Strange but true

Rosa fell asleep on the sofa just before the cable installer arrived. She slept through everything, from stomping through the house and up and down the stairs, to drilling through the floor, to testing all 50 channels.

Hustler

While I was looking above the suspended ceiling in the basement to find the cable wires, I found a copy of the November 1990 issue of Hustler magazine stashed up there. I suspect the previous owners' teenage son. Come to think of it when we first moved into this house we received a few copies of Penthouse that didn't forward. I don't remember whose name was on the label.

I looked at it curiously for a while but ended up throwing it away after only looking at a quarter of it because it was just too gross. I don't mean the pictures of naked women. Those, if rather blatant and unsexy on the grounds of overexposure, were not offensive.

I mean the sick cartoons and photo gags. ( Short version, I was revolted. Long version with descriptions, behind the cut tag )

Flowers

I bought myself a bouquet of purple roses today from Sam's. Two dozen, in fact. If I had more vases I could have them all over the house. But I put them all in a pitcher on the table in the dining room, and they smell wonderful. I ate homemade spaghetti for dinner to the aroma of roses.

I'm wondering, though, what Ray will say tomorrow when he comes to pick up Rosa (who is still asleep on the sofa--I ought to take her up to bed). I bought flowers once before, and he gave me a long lecture about not rubbing it in his face when I get gifts from my lovers. It rather deflated him when I said simply, "I bought them myself." Not that having flowers on the table is rubbing anything in anyone's face, but that's Ray for you. Anyway, I'm half tempted, if he lectures me again, to tell him they're from my girlfriend. Though it would probably just gain me another lecture about keeping my evil wicked bisexuality away from Rosa.

Heh. I just wonder when she'll start telling him things. When Jen was over the other night Rosa announced to all of us (Jen, Phaelen and me) "You have your hand in her shirt!" We all cracked up, of course. But Ray would be horrified.

Imponderables

Why is it, when the cable company tells you "between 1 and 5", if you stay home all day they arrive at 4:50, and if you dash out at any time during that period, you get home to find a note saying "sorry we missed you, please call to reschedule"?