all by my self

so strange today. my family is at the beach (except for the one that is always at the hospital, he is at the hospital). i was going to go to the beach. but i have this cold. uagh this cold. so here i am, completely alone in this house for the weekend. strange! i would like to think that if i were well i would do all sorts of interesting things. but alas i am ill and mostly on the couch.

so i listened to wait wait dont tell me and other radio and knit half a scarf.

i watched the third episode of this season's top chef on hulu (why has my tivo not been recording them! i didnt even realize it started dagnabbit. too must trust in tivo. shucks. and apparently i missed something called top chef masters this summer too. drat!).

i also got a burst of energy and planted all of the plants that the fairy plant person left on my porch. this morning all of a sudden there were plants desperately begging to be transplanted, on my porch! a surprise! i dont even know what they are! i suspect broccoli and cauliflower and something else or more of the same.

im sorry i didnt get to see you fairy plant person. probably on your way off to the farm in the early morning. thank you for all the plants. i should give you a bag of beans.

and then after digging in dirt and carrying compost and pulling weeks for a bit i took a bath and laid right back down.

and then i played guitar on the porch swing and attempted to write a song which has not happened in 10 years. the singing hurt. because of the cold.

then i sat on the swing and thought about all the time that has gone by in those ten years and how everything is so very different. tried to identify what is the same. i got a little sad missing the me and the us of ten years ago.

then i drew a picture.

and now i think i might maybe be feeling well enough and not coughing so much that i might be up to going to hamilton tavern for a beer and a copy of the paper im working on to edit and scribble on and have some breakthrough about. but im not sure. still fairly crummy/coughy. and it will be full of people who are there together. i havent been there much and am not sure about going alone. i need more friends that do not have babies at home or busy hospital jobs or anything else to do but go to hamilton tavern with me.