The Girl continues to travel the world. She been about domestically in too many places to even remember. Sadly this week she woke up in Bethesda and didn't really know where she was. Kind of a downer. From Bethesda to Buffalo, NY. She should be flying home as we speak but Philadelphia weather got her planes all in a huff and she is hanging out in DE this evening. Since I've last written The Girl has also traveled internationally, most recently to Sweden and, well drats, I have to look it up . . . Germany. Yep, it was Germany in April.
I found a job. Hooray! It is at a fancy pants spa up the road. http://www.sensespa.com/ Right now I am on-call Friday and Saturday mornings and I picked up some other days through the end of August. I will figure out what days are good once school starts up again. So, the on-call thing seemed a little dicey to me when I first got hired but the place is so very busy that I am not worried. So far I have typically done three or four massages per shift. I didn't even do that many massages in school. I can tell you that after my shift my body is a little beat. I can feel muscles in my arms and apparently my third hamstring has been hanging out all these years doing nothing because NOW I CAN FEEL it on the inner back thigh. Whew, folks!
70% who is typically afraid of all things not native to the house caught a bird this week. Yes, I think it was a young bird because folks tell me that now is a period in CA when Momma birds are teaching their baby birds about life ~ but not apparently the dangers of life. The birdie was on our balcony and then in 70% mouth. I got him to release the bird and the bird was shocked but seemingly uninjured. I proceeded to put a bell on 70% collar. Now he mostly hides from the bell, which, unfortunately follows him. You see the rub here, right? He is working on being brave.
We continue to be in awe of our surroundings. The native flowers and weather is still surprising us. It would seem that since Spring started I am passing a new, undiscovered bloom about once a week in my travels. This week I noticed that some of the trees that line our very street have blossomed with red bursts of flowers. Quite lovely.
Since the rain stopped in, well, it stopped a while ago and since it has I have been primarily riding the motorcycle. With the exception of household errands that involve lots of bags I am mostly a motorcycle girl. I like it and while it is fun and cool and even a little sexy it is just not very convenient (gear, preparation, chronic bad hair days and lack of fun strappy shoes), alas, I generally forget all that once I am on the open road and enjoying the natural scents of the area and feeling the breeze. Ahhhh. Oh, and I always score rock star parking.
I have been exploring in San Francisco. I went to Golden Gate Park and tooled around. I hit the Conservatory of Flowers (much like our own Longwood Gardens - the folks at the Conservatory knew of Longwood!), walked many flower lined trails and strolled about. I went back to the park with some east coast visitors last week - FUN!!! We went to the Japanese Tea House and I got to see that famous intersection of Ashbury and Haight - it is a lot like (perhaps exactly like) South Street only there are more relaxed homeless people and the whole block smells like marijuana and patchouli.
That's my story for right now. I'll work on posting more regularly.
Peace
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