Centreville, VA~

It has been a wonderful few days back home thus far.

Thanksgiving was warm and yummy and full of fellowship with friends and family. Alex made a mock apple pie and Celt’s daughter made her signature hummus with her signature kitchen tools. It was a wonderful day and evening. Very mellow, very relaxed, stress-free the way all holidays have the potential to be, really.

The days following the holiday found us catching us with others. Friends, co-workers, performers, all wonderful people we hadn’t seen in quite some time. We made it to the Palace and also to Clyde’s where we met with Shortstaxx and Bambi Galore to first talk business and then eat oysters. Ladies, it is always a pleasure. More oysters and chattiness down the line? I hope so!

Brian, the bartender that evening, would visit my bar at the Palace on his off nights and I began going to Clyde’s to see him on mine earlier in the year. It was great to catch up. He joined us again two nights hence, along with James and Sprocket, to try out Dr. Granville Moore’s, the new Belgian place on H Street. Turns out the chef is a great friend of his and he called ahead for us all. We not only had a delicious meal spread out for us but some brilliantly prepared snails which were served to us with the chef’s compliments.

I managed to run into James Marlowe in our travels and I stopped in to meet with him this past Friday at the tattoo shop he runs with Anna. For those interested I will be tattooing at Marlowe Ink on December 5th, 6th, 7th, 12th and 13th from 1pm until 9pm each day. Looks as though I may have found a safe tattooing haven for the times I’m off the road and back at home. Thank you James and Anna for being awesome in all the ways that you are and for giving me the opportunity to return to other sorts of work that I love.

Met a friend’s outrageously beautiful baby daughter in the process of meeting with him about UNIX applications and other geeky things, as well as picking up a significant pile of some of the several hundred pounds of chocolate his wife quite cleverly bargained for from the local Lindt outlet earlier in the season.

Yes. You read that right. Several HUNDRED pounds. I took home maybe five of those pounds and am sharing the wealth accordingly.

There are press kits and marketing materials spread out all over the upstairs right now. Celt is being very patient, navigating through it all on crutches (thank you!). I completed enough training in iMovie and iDVD to produce a trailer of our show and it is being sent out to potential clients even as I type. I am glad of other things to occupy my time because I must tell you that iDVD is FUN. I could lose days, weeks to this insidiously charming little program.

Speaking of occupying time, it is back to work with me. Kits need to be assembled, sewing needs to be done and websites need attention. SERIOUS attention.

Of course somewhere amid all of this I will find time to do some baking … It is the holiday season after all.

Cheers!

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