If I was any kind of true photographer, I would have had a camera with me to document a few of these things. But I’m a lazy kind of photographer who doesn’t carry a camera with me at all times. A few things really stand out about my day today I wanted to share them with you.
This blog post from Gloria Baker-Feinstein My sentiments, exactly. She beat me to the post.
While doing my usual routine for a Wednesday at Sven’s Kafe & Gallery (we call it ‘Sven’sday’ instead of Wednesday), I was asked if I was a film maker. The town is full of them right now due to the True/False Film Festival I’m not sure if I looked like one (what does a film maker look like?) or why I was asked that.
I called Sparky’s Ice cream while the boys were at school to make sure they were open. We had planned to go to celebrate Joseph’s completion of his graphic novel for EEE (the gifted education program). It has been a grueling few weeks of writing and drawing and giving up much time on the Wii to complete the book. The answering machine at Sparky’s said they were open again until it was cold next year. (I thought that was kinda funny since it was about 20 degrees outside at the time) When we got there, they were closed. Not to fear, there are many locally owned yummy treat establishments within a block of Sparky’s. I offered cookies at Main Squeeze or Lakota. Joseph wanted Lakota but upon hearing the words, “Main Squeeze”, Isaac squealed with delight at the prospect of eating his favorite dish: tofu with sesame/ginger sauce over brown rice. I explained we were getting a cookie, not dinner but he continued undaunted. “I would really like a snack, though. That would be a good snack. I could have that instead of a cookie.” I realized I was standing there trying to convince my 5 year old to have a cookie instead of a pile of tofu on brown rice. Silly mom. We headed to Main Squeeze where Joseph remembered pretty quickly that he loves their mint/chocolate/espresso cookie, and I had what was probably the very best brownie of my lifetime. The mexican hot chocolate brownie… go get one while you can, there’s only two left!
When I was almost home I won the phone call lottery by receiving a lucky phone call from my good friend, Elaine, who moved to Washington, D.C. this summer. She explained she had two walking blocks to talk to someone and I was the lucky winner of the day! Gosh, in two blocks what can you really get into? Well, we talked about her commute which is actually really interesting to me since I used to live there. I am a big fan of ninja phone calls and this one really made my day. Now, the true test will come if Elaine comments on this post since the only other thing we talked about was whether or not she had read my blog. I think I said something like, ‘geez, I spend so much time writing it, you just hope there are a few people out there reading it every now and then.’
There’s my day in a nutshell. I sure am a lucky gal.
Yes, people are reading it.