Guys.
Hey. It's Mikie. What is up.
Rain, as of right now. I just turned the 5-minute walk between my house and downtown into a 15-minute slippery-car fest of mish-mashed left turns and a full parking structure. It's bloody pouring.
I have to say, it's beautiful. There's something that feels quite good about smothering rain and millions of people.
Amy and Heather told me to post pictures of my journeys of late - of which there have been many, and all passed-by unphotographed; I have no working camera.
So instead I will recount as much as I can in a list-like fashion, in no particular order:
enthusiastically pumping fist into a camera, for Budweiser
hundreds of miles of sunset and silhouettes
USC screening room and film students' shorts
the Public Storage gate closing just after stepping through it
singing Christmas Carols where James Dean died
sitting in fake high school hallway writing poetry and a lesbian porn
the city lights decked like a sparkling Christmas Tree
drinking Hoegaardens and talking about a two-story KFC at Lucky Baldwins
owning cozy towels from K-mart
car not starting at a gas station 'til it smokes
across a lake at night lies Cinderella's glowing castle
hot pastrami sandwiches and beer
Heat-seeking Venemous Python of Love
shattered wine glass and paper towels
Plumber knocking on bedroom door while fast asleep
scummy shower "before" and "after"
dancing to Michael Jackson with the excellent cast of The Big Bang Theory
Rocky mountains covered in snow
at a pew in Catholic cathedral, looking into Mary's eyes and marveling
snow-capped mountains in every direction
Minoo, Gil, Dani, Shane, Ryan, Deanna, Dean, amazing.
lost walking around Paramount Studios
soaking wet in tent on the set of Bones
tossing vacuum filter into the air to clean it
smacking vacuum filter on the cement to clean it
car not starting in the rain
unemployment application papers everywhere
Phillipines dancing with colours
the anticipation and not-knowing
the comfort of being surrounded by thousands of people
what humans are capable of
Those are the pictures I would have taken had I a camera. Maybe for Christmas Dad would be willing to lend me his old one with a package of batteries from Costco...so I can actually take some pictures for you guys.
That's all. I love you. Merry Christmas so far,
we've got a looong way to go
Mikie
some girl just pulled the fire alarm. WOW
Grabby and Owl! Our pumpkins.
Grabby and his Doppelganger...................on the left by the metal post. That is our neighbor's yard. He cuts tons of wood and dries it.
Who's stalking him. You might have to blow up the pic but that black thing on the center left is another Grabby-looking cat. Looking right at him.
Marma visited. Dad did too but I didn't get a pic on my own little 3megapixel camera.
We made a homemade sushi feast. Sometime in November.
I made apple pie from the Granny Smiths on our own tree here!
We are yet in the middle of crafting and fermenting our first home brew!
We went shopping at Target at 10:30pm. Much better than crowds.
I visited the lovely and beautiful Stormy, whom I wish lives another seven or ten years.
We realized the snow had already begun to fall last night before I got home to decorate the tree! So, we shook it off vigorously...and Art carved the bottom so it would soak in the water.
Every year we forget to trim the bottom branches off. Then - after trying to get the tree to not fall over for about twenty minutes- we remember the year before's same problem and start ALL OVER!
Our finished tree! It's so pretty. This year our theme is white, and 50's-ish....so the lights are white. And the snow was white outside the window, falling the whole time we decorated it!! We were up til 3:20 in the morning. Watching the snow fall, listening to Christmas music pretty effin' loud, and hanging up our ornaments. Here is one of our views into the house from the front carport in the evening....
And though we saw it pouring down snow all night, there was more to come! We woke up to this today! The best Christmas season present ever.
Our little red house.
Some blue sky even peeked through.
Our front deck!
This is our camelia bush. I love how it looks like tiny paw hands are all over it.
Our neighbor's Charlie Brown Christmas tree. He is really cool and lives in this little trailer next to an old cabin (see below).
Even the mail lady got out and about during the day! I got a dress in the mail!!!!!
I love snow shoveling. It feels pretty natural and smooth and it's fun like a ride! Anyhoo....just a little touchdown of our goings-ons here. I skipped many, but that's cause I don't take that many photos! Hopefully I will see alot more snow photos in the coming days. I hear Matt and Amy got PLENTY. And Placerville is snowed in with no power!!! Can't wait to see the documentation of such cold and icy adventure. Love you kids!!!
