can't, or doesn't notice what it does, I can never tell which).

Sad. I had wished for a more pleasant end for the weekend. Of course, a casual scan of the living room shows me all the things mother left behind in her tizzy. Never fails.

Latest installment in the interview game...

From tezliana
1. If you could pick one band/musical group to give a private concert for you and your friends, who would it be? And who would you ask to choose the opening act for you?
( I'd make a list, and get a dartboard... )

2. You've lived in various places; what makes a place feel like "home" to you?
( Deciding it is, really )

3. What's currently on your "to read" pile?
( Many bunches of lots )

4. What is the farthest you have voluntarily gone to help someone? (Literally or figuratively, you choose.)
( My white knight tendencies get me in trouble )

5. What do you do when you need an ego boost?
( This )

On a side note, the radio commercials for the Canadian Tourist board are kind of spooky.

Hey!!!!

I won a contest! I get a newsletter that sends homemade beauty product recipies, and every week they have a trivia question and give away a product. I got it right last week, and won a bar of Lemongrass soap! (I *love lemongrass!!!!)

There's actually a funny story about the last time I won something, although it was both Sir and I. We go to a cafe in the Village where the pastry chef has been named one of the ten best in the world, and competes in the International Pastry Competition (Yes, I actually watch those, quite excitedly. :P) Every Christmas he makes this *huge* gingerbread house, it's really a marvel. They raffle it off.

We won last year. However, we were stuck in Ohio due to a snowstorm and couldn't pick it up, so they had to give it to somebody else. It was the first time I ever won something. Yes, I cried. (you can stop snickering now:P) While a bar of lemongrass soap isn't quite as mindblowing as a gingerbread house made by Biagio Settopanni, I'm still excited.

And Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!

Loose ends..

The house is clean, in a few moments I'll get up and make myself a salad, and then....(Sir's in California, so I have the place to myself, and all the time in the world). I could...

Try out some ideas for a shea butter lip balm with chocolate extract
Knit (need to do some of that today anyway, but the night is young)
Try out my bellydance DVDs
Do some drawing (have new pencils, must test drive)
Work on my cross-stich pillow
Give the rosebush a haircut
Catch up on some reading
Make lavender cookies (new recipie!)
Read my new issue of Yoga Journal (probably do this while knitting)

It's a good thing I usually go to bed at about 5am when Sir isn't around, I may be able to hit the whole list between today and tomorrow, and tomorrow I think I'll spend some time at the cafe that has a special between 7am and 12, coffee and a pastry for 1.25$.

I love spending time with Sir, and a hundred years won't be enough. However, I also love these times where my days are my own, full of promise and possibility. They make the time with him all the sweeter, I think.