This week has let out into a tide pool of lovely times with
beautiful people; my heart is full. Early Friday morning me and my hubby, dazed
and glazed my lack of sleep and over excitement decided we would latch on to my
two consecutive days off with vigor, and travel to Phoenix, a trip we hadn’t
done in over a year. Us having corresponding time off from work is a pure
eclipse, and definitely shouldn’t be passed away watching TV draped limp over
limb on our faded green Goodwill couch. We got into Tempe a little after 1 pm
and wandered around, the rain clouds that had darkened the morning breaking to
a humid heat. I showed Jake a store I really like called Buffalo Exchange,
where you can sell your old clothes and buy vintage finds and endlessly
beautiful shoes. He picked up some shorts with the tags still attached, quite
the score for $8, and a graphic tee and we moved along, grabbing some yummy
lunch at a chill pizza place called the Mellow Mushroom. They have a pretty
nice menu with an abundance of delicious sounding vegetarian foods, I got the
marinated tempeh, and Jake got what he thought was a Rubin, but disappointed
him with some vegetarian substitute.
Feeling a little more refreshed we got back in the car and
headed down the avenue to Mesa where Jake’s aunt Roselyn lives. It was so
lovely seeing her, being almost a year since we’ve gotten to visit; it feels a
bit like going home which is comforting. She told us it was 10 years since she
moved out to Arizona this past August and for that I congratulate her. I guess
if I got to chose where we live in Arizona I wouldn’t mind Mesa, it seems
pretty nice, I just can’t handle the lack of green in the desert. Eventually
Roselyn had to leave for a job and somehow, amazingly, I talked Jake into going
to Ikea with me! I love Ikea, maybe it’s the prices, maybe it is how everything
is so adorable, maybe it’s the fact that it gets me excited about our someday
house, orrr maybe it is the fact that you could literally sustain life within
it’s walls with the cafeteria, grocery, plant nursery and house dioramas. Let’s
just say I promised Jake it would be a quick in and out and we came out 3 hours
later with a tub full of stuff. But hey, we didn’t spend that much and we have
bought almost all of our things thus far, second hand. After returning to Mesa
we chatted the night away with Roselyn, laughing about how ridiculous the news
is these days, and the healing power of animals.
Saturday was another day of loving on old friends; we met up
with one of my oldest friends, Molly, whom is in her junior year at ASU. We
started, catching up in the dusty stacks of a hodge-podge bookstore, while my
hubby obsessed over a second hand BC Rich Warlock black electric guitar, aka
something he has dreamed about since he was six years old. Needless to say we
left without it, only to come rushing back a few hours later because of regrets
and good deals. Once the rain cleared we ran around Mill Ave in Tempe, eating
bowls of black rice and shrimp, sweet potato hash and beef, kale and some of
the biggest crotons you have ever seen. After a bit of hectic driving and 89
cent cones we found ourselves in one of the best parks I have ever been to,
something my inner child wished I were still small enough to climb up, slide
down, and swing on. Then the time came to hug and say goodbye, we dropped Molly
back off at her apartment, gassed up, and with the night as our cloak, crept back
down to a little spark in the middle of a great desert known as Yuma.
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