The day began early as Martie and I headed to the beach, stopping first at Publix for sandwiches and other refreshments. We'd decided to go early in the day as she needed time later for preparing to go to her son's house for the week. Mark is in Washington, D.C. participating in a police honor guard competition. She says the Jax group usually gets quite high "marks", (little play on words there) so I'm anxious to hear how they do. Martie plans to use her time away for reading, doing some water color painting, and basically, taking care of the kids when they get home from school. Like old times for her!
Here's a photo of Martie, mixing paints on her pallet in my studio
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So, anyway, there was plenty of room to park on the beach, as we arrived well before noon. Once set up, the two of us settled in to soak in the rays. The sun actually played a bit of hide 'n seek for us, which was sometimes welcome. Our sandwiches were delicious, nothing like a Publix sub! After a certain point, it became necessary for us to make our way into the ocean to.....let's see, how should I say this?...warm the water in a couple spots. One of us made it out far enough to take care of business but the other, who is not fond of water, sort of didn't get out deeply enough. I made sure she got 'flushed', you can't go around without flushing, this would be bad manners! Somehow this sounds "Seinfeld"ish.....
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Once back home, she left to take a shower and I carried my stuff upstairs. Grabbing a book and soda, I made my way back down to the pool where I could rinse the sand off. This water, too, was still cold-feeling to me, although a lady last night claimed it was "warm"....it's all relative. Lisa called while I was in the water so I called her right back. She's wanted me to listen to her message but instead called without hearing what she had to say. Seems she tried my trick of using her 'shelf' to hold her MP3 player but it kept slipping out! Funny! Somes got it, somes don't!!!
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I called Linda back, too, after she'd left a message while we were beaching. She's celebrating the graduation of Jennifer from nursing school with a special dinner tonight, going to Court House Pub. Go, Jen! She is moving to Madison, taking her husband and twin girls with her, but Linda is comforted knowing they'll have frequent visits down the road. My heart hurts for Linda--she just adores those girls, and was happy to be there to help out while Mason and Jen were in college.
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Before Martie and I headed out this a.m., my downstairs neighbor approached me in the parking lot, trying to entice me to serve on the condo board. Just like Frasier! Well, this does not interest me in the least--if the Art Guild Board was affecting my bliss, what would happen being on the condo board??????????????????? Instead, though, she offered some alternative committee (there's that word again) work to be done, suggesting social planning or newsletter writing. Cha-ching! We have a winner! I'll be more than happy to publish a newsletter for The Palace. Now, to come up with a catchy title and tag lines. What's one more newsletter?
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Judy R. in Winona wrote me how much she enjoyed watching "August Rush" so I rented it later this afternoon/evening. Wow! It was fantastic, VERY moving and full of hope. I loved it, loved it, loved it! She downloaded some of the music for her iPod already. Where they got that precious child who played August, I don't know, but the casting was absolutely brilliant. Four thumbs up on 'August Rush'!
*I'd been considering going to see "Made of Honor" but Justin warned me the reviews had been just terrible, so guess I'll wait 'til it comes to TV. Too bad, because it looked like it might be cute. According to Justin, the movie is promoted as being a "chick flick" but then ends up being something guys would lean toward. The reviews all claimed it was predictable, and more than a little bawdy. Hopefully by TV time it will be cleaned up and presentable enough to merely entertain, rather than only titillate.
