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First, a quiet moment of beauty before I launch into a tirade about Animal Care & Control and the injured raccoon under my house.
Ranunculus are my favorite flowers. Just look at them. I took the photo above without any special lighting or photoshopping (or care, for that matter--just a point and shoot), and it came out looking like an oil painting. They are just so sweet and perfect.
{I've deleted the rant. Rants are annoying.}
Oh hello.
I don't know where I've been all these days exactly...
We've been hiking (see photo above).
I started a new job working with a friend, doing something really fun. And the pay is fantastic. Come to think of it, it's more money than I've ever made and the hours are somewhat flexible around my needing to take care of the tiny boy. (No longer a baby, remember.)
It was Jim's birthday yesterday, so we went to Ebisu for sushi. I happened to mention to the sushi chefs that it was J's birthday and they brought him a spicy tuna "cake" in the shape of a flower with a candle in the center....he was completely mortified (to my utter delight) when they turned down the lights and the entire (tiny, but packed) restaurant sang him "Happy Birthday".
And lastly, I've been having to deal with my brother whom I have never posted about (one of those posts I keep on thinking I'll write in The Future).
In a nutshell: He is a schizophrenic who occasionally indulges in methamphetamines and then howls and hollers and raves like only a lunatic on speed can.
And he happens to live in the in-law apartment beneath our little house.
Most of the time (mercifully) he's sweet and docile and plain old lovable crazy, so when these speed benders come around every couple of months, we just grin and bear it.
And so, after three very noisy days and nights, the troll downstairs has finally gone to sleep and life carries on...
Several months ago I watched a movie called Heaven.
I knew nothing about it before I watched it--had never heard of it--and now I can't even remember how I came to rent it.
At the moment I finished watching, I felt that it was the movie I loved most of all in the world.
And actually, I still do.
