Winning Contests, New Jobs, Sex With Old Lovers

Just an update here, in no particular order...

I dropped my name into a contest basket @ Pier 1 a couple of weeks ago, and I WON! I got very nice basket, packed nicely with a pale olive green paper, and it had a big candle, bath salts and bath flowers. Very nice!

I went to the Farmer's Market yesterday, dropped my name into a contest basket for local farmer's products, and... I WON! It's FILLED to the bursting with beautiful local produce such as collards, lettuce, squash, zucchini, garlic, leeks, tomatoes, and more!

I've been working at a fabulous local restaurant that serves beer and wine for a couple of months as the bartender two days a week. I don't make enough to pay my bills, but I'm not taking spending money out of the bank AT ALL. I am so happy, ecstatic, content, I cannot begin to explain.

I have responsibilities, I am doing a great job, and I have NO STRESS. No stupid, pointless, music business joke of a job.

Not quite 30 years ago, a friend of a friend moved to L.A. from Austin to start a new career, and he lived with me for a short time. We had talked on the phone, and decided, why not? he showed up on my doorstep, 22 years old, very sure of himself, and adorable. We had a great time together.

He came through town this past week with his band, and he looks fantastic, and is still the same wonderful guy. We hadn't seen or talked to each other since 1996. He was as pleased to see me as I was to see him, and, well, ya know...

He remembered stuff I had thought I'd forgotten from when we were together - very flattering, I must say.

Let me tell ya - I feel very positive about myself after that one night - I hadn't realised that I was feeling sort of asexual, but, now I feel attractive and sexual and confident again. I know this is what happens, but I had forgetten.

It's basically pheromones - if there is a long time one goes without sex (I was at 5 months here), I believe you stop emitting the pheromones that we all emit in order to attract someone. And, consequently, there is a tendency to stop feeling sexual that accompanies this. BUT - as soon as you DO have sex, all the feelings of confidence come back, and you become a more sexual being again. It's quite obvious to my friends that SOMETHING happened to me this weekend, just from my change in attitude.

I have adopted a mother cat, found under a house being rehabbed. She purrs, she likes to sleep on my chest, she has been here a week, and she is still peeing on the furniture. We're working on it.

I could bathe a million times a day in this heat, and still sweat all day long. Yah, yah, I know it's great for my skin...