kjpepper | Balance

So as opposed to my ubercraptastic last weekend, this weekend has been wonderful. . . . I haven't been writing about it because lots of stuff has been happening, and also yesterday I was also stumbling about in a harry-potter-no-sleep induced stupor. But, I'm a bit more awake now, and as

sundart is happily cooking up some wheat-free pancakes for us, I have a little bit of time to express the highlights.

I came home from an only-mildly-lame-mostly-good day at work to find that

darkling_dreams had arrived and was recovering from some craptastic job interviews-type bullshit in Lower Warzone, as beatgoddess refers to Springfield. We had a pretty good chat on the couch, and made plans to order Chinese and head for the Potter Party at

spacecrime. Meanwhile

sundart had arrived home and absconded with the phone while

darkling_dreams and I settled on the couch to watch the latest VH1 countdown. And then the toilet exploded . . .

No I'm not kidding. Why is it that the toilet always has to overflow after . . . well, it really really needs to be flushed? Thus followed a jamboree of stanching a small flood of dirty water, poopherding, as beatgoddess said in her livejournal - she arrived home just as we managed to fill the tank and stop the damn thing from running - and disinfecting everything with Clorox. Oh well. I needed a shower, and while it was gross,

beatgoddess and I did enjoy the inkblot test we had devised. And there was a perverse humor in the situation . . . even though pressing an ear to our downstairs neighbor's front door revealed the fact that it was raining in her kitchen. She was cool about it though - I saw her mopping on my way out to the Potter Party, apologized and was answered with a shrug, a smile and an "oh well, I needed to mop my kitchen anyway."

Darkling and I dressed for the Potter Party and departed aroung 10:30 and arrived, in one peice and successfully parellel parked (go her!). I ws expecting to see more people I knew there, but enjoyed the crowd that was present and the lack of overzealous screaming children. It also gave me a chance to peek at all the really fun looking games people were playing. I also purchased three other books while I was there - a new, fascinating looking one by Simon Green (if anyone reading this hasn't read Blue Moon Rising or the Hawk and Fisher books, get thee to a bookstore now lest i kick you in the head!) the Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (which I hadn't read since we had to read it for English in 7th grade) and the first volume of the Lone Wolf and Cub manga series (the main characters of whom I later recognized in an episode of Samurai Jack

darkling_dreams and I watched later on). I also worked a little bit on my contact juggling when I was tired of walking around and looking at everything, and almost mastered the half butterfly move with my left hand (Labyrinth fans should be familiar with this one - watch out Goblin King!). We departed spacecrime happy (dianime had purchased some books too, although the latest trade volume of the Strangers in Paradise series sparked a quasi-angsty conversation in the car about relationships). She had also (as she just remided me whilst reading over my shoulder) purchased a small posable red dragon with bright green eyes and black PVC claws whom she later named Aku. Hee hee, I'm converting Samurai Jack fans right and left.

Darkling and I returned home around 12:30, watched a few episodes of Samurai Jack, then she went to bed and I leaped into Order of the Phoenix. Several hours later, as the sun was streaming into the living room and after squirming on too-small couch with big heavy book, sundart woke up to get ready for her work meeting and came in to give me a hug. Grateful to change reading locales, I crawled into the bed she had just vacated and finished the last 200 pages amidst warm blankets and fuzzy kitties. :)

Of course, having had no sleep, it was damn silly idea for me to think I could take a nap at quarter to 11 and wake up and meet

sundart downtown at 12. Ha. Woke up at 12:45, swore loudly, and took off on my bike only to meet her coming home several blocks away. She laughed at me, and then she Dianime and I all went downtown to shop for paganery stuff for our little Solstice gathering . . . we then quietly (since Austin was still sleeping) watched the first 2 tapes of Himiko-den, which I liked - when I was awake enough to watch it. I kept nodding off in the middle.

Part 2 of my weekend will soon follow, as we still have tape 3 to watch and I;m letting my pancakes get cold. Should also do some dishes at some point. Ah well!