Permanent Ink

Wow, I totally blew off my morning pages all weekend. Oops. I am still having a hard time doing them. I just can’t get motivated if there is the smallest obstacle, like not waking up in my own bed.

Anyway, here’s a review of the last few days:’

On Friday I went to Erik’s house with a bottle of champagne. I just felt like drinking some bubbly. We went to Shorty’s for dinner and then went back to his place to drink and watch Masculin Feminin, which is a terrific movie. I loved it. We went to bed relatively early and slept in as well.

Saturday was busy! I dashed home in the morning, took a quick shower, and barely caught a bus up to the U-District to see Drawing Restraint 9, the new Matthew Barney project, at the Varsity. I will say it was “worth consuming” just because it was an exeperience, but it was kind of weird and I can’t decide if I actually liked it or not. Lots of petroleum jelly though. Then Erik and I wandered around a bit and got some greasy food and coffee and got in a stupid fight about whether saying you would miss someone is a horrible thing to say or not. Bleh. But then we went back to Cappy Hill and checked on the ducks at the Park. Still not there. Someone drained the pool and now the ducks are gone. Then we went to Linda’s for a quick beer before heading to a barbecue with some friends. It was great fun and the food was excellent. We then tried to head downtown to go to a fashion show but it took us so long to hail a cab that we totally missed it. We hung out at the hotel where the show was for a bit and then went back to Michele’s house with Tom, Michele and Sami. Drank some wine and left around 1:30 I think, where we proceeded to walk in the wrong direction until we were totally in the middle of nowhere–and there were no cabs to be found! I was finally able to hail one with poor Erik half asleep with his head on my shoulder.

On Sunday we went to dim sum with a few friends. It was incredibly cheap. Then we walked over to the Frye and sat through half a boring film lecture. Then we viewed some art and then I went home. Once I was home I lollygagged and wasted a lot of time doing nothing. Bleh.

Yesterday was another busy day at work. I learned all about rights managed images and got to color some floorplans.

After work I loafed around at home for awhile and took a nice long shower. I then went to the Hideout. Tons of people came out and it was very fun. I was in the loviest of lovey moods and wanted to smooch Erik all up. Nothing eventful happened but it was a great day all the same.

I woke up too late to do my morning pages! So today I will do afternoon pages.

Yesterday was a fun day. Work was a little crazy. I have a lot of little projects to work on. But it keeps me busy.

After work I met some friends at the Honey Hole for dinner. A girl from Get Crafty/Glitter was in town from OC and I got to see Leslie for the first time in forever, which was very nice. I miss her. Then I left to meet Erik and his coworkers for Josh’s birthday celebration. It was very nice and low-key–just drinks at the Hideout. I like those guys. Then Erik, Todd and I went to a new bar on Capitol Hill by the Top Pot called Sun Liquor. It is okay. Then we went to the Summit Pub, then Erik and I drunkenly stumbled back to my place (luckily only a few blocks away). For some reason we decided to take a bath. It was 1 in the morning! Actually Erik decided it. Very silly. Then we passed out. I am very sleepy today.

Yesterday was uneventful. It was a slightly unproductive day at work–waiting around for people to get back to me. I learned all about the messy world of rights-managed images. I felt really sick and cranky and just wanted to go home. Then I went to my writing group and we drank a lot of wine and chatted. Then I came home and listened to LoveLine and tried to sleep.

Another thing I want to do is review the previous day every morning.

Yesterday I slept in with Erik. His apartment was really hot so we didn’t stay in bed for too long. I love laying around in the mornings with him! It’s the best. We went out to the market and got a few cheese samples at the cheese festival and then got coffee at the Nordstrom Espresso Bar. I had seen that seersucker suits were on sale at J. Crew so we went to check them out. They had his size but the pants looked weird–kind of like jammies. He ended up just buying the jacket. It looked great on him. The sales clerk was really adorable but I bet he is 19 and gay. Then we dillydallyed around for a bit in the bookstore and finally parted ways. On my way home I got a tofu sandwich at Baguette Box.

At home I messed around on the internet some and then finally took a shower and got dressed. I intended to go to the park, check on the baby ducks in the reflecting pond and then sit and work on some things for my writing group, but it was windy at the park so I got too chilled when I was working.

Then I went to the Red Light and tried on some dresses. They had the perfect Maggie the Cat dress on the rack but I could only just get it zipped–I couldn’t imagine wearing it to a party. That and it had stains all over it. Still searching for my Maggie the Cat dress. Maybe I should manifest intent it.

Then I went to the grocery store and came home and cleaned up a bit, altered this thrift store dress that didn’t fit well and shortened the hem to a more flattering length, wrote my poetry group exercise, talked to Erik on the phone, read a bit and made hummus and tuna salad for lunch.

That was Sunday.