Magicians 1x08 + Weekend wrap-up

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My latest review is up!

In other news, I did birthday festivities this weekend. It involved Ethiopian food and fancy drinks at Shore Leave. Here is a punch bowl that is on fire:



Okay, it's not a lot of fire. But it was still on fire.

The despair about aging lifted a bit in the presence of good friends, a number of whom I hadn't seen in ages. So that was lovely. Also I got incredibly drunk.

Did a bunch of gardening. I now have almost all of my vegetables in. I'm keeping it simple this year: lots of tomatoes, basil, scotch bonnet peppers, and one experimental ghost pepper. Planted marigolds to help the tomatoes along. Going to pick up some pickling cucumbers tomorrow. The kitten frolicking through the periwinkles is Merlin, one of the tinykittens. Both the two remaining tinykittens and their tinycat mom have claimed my backyard as their territory.




Bonus pictures of my cats, taken with my portrait lens.



And I got boots! They are like this but more black than red, so essentially the same finish as the boots they are replacing, except that a) they are Docs, not Fluevogs, and b) they do not have massive holes in them. So that's good, too.

The best thing of all is that it's a long weekend and I can actually catch up on my sleep and such!

Comments

Re: Hmm ... ghost peppers

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When I was a little kid, the person at the shoe store told my mum that if I didn't start wearing narrower shoes (I refused to wear anything but sneakers), my feet would never fit into women's shoes. I guess he was right, because Docs remain the only shoes I can reliably wear. Oh well.

Re: Hmm ... ghost peppers

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I know that it isn't/shouldn't be any of my business (as a male) what shoes women wear, but on the other hand, I'm partial to the argument that, like Chinese foot-binding, there is something crippling about "women's" shoes that allows me to argue against them on something other than aesthetic grounds. ('Cause I have to admit: docs and workboots are, er, hot in Young Geoffrey's eyes.)

On the third hand, I suspect that person at the shoe store knew sweet fuck-all about human anatomy. Your big feet are mostly likely a result of your plow-pulling, peasant heritage. :)

Re: Hmm ... ghost peppers

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I feel the same way, as a woman. Then again, I have friends who swear they can only wear heels and this is the most comfy for them.

I definitely have peasant feet. They're broad and flat. But you'd think they'd be sturdier, somehow.