Unquiet
Things

I am feeling a little self-conscious about everything I wrote yesterday (although I really appreciate everyone’s comments! It’s both weirdly depressing and heartening to know there’s so many of us in that same boat) but anyhow, I thought I’d share some other stuff real quick so that won’t be the most recent post on this blog for people to see. Silly, I know. But it will make me feel better!

We took a little trip to Asheville this past weekend. My sister was doing a Friendsgiving type thing, and though we hadn’t initially planned on going anywhere for the holiday, plans changed! One thing about me and travel is that I get weirdly excited when I see the stores in our fridge dwindling, and I get to think up creative (though sometimes bizarre) uses for our remaining meals so that we eat everything up and nothing goes bad while we are gone. There were a lot of strange curries on the table before we hit the road! Kidney bean and cabbage curry sounds a little off-putting (and farty), but it worked!

I packed us some snacks in the form of tuna onigiri, roasted Japanese sweet potatoes, hard-boiled eggs, and apples because I was trying to ensure that we didn’t eat too much junky stuff while we we traveling. Plus, I have an inner snob who thinks “…am I …BETTER than everyone??” when I eat an apple instead of gas station food. I’m not proud of that. But it’s true.

We stayed in an adorable cottage at the top of a terrifyingly twisty driveway with instructions from the hosts to not leave food in the car with the car doors unlocked…because the local bears have figured out how to open the car doors!

We didn’t really have time to do much of anything, but we were able to spend some time at the Arboretum and find more Thomas Dambo trolls (we saw them on Vashon Island late this past summer, too!) We also sped through the beautiful bonsai garden, and even typing that out feels like a crime. But we really only had about an hour at our disposal, and we had to be brisk and efficient about it!

One thing that was paramount was taking a moment to drop by the Dripolator and get a T-shirt. I’m not much for logos and such, but theirs is so cool, and I’ve been obsessed with the idea of grabbing a t-shirt from them for years. But anytime we are in the area, I always forget. Not this time, though!

I arrived home to a beauteous package! I know it’s a whole six months away, but I needed the floweriest frock for my evening with Florence (and also an audience of several thousand, I guess, but I like to pretend she’s just singing to me.) I will pair it with beads and a velvet choker and my stompiest of boots.

I sobbed to “What the Water Gave Me” when I turned 40, watching her whirl and careen madly across the stage. I plan on screaming this time a decade later, loud enough to break time backwards and forwards, loud enough for every version of myself there ever was to hear.

What am I screaming about? Everything, nothing? Maybe just the fact that I got a really pretty dress?

Miscellaneous things…

-Here’s a little nighttime altar with all my favorites. A stupidly expensive scent from Amouage, a much more reasonably priced fragrance from Brown Sugar Babe, and some Japanese body oil that I no longer can get my hands on. Do I have any friends in Japan? Help! Also, a sleeping mask from Altar + Orb.

– I just read Spread Me by Sarah Gailey. It was horny and weird as hell and pretty good, actually!

– I am still watching Alien Earth, albeit very slowly. I think I like it, but I’d love to know the general opinion of the show. Did people love it? Were they mad about it? I don’t really care for how the alien actually kinda looks like a person in an ill-fitting alien suit. It somehow looks too human to me?

…okay, so I guess that’s it. Like I said, just a few tidbits!