In bed, honking

Moomin and I both woke up early and stayed quietly in bed reading, quietly except for honking our noses loud and thoroughly -- morning allergies -- the privet tree next door is blooming. Moomin is still reading the Dragonomicon. I started and finished Meeks by Julia Holmes, which was excellent and horrifying. I shall nom it for the Tiptree. It's beautiful.

What if we really did make a Bechdel award? I'm sure we could do it. We should ask if we can use her name, though. We could kickstarter it. I need a motherboard and someone who knows how to write letters to publishers.

Giant list of things

Today Moomin and I laid around reading and eating corn muffins and playing computer games. At 1 we left to go to a korean dance thing at the asian art museum. But we missed it... It was only 15 minutes not a long performance, and the J took a long time from construction delays. We went thru a farmers' market in Civic Center and I got zucchini bread. Moomin liked the main big phantoms exhibit that was a big black splash across space - on the walls, floor, ceilings, and into the air, made of vinyl and black masking tape. I liked that the masking tape parts that went into the air were very rough and cut by hand, yet still were flowing & beautiful overall. We also both loved the Hells sculptures by kids who made very specific buddhist style hells and then described them in a video. Best thing ever!

On the ride back we were going to get off the J at 30th and go to Mitchell's. The J train ahead of us broke down so we were stuck. Two very nice people on the train lifted my scooter down and then i was able to jump the curb okay. That zipr scooter is way tougher than it looks!

We had to go from 18th and Church to Van Ness and get the Mission bus. Then walked to Mitchells. Then were waiting and realized they were on 40 and our number was 98. But the guy next to us had accidentally gotten two tickets, so he gave us 59 and ice cream was possible again. Oh, buko (young coconut) ice cream with lumps of actual young coconut in, how I love you. OMG.

I am playing ska and motown classics. From the bedroom i can hear moomin jump up from his computer and start dancing. i'm not getting up to peek but now I know which songs to put on his playlist in spotify.

Here is the giant list of things my mom and I have done since she got here last Wednesday night.

Done:

Jumpstart car, recharge its battery with portable charger
garage door fix - (thanks taskrabbit)
Hammock up!
Colander, bolts, tp holder, over-door-holders, etc OBTAINED
Under-the-over-burners has been DEFEATED UTTERLY by scrubbbing
Rather a lot of things laundered and folded very flat and square!
Lots of sweeping the floor (which we do every few days anyway)
Things in the small red drawer cabinets now all in their proper labelled places

Progress:

Put up some art and photos on the walls
TP holder - obtained but not finished as i can't find the hex keys
New barstools - I just bought 2 upholstered shorter stools with backs on the way home today. Must see if someone will pick them up for me.
Sort things in kids room (clothes are done, some toys sorted)
Plastic tubs for garage obtained (some)
Knitted and crocheted wobbly lines for yarnivore's yarnbomb for her cafe (Moomin and I saw that part of it is up today!!!)

Not done:

Take mom to high tea
Take mom and moomin to aquatic park beach
Get massages
Go get ice cream again and go to comic book store
Hang out at prog grounds with mom
Go to NB with Moomin and mom
Order some photo prints
Take Mom and Moomin to Castro for fun visit to cliff's variety and (non fun) physical therapy
Sort out more toys and things in kids' room
Frame big painting (guy around the corner who is retired framer)
Replace bookshelf (actually I need two bookshelves, one big and one half size)
Office chair (cannot do this till zond7 is back)
sew patches on backpacks
mend bathrobe, put on snaps
get some bigger flowerpots and dirt
Hard back chairs
file cabinet (the guy at Apartment is going to call me when he next gets one)