April 28, 2002: quotidian
Yesterday, LL and I went out to play. I rarely get to spend any significant amount of time with just her, though I see her almost every week at gaming, I like to spend time with her away from other people. I wanted to see what there is to see in Kent (the city where she lives--for those not from around here, it's about 20 minutes south of where I live) and so away we went.

We went to a bookstore that carries a large selection of Amy Brown's art--and the bookstore was packed to the brim. We were confused as to why until we realized that the artist herself was in the bookstore signing prints. It was a reception, all decked out with food and drinks, with a piano player in the corner doing the Greatest Hits of Andrew Lloyd Weber.

I bought three prints and had them signed, and I now have a color scheme I'm going to paint the office in. (light denim blue and plum. Trust me, it'll be fabulous.) We went to a crafts store where I picked up butterfly and dragonfly sponges for painting the stairwell with. I have a stencil all picked out, and the colors are definitely decided on, and now all I need is a weekend to do it in and a way to wash the corners of the stairwell. We also found a scrapbooking place, and I promptly fell in love. I think I'm going to start scrapbooking--it's a way to relatively cheaply indulge my office-supply fetish, and LL has pretty much everything I'd need to get started.

We then picked up her husband and went out to dinner, and then the three of us watched Iron Chef and three episodes of Wolf Lake. I dragged myself reluctantly home about 11, and crashed out until 7 AM, when Kallisti decided he wasn't going to wait any more for me to wake up and bit me on the nose.


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I puttered around for a little bit, planning to go visit some references for one of our landscaper bids and then go to gaming. It turned out gaming was cancelled, so I spent some more time checking out the references than I originally anticipated, and then came back and, well, kind of puttered for the rest of the day.

I washed a couple of loads of laundry and did the dishes. It was really relaxing having a mostly-clean house in which everything wasn't screaming for my attention, and I made the most of it. I took (and then enhanced) a pretty picture of Lilith and a picture of the neon azaleas that border the lawn on the north side of my house. (OW, my eyes!) Kallisti haunted the kitchen, and after I made some shortcake started eating the dough off of the cutting board I'd kneaded it on. After I took the picture, I shooed him off and rinsed off the board. Outside, Juniper and Lilith were playing in the sun.

There are some tulips and azaleas in the back that are really pretty. It'll start looking really nice when I rip all the weeds out next weekend, I think. Juniper also appears to be making friends with Zed, one of the half-feral cats who live in the courtyard. I caught them lying facing each other, about three feet apart. It was really warm outside, very springlike, and the colors today were just intense.

After the laundry got done (New Improved Laundry Basket--Now With Built-In Cave!) and I'd fed the cats, I realized that Juniper had apparently rolled in the mud, and then gotten some of my clean clothes dirty again. There was no help for it, it was time for a bath. Juniper survived that, but was pretty wet and unhappy afterwards. Poor kitty. On the upside, he now smells like kiwis.

I went for a walk, to see what I could see. I got lucky and found some cherry trees still in blossom. There was an old car evidently named Lazarus, (back from the dead?), a view of the 520 bridge, and a very strange flower on a bush on the Children's Hospital campus. I took a picture of a bucolic landscape that is literally three blocks away from home. It only needed some young men reading poetry in the grass to make it perfect. There was a beautiful fire-engine red double tulip on the way home that was worth a couple of shots. And my neighbor has a dogwood tree that's in bloom right at the moment, and the light turned out to be just right for a quick macro shot.

And now? Now i'm going to post this, watch some Farscape, and then crash out. It's been a good day.
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