New Leaves

I was all set to visit Lady on Sunday. I was finally going to do it. Things were pretty tense the month leading up to when I moved out. It was just time. Conversations by phone were uncomfortable, and visiting, I believed would be even more so. Not to mention, I've been unable.

I was talking to her on Saturday, and she seems to still have a new and positive attitude that I was hoping was permanent. She is continuing to grow. I thought I'd come visit. Well, my right rear tire thought otherwise. It blew, I had to replace it.

(Insert muscular manly poses and grunts, punctuated with beating my chest)

I can change my own damn flat tire.

Turns out my donut tire needed air too. If it had not needed air, I would have gone anyways. But I didn't want to trust it because it obviously looked used before, and low air was just a warning of another flat to come.

I called Lady, and usually this sort of news that I wasn't coming would have created tension. She was really good about it and I have a lot of hope for a healthy future relationship with her.

I want to learn how to make laurel bay leaf soap. It's a very old custom. Mike and I love the soap. We happened upon it at the Cedar Cafe. I am such a soap whore.. I had to try it. Its first impression didn't stick with me.... It's not a cosmetically pretty soap, and it doesn't really lather up heavy duty. Being a soap whore... the lather factor is very important.

I used it a couple of times here and there... Then I noticed something. The stuff was really good on my face. Turns out it's really good on Mike's face. Now, I want to make the soap because the Cedar Cafe is closed, and finding a bar of the stuff that is already in the states looks to be like a needle in the haystack.

I wish Mohammed hadn't closed the Cedar Cafe. I really enjoyed his deli.

Posted by hawkie at May 22, 2006 11:48 AM