Saturday, July 5
When I woke up, I had PBS on, the Oregon Public Broadcasting station, and watched a wonderful program I hadn’t seen before called “From the Top at Carnegie Hall”, about an 11 year-old Korean-American violinist. She was brilliant! At one point tears emerged, as I get so touched by such beauty. I really get moved by such aesthetics, and just fill with wonder. Amazing. She’s so young, so gifted!
I spent most of the day cleaning. I hate leaving the house for a week or more without cleaning, as I don’t particularly like returning to an unclean home. There has been a weird pipe leak in my second bathroom upstairs, just under the toilet. I put a rolled towel behind it, to be safe. But, I am a little wary of leaving for a full week. I just hope it doesn’t get worse or burst. It looks like there needs to be calking to the pipe behind the toilet. I’ll have to have the property management company take a look at it when I get back.
After I cleaned and got a head start with packing, I tidied myself up and met Susan at Bridgeport for noodles at Zao. She’s getting over a bad cold, and after two days hanging out with her, my throat was starting to hurt and I was worried that I was picking up what she had.
After we ate our soup and drank our tea, we walked in and out of a few shops. I ended up picking out a very cute madras purse on sale for $19.99 at J-Crew, along with a t-shirt and tank top, all for under $44.00. There were all kinds of sales, but I was very good and didn’t splurge or go nuts.
I went home and finished packing. I tried to unwind with a cup of Yogi chamomile tea, while I dipped my tired feet in a foot soak with a buttermilk bath powder and Dead Sea rose salts – it smelled heavenly and made the water super silky soft. My feet just felt amazing!
On television, the repeat SNL episode was on with Jon BonJovi guest hosting and appearing on the Vinnie Vedeci sketch – which was hilarious. For months my former co-worker Jen and I would randomly announce out loud “Jon….Bon JOVI!” in our best Vinnie Vedeci accent. So damn funny to us eye-talians.
I was tired and needed a good night’s sleep. I was already feeling sad for leaving my kitties, worried about my upstairs bathroom leak, but excited for a week’s vacation in a beautiful, remote place. I hoped to get some really good writing in!
