Crystals and computers

Facebook comment from previous blog:
"Wait, I thought everyone wants to rent to Virgo's. We are neurotic, clean, meticulous and even if our chakras or our, what was it, Qi?, is not aligned or in tune, at least it is dusted and we know where to find it. Or maybe not. What does Qi look like? I can't find mine in my file cabinet."

I was coming back from a walk in the laguna area and heard a few people talking about the lack of parking near the community center that week.  One person said, "It's that World Drummers-Dancers thing going on."  In his defense, we could hear drumming in the distance.
To which the woman beside him countered, "No, it's something like International Belly Dancing Tribes Competition."
(They were making it harder than it was.  That would be Tribal Fest.)

Favorite recent text:
"Found myself walking down Main Street in Sebastopol recently, listening to a guy trying to convince me that vibrations must have color.  How could I not think of you?"

My niece and I were driving through town and came up behind a red Prius, which is what her mother drives.  After realizing it was not "Mama's car," we ended up seeing seven red Prius vehicles during our short drive.  Even at three years old she wanted to know why are there so many red Priuses around here?

A friend told me she had a visitor from Washington.  At the end of the week, she asked how her visit had been.  "It's been great.  But I've never been on vacation and felt so much pressure to eat healthy."

I was looking at some gifts in a downtown store and half-overheard a guy say to the woman he was shopping with:  "I could get that, but it doesn't really go with my 'look.'"
"Oh, and what look would that be?" she asked, half-laughing.
"You know, new age tough guy."
(I had to turn around and look, and indeed that was his look.)


The license plates don't stop:
STARRY
ATLNTSS
SPIIICE
REUSE IT


And from a friend since I just got a new laptop:

www.facebook.com/sebastoblog

Here is to happy chakras

A few weeks ago I was at lunch with some co-workers, outnumbered by several who do not live in Sebastopol (although we all work in Sebastopol).  One said, "I could never live here.  There is a one-way street through the middle of town.  You are driving and can't turn this way, and there are protesters over there... where are you supposed to turn??"

I have been looking for a place to live and so have spoken with a few landlords on the phone.  One in particular sounded quite quirky, and just as I was thinking that she inquired: "Before we get any further I should tell you I'm a Libra with a Scorpio rising.  What about you?  Hopefully not a Virgo-anything."  Semi-dramatic sigh.  "I really don't do well with Virgos."  (I had told her I pay my rent early, am clean, employed and would not be around much.  But Virgo would apparently trump all those things.)

And because I am in the process of packing my things I have found items I didn't remember I had. One was a card from a woman whose daughter I had babysat years ago.  At the end she had written, "Thank you very much for all your conscious childcare."  Another was an "energetic" picture of a woman someone had drawn for me a long time ago, with smiley faces adorning each of the chakras.

My co-worker (from Santa Rosa) was "quizzing" her young daughter Yahel, asking her some random questions.  One was, "What is the capitol of California?"  To which she answered, "Sebastopol, of course."  Her mom also told me that one of her kids' dreams is "to be Sebastopolians."
(Of course if the question had been: "What is the yoga pants capital of the world?" then her answer would have been correct.)

At Ragle Park I heard a mom tell her son it was getting time to leave.  After a few minutes she said, "All right.  We really need to go.  I have to drop you off before my class!  And you do not want to be around Mommy if she doesn't get her qi gong fix!"


More license plates:
LIKMNDS
YINIFY
PRNYMA (bonus points if you know what this is referring to)

And you know when you are coming out of Starbucks, and you see this in the car parked next to you?