Friends of Miceland
Friday, January 02, 2004
It’s a Shame About Ray
Ray used to be my house-mate. He is a fine person as long as you aren't his house-mate or he isn't driving your girlfriend anywhere. You can visit him
here if you like. I found I enjoyed some of the various photos on his site. We love to tease him and harass him but it s all (mostly) in good fun.
More Later,
Monday, December 15, 2003
Handfasting / In-laws
It was an interesting weekend. Interesting in the manner of how you might describe an ugly baby. I'm just kidding. There were no ugly babies witnessed during my weekend.
Saturday we went to my friend HALMG's handfasting. You are now asking what a handfasting is. A handfasting is a Pagano-Wiccan commitment ceremony. Its kind of like a wedding because people are committing to each other. A typical commitment length is a year and a day. If you decide a year and a day later to separate, that's OK. If you choose to renew your vows, that's even better. Often the couple's hands are tied together. This was no exception. It was a little bittersweet as HA was an old flame of mine from when I was in college. She was a good girlfriend and if I had been more mature at the time it would have been different. The most important thing though is that she was patient with me. She encouraged me to have an open mind and not to be so critical of myself. I am a better person for having known her. I was happy she had found someone.
mrs. mice asked me if I didn't feel left out because I was not asked to participate in the ceremony more prominently. I have been to several handfastings of my friends in the past year or two and I think in all honesty, yes. I wish that at least once I would have liked to call in a direction. It would be an honor for me. Maybe its because I'm a guy or maybe it because I'm Catholic. I don't know. I think its too late though for this wish to come true. I'm running out of Wiccan un-handfasted friends. There is a part of me that misses the old days when I was Wiccan and would do ritual. Is it wrong? No not really, not in my mind anyway.
I liked going out to Pomegranate and discussing all manner of pop culture items with my friends. I did stop over at the Toltec Center. I was a little ill at ease there. I didn't know anyone. I didn't get to see HA. They were singing songs that disturbed me. So I left.
The next day we went to go visit mrs. mice's sister. We drove to Sacramento. I met AA and CA and their 5 kids. I liked how loud and crazed they were. It reminded me of my family growing up. There is something about 5 kids thats like the perfect storm. It builds and builds and, really, there is no stopping a force of nature like that. We also me CA's Grandmother, CA's cousin and his wife. The BBQ'ed for us and we played Simpson's Clue. CA talked about his time in Iraq and I wanted to tell him how proud I was but I thought that sounded too much like being his dad or something so I kept my trap shut. Iraq sounds like a horrible place to be. I am glad he is home with his family safe and sound.
Anyway, that was my weekend. More Later.
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My friend is Hello Kitty
These are scary.
Tuesday, December 09, 2003
I Don’t Think
One of my very favorite blogs to read is
I Don't Think. Its updated more than daily and its pretty to look at. Emmie is very honest and that's what we all want to read isn't it?
If you like her site, she is up for a Weblog Award in the category of Best Looking Blog. If you want you could
vote for her. If you wish your blog was as nice looking you could always go visit
Blog Moxie They do great work.
The most ironic thing though is my friend Emmie's site's title is I Don't Think Anyone Reads This. Clearly, people do read it. The title I think more appropriately applies to me. I don't think anyone reads _this_. Ah well. I'm hiding in the spotlight.
More Later,
Thursday, September 04, 2003
Best Episode Ever
With apologies to the
Comic Book Guy. This birthday was definitely one of the best, if not the most indulgent and decedent ever.
I was picked up by mrs. mice at around 3. We went home and changed. I had to ask her to lay out my clothes because I did not know where we were going. The outfit was nice, so my hunch that we were going out to dinner seemed on track.
We got to Berkeley early and walked around. I figured out that we were going to
Chez Panisse. I was very excited. Mrs. mice continued to fret and call someone on her cell. I figured out that someone might be joining us and EQ showed up! Cool! I thought that was it then AH and R showed up. We entered and suddenly my dinner for two became dinner for 5. My wife knows what an extrovert I am and planned accordingly. Awesome.
The meal had 5 courses including desert and was truly lovely. the main course was duck and really nice. The Pasta dish was the star of the show, not too heavy and not too much. The desert was sort of a fig pizza with raspberries and ice cream. Wow. The food was very sexy and it made me feel spoiled.
Well I was taking my time, but that wasn't all for the evening. We whisked off to another location. We got lost a little but Ammy's navigation skills came through and readjusted our driving directions and we got there a couple minutes late. There was
Watercourse Way. Ammy and Rick were already there and had arranged our room. We soaked for over an hour. We all dried off and left and by the time we got home I was exhausted and satiated. I don't think it gets better than last night. I was definitely in heaven. What more could a mice want?
More Later.
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