Birthday Mosaic

12:30 AM

Happy Birthday to me baby, yeah! It's dark and glimmery outside, a night/early morning of cold rain and mist. Melting snow sinking into inky black shadows. I'm sleepy and am just going to update a few things online before hitting the hay. I'll be back for more Tangerine interludes during the day...

2:00 PM

Well, I realized that I could just upload this, bit-by-bit, as I write it. So that's what I'm going to do, now.

It's kind of a pale afternoon; a day the color of melting snow (of which there is quite a lot around here). I'm having a cup a coffee and getting ready to do a little cleaning up. At some point during this afternoon I want to finish up my restaurant write-ups (for the last few months I've been doing dining and event write-ups for AOL/Digital City). I hope to visit the last of my venues for this month over the weekend and then have everything done by Monday.

So that's my plan for this afternoon.

3:35 PM

Hmm, things are dragging a bit. Regarding the extremely exciting account of my cleaning excursion: that journey is halfway done. Only the forbidding realm of the bathroom awaits...

And as for the writing...well, none of that is done yet. I really should get at least part of that out of the way, today. Here's hoping!

As for the day, well it is almost exactly as it has been. Pale and melty, though the light now has a bit more clarity. I need a glass of cold water.

And a time machine...

5:26 PM

The skies are a blue so deep and vague that it is almost black, nearly vanishing into starlight. Patches of snow shine brighter now, in contrast. And Christmas lights glimmer, spots of color on the ground.

It is, relatively, quiet. And the spaghetti is cooking.

Time for a glass of wine...

12:47 AM

Snowflakes can meander, but they move by fast all the same. A year is a crystal construct like that, prone to melting away. Too. So are these hours, starting in darkness and sweeping back around to another. Still.

It was a nice day.

And now it is a new one.

Thank you.