Monday, April 09, 2012

april is always a good month

Painting classes still go on. Here is my mother, turning a lesser-known Brit actor into a thoughtful European poet/revolutionary.

I finally opened my christmas present from k: a sylvanian nursery that filled my dreary afternoon with much joy. Babies sold separately, also from k. These all reside in a cake box for now, because nothing traps dust like sylvanian fur.

Saturdays have been spent with Dora, k's lionhead rabbit. Every time I show up, disaster looms for Dora. It's either a shower, a failed nail-trimming exercise, or dragging her out to get her nails clipped professionally. She's now just about 100% litterbox-trained. It'll be 100% when k finds a litter box large enough for her whole bum to sit in while she eats.

The whole family sits around and watches Dora explore the house (like her namesake). I got it for k because Monster the hamster died, and bunnies are more tolerant of cuddling than rodents. And maybe I had just a little obsession with bunnies for a while.

And there was an Easter weekend, made memorable by an early Good Friday, a morning session with navteens, and a sunrise service at east coast with the youth. This weekend is making me think I'm getting to the age where multivitamins might become a necessity.

And finally, I'm writing this from my dad's office, my favourite office. He has an orange couch, a bookcase full of chips and tea, a secret stash of dried fruit and muesli bars and coffee, and an obsessively-arranged drawer of stationery that I like to borrow from. And all these photographs of our past in multi-photo frames on the wall. There are posters and books on Lance Armstrong, guitars, an amplifier, little dolls from Mongolia and Korea, a replica of the Herod Gate, a sizeable CD collection, an orange grass-top filing cabinet k and I made, and a dozen other presents on tabletops and walls. And then there's a blown-up and mounted poster of me playing the bass from many many years ago.

It's easy to do work when there are so many good distractions around. 

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