a bit of cake

i finally listened to all of Cake's Fashion Nugget the other day. there's a lot that i like, but the one that made me grin and laugh, right off, is a song called "Stickshifts and Safetybelts". go look it up and listen to it.
even though she's old and makes funny noises and costs me too much money and worry...this car of mine, my sweet tank-girl hoopdiewagon ride, makes me smile, makes me laugh, makes me happy. that counts for a lot.

my little patch of paradise

you know what's pretty damn cool?
going on a walk around the neighborhood with a friend from far away and finding a big patch of sunwarm ripe blackberries and picking a whole quart of them. and then coming home and eating a handful, saving out a handful for tomorrow's breakfast, and cooking the rest down into syrup. even better is adding a few strawberries frozen in the middle of strawberry-season, and a bit of juice from a meyer lemon off the tree in my garden.
right now my kitchen smells of rich warm blackberry juice, and lemon and honey. and i have fresh-made sweet tea with a little of the juice added in, and a good book to settle down with while the juice cooks down to syrup.
and chocolate.
i also have good chocolate.

that's pretty damn cool.