A year (or more) in Vietnam

i found another house on the head
picture to go with the others

with bodie



heather came today and we picked citrus and
had lunch at the farmer & the cook and walked
about ojai; we saw matt at bart's and heather picked
some grapefruit that grows on a tree in the courtyard
there and then we had pizza with my parents. i still
have to finish the binding on their quilt; hopefully my mom
will go to bed soon so i can work on it. hee.

-smoke lots of cigarillos
-drink whiskey sours
-eat Montreal smoked meat
-embarrass myself in front of people I don't know
-not kiss anyone when the ball drops

This will be my third New Year's in Montreal. Weird!

beyond this point from roxanne on Vimeo.

cassandra & i filmed this yesterday. i wanted to
film with my 8mm camera but i think there is something wrong
with it :/ at least digital is more immediately satisfying.
i would like to add sound to it but i need to record or find some somehow...
all i ahve on my computer is prince.

when we got home from town this peacock was wandering about the neighborhood

peacock from roxanne on Vimeo.

how do i become a 'dame', e.g. like dame judi dench or maggie smith?? i want to be a dame! ;)

my multi-media text @ http://thenewriver.us

i woke up at 6:30 to go have breakfast with
mom & dad at the little cafe in town (their tradition).
afterwards we went into ojai to the farmer's market
& i got ojai orange blossom honey & olive oil
from paso robles to take home to denver. & we saw
kit, who was the librarian i worked for first
in oak view and then at the ojai public library.
she said her sister had seen me walking around on thursday;
it is funny, that day like 5 people said to me "nice day to
walk from the bus!" because i walked from the Y where
the bus stopped instead of transferring to the trolley; i
guess everybody in the whole place saw me hobbling along in my heels.

yesterday we saw avatar in glendale;
it was quite a spectacle, both in the movie and outside the
theatre among all the lights and trolleys and santas.

zac & me at his house in the hills above the brand

Monday morning, 4:00 a.m. This will begin four straight days of absolute ass-kicking work at the bakery. Then, there's a three-day weekend. After that, I work another four days straight, and Deron will be on vacation, so that'll be all kinds of fun. Afterward, I get another three-day weekend, and then the holidays are over, the boys go back to school, and things return to normal.

In the meantime, there's both A Prairie Home Companion's and The Retro Cocktail Hour's Christmas shows tonight, so there's good radio, and I've got a new book lent by corkwis to read.

i worked here all through high school & college

my parents replaced their old carpet c. 1987 with pretty bamboo flooring