Tuesday, May 29, 2007

first week-end of summer?

A productive week-end -- Memorial Day, three days -- but not how I hope the summer will go...
Saturday we had committed to working in the yard. It felt good, weeding, planting rhubarb, transplanting other plants. G. put new steps in to the back porch. He said it's odd to work hard to make something look just like it did before (without the insect damage).
Sunday we planned to go for a nice walk with friends, but the weather gods did not agree. So we spent the day sealing and polishing our counters. Not exciting at all. But it was good to see how much better that 2ce yearly job could be with the two of us working together. In the background was "the greatest spectacle in racing," Indy 500. There was rain there too. And the Mariners game. Rain there too.
Yesterday we did more projects around here for the morning, then bought a lot of fabric on sale for a new quilt for our bedroom, then met B at the ferry dock from camp. A nice walk through one park, then to a good Mexican restaurant for an early dinner. No International Film Festival films that interested us, so we found another film that could well have been shown there -- Ping Pong. And I learned the difference between manga, based on a Japanese comic book, and anime, animated version. This was the former.

So, what I would like for my summer, some feelings of accomplishment and creativity, movies, time with people I care about, outdoor time. What I would like that this week-end did not include: more physical activity, and more time with friends. I can make that happen. What I would also like: more sunshine. Global warming, aka catastrophic climate change, seems to be taking care of that.

1 comment:

Brad said...

point of order:
Manga is a Japanese comic.
Anime is a Japanese animated movie. So, Ping Pong was based on a manga comic. (Yeah, manga can act as an adjective, I guess, though calling it a manga movie sounds bad to my ears.)
Finally, an analogy
Spirited Away:The Incredibles::Ping Pong:Spider-Man