Thanks for the fish

and feelin’ it. I donated blood tonight. I never feel great afterward, but at least this time I was smart and did it in the evening, so I can just go to bed and then wake up feeling fabulous. But I got home and J was out working in the garden and it looked so deliciously fun so I joined in (separately). He had his headphones on listening to a Great Course on audio. That’s this company that started sending me stuff in the mail and it’s really cool. They have college courses talk by great professors on really interesting subjects. I’m the kind of nerd who loved college (liberal arts) so I ordered a Jazz course…history of Jazz, which I, er, still haven’t finished. But it’s really good! So J started looking through the catalog and he’s in this sort of religious phase…not as in being religious, but interested in religions. He’s been reading a lot of books about buddhism and now he’s really into the history of Christianity. I like this stuff too, being never brought up in any particular religion, I look at it from a pretty detached perspective, but like to learn about it. His parents think he’s becoming born again since he borrowed their bible. Neither one of our families is religious.

Annnyyhooo… so he was working on the side of the house in my shade garden. That’s a little neglected corner where stuff is really doing good. Have 3 huge hostas, a giant Jacob’s Ladder, some foxglove seeds I planted last spring (as in 2007) that finally came up, some Jack in the Pulpits I dug from the woods, trilliums from the b-ham plant sale, 2 hydrangeas (one oak leaf), a veronica, probably something else. Anyway, the weeds dont’ get too bad over there so I never go over there. (oh, some primroses too) but the plants are getting too big for the bed so J is expanding the bed outward a bit.  I decided to work in my weed garden, which is really my favorite. I planted the peony my mom brought - gorgeous, the lilac. Both lilacs are in that bed and I worry they’ll get too big, but I guess we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. Also planted a poppy my brough and something I don’t know what it is. I also planted a thyme and chives that I got from the grocery store to add to my potted herb garden-on-the-front-stoop. And watered my window boxes and fuschias. And did a little weeding.

Then I cut some of my absolutely stunningly gorgeous irises with the plan to bring them to my 3 coworkers (2 coworkers, 1 boss) as a truce for being a bitch to them lately (even if it was deserved). Life is too short to hold a grudge, right? It’s just effing work. And wouldn’t I like to be known as “the nice one” ? That would kind of of cool. I honestly dont’ think I could keep it up long enough to get a nickname, but at least one nice gesture would be a step up.

Oh! So at the Red Cross, they gave me free pizza for dinner! (speaking of nice). And a free Red Sox T-shirt. Not that I give 2 shits about the red sox, but hey whatever. I can learn. I don’t currently have a baseball team to speak of. How bout them Celtics huh? I won’t pretend to know anything at all about basketball, or pretend that I watched any of the games, but I heard they won something. Us New Englanders are going to get spoiled here.

Guess that’s all for tonight…