Rainy Sunday

Rain obscures the hills,
Whispers upon the rooftops
And fogs each window.
This calls for a pot of tea
And "Tales of Moonlight And Rain."
...

Especially since I told a ghost story at the All Hallow's Feast....AND SCREWED IT UP. Her name is Okiku, not Okuni. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I did deliberately move her drowning to the river instead of the well because I simply can't see them not finding her right away and not doing the proper rites to bury her and cleanse the well, ergo, no haunting and no story. Sure, the audience doesn't know, but I KNOW!!!!

Nice little local event, got to sit at high table and giggle over nonsense with the Baroness a lot. Attendance may have been down due to some baseball game and the rain, but it was still a pleasant evening.  Didn't eat much because I'd had a bout of funny tummy Friday night, but the pumpkin soup was a standout. I came home with about half the damn onigiri though. Maybe I'll take it into work Monday and put it in the break room in the sheet metal shop.

I could have done without my change of clothes getting soaking wet because someone's little dewdrop backed up the toilets in the ladies' room and I had to hike up three layers and shove sleeves under a rain jacket for an uncomfortable drive home. (Though if you're going to interrogate the children about who did it, don't haul them out into the middle of the feast hall in front of the entire assembly and ask who did it because they're not going to cop to it.)

The cuteness. It BURNS us. http://karisu-sama.livejournal.com/493918.html

Well, that was exciting!

Got the rest of JAF's kosode bits cut out while sitting on the floor watching the first half of "Boardwalk Empire." Just as I folded the last pieces of the last set, the power went out, with 35 minutes of the episode to go and me thinking, "Don't step on the scissors!"

I keep a flashlight on top of the CD rack by the front door for times like these. Remembered I actually had a bag of tea lights that weren't down in a camp box in the truck, put 'em in the barrel stave votive rack on top of the TV set and lit them. Attempting to read this month's Smithsonian by flashlight was a bit rocky, even with reading glasses. And the smoke alarm insisted on chirping intermittently "Hey! The power's out! Did you know the power's out?" every few minutes. The good news is that the power came back on after about half an hour and it's not actively raining or windy around here, so hopefully, that'll be it for the night.

Hmm. Now I'm hungry for the first time since Friday.  And I should probably re-set my alarm clock before I forget....