J. (Jerome) and i are at randy’s, where J. is helping randy snap chalk lines for the stripes he’s going to paint in his basement. i was sitting outside eating chocolate chip cookies and reading yesterday’s paper, and then i had to flip the brisket.
we brought this brisket to randy’s for dinner and J. was going to cook it in his crock pot, but we were so busy working like SLAVES at amy and jim’s that he forgot. so we looked up online how to microwave brisket and so now, theoretically, it will be delicious.
i have to say, though, that when i went inside and flipped the brisket it looked DISGUSTING. made me think seriously about becoming a vegetarian. this would be a great time to start being a vegetarian, what with the brisket tonight and the sonic burger earlier in the day. red meat TWICE IN ONE DAY, what is the world coming to? or at least, what am I coming to?
no good, clearly. no good.
things are almost done at amy and jim’s. almost done. which is good, because maybe the house will be listed as early as MONDAY. which is coming right up, fyi. and hopefully somebody will buy it right away, and everything will be rosy for them.
because right now things are pretty darn rosy for me, and i want everybody to be happy. how could you NOT be happy with the weather this perfect?
i should seriously, SERIOUSLY think about warmer climes next winter. seriously. because look how seriously more happy i am now that the weather is getting warm. don’t most people feel this way?
i can say that washington park has been like grand central station lately, except for the lack of trains. i went running the past few days there, and when i’ve gone around five or so in the afternoon it has been PACKED with walkers and joggers and many many dogs and way too many cars. people shouldn’t be allowed to have their cars in the park at all, as far as i’m concerned. too many cars/people/dogs. especially because i keep taking various peoples’ dogs with me while running, and all the dogs i’ve taken have always wanted to greet all the other dogs and the people and the dogs haven’t been terribly cognizant of the correct behavior when cars pass by; the dogs have a tendency to blithely run in front of the cars. very, very bad.
but aside from the hordes of people, the park is sublime.
i’ll be there tomorrow, a little bit later in the day, and maybe the crowds will have thinned out then.
that is all for now. go outside! breathe in that clean air! enjoy life, because it’s the only one you have.
perhaps i should get a part-time job (because i don’t ever want to think about doing ANYTHING full-time) writing pithy sayings for fortune cookies. or maybe i could write down a bunch of words of deep wisdom and think of a catchy theme to tie them together somehow, maybe with clever photos or something, and i could make them into a book and make my fortune, FINALLY, so i can move to any warm climate i choose.
that’s all for right now because i must get back outside.
ok then,
april grace.