Can of Cumin Wraith

WHEW. Home from three day trip to see Lazarus in his natural setting, the tan Barcalounger. The trip out was rainy and cold- seems I got my usual luck by having to drive through a very unseasonable nor'easter to get there. By the time I arrived at the Mildew Motel I was exhausted and hungry so called him and said I was going to go find some dinner and then go to bed. And off I shot like a bat out of Buffalo to Blaisdel Pizza where I got a $5 8" little number that sent me happily to slumber-land.

Spent the whole next day sitting in the straight-up chair in his room knitting while he snoozed and read the paper. Talk about wasted time! He needed me there like he needs a mongoose. But hey, I got a lot of knitting done!

He wanted to go out for lunch in spite of the weather so we went to the new place in Orchard Park, a reincarnation of the pizza place that's now it's parking lot (and before that a gas station), in the newly renovated building, formerly the Browns Pharmacy and a mess of rented rooms back in the 50's. Good place, nicely decorated but one of those where you order at the counter and then they bring you your food. Lazarus couldn't fathom the system and talked about it all through the meal. He then wanted to ride around and show me new neighborhoods 'where some of the houses are almost a million dollars!' No, remember we are in the middle of a nor'easter and the wind is gusting and the rain is coming down sideways. Geesh. I nixed going out for dinner too and instead was treated to assisted living food- which I doubt was ever 'living' and certainly needed 'assistance'.

Then, on Wednesday I woke up at 2 AM and found that Julia Roberts movie where she is a professor of art history at Wellesley College in the 50's. Here it is: Mona Lisa Smile. It was just starting and I had...nothing...else...to...do so watched it through. (The channels at the Mildew Motel mostly are sports or news channels with crawls, and I was damn sick of the weather channel.) What a STOOPID movie, I was throwing cats through plot holes all the way, very little of it was filmed on campus- what a shame since that's one of the more beautiful on earth. So it was over 4-ish AM and there I sat waiting for dawn and listening to the air conditioner that sounds like a freight train.


Finally at 6 I got up and left for home and didn't go slower than 75 all the way. Oh, I did manage to stop in Lenox to go to Evviva (whose website isn't working) to check out the clothes and also to check into Colorful Stitches to see what's new. I was totally overwhelmed and left without a thing. I found the most amazing felted mittens in the weaving store but they were $85 and I don't need mittens in Florida. I think I will try to find out about them... The little restaurants were all between lunch and dinner so I sadly got back in the car and headed home. As much as I love to stop at cool places it really adds on to the trip and is rarely worth the trouble of breaking out of cruise control.

OK, an apologetic note here- I started this as my 'art blog' chronicaling things I do that are art related. It has diverged (digressed?) to a bitching-about-my-life blog and I promise to get it back on track right away.