Sunday Coffeehouse Post

This is a rather strange Sunday Coffeehouse Post because I am here by myself... usually Mr. POSSLQ is part of the Sunday Coffeehouse Experience but the idea of going out today didn't appeal to him so I am coffeehousing and then doing the shopping. I was going to skip the coffeehouse but figure I can count this as my very first "Artist Date" (as mentioned in The Artist's Way) and reality says I should get over my trepidation of being out in public by myself.

One of the reasons I hate going out on my own, though, was illustrated as I walked into the coffeehouse this morning. There was a woman on the patio out front with her older teen daughter. As I walked by, mother turned to daughter and said "You keep going the way you're going and that's how you're going to end up... old, fat and alone". Daughter was nowhere near overweight and that was a terrible thing for her to say to her kid, even if we take me being used as the example out of the equation. I sortve liked daughter's response, which was "at least she has a laptop...."

It's been a pretty nice weekend thusfar. Yesterday we went out to the wine tasting and picked up another couple bottles of wine (not that we NEEDED more... but we got more anyhow). We were laughing that we buy food to go with our wine, when most people buy wine to go with their food. Mr. POSSLQ picked up a bunch of roses for me (local store has a rose sale every year - yay for affordable flowers!) and we had our once a year super posh dinner for our anniversary (we save our change all year, cash it in and have a really nice dinner). There was a table of older ladies in the section we were in. Made me think of my mom and hope she has friends she goes out with and gets to let loose a little. Also made me wish I had some female friends that were closer than the far-flung reaches of the Internetz. Got a mojito that had fresh mint in it which made me think that next year I should really plant some mint.

Will go out later this afternoon and do some weeding around the tomatoes and maybe install a few ties to help support the plants. Going to check the sale flyer online before I head over to the grocery store.

I have a couple of things I want to get done this afternoon (other than the gardening) but I'm just gonna enjoy the coffeehouse experience for a while and then go do the shopping. I have nothing on my agenda today that is super critical... oh.... except LAUNDRY. Yeah... can't forget that. I don't think my co-workers would be too happy if I showed up for work with no clothes (then again, they're engineers... I don't know if they would even register it if I showed up without clothes).

Have a stellar Sunday, Internetz.