Perfect Day #2!!

Wow, another great day here in the Hinterlands!!

The weather is stunning! Sunny, but mild with no humidity.

And yesterday, I got so much done! Funny what you can do when there’s a break in the weather. I not only finished all the updated edits to “The Guide to Being Fabulous” and sent it off to everybody, I also vacuumed the entire house, weeded the gardens, did YOGA — unencumbered by any kittens!!!! Made a quick trip to the Dollar Store and then to City Hall to pay my water bill — an entire day before it was due!!

I just got everything done.

AND…

I broke down and ordered a window AC unit from Best Buy for my bedroom. It was on sale. I’m picking it up on Saturday.

The funds for the USDA RD home improvement loan program are almost gone for this year, so I doubt I will get funding until next year, even though I’m still planning to apply this year. I’m waiting to hear back from my local USDA RD office to find out what I should do. We’ll see. But meanwhile, the difference between how I slept in that intensely AC-d hotel room in NYC, and how I sleep here…

This is the first summer in 7 years that it has been unbearable at night. So, anyway. Saturday, the AC unit will be here. And I should have an entire summer of yoga ahead of me and a better night’s sleep until Fall.

Also, yesterday, 3 of these arrived!!

I ordered them when I was in NYC, during Amazon’s Prime Day Sale thingie. One of them was for Little Blackie, so that was a little sad, but I can still use it, God knows. She was on the waiting list for August over at the Animal Shelter to get spayed. But the 2 male kittens are still on the list to get neutered next month.

Anyway! They are really great! I have never had a cat simply walk into a pet carrier and be in no hurry to get out of it! (You can buy it here on Amazon)

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Okay!

Today, assuming the Agency doesn’t ask me to pick up a shift for somebody, all I need to do is work on The Curse of Our Profound Disorder and get it ever closer to being ready to submit it to the publisher.

So that is wonderful!!

It is just so weird how the weather can either help you think straight or keep you from thinking at all…

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On the Happy Birthday front!!

A very happy birthday to Valerie in Brooklyn!! I cannot believe we have been best friends (and other stuff) for 43 years now.

Here is my favorite picture of her, because it totally captures her personality. Valerie is center, bottom row.

This photo was taken in Brooklyn, back in the mid-1980s. This was the “Dyke-A-Go-Go” crowd back then!! Not really prone to ‘drama’ — just incredibly smart & funny gals!! (And kind of remarkably over-sexed!!)

The woman in the upper left corner passed away, and everyone else, except Valerie, who was born and raised in NYC, long ago moved away from New York. But, wow, gang, did we have some great times back then. Honestly. So much laughter. And booze, drugs, sex…. Okay.

(And, sadly, all of the men we hung with back then — every single one of them, got AIDS and passed away.)

Okay!!

For Valerie, as always!! (The energy of NYC was just like this back then….)

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And here’s this!

I’ve posted it here before, but I found it again while looking for the photo of Val!

Me and the legendary publisher Richard Kasak, at the launch party for Marilyn’s Room, Inc. NYC, 1998. (His company, Masquerade Books, was one of the partners in Marilyn’s Room, Inc — a multi-media company promoting international indie erotic art, films, and books.)

What a great party it was!! What a great turn out we had from the press, too — including the NY Times and the Village Voice!