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Last night I had this really depressing dream. It was like I was an old woman and I was in an assisted living place. I think this comes from watching the The Sopranos and Tony’s whole thing with his mom. The woman who assists me keeps telling me what I’m doing. I’m standing there and she says, “You just got home. Would you like to go to bed?” And I say yeah. I get in bed and it has this depressing worn pink quilt on it and as I’m getting in bed I’m thinking that I don’t feel so old. I get up again and I’m standing there and the woman says, “You just got up,” and it annoys me because I’m not daft. I don’t need her to tell me what I’m doing.

I’ve finally been cleaning up some stuff on pamrentz.com. I deleted the old stuff and updated a bunch of files so the directories are semi-normal. I think it’s pretty much up to speed right now.

Today has been hideously lazy. We woke up at 5:30am (not on purpose) and got up and went through a whole waking up routine and then ended up going back to bed. I did a little work in the yard and have enjoyed a few refreshing adult beverages. Now I’m going to watch those last two episodes of The Sopranos (1st season).

I am feeling a lot better this weekend. Last week I felt like my head was going to explode — long story, no need to go into it here.

On Thursday I left work early and we went to Salem to see Jamgrass at the Oregon Garden. The show started at 6pm and we got there at about 6:10pm. The venue is a beautiful grassy bowl and when we arrived the full family scene was out with lawn chairs and picnics and all kinds of people kicking back enjoying the music. I heard someone say they ran out of beer before 8pm — I don’t know for sure but a new act came on each hour and by 8pm the family scene was slowly clearing out and “the tribe” was bouncing around and dancing along the fringes. By 9pm when Yonder came on, the lawn chairs were gone and the area in front of the stage was crammed with dancing fans. My first Yonder show — finally after several close calls — and I can see why Bob and Walker are such huge fans. They’re wacky, funny, talented and very cute.

Yesterday I had the day off and for the most part I kicked back and caught up on some odds and ends and then watched several more episodes of the Sopranos. I’m almost done with Season 1.

Today we went to the Farmers Market early and I’m about to go to the kitchen to get the stuff cleaned up and put away and start making some fun food for the weekend. Tonight I’m making peach ice cream. Other ideas for the weekend are grilled vegetable sandwiches on homemade Focaccia, hummus and salsa. We’ll see how far I get.

Yesterday I checked my page and noticed that it’s all goofy and there are dead links. Funny, because those links weren’t dead when I put them up. I checked my directories and the stuff was gone. How does this happen? Actually there is a whole bunch of stuff in there that looks goofy — duplicate files and stuff that I don’t remember putting back up there. So a project for the next week will be to get that all cleaned up and reorganized. I’ve been spending all day on the computer at work so when I get home I don’t even want to look at a computer.

My latest thing is The Sopranos. Am I the last person on the bandwagon or what? Auntie bought the first season and it’s been traveling around the family and finally made it to our house and Bob already zoomed through it and so it’s been sitting here. Last Saturday I wanted to watch a movie so I started watching Kiss of the Dragon and about 20 minutes into it I decided it was too violent. So then I was going to finish watching Phantom Menace since the DVD player is back upstairs — but the cables to attach it to the TV were not so I was like, “Hm, what should I watch? Hey, here’s this box with the Sopranos.” And ever since I run home from work every night and park my butt on the couch to watch some more. I LOVE Tony Soprano.

We went camping at Crater Lake this weekend. We met a whole bunch of the family there. The camping part was super fun — we had a great campsite with lots of room for everybody. But the smoke from the fires was bad and when we drove to see the Lake on Saturday, it was too smokey and we couldn’t see it. And the drive home today seemed to take forever and I’m unspeakably tired and will have to fill in more later.

Go to Trader Joes and buy the chili-lime mayo — then use it on everything. It will change your life.

This morning I saw Tiger on my walk for the first time in at least 2 months. Tiger is one of the coolest cats alive. I saw him sitting on a rock and I called to him and he looked at me and yawned and turned his head. Snotty little cat.