You Cannot Eat Soup With Chopsticks

Last weekend I helped my friend Shannon move into her new duplex. I managed to take a lovely picture of the moving truck instead of the house. I especially love her yards, both back and front. When you live in apartments for a long time you rationalize that yards are a lot of work, they're not really that important, etc. When you have a yard (not just a patio) with some shrubbery and trees and dirt, the possibilities are limitless. I find a certain calm and sense of accomplishment when working in my yard even though its very small and currently very ugly. I can physically affect a more asthetic view just by moving some dirt and plants around. I can help things grow. Its a very empowering activity.

PS, I fell out of the moving truck and landed on my bottom. Just stepped right out of it backwards and missed the ground with my foot. No serious injuries were obtained.

Last night I went to the Longbranch, an east Austin dive bar, and checked out my pal Carolyn Merriman's band the Baby Girls. I had two.5 too many beers and felt all achy and gross today. I remember thinking the band was really good, but since I don't go for live music that much (too loud) its hard to tell.

I've been looking at random people's blogs and I especially love the ones where the blogger is very nearly illiterate and runs all their words together and spells almost every other word using acronyms and emoticons. It reminds me of the notes we would pass in middles school. Then you look at the person's profile and they're like, 32. Is typing really so difficult that you can't manage to spell a complete word?

There is something supremely satisfying in the semi-voyeuristic nature of reading other people's blogs. If you're reading mine you should be warned now that I am prone to being pretentious. I also don't allow anonymous comments, because if you can say (type) it you can own up to it and if you can't own up to it keep it to yourself. Remember the proverbial If you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all?

OMFG!! its liek 8pm n i gotta go lev work cuz i got 2 mcuh to do and get ppl some bday gifts :-p noone is 2 perfect 2 make mistakes and dat includes u so dont be a hater - out-T