epiphanies 02 (i don't need a swimming pool/la pavoni lever espresso machine/greg's gone bionic/codependent love)

i no longer need a swimmming pool, being a resident of seattle.

sure, i used it a couple times (housesitting) but you only stay in it for 1o minutes till you are kinda chilly. maybe if i were to do laps (don't have the breathing thing down) or if i had friends with me & some cocktails.

the maintenance is insane (i guess like anything else, unless you do it daily) the pool was a big green glob yesterday.

so...i finally went liberal with an ultimate scrub and a couple cups of chlorine, i hope it is just eating the goo away.

i doubt all "pool guys" have to get in the pool to clean it. it felt rather comical swimming with the pool vac. but it kept me warm & gave me something to do in the pool.

can you tell they come home today! panic, but i do believe they said i only need to maintain it for me....

this is their crumudgen cat, pony

i have been wanting the decadence of having an espresso machine for "entertaining". not the digi-kind where you push a button that says mocha but something primitive that requires a bit of skill.

j&m had a la pavoni lever espresso machine w/ burr grinder so every morning when i let in pony, i'd make 3 or 4 espressos. okay, it was cappuccinos. i'm not that grown up, i like my milk steamed.

it was really my first time ever to make (those kinds of) shots (my routine is by french press) so i learned loads. i can't have any complaints yet well except.... 2 people can't drink coffee at the same time so i guess it won't suit my purpose.

one down. i wish i had more brands to test out. that will be my new quest (anyone??).

la pavoni

during all this excitement.....greg has been in vancouver, bc getting laser eye surgery.

he took the train in (it's almost a grand cheaper out of the states) & spent 3 days in a hotel next door to the clinic to get in the pre-op, surgery & post-op in one swoop.

he admittedly was quite nervous the time spent before the surgery so i think he would say it's not the thing to go do alone. but, he also said i could have been right there watching and ofcourse i would have to, which i am sure would end up grossing-me-out more than my imagining does (not that i'd leave, i like that sort of freaky).

i guess it is a clockwork orange set-up where they cut off the first layer of the eyeball and flip it over to get on in there using some sort of suction that popped a vessel, eughh, enough.

greg's gone bionic

he is taking the post-op fact sheet seriously and refuses to bathe, wears these things in bed & around the dogs. now needs goggles for soccer & vball cuz i guess you can pop open the cut. he can't even take the white chunks of skin? off his eyes for 3 days. he stinks.

we just shared his script & read through his movie render me dead, it's funny & almost complete; very thin man/ pg wodehouse-ish.

i'm glad he is back home. i found that i never sat down or relaxed and it was real quite around the house. it's like i wasn't content without a project, up "working" 7am-11pm sort of thing. i am okay with this codependency i stepped up from potstickers the first night to flank steak & vegies from the garden the second, i'd deal, but i rather have him around.

we wrote a song (way back when) called give me that codependent love, it goes like this...

chorus

give me that codependent love

give me that codependent love

give me that codependent love

it's good enough for me

verse 1

it was good for my mother & my father

it was good for my mother & my father

it was good for my mother & my father

it's good enough for me

chorus

verse 2

i can only tie one shoe

i can only tie one shoe

i can only tie one shoe

when i am not with you

chorus

verse 3

i get bored when i 'm alone

i get bored when i 'm alone

i get bored when i 'm alone

so keep me company

chorus

etc etc.....