friday

it's been a day of surviving. work has just been crazy steady. not busy, per say, but summer is supposed to be dead slow. we'd beat last years month by tuesday. we ended the month at something like 35% ahead of last year. keep buyin the flowers, baby! when we fall it's gonna come hard.

got a dykediva email, to help me make my weekend plans. i can't decide if i wanna ride my bike with them all again tomorrow or not. it just starts so dang early. the link had pictures of us from the last ride, but it's quite small, and i can't get the url from it, so i don't think it's worth posting. but i will give you a link to pictures from the dyke march so that you can see all the lovely ladies i was marching with last saturday.

my goddess, what a week it's been. and now i get a killer weekend- 4 crazy days. i feel like i should go somewhere. but i'm going to just stay home (or go out bike riding) and sew. while reading the time out chicago today, i suddenly had this burning desire to go downtown and see the fireworks at grant park while the orchestra plays on the 3rd. i know never to go down to the lakefront alone at night, it just makes me too depressed to be alone, but still, i wanted to do it, and no one else will be willing to brave the 2.5 million other people trying to stake a claim to some grass. but then i told ch and he said he'd had a hankerin to go this year too, so i think that's what we'll do. he's gonna persuade hugo to come, too. i don't know why it's better to have a snuggling couple ON the same blanket as you instead of next to you, but it just is. i went to the grocery store after work today. have i mentioned i'm just not into eating, these days? i never did make that soup. last night after work i skipped dinner, but there was wine and cheese at the book release party, and i had some of that and it was good. i was tellign ch how i haven't been hungry for anything lately, but the wine and cheese was good. and he said i should just eat that for awhile, and it sounded really good. so i bought raw veggies, 3 kinds of cheese, 2 kinds of crackers, this huge bag of cherries. i made taco salad when i got home, and ate half of it, and then i was still hungry, so i ate the other half, too. so nibbling such things is my plan for the weekend- we'll see if i'm tired (or out of!) picnic food before the 3rd comes!

another road trip i'm thinking about after reading TOC is milwalkee. it's only an hour by greyhound, and i really wanna go to the museum. it's wonderful any day, but right now they're having an exhibit about comics that sounds facinating. it's been such a long time since i explored a new city by myself, it seems. so if i get my sewing done this wekend, maybe some weekend soon i can do that little daytrip. sigh. it's like going to wurtzberg from nürnberg.

enough. i need to clean the cat box, clean the refrigerator, take out the trash, and read my mail before i go to bed. and if i want to go to the dykes pedalling bikes tomorrow, that needs to happen quite soon.