I got a cheery yellow watering can at Ace tonight. [link] I can water my pineapple sage and chocolate mint from the deck now (they are ~15 below)!

And it is so cheery!

Haven't seen any hanging baskets I like, but am thinking of planting at least one upsidedown tomato thingies from one of the hooks. Will have to talk to the tomato plant people at the FM next week.

I'm right on the border between Gen X and Millennial. So right now, I'm either cynical or optimistic. The Times had some article a few months ago listing the things that "old people" do that "young people" don't do, and I did almost all of the old people things -- I wear a watch, I usually call someone rather than text them unless I've got a specific reason why texting would be better, and a few other things that I can't remember right now.

That's a classic watering can, sarameg.

At yoga, there was a big mom celebration and someone said, "We should all celebrate as we ALL mother something." Um... maybe?

I don't know. For me, mother's day is an idea I was more invested in when I didn't have kids and the first year they were alive.

We went to lunch and tried to get into Le Grand Orange without reservations (oops) then Elements Kitchen (too fancy) and we ended up at Central Park which was good but I ended up eating food I didn't quite want. Oof.

I did get a new bike helmet [link]

Kat, that's hilariously awesome.

Burrell, I'm ridiculously pleased with it. I've not gotten one because, hey, the old litter containers have always worked just fine, if ugly. But they don't work with a 15' drop and OMGPRETTYSHINYCHEERY. And YELLOW. I like yellow on my deck (where it lives.) I'd gone in for doorstops and the prelim investigations about my stupid porch light and it greeted me.

It's an adorable can. I like the big showerhead thingy.

Fantastic!

I spoke to this amazing yoga person today who I saw a couple of weeks ago. She was both super strong and super bendy and kinda fearless. I was in awe of her. The first time I saw her, she was doing drop back backbends (which are fun and scary) by herself onto only one arm.

So I asked her if she was a gymnast today and she said she had been a rhythmic gymnast. Who then started doing circus stuff (aha! no wonder she rocks!) and then went into doing stunts for movies.

COOL.

I want a helmet like Kat's!!

lisah: [link] My other fave is the one with a shamrock on it. And the British flag one!

I like to think of Mother's Day as a pacifist-feminist holiday, a la Julia Ward Howe: [link]

But then, possibly I am just grumpy because nobody made me breakfast this morning.

mr. flea and the children are now True Athenians, having seen Michael Stipe at EarthFare today! The children were (unsurprisingly) oblivious, and mr. flea just did a mild double-take. Apparently he's short, but as I said, pretty much everyone is short to mr. flea.

I don't tend to make a big deal of Mother's Day mostly because my mother has always had a habit of driving me and my sister batshit insane with the stress of getting her the "perfect" gift which is never quite perfect enough anyhow.

True to form, she's disappointed in me again this year-- the perfume, while her favorite, she was meh about receiving and she's annoyed that the other package I had sent didn't get there in time. Gee, so sorry, Ma, that those pesky floods in Tennessee overwhelmed delivery services and prevented your package from arriving on time.

That said, because I'm so mellow about it, I tend to really enjoy days like today. Went to the bookstore, the farmer's market, took a lovely drive, walked around a nearby town, poked into galleries, ate dinner at an Irish pub, and the weather was glorious.

Works for me, regardless of the day.