How Awesome is this?

These pictures are from before I took the blue tape off. Looking at them now... I'm kind of thinking that instead of touching up with white paint, I'll touch up with dark blue because that looks AWESOME and even more comic book like with the POP of the dark border.

I have to touch up because like a dummy I painted with a wet roller and then the paint like seeped under the tape. Gross. There is a learning curve to painting.

Left to my own devices

Laura was racing on Sunday so I was home in the morning all by my lonesome. I decided that it would be a good idea to paint another wall. The bedroom has a weird little doorway that's basically like they cut the corner off of the room so that more doors would fit into the little alcove between the living room and the back rooms/bathroom. There are five doors in a little space. It is sort of like a house of mirrors, or one of those nightmare houses where you run and run and open one door after another and then they just lead to more doors. Or maybe that nightmare is unique to me. Anyway so the doorway has its own little diagonal wall that's only slightly bigger than the door. I painted that wall turquoise put a huge lightning bolt on the adjacent long wall and then finished up by painting that same long wall turquoise up to the half way part, with a white border around the lightning bolt there. As soon as I find my camera I'll post pictures but for now use your imagination. It kind of looks like a comic book, or a dorm room (that's what Laura said).

I finished that by 10, Laura was home by 11 and then we went shopping. I bought these AWESOME new shoes. They're called Lunarlite Racers. LUNAR! I think they're designed by NASA! (or at least Nike masquerading as NASA) They weigh something like 5 ounces for the pair. I test drove these a few years ago before they were officially released and when I was still a member of the Nike Running Club. I've been dreaming of them ever since (good dreams, not like the nightmare house of endless doors dreams). The best part about them is that they look like bowling shoes. Oh, and they're comfortable. I was so excited about getting them that I ran to school this morning, and then wore them to step aerobics tonight. They're HOT HOT HOT.


Evidence:


Did I mention that they weigh like 5 ounces? That makes them perfect camp shoes for backpacking. It just doesn't get any better than that. Well, the only thing better is the fact that I'm having an awesome dinner and listening to even more awesome musicl.


OK, guess what I'm eating for dinner.

Did you say "Ramen with peas and mayonnaise"?

You did? You're Right!

Now, guess what song I'm listening to. Right now!

"Adventures of Isabelle" from Natalie Merchants kick ass new album "Leave Your Sleep" It's an Ogden Nash (!) Poem set to music. It goes like this....

"Bear said 'Isabelle glad to meet ya! How do Isabelle, now I'll Eat you!'"

Summer

Ahh, summer is upon us here in Miami. Everywhere I go I can hear and see the signs of it. People with large sweat stains on their shirts, cars with the windows rolled up, the steady ear-splitting drone of the air conditioner, everywhere the pitter-patter of little flea feet, and Laura in the kitchen yelling "Get out of here cockroach, no! no! no!"

Summer is early this year. It's HOT. Is this how Miami is going to even it's average temperature out this year after our hellish "winter"?

The most beautiful thing in the world

I have a really really nice back yard. It's not totally fenced, but Scott is getting better and better about not running willy nilly through the neighborhood if I turn around for a second. There have been a few times that I've had to run around and ask the neighbors "Pero Negro? Pero Negro?" and they point and such and pantomime a stupid looking dog running around with a leash on. Obviously I've always found him after he runs off. After the last time he made a break for it I went and bought a long rope and kept him tied up to the mango tree anytime we were out. Recently he's been showing some interest in playing fetch so I've been letting him off the rope some.

It's nice that the dogs have a place to run around, but that's not even the best part about my back yard. This is:


Go ahead and ignore the telephone wires and nasty invasive vines. Look right in the middle, at those glorious dangling blobby things. Those are baby mangoes. In a few weeks they will be ripe mangoes and they will begin falling to the ground in the most glorious state of ripeness. I think that ripe mangoes right off the tree are what angels eat.

Here's some other pics from the back yard....

The dogs got bandanas from Weird Florida. It's a show on PBS where a guy and his dog drive around Florida looking for weird stuff like the Skunk Ape or Two Egg Florida. On their website they offer doggie bandanas for free if you promise to send back a picture of your dog wearing one. We had a little photo shoot. Aren't they adorable?





This is the hammock I bought for Laura in New Orleans. We only have one tree so I had to modify it to be a seat, since I could only hang it from one branch, and that one branch is only so long. Looks comfy, wish we had two!

PEEPSHI

Sometimes I wonder if I have too much time on my hands... Let me tell you though, the combination of rice-krispee treat and fruit roll-up is amazing.