The Mosher Pit

Everything in the universe is conspiring to keep me out of Philly this weekend.

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I totally screwed up.

One of my coworkers at Borders, back when I was DJing in Manassas, asked me if I could DJ her wedding in April. At the time, I was pulling down enough extra money DJing to have my own gear by that time, so I agreed.

Then I stopped working at Borders, she stopped working at Borders and in fact ran off to Ohio for several months, I lost the DJ gig, and now everything has changed. I’m no longer even interested in DJing, really. I forgot about it til a few weeks ago, and now I’ve realized that we have no gear and they are looking to me to take care of this.

So I need to borrow or rent some gear for this thing. I’m not banking on being able to borrow; can anyone recommend a place I can rent from?

Thanks!

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The peppers and the thyme have sprouted!!!

The tomatoes haven’t done anything yet, but I’m starting to feel a little more confident that we’ll have some veggies of our own.

And part of me wonders at this… see, I snagged these seeds to tuck into D.’s Valentine’s Day card. And it’s funny how I used to always find the sharing of bread more romantic than the sharing of flowers. But now, we have the beginnings of an edible garden.

Gardening, knitting, what’s next???

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Conversation at the office turned to the “when I became a fan of Martha Stewart.” I combed the archives to make sure, but yeah.

Spooky Scary Sounds. Mwuahahahahahah Goth Martha!

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I’m consolidating the third novel into a short story, and what was three chapters is now two sentences:

In the autumn at Cheshire Hill, the sycamores, hickories, and maples start to go bronze in late September, and the late afternoon sun slices through them to dust the entire estate with golden glitter. On the day we met the queen, we were sitting on the front porch in big green wooden rocking chairs, basking in our lethargy to the soundtrack of a million bleating crickets.

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My high school friend Paul, one of my many friends from Woodson HS and one who went to Mary Washington with me (he was a year behind), is now the proud father of a gorgeous baby girl!!

I don’t know why this makes me so happy (lots of other friends of mine have had babies, and it didn’t make me cry), but it does. Maybe it’s because I’ve known him since I was 16.

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Mom signed me up with the Daughters of the American Revolution. I let her do it, to make her happy, but today I sorta burst a gasket when I opened the monthly newsletter and saw all the typos in it.

Ma,

I just opened the DAR newsletter and it’s riddled with awful grammar mistakes. Can I volunteer my editing services? I can even produce the whole thing professionally, although I’d need to be reimbursed if you wanted me to take over the print and mailing services. I have no desire to be involved in any official role, but the damned thing reads like a middle-schooler wrote it. Not that I have anything against middle- schoolers.

Hel

I then spent a half hour worrying over whether middle-schooler should have been hyphenated, and by the end of it all, I couldn’t tell the difference between “schooler” and “schooner” and “scholar.”

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Happy birthday little miss fizzgig!!

Let's hope that as she moves into her third year she mellows out some.

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Last I heard was that this deal had fallen through, but it sounds like PNC is buying out Riggs after all!

I am *thrilled.* This is the bank that I have used for the past six years, since moving to PA–and despite moving to DC, where I’ve tried both Chevy Chase and Wachovia and been less than happy, largely because PNC has the best customer service I have ever experienced at a bank, in spite of the fact that I am on the lowest tier of banking with them. I had already decided that when I am ready to move to a higher level of banking — CDs, etc., I would do it through PNC.

There aren’t very many of them out where I am, but it’s close enough for me to retain them for my primary banking services.

Now all I need is a Wawa within 10 miles.

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The signs so far:

• Trees lining Rt 66 out Haymarket way are a touch pink along their tops
• The geese who use my backyard as their interstate are all now flying toward the right, whereas in the fall they were flying toward the left.
• Other geese, with more sense, were spotted this morning in large V-formations that pointed north.
• Vultures were taking advantage of balmy upward drafts yesterday to cruise around in large numbers. I saw about 30 cruising at various altitudes between Front Royal and the Catoctin ridge yesterday, circling in search of treats having thawed out from the recents snows.
• Little white flowers, probably crocuses, are starting to stick their heads up in earnest.

Seeing new growth on the tips of trees is one of those things like quickening; it stirs something internal and awe-inspiring. Let’s watch spring emerge together. See it creeping up sides of mountains, moving from south to north like God’s own brushstroke, slow, meticulous, and beautiful.

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