Wowzie... These things really happened:

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~Came home Friday and couldn't get into my house.  My landlord's maintnence guy had broken the lock or something when he'd come to fix the toilet earlier in the day.  I called them.  He came back.  We ultimately had to break in.  They're coming to fix the locks tomorrow morning.

~Went to dinner with Stephen, Denny & Zella on Fri night at Blue Star Cafe--the weak link in Eddie Bernal's restaurants, as far as I'm concerned, but a fine choice for being able to get into on a stunningly nice Friday night.  (and quite ironic since when they first opened, it was billed an non-kid friendly, but now it's pack with families with small kids during the kid  hours!)  Julio's would've been out of the question.  We'd originally started for Santa Rita, but apparently it was packed, with no parking or anything.  Great to see them and see Zella, who's 3 now and quite the charming little girl.  A great time.

~Sat, I did two loads of laundry...before late in the day, having re-set the dryer about 5 times, realized the heating element had gone out on it.  Dang.  Well, it's their washer/dryer.  Mine are in storage.  They can either replace it or I pull mine out... but still.  I didn't get to wash jeans this weekend.  I'm lucky I own one of those euro-drying racks.  I normally use it for sweaters, but now it's covered in underwear and socks.

~Ran some errands--exercised, biked over to Toy Joy for things to make a proper hat for a wedding parade!  Ran into Amy Rudy and Elle and biked home and realized I'd have to punt on some things and that I"m the only theatre person in Austin without a glue-gun, which would've save hours...intead of heating up an ice-pick in the flame of the stove and melting holes in the little plastic figurines of hubby/wife and cupid and white swans, and then tying them with blue curling ribbon.  (A gerund of sorts, but somewhat festive afterall.)  (huh?)  (tee-hee)

~I literally finished my hat at 3:44.  I left here at 3:50.  I was at Plaza Satillo at 4:00, for the wedding.  Wow.  And I didn't speed--not really.  I wore my best salmon sweater and my wedding parade hat.  It was a fabulous event!  A 3 minute, 19 second ceremony (saw the whole thing on youTube a little bit ago and that's how long the tape was) and then the Minor Mishap Marching Band in their yellow jerseys struck up the band and we all marched a block west on 5th street, up the hill to 6th street, one block on 6th street (obviously blocking traffic--people came out to watch and cheer us on), and then turned left and left again into the alley and ended up for a celebration in the patio of Rio Rita!  It was Susan Todd and her (now) husband Prentice's wedding.  Great fun!  Everyone was in fun costumes and paraphanalia and such.  There were skits and such.  Kids and dogs.  Show girls and flappers, knights and vagabonds, kings and turtles, pirates, colorful mardi-gras type outfits, etc.  So much fun.  First ran into my neighbor, Dave, from behind me, who knew Prentice--I know Susan from school. (She's a playwright and leader of the The Weird Sisters theatre company and we used to be in a writing group together and all that.)  Then I ran into Martha Lynn, Hannes and Henny.  Later, Henny was grumpy so we bailed on the dinner at Nuevo Leon and went to Papa Tios or something like that, right next door.  Pretty good.  And pretty hip and such.  (You know how much that matters to me--especially in my wedding parade hat!)  (Pictures when I figure out how to get them off my iPhone!  I took some great video, but apparently did it wrong and it didn't take... I think I hit the close program to end it, instead of the end button.  oh well.)

~Today, an even prettier day than yesterday.  Another quick bike ride.  Another ran out of time.  Another rushing to an unusual event.  Tonight's was Margaret Key's 70th bday event at Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church, right next to her house, which is an integral part of her life and becoming bigger every day.  Wow.  Great gospel, the original Belles of Joy, tons of folks, raised good money to raise their roof (it's 140 year old black church in a freedman's colony that was the original Clarksville,) Sarah Hickman and daughter, Lily, etc.  A long, but special event.  I went with Eugene and Steven.  We made our rounds and said hellos afterwards and saw Margaret's new house next door and had some snacks and then went back to their house and ate some leftovers.  Really an amazing night, actually.  My arms are sore from clapping.  (It was also their regular Sunday night service, of sorts.)  A lot of standing and feeling the music and the spirit! 

~Charles Gentry's obit was in today's paper.  Made me a little sad.  He was such a nice guy, whom I've know since, who knows?  Late 80s?  Early 90s? 

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/statesman/obituary.aspx?n=charles-gentry&pid=155672280

It made me a little sad to see it there.

~Then at another point today I saw on FB that Tim Young lost his other son.  He'd already lost one son.  I was blown away.  To think you lose 2 of your 3 children in their young 20s.  Wow.  Tim is such a great guy.  I remember those kids hunting easter eggs at the Caswell house Octopus event back in the late 90s, early 2000s.  My love goes out to him and all of his family.

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But now it's past midnight, somehow.  I didn't tell you about the naps I took catching up on sleep.  I didn't tell you about falling asleep, yet again, trying to finish the book for book club on Tuesday, which is apparently postponed.  Good thing?  I didn't tell you about sitting on the porch with candles and journaling for the first time since right after Biggun died  (before new job.)  I didn't tell you how pretty it was in Austin this weekend, if not a bit chilly at times.  I didn't tell you how tall and thick the weeds are because we've had no freeze this year and it's so warm and all that rain.  My front yard is a foot tall (higher in places) with all the mid-Spring weeds and such.  Much worse than I've ever had before--especially after working so hard to pull them last year.  A lot of good that did me.  I didn't tell you about the stars and late night kitty walks and such. 

But there's no time left.  I've got to walk Kitty right now--and then be up in less than 6 hours and process documents all day.  I better get outta here! 

Cheers!

Oh, and I didn't adequately convey how much I think wedding parades should become a part of the Austin scene!  Just so cool!