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It was a nice Sunday. Went for breakfast with the family and then had a quiet kind of do nothing rainy day on my hands. I cleaned, which I always end up enjoying while I’m doing it and pleased with myself afterwards for doing it, but I have to fight to get myself there. It’s kind of like working out in that way. Well, it’s exactly like working out in that way. I’ve been good about that though. I think in the next couple of weeks I’m going to buy myself a good bicycle and take a few hours out of the weekend to ride. Maybe take my camera with me.
One of the best parts of today is it was warm again so I could open the windows. I hate the winter for that. It stifles me…inside and out. And the world smelled wonderful today. It’s that smell that comes with the rain in the spring. It smells clean and it smells like life.
I’ve been reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman lately. He’s brilliant if you’ve never read anything of his. I try to read for at least an hour every night but I’ve been slacking this past week. It’s a terrific story so far. I’ve been in love with how he writes ever since I read my first Sandman comic. Issue 14, A Doll’s House part 5 I think. It was the serial killers convention and it was so utterly brilliant. There is an effortless beauty to the way he writes. I’ve never had a writer put such vibrant images in my head. I should start keeping a sketchpad by me when I read.
I also have been having a glass of red wine every evening for the past month or so. I am so utterly sophisticated barefoot in jogging pants and a t-shirt, sipping my wine and reading my book. Someone send me a smoking jacket and some cigars so I can just pelvic thrust my sophistication at people. And it’s healthy for me so I got that going for me. The wine that is, not the pelvic thrusting. Well, at least not by yourself.
My internet has been behaving badly lately. I think I’m switching to cable this week when I get a chance to call. The DSL has just become too unreliable and slow for what they charge. I’ve wanted to watch Serenity on Netflix all day and been completely stymied. I watched Fargo instead which ain’t so bad at all dontchaknow. I will be talking like that all week.
The Coen brothers are so fantastic. They make all those things we see as mundane or dull or embarrassing about being who we are, and make them beautiful and interesting. I try and do that myself when I’m just looking at the world around me. I just fail when I look in the mirror, but don’t we all?
I think Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is next up since Netflix still doesn’t work and I don’t want to read or draw just now. I wish I could draw. Another frustration at the moment in that it simply is not working for me. I just need the right face, or the right idea, and I’ll get back in the groove. It isn’t the first time my hands have rebelled. And yes, I do choose to go through my movies in alphabetical order as Fantasia was just before Fargo and I’ll be watching Forbidden Planet the next time I need a movie. I’m a little bit crazy & weird, but I don’t trust people that aren’t a little bit crazy and weird.
Am I done typing? I think I’m done typing. I need to get back to doing this every day. Never neglect your brain.
