anything to not clean any more: postcards from march!

this pic is of a plaque outside of Stage 2 on the Sunset-Gower Lot where i used to work.

since thursday i've been cleaning my apartment. i've been tearing things apart, so it's slow going. however, last night i started to see some real progress. i have a few tasks to do that will take me out of the apt, so things are on a bit of hold until tomorrow.
today i have to take my car for it's bi-annual smog check. it's 20 years old this year, but well cared for. i'm hoping for the best. a few years ago my car stereo was stolen. while the car was in my car port. sigh. two days after the stereo was stolen, the thieves broke back into the car to steal some wiring they'd missed the first time. as my car was like a convenience store for thieves, i decided not to replace the stereo. well, after driving a rental car with a working stereo for a week, i've decided that if my car passes its smog test i'm going to put in a new stereo. something not too shiny, but SOMETHING. (the stereo that was stolen was one i'd bought only 4 months previous. i'd replaced all the speakers in the car, too. so all those terrific speakers are in there laying dormant.)

right.

during my cleaning i found a xerox of some postcards that i'd meant to post here. so in the interest of clearing stuff out of the apt, i'm posting them now.

card 1: written to a friend in san francisco who i knew was in chicago for some music

Saturday 3.13.10
Today is my first day off since President's Day and it's gotten off to a weird, but ok start. weird: cell phone & smoke detector both beeped at intervals during the night and woke me. (it was due to a power outage.) But! this morning i found my MISSING SINCE NOVEMBER flip flops!? They were sitting on the shoe rack the whole time (they were hidden among the skirts of hanging dresses). And now, i am sitting outside a new (!) deli cafe on hillhurst, drinking a good coffee, enjoying a scone and reading a little John Hodgman.
I'm particularly grateful to him this morning b/c the novel i'm reading has gotten very heavy hearted and i just couldn't bear to read it this morning. so. two cups (1/2 caff) into saturday. You are, no doubt in the vicinity of the Vic as I write this. Oh! I got a reservation confirmation for PFT (Paul F. Tompkins) last night. woo! now, i just need to finish work on time that night. :)
If i go home right now I just know i'll start doing chores. Just don't know if i'm ready for that yet... Hope to see you soon!

card 2: written to my sister & brother in law who live in the bay area

3.21.10 Sunday -- 2:30pm
It's been slow going getting my sunday m.o. in action: finally sitting out on a patio w-an iced coffee drink, listening to some great music. Yesterday i took out my earphones just in time to overhear a woman say to her friends, "It's like Tyra Banks says, 'the way to tell a good model from a bad one is the amount of airbrushing they require" immediately i put my earphones back in, and remembered what compels me to wear them in the first place. :)
Just had the standard "baseball is too slow for me" conversation with the owner of this cafe: he's not a baseball fan. as we started discussing team strategy more customers came so we had to stop chatting. can't wait to point out the diff. between Ntl. & Am. Leagues to him! When i go in for another drink, i'll pick up the conversation there. :)
Hope spring finds you enjoying your home office/pool!

**ok, i sound a positive dork about baseball in this second card. spring training will do that to me. my fervor mellows out a bit by mid-may.**