Freebird

Its late on a Saturday night in downtown Sacramento and I'm watching reruns of Trading Spaces (or maybe this is the 2008 season -- Paige and Doug haven't changed much. But Ty Pennington is still cutting lumber and I would think he's much too busy now knocking down houses for ABC. No, I think this is officially a rerun) and downloading music on ITunes. I don't know what I/we did before ITunes. I hope that Steve Jobs gave the guy/gal who thought up ITunes a free trip to Hawaii or something for dreamin' this one up. Sometimes I wish I wasn't a Blackberry guy, 'cause those Apple phones look mighty nice. So where was I....

Oh yeah, so I'm lounging and surfing (music.. not porn) my way through to bedtime. As you'll recall, I had a nice time camping a few weekends ago, laying around a pool at 4 in morning listening to 70s rock. I finally got around to tracking some of it down on the 'puter this evening. A few clicks of the mouse and I have me some Lynyrd Skynyrd and Three Dog Night (with some Jill Scott and Grace Jones thrown in. They weren't on the pool playlist, but still have some of the same feeling...) to take me through the evening. Its already Sunday morning on the East Coast and I should be turning in, but I still have Freebird to listen to, followed by Midnight at the Oasis...

Its been a busy week in condo land. I drilled 27 holes in the ceiling on Sunday to and hung curtain wire. It was quite easy once I figured out how to fit the bit into the drill (no snide remarks first). I managed to get that done before I started four days of work Sun-Wed. Now there are drawings hung from the ceiling in front of the curtain wall (all visible on my facebook page). I bought a couple of limited edition prints and took them along with some older photos that I've had in storage to get re-matted and framed; a few days from now the walls are gonna be lookin' pretty good!

The highlights of the week tho' has to be my new George Foreman grill and fresh fruit. I've been hankering a grill for awhile after picking up a bunch of receipe cards at the Harris Teeter meat counter that all required a grill. My first foray into grill usage was beef chimichurri, served with grilled eggplant and sweet potato pancakes. Who knew that I could whip up a 3 course meal in the middle of the week? Dessert was yogurt and fruit parfaits. For those of you in DC, Harris Teeter has blackberries, raspberries and blueberry's on sale - 4 tubs for $6. I am in fruit heaven and bought a bunch to freeze. There's nothin' like big plump raspberries - yum! I'm looking forward to getting home Monday afternoon and havin' me some beef for dinner...

Elsa spent the last couple of days with me and she seems to be getting used to the 2 house arrangment. I think she likes my house better 'cause I let her sleep in bed with me in the morning. We usually have some cuddle time before jumping up and hitting the park. I took her back to Scott's on Friday and then drove on over to happy hour (feeling guilty all the while for not taking the subway and single-handedly stopping global warming) and had a nice evening shooting the breeze. Friday was nice and warm, but with low humidity, and being outside in the sun was quite pleasant. Anyway its getting easier and easier to go out on my own and have a good time!

Tomorrow I'll fly to Philadelphia and then back to D.C. on Monday. Can't wait for 36 hours off!