This morning I found something truly beautiful on my desk.

Eva had picked roses from our rose bush and left them with a sweet card. And she used a novelty chicken watering can as a vase.

This week, and the weekend, has been a mix of refreshing and infuriating. The car battery died on Friday which threw that day off-kilter. And Saturday was very busy– Phillipsburg comic con with the Echo City duo, where I also picked up a copy of Hustler that features Ralph Greco’s article on female porn stars that host successful podcasts.

On the way home, Eva and I stopped at Pie + Tart to grab some refreshment and said hello to Parisian Phoenix author Hugo Yelagin and grabbed this delicious lamb & chickpea stew. I didn’t mean to eat the whole quart and burn my mouth, but I did. No regrets.

Then, I attended an event launching Poetry Rocks! at Northampton Community College— where artist-in-residence Anne Sipos debuted her installation along the college’s poetry walk. You can learn more about that here: Poetry walk.

Then, I had a three-hour shift at my part-time job. We were very busy and my body was not very able to keep up, so that was not a fun three hours, but it also was not the worst. Unexpectedly, my supervisors gave me an early birthday card and a $10 gift certificate that I could apply to just about any entity. So that was nice. And four of my supervisors even took the time to write personalized messages on the card.