warm weather = productivity

It was super warm this weekend. I went down to Universal City to pick up a rental car since my mini is STILL at the dealer. Their diagnostic machine is up and down all the time and it’s down again.. so my car is waiting for help again. I got a ford focus (yea not even a mini rental after a week of NO CAR!) and headed to the beverly center. I found an awesome BCBG dress that I picked up for the Oscars.

Sunday it was 80! Josh and I washed all 3 dogs and Damien was quite amusing. You know how cats chase a laser pointer spot? Well imagine that scenario.. but Damien (full size rottweiler) as the cat.. and water stream from hose = laser pointer spot. It was quite amusing watching him chase it, pounce it and bite at it over and over. He never tired of it and we never tired of laughing at it.

I also went through my garden and threw away most of the dead plants that the “Buffalo weather” killed. I left the Queen Palm in hopes that it will come back to life sometime soon. Of course the weeds are thriving…

Also just finished an awesome book, “Middlesex” by Jeffrey Eugenides (wrote “The Virgin Suicides”). Amritz’s g/f, Sarah let me borrow it. It’s fantastic. 2003 Pulitzer prize winner. Took me a while to finish it beause I don’t have time to read lately, but I finally got through it and it was well worth the time spent. Lots of Greek history and immigration history that was interesting and then Detroit that reminded me of Buffalo in some respects and then there’s Cal the intersexual narrator and main character. I can’t give the story justice explaining it, so I’d suggest reading it It seemed very nonfiction to me, like this is a novel, but it’s real life for many people out there. A bit of an eye opener.