Sunday, May 5th 2002 - Ever-After Hot Spring Rolls
Should I even make some excuses or should I skip it and write an entry? My vote is for the latter. The most important thing in the past two weeks was my one year anniversary with Tim last weekend. Thanks to my federal tax refund, I was able to spring for half a rather lovely day or so in Napa Valley. We drove up on Saturday to Harbin Hot Springs, which is this green, peaceful, somewhat new-agey hotsprings resort two hours north of here, nestled at the end of a gravelly road in the hills at the top split of Napa Valley. I've been once before, and I loved it (much more than the event that brought me there), but I wasn't sure about Tim. We only had a 6 hour pass, but in that time we soaked, read/ napped in the library, and I had a deep tissue massage that worked free some toxins to the point where I was uncomfortable and sore the rest of the week. But, I also did the super hot (114 F) soak follow by the cold pool plunge; do that a couple of times and your skin feels all tingly/numb to the outdoor air, and your sinuses are clear and everything looks really, really crystal and beautiful. The sensation is better than any drug I've done, even if it doesn't quite last as long. Tim, not a fan of the hot or the cold, stayed in the warm pool; we cuddled and did some mock Watsu (water massage) in the warm pool, shaded by a drooopy tree; a cozy way to celebrate our anniversary. We ate in Calistoga for both lunch and dinner on Saturday, as it's on the way. The original plan was to stay in Calistoga, but due to late-planning, we ended up in Napa (at the other end of the valley), at a rather dingy-but-clean hotel where we crashed in the king size bed and I had nightmares of things under the bed (which was sitting on a solid wooden platform). Anyway, we had a lovely breakfast and decided to do wineries some other time; both of us wanted to be home. We beat traffic and got home early, so we decided to combine our book collections to celebrate our anniversary. We got through fiction after several hours, and decided to put the rest off, but it's a start; we have quite an impressive collection started here. During a break from book sorting, I checked email to find out that Susannah Indigo, who had paid a generous donation when buying our chapbook, now wanted to buy the story for her magazine, Slow Trains! What a fitting sale for the anniversary of a couple of writers, huh? We were, to say the least, pleased. Tim and I are good. I'm finally starting to get used to this, having someone around who loves me as much as I love him, who loves (most) of the sames things I do (the important things, like writing and fiction, good food and silliness, cuddling and sweetnesses dribble liberally throughout our days). It's a lovely thing to have to get used to. We're so lucky.	Exercise Log: Hard to remember. Pretty sure at least twice a week at the gym for the past two weeks - was weight-lifting, but have eased back on that for now. Today, I weeded, both with hands and weedwhacker, with Tim in the garden/ front yard. Hands and nails are so sore; arms/ shoulders sure to follow. Writing log: Sold a collaboration with Tim on our anniversary. Stabs at this and that, nothing solid except some questionable poetry. Current Publications: In the Shade of You nominated in the long poem category for the Rhysling and will be reprinted in the 2002 Rhysling Anthology! "How to Suck" reprinted in From Porn to Poetry: Clean Sheets Celebrates the Erotic Mind I've been reading: Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland I Was a Teenage Fairy by Francesca Lia Block The Silent Strength of Stones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman Currently Reading: The Thread That Binds the Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
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