february 17, 2010
wake up at 9am
eat breakfast.
walk to los feliz listening to This American Life, episode 400, Stories Pitched By Our Parents.
i go to nature mart. i buy roastaroma tea. it has a picture of coffee pot over a campfire on the box.
i get a swedish berries iced tea and sit on the patio of coffee bean & tea leaf. i do some writing. behind me a couple drinking coffee, speaks loudly about rehab and it’s rejuvenating effects. they are annoying in a very LA way. then i realize i know them. they are speaking about a friend of mine. i decide to creep away unnoticed.
i walk to the pet store at hillhurst and franklin and look up at the spiny trunked tree in the parking lot. it grows large green pods that look like unripe avocados, but inside them is a cotton like fiber. sometimes you can see wild parrots that have eaten out parts of the pods and are roosting in them like egg chairs full of fluff.
i don’t see any parrots, so i go into the pet store and buy some flea medicine for my cat.
house of pies. 
perfectly grilled turkey club with avocado. waitress has red hair and red penciled in eyebrows.
two middle aged men come in from the patio and announce loudly in the near empty restaurant, “I DON’T LIKE THOSE SEATS.”
“hey now, hey now, don’t dream it’s over,” plays over the dining room.
my sandwich is good, but if they had a dish called, french fries and pickles, i would order that instead.
faithfully, by journey comes on. it makes me think about how i used to listen to this song after i met mims and i was living in la while he was in ny. i used to listen to any song about long distance love affairs and get dreamy about him. i had an intense crush on him during that time. good thing it worked out.
i call mims and he decides to meet me at the farmer’s market at barndall park. i walk over there to meet him. the sun is shining. mims shows up but isn’t feeling well so he waits in the car. i buy kale, potatoes, onions, a basket of radishes and some purple flowers. i drop off mims and go to trader joes. i get everything on my list.
when i pull my car up into my driveway, my cat comes running down to meet me. we go upstairs and i start putting away groceries and making dinner. i make roast chicken with roasted veggies, and kale and potato puree. 
drew comes over to eat dinner and watch LOST with us. the food is great. the episode is great. we drink a lot of wine and eat chocolates for dessert. mims does the dishes. good times had by all. 
