Wow, What A Terrific Sunday!!

Even though it’s raining — and will rain most of the day — I have already had a morning full of absolute bliss.

I managed to get all the nematodes out yesterday when I got home from my shift — on all the flowers and flower beds and all the ground that runs along all 4 sides of the house, and especially under all the windows. So I’m not expecting any fleas this season!! Yay!

It’s not hard work at all, it’s just sort of laborious if you don’t have a garden hose and need to use a sprinkling can and have to keep going back inside to the kitchen… But it’s done!!!

So that got done, and all the flowers and plants are out on the porches — so that got done.

And I made that appointment at Honda to get that other stuff done on my car — I’m going on Tuesday, after I spend about an hour at the shooting range! Yay!

So everything is done, scheduled, arranged — and today starts my first of 3 days off in a row.

Hence, waking up in a really great mood this morning! Yay! Yay! Yay!

Today, I’ll be reading over some revisions of our play, “The Guide to being Fabulous” and then tomorrow, I’ll be working on them with Sandra over the phone, but most of today I will FINALLY get to clean my house!!!!

Yay!!!

I can’t tell you how happy I am to finally get this stuff done. It’s really only a little dusting and then a bunch of vacuuming, but I never feel really comfortable when my house isn’t completely clean. It’s mostly because I have a thousand and 5 cats and I never want my home to seem like I have a thousand and 5 cats…

But, to be fair, they do help out in whatever way they can:

In no way is this an accurate depiction of how they help out…

So — my blissful morning.

When I got out of bed at 5AM, it was raining. But it was a light rain. No wind whatsoever. No thunder or anything like that, which would trigger my PTSD. Just summer rain.

And when I stepped out onto my kitchen porch to feed KonTiki, it just felt so peaceful out there, that once all the other cats inside were fed, and breakfast dishes were washed and put away, I took my cup of coffee out onto the porch and sat with KonTiki and just watched it rain as the sun sort of “came up”.

It’s interesting how KonTiki really loves to stay on the kitchen porch now that all the flowers and plants are out there. She got up onto the chair next to mine and we both just sat there together like old times — and it felt like I was finally going to have a good summer again.

After 2 summers in a row that were sort of “from hell”, with last summer being particularly close to hell.

And just FYI — while not related, this is a really great movie!! Johnny Depp:

But we are moving on over here!! And not only that, I will be going to NYC twice this summer! To work on pre-production of an Off-Broadway show!!

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It has been a really, really, really long journey.

In fact, this is the third house I’ve lived in since Sandra and I began working on this play together. And during the first few years, I thought I was moving back to New York — to Rhinebeck , where Sandra lives– and resuming a relationship with a guy I’m still crazy about:

He’s the chef there at the back of the photo, and this is his restaurant on the lower level of his home in Rhinebeck:

If you are ever in Rhinebeck, NY, you MUST visit his restaurant– The Tasting Room:

It is small so you must have a reservation. But Chef Daniel is an incredible chef!! {Read about him here.}

Anyway. It seems we are destined to be eternally “friends” (40 years and counting, although those first few years were memorably wild…)

But, long story short, I did not end up moving to Rhinebeck!!

Okay!!

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Happy Heavenly Birthday to my best friend on Earth!!

Paul would have been 66 today. He’s been gone 26 years now.

Here is a selection of photos I took of him a long time ago, mostly in my apartment on E.12th Street, although the photo with the huge flowered sofabed is in the Camelot Building on W. 45th Street, when I was married to Chong Foun Kee.

You’ll note that even back then, there was no shortage of photos of Keith on my bedroom wall… (and Bowie, John Lennon, Jim Carroll, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Franz Kafka, etc., etc.).

Same bedroom, but more like 1984 or 1985

Kitchen on E.12th Street, Thanksgiving 1987

Late 1981, W.45th Street apartment in the Camelot Building

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Well, I’ve managed to get 2 loads of laundry done while I typed this! And now I’m going to actually start cleaning!!

So here’s this and then I’m off!

From the desktop stash!!

And there are now 3 days until Nick Cave’s Solo Tour of Europe (with bass player) begins!! (There are 3 venues with tickets still available, but everything else for the rest of the tour is sold out.)