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everyone was in a bad mood with opening of guys and dolls on thursday, so mom didn't get the good side of anyone when she came to the costume shop. when we came home we had a nice dinner (i'd had the crock pot going) and she started on the dishes. while i was at work all day she cleaned my apartment. i had a nasty produciton meeting, and then mom and i met at marshall fields (she needed more madea and she doesn't have a pa source for north american remedies) and then went to charles's for pizza. he got broccoli and garlic for me. how charming. no one ever buys broccoli unless i beg for it. i love being known. i felt kinda out of it- mom's such a good small talker, i just sat back like in highschool and listened to her engage charles. funny, as opposed to other friends who i feel i have to buffer between them. mom and ch would get along just fine without me. lovely to come home to a clean appartment. worth any trouble of having a guest.
if i would have posted last night, i would have entitled it "end of an era." i threw away my german toothbrush that i've had for 4 years. don't get worried- it's the kind you change the heads on. but i've been having a harder and harder time finding the heads, and when mom was in europe in the spring, she couldn't find them at all and bought me a new replaceable head toothbrush and a year's worth of heads. it feels like such a major change.
lots of dreams last night. dreamed the same one twice, variations on a theme- it's thursday, mom's still here in the first one, i'm not at work or school, but i realize- i'm going to germany, have to leave in a few hours! so i'm frantically trying to pack... it was good use of REM i think. i now have a whole mental list of things to pack, and not forget. i'm definately doing a good enough job at the countdown i won't need to worry about forgetting how soon it's coming.
i'm gonna try and work all day tomorrow and get it done so we can have fun on sunday. i invited g to christkindlmarkt. so mom and i and she and joe and her roommate jess may all go. as always with g, we'll see what happens.
to allie- got pam and marty books- pam a fiction one that's popular and highly recomended, and marty a little one on feng shui. hopefully no offence will be taken. thanks for the encouragement, though.