Well, dear readers, it is the final Friday of 2012. That just boggles my mind. Doesn’t that just boggle your mind, too? This year has flown by, like a gazelle with a bunion. Does anyone still have bunions? My mother used to complain all the time of bunions on her toes. But I don’t recall hearing bunion complaints from any human being in the last forty years. Have bunions become like the dodo bird or do they still make their nefarious presence known? Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of bunions – the bunion knows. Well, according to my sources, the bunion, aka hallus valgus, is still alive and living and caused by tight shoes with pointy toes. Since I have never worn tight shoes with pointy toes I have never had a bunion. I’ve had an onion, of course, and I’ve read Damon Runyon, but I’ve never had a damn bunion and I never want a damn bunion and can someone please tell me why the HELL I’m talking about bunions, aka hallus valgus? Hallus valgus sounds like a venereal disease, doesn’t it? Well, enough with the bunions and onions and Runyons, let’s write some notes, shall we?
For a holiday day off, yesterday was not exactly a holiday day off. I was awakened at seven by the sound of a trash truck a few blocks away. Funny, I thought in my groggy state, when I put my car away the night before there were no trashcans anywhere on my street. I got up and took the two trashcans out to the curb and what did I see? Fershluganah trashcans in front of EVERY HOUSE. When did these ridiculous people put their trash cans out, at one in the morning? At six in the morning? Because they wure weren’t out at eleven the previous night. Trying to figure out this stuff at seven in the morning in a groggy state was madness inducing, so instead I went back to bed and stayed in bed until nine-thirty. Then I got up, answered e-mails and got ready. Then Miss Kay Cole arrived and we drove over to the Glen of Dale, where we met Miss Adryan Russ and we had a meeting with some folks. The meeting was fascinating, interesting, and potentially could lead to something really amazing, should the stars align and good fortune be with us. It would be a year away, but it would make for a rather incredible 2014. After the meeting, we went and had a bite to eat at the California Pizza Kitchen. After that, we all went our several ways and I did some errands and whatnot and picked up two count them two packages.
Then we reconvened in North Hollywood for our second meeting, which was about the same subject as our first meeting but with different people. That, too, was interesting. Then I came home and spent two hours working on the contextual commentary for the Kritzerland shows that is a mere week or so away. I got most of it done, and then I moseyed on over to the Jones’s for a home-cooked and lovely meal.
Dinner with the Jones’s is always a warm and cozy event and last night was no different. We had wonderful conversations and a great dinner. Muse Margaret made her brilliant chicken breast, some green beans, smashed potatoes (made with those small red potatoes), salad, and then an apple crumb thing for dessert that was extremely yummilicious. At dinner, I told Margaret the ideas for the new novel and she really loved them. First I explained what I originally had in mind, and then what it had evolved to and she liked that much better, but she also liked that I could use my original setting in the first chapter and that I’d found a way to tie all that together at the end. Plus the setting for the first chapter is very relevant today for many reasons, so that’s kind of cool. And she loved the new title I’d come up with just yesterday, so I’m all set to begin on January 1st. After dinner, Richard set up his laptop and they watched two Outside the Box episodes – they hadn’t seen any of them. They watched the first episode of season one and the first episode of season two. Margaret really liked Stephen Findle and she laughed loudly at some of the stuff. They’ll catch up with the other episodes at their leisure.
After that, I came home and finished the contextual commentary, so that’s done. As always, I’ll let a day or two go by, then I’ll read through it and add, subtract, and finesse, not necessarily in that order. All in all, a very satisfying day and evening. Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I’m very tired and need a good night’s beauty sleep.
Today, I have a one-hour work session at eleven. After that, the next three days are mine all mine and I shall do whatever I please when I please and how I please. I shall hopefully pick up some packages, I shall pay some Kritzerland year-end bills, and I shall eat something light but amusing (perhaps some Gold Star Chili dogs – the low-fat kind on low-fat buns), and then watch a motion picture or three.
Saturday and Sunday are mine all mine, and then Monday is, of course, our Annual New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, the greatest New Year’s Eve partay on all the Internet or anywhere, for that matter. This is the place to be – it’s safe, it’s fun, it’s friendly and we shall laugh and laugh and just when we think we can laugh no more, we shall laugh again. I will ring in the New Year with you dear readers and I can’t think of a better way to ring in a New Year.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, have a one-hour work session, I must hopefully pick up some packages, I must pay a couple of bills, I must eat, and I must relax. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player and your DVD/video player? I’ll start – CD, the soundtrack to Atlas Shrugged and The Well-Digger’s Daughter. DVD, a Swedish coming-of-age film that several people have raved about, and on Blu and Ray a whole stack o’ things. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, thankful that I have never had a bunion in my life thanks to good planning and never wearing tight shoes with pointy toes. That is the way to avoid the hallus valgus aka bunion.