A conversation I heard walking to my car in the Whole Foods parking lot:
"Let's go to Slice of Life. They have chicken mcnuggets now."
"They do? Are they real?"
"No, they are tempeh healthy vegan mcnuggets. But they're good."
"Nothing 'mc' about that." (I couldn't tell if that was a good or bad thing.)
More comments on the Sebastopol women's look:
"I had a friend who commented that all the women in Sebastopol look like woodland fairies."
"The first time I went to a mom's play group, when I hadn't lived here for long, I looked around and thought a lot of these moms looked like they should be at a tribal dance convention. Moms in Stockton sure did not dress this way!"
I lamented to my sister (after someone told me I dress "quite conservatively"): "Well, I'm sorry I don't dress like I'm on my way to a tantra workshop or a Renaissance faire!"
My niece and I were tossing a stuffed animal back and forth on the stairway. At one point it landed on her forehead. "Are you all right?" I asked.
"I'm okay. It just hit my third eye, but I'm okay."
My sister was telling us how people are renting out spaces for storage because of the limited housing and storage in Sonoma County. "Maybe I could rent out my garage for a storage space."
"And this is Sebastopol. For an extra charge you could tell the person you will smudge their boxes once a month."
While standing in line at CVS a woman was describing to the cashier about the bathroom reading material at her relatives' house. "It's so Sebastopol. It's all about spiritual alignment and Rumi and how to make a cake with no sugar. At my place it's just Reader's Digest."
An acquaintance, visiting from the city, commented to the group I was
standing with: "There are more yoga places in Sebastopol than gas
stations."
His friend: "I think there are more yoga studios than banks."
Me: "I believe there are more yoga studios than grocery stores."
License plates around town:
BLITZIN
VEGEVAN
SUN GYPSY
WAFL MAN
A humorous blog about Sebastopol encounters
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Practical New Year's wishes
Favorite comment from the previous blog (regarding Sebastopol women's "look"):
"We were just browsing in Funk & Flash last night. I love 'Peter Pan pirates' so much more than 'Tribal.' If I wore those clothes I would have to be six inches taller and 40 lbs. skinnier and learn how to care for wearable feathers."
While I was waiting for someone an event let out and people were streaming past me, wishing each other happy new years. Two of the well-wishers stopped near me, talking about January goals. They gave each other a hug and one said, "Happy new year's! Blessings for a healthy, healing, light-filled new year!"
To which her friend replied, "I need a job!"
First woman: "Blessings for an abundant, healthy, healing new year!"
Second woman: "I want to get a job. I need prosperity! I need a financially sound new year!"
A mini-discussion about the difference between abundance and prosperity ensued.
And as my sister and I drove up to Community Market in the late evening on New Year's eve, I was glad to see the car we parked next to had a banner on the back: I AM THANKFUL.
From a worker in a health food store: In the supplements section a woman talking to his co-worker remarked, "Sebastopolians buy and ingest a lot of supplements. People around here must have very expensive pee."
In my yoga class a woman made the comment, talking about another restorative yoga class: "That one was too restorative for me. It was just doing shavasana with different props, for like an hour-and-a-half."
When I was walking to my car parked in the plaza, I heard a young woman saying to her friend:
"I totally judged him. Because of his hipster beard. I admit it."
License plates, the tale continues:
BUG GRL
HAHA GRL
VANTASY
BASS GUY
Someone accused me of reusing the same license plates, so I looked back on some older blogs to make sure this wasn't the case. I did come across:
NLITEN UP
LI-10 UP
LITEN UP
... so I could see the similarities.
#evolvedvanityplates
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"We were just browsing in Funk & Flash last night. I love 'Peter Pan pirates' so much more than 'Tribal.' If I wore those clothes I would have to be six inches taller and 40 lbs. skinnier and learn how to care for wearable feathers."
While I was waiting for someone an event let out and people were streaming past me, wishing each other happy new years. Two of the well-wishers stopped near me, talking about January goals. They gave each other a hug and one said, "Happy new year's! Blessings for a healthy, healing, light-filled new year!"
To which her friend replied, "I need a job!"
First woman: "Blessings for an abundant, healthy, healing new year!"
Second woman: "I want to get a job. I need prosperity! I need a financially sound new year!"
A mini-discussion about the difference between abundance and prosperity ensued.
And as my sister and I drove up to Community Market in the late evening on New Year's eve, I was glad to see the car we parked next to had a banner on the back: I AM THANKFUL.
From a worker in a health food store: In the supplements section a woman talking to his co-worker remarked, "Sebastopolians buy and ingest a lot of supplements. People around here must have very expensive pee."
In my yoga class a woman made the comment, talking about another restorative yoga class: "That one was too restorative for me. It was just doing shavasana with different props, for like an hour-and-a-half."
When I was walking to my car parked in the plaza, I heard a young woman saying to her friend:
"I totally judged him. Because of his hipster beard. I admit it."
License plates, the tale continues:
BUG GRL
HAHA GRL
VANTASY
BASS GUY
Someone accused me of reusing the same license plates, so I looked back on some older blogs to make sure this wasn't the case. I did come across:
NLITEN UP
LI-10 UP
LITEN UP
... so I could see the similarities.
#evolvedvanityplates
www.facebook.com/sebastoblog
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