lushness

Love the quirkiness and rich colors from Coley Claire.

I spent as much time as possible yesterday doing nontechnological things – making unmeasured amounts of iced tea, cleaning the apartment, baking cookies, laying deflated on our sage green sectional couch that I rarely sit on, sewing, taking photos, playing whole albums of Bob Dylan and PJ Harvey through the livingroom speakers. I finished reading Adverbs, so now I can rightfully say that it did not get any better and if I had been the publisher I would have cut the strings as soon as I had the chance. I'm already seventy five pages into my new read, Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, which is worrisome for an anxious person like me to read but at the same time a great relief after drudging my way through the previous book.

The cat did it again yesterday. In the middle of the afternoon, Stefan comes into the livingroom, where I'm sunken into the sage green sofa, and asks if I know where Rufus is.

"I thought he was with you," I say. As if he were a small child.

Then after a few minutes I hear an excited, "Rufus! In there, again!" and I peel myself off the couch and go over to where Stefan is at, right in front of the washing machine. I peek down into it and there's Rufus, curled up around the central tower in the middle of the machine. He's hugging the pole with his body, purring, looking back up at me with unapologetic glassy eyes.

I'm unsure what the agenda is for today. I had wanted to play tennis yesterday but the air was so saturated with warmth that I knew I'd get exhausted and complainy after a few serves. So that may happen, or maybe the driving range will happen, or maybe it won't be insane everywhere and there will actually be open spaces in the parking lots for parks and open tables for restaurants with outdoor seating.

Comments

[tameka]

I guess I'm a bit embarrassed at how much of your blog I sat and read this afternoon.I love your writing style.I too have a cat with trespassing issues; like the cavy's cage or inside my daughter's dollhouse (I almost ran through a wall that time)What fun, and the pug pic is priceless!

[Ambermayhem]

Lovely blog. Rich, textured and a nice peek into a good life.

Enjoy!

[Nicole]

I'm so wishing I could pull off the skirt in that picture!