Put some clothes on your children!
I wanted to holler across the street at the parent of the two tiny shivering denizens of the Outer Sunset fog belt who were scampering down the street in tank tops and shorts with their arms covered in goosebumps.
It’s July in San Francisco.
Break out your scarves.
Fuck.
It just dropped like a thick, spooky shroud.
Of course.
I may be just too far into Stranger Things.
Fuck it’s good.
But it’s not the prettiest out here, right now.
Yesterday I never saw the sun.
Today, I did, but only because I went into work.
The nice thing about yoga, I realized today when I was in the studio, is that it’s always a nice warm 80 degrees and my body needs that warmth.
I don’t like super hot, I can stand it, but sometimes the fog wears on a girl.
Never the less.
I did have a good day.
I got up early and did the writing and the coffee and a nice little breakfast.
Then off to yoga.
A good class, my favorite instructor, who, woe is me, is leaving in two weeks!
Damn it.
Oh well.
The studio has other teachers I like, but I shall miss her classes.
I can see how I have gotten better whenever I go to her class.
And.
They are sneaky classes, I’m doing well, think I got it all under control, then hours later I’m like, why the fuck am I sore?
Oh.
I had Martina’s class today.
Tomorrow I will be sore as well.
That being said, I do plan on going to class in the morning before work.
I’ve got a 1p.m. start all week as the boys are in summer camp.
1-8p.m. means that I can get in a yoga class before work as well as my writing and a shower.
I always need a shower after yoga.
It usually is a lovely thing too, that shower.
So very grateful that there is a yoga studio in my neighborhood, on my freaking block, for Pete’s sake, it couldn’t be more convenient, and it’s super helpful for me time wise, I can get in a shower and sometimes a few other things too.
Like.
I scootered over to Rainbow before work and got a couple of “luxury” items for my Burning Man efforts.
A nice hand salve.
I gift hand massage on playa.
It’s what I do.
It’s a nice way to connect with someone and most folks have such dried, beat up hands from the playa and doing all the work that needs to be done to set up their camp or their art piece or whatever it is they’re doing.
I also picked up some boxes of unsweetened vanilla almond milk, a pair of heart shaped sunglasses, and some of my favorite body lotion.
What with what I got yesterday on Amazon, all I need is to get the rebar for my tent and some work gloves.
I’ll hit up a hardware store this weekend and get it wrapped up.
This weekend so far looks like some “homework” for the American Red Cross CPR child/infant/adult class I’m taking on Sunday.
It used to be that you would have to devote nearly a half day to the cause, the class was four and a half hours long, now you take part of it online then go in for an hour and a half.
The class portion is Sunday.
I hope to have the online stuff taken care of on Saturday, I haven’t really looked at it yet.
And Saturday, aside from doing the deal with my person at Tart to Tart at noon, I’ve got another friend’s 40th birthday party extravaganza to go to in the afternoon and my commitment that night at 7pm.
Sunday, after the class I’ll be heading over to Oakland for another housewarming party.
I wish my friends would all stop moving over to Oakland/Berkley/et al.
I miss you guys.
I totally get it though.
I do.
I just, well, I’m holding tight here as long as I can.
I really feel like I’m more San Franciscan than anything, and I try to represent best I can, that San Francisco weirdo.
I don’t always succeed, but I certainly don’t fade into the background.
Even here.
I do, however, miss the sunshine, and I am constantly grateful that I work in the Mission, at least I get to experience sun there.
Not that I made it much outside today.
Today was all things cooking.
Pot of sushi rice.
Beef stew with vegetables.
Fish for the boys.
A vat of broccoli soup.
Roasted cauliflower.
There will be a bit of cooking for me this week as the boys are at camp for a part of the day that I’m at the house.
Laundry, cooking, errands, marketing, running to Walgreens for prescriptions, going to the dry cleaners.
All sorts of things.
Especially as the family prepares to go on a little trip next week.
FYI.
My people.
I have to work that Monday at the house, let in the housekeeper, this is August 1st, but I’ll be off early, and, and, and.
I will get Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday off from work.
I’ll go back to the house on Friday to cook and prepare for the family to return and make sure the house and everything is in order.
But yo.
I got some free time next week.
Coffee?
MOMA?
I just got my new membership, I can take up to two people with me.
I should definitely go next week, even if no one goes with me, I’m a good solitary museum goer, shit, so many museums have I gotten to visit, such a gift, that.
The Louvre (Paris), The Metropolitan (New York), The MOMA SF, The MOMA New York, The Whitney (New York), the new Whitney, the Brooklyn Museum, The Palace of Fine Art (San Francisco), Le Petite Palais, L’Orangerie (Paris) The Rodin Museum (Paris) The Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, the Asian Museum of Art (Paris), the LACMA, The Chicago Museum of Art, The New Orleans Museum of Art, The Dali Museum(Paris), the DaVinci Museum (in Rome), The DeYoung (San Francisco), The Tate (London), Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna (Rome), The National Gallery in London, The Jeu de Paume (Paris).
I’m sure I’m forgetting some, in fact, I know I am.
But man.
I am lucky to get to have had so many of those experiences, and most, truth be told, on my own.
Although once in a while with a friend, or a lover, although never a boyfriend.
It’s been twenty years since I have been to a museum with a boyfriend.
My ex-boyfriend back in Madison was way into art and we hit up the ones in Chicago, Milwaukee and Madison.
I remember when I introduced him to Dali.
And to Klimt.
And Kandinsky.
Twenty years.
That’s a long time.
Grateful I haven’t sat around waiting for a boyfriend to go out and live my life.
Not to say I wouldn’t eschew one.
Just that I don’t need a man to complete me.
A compliment, that I could handle, some one to walk by my side.
Until then.
Well.
Friends.
Masturbation and Stranger Things.
Heh.
Auntiebubba 