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the rain is so drizzly and charming today.
coffee is on, the HalloQOM detroit-esque industrial mix that Sherilyn made last year is on reminding me of Judi and Lansing antiques hunting rain. Smoking cigarettes all shielded from the rain so they wouldn't get soggy. Later on dressing up to go gay club and try to get the freaks on. Refilling waxy fast food cups with Boonesfarm while we drove to here and there. Whoever was driving nursing one cup for the drive and then finishing a bottle pre bar.

I think today we're going to chill and be all domestic. Rooster just brought me coffee in the Big Cheese cup. I have an accordion lesson at 4pm. Sizzle to try to make and then an at home private recital performance thing in Noe Valley and then the hot band Her Majesty the Duchess at the Elbo Room if I have any energy at all.

QOM last night was great. brownstargirl kicks all kinds of hotness with her words and her fierce and her amazing. I was so impressed. So charmed. I love when writers move me like that. Blood rushing and matching the beat of the words until my heart beats differently from the hearing of it.  The open mic readers where fun and moving and sexy and funny and it was good. I am afraid if I name check all the LJ in the house I will miss someone or fuckup their names - but it was good to have you all there. Thank you for showing up and supporting and sharing and making it matter. It was teh goodness.

I originally was going to try to hit an accordion jam post QOM but left my poor squeezebox at home. Instead a small fraction of our horde headed to the Orbit Room - nope too crowded - to the Mint for a drink or two. Um - karaoke. Yep. It was good and fun and social though my head felt weirdly disassociated. Maybe it was feeling too much Michigan in a San Francisco bar. Not sure.

Today is stretching out before me and the biggest decision is whether I go to Rainbow before or after accordion time.
Not bad.

six happy things meme

i was tagged by susannocha - i won't tag you  - but i will tell you that hearing your happy things makes me... well.. happy :)

1. buying an accordion. yes i just bought a free of mold accordion that i am paying in installments and i am fully squee about it.

2. my first accordion lesson. i am learning the bass chords first so i can practice with my loaner until the new girl comes home in february.

3. dandelion & burdock soda. it's my total indulgence and i love it. every week when i buy groceries it's the one treat i allow myself for being practical in all other grocery matters. this soda means that cindy is worth a treat. the taste is like dreams and waltzes in my mouth. it's like the best hug from an old friend. it's amazing. i love it. and maybe i love it more because i bought it as an experiment that i expected to just taste odd and instead it tastes like love.

4. a house with heat. this is my first house with actual real heat after 10+ years in the bay area. on a cold and rainy night there is nothing better.

5. my pillows. i have five pillows that i sleep with. just before i am ready for bed i fluff all of them and let my head be surrounded by soft and firm supporty pillows. then of course i readjust and shove a bunch out of the way so i can actually sleep. but i heart pillows.

6. my first year of college towel. my mom bought me this huge bath sheet towel in 1992. it was huge. she got it because in my dorm it was all community showers and she wanted me to feel comfortable. it's still my favorite towel. it's less fluffy now and has hair dye stins from the 15 years of living with me. but i love it. when i look at it i remember the day my mom bought it. how proud she was of her daughter with the scholarship moving on to college and starting life. my choices since  she doesn't always get. she tries but the pride is fewer and far between. but that day - she was so happy to call me hers. so that's always my favorite towel and it makes me HELLA happy.