Rain

Wednesday was one of those days where you wished it would just rain already. Thursday it finally did, all day. Friday it let up enough for the cats to go out a bunch of times and we were all less restless. Over 40 degrees now feels really warm. This morning is one of those beautiful misty pink/mauve/blue mornings. I should get a picture of dawn soon, while it is at 8 am instead of 6 am.

I bought the safety razor with the blades that the website offered and without doing any research on the blades. It took two days of seriously nicking myself before I did. The first day I thought I was just out of practice. The second day I was glad it was Winter, because my legs were a nicked up mess. It turns out I bought the sharpest, thinnest blades, the ones everyone warns against. So now I am testing blades. Stay away from Feather blades, made in Japan.

I'm not much for deteriorating relationship movies, but Blue Valentine had the best closing credits I've seen in a long time. They are done to "Alligator" by Grizzly Bear. Grizzly Bear's Veckatimest CD is worth checking out. I'm also not much for Harry Potter movies, although I loved the books, but there is an amazing surprise animation sequence in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I. It tells the “Tale of the Three Brothers” and how one cheats death. It looks like silhouette stop-motion animation of the 20s and is both beautiful and creepy.

My meeting/interview with my friend's friend with some part time work this month is on Monday. It is personal assistant kind of stuff and a tax prep and filing company. I do not expect it to be much money, but I'm hoping that I can ease myself back into working and earn myself a local work reference. The guy is supposed to be pretty nice and knows a lot of people in Boise. This also buys me some time so one of those applications I did over the last few months can actually turn into a job.

Applying for jobs on gloomy days was really depressing. Idaho posted more jobs that are just like what I used to do and I am going to go ahead and put in applications for those, but then I am laying off job applications for the weekend. I'm having dinner with Mary Kay tonight and I think a day of painting and a long walk and dinner with Mary Kay will cheer me up.