Stuff. And a Drabble.

Haven't posted much, lately, even though stuff is happening all the time.

Work is a little weird. Still getting used to new boss, but making some progress (or I like to think so).

The Boa Sisters went out last week and had a Mah-velous Time, Dahling! -- dinner at Maggiano's (Bread, Eggplant Parmesan, and Profiteroles: Mmmmmmm!) with browsing at Barnes and Noble after.

ladymora's birthday/swim/bbq bash was Saturday, and a good time was had by all, at least until our poor little cockatiel, Ninnie, escaped into the wild -- very, very upsetting, that.

Sunday we took Mom to see The March of the Penguins, which was really, really good -- everyone should go see it. Then we drove down to have dinner at The Shoals Restaurant at the Cliff House Inn near La Conchita and had a lovely dinner, right by the ocean.

Monday was Mom's actual birthday (90!!) and the cleaners were coming (a necessity after the par-tay). So we hung around here most of the day, and I planted the flat of Impatiens that weemonkey6 bought her grandma. Later, we went to Mimi's for dinner, and to another movie, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, which neither of us were crazy about, unfortunately. I just cannot get enthused about Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie had done something strange to her lips, and their characters were not the sort one really cares about. The violence got boring after a while, and there were some not so subtle digs at Christianity, which is something that always gripes me -- not that I am fanatically religious or anything, but why is it always open season on Christians? And if one takes offense one is just too bourgeois to understand that kind of humor. My ass.

Wrote a last minute double drabble for the challenge at Black Pearl Sails. Here it is, unbetaed, with an element swiped from viva_gloria. Or tessabeth. I forget which.

( Jack & Anamaria, under the cut )