Alanna Risse

I went on some sort of domestic rampage today. I bought a new dish rack, sheets, pillow cases, light bulbs, aluminum foil, a new dining room table, a new pillow, and ltos of groceries and wine from Tradeer Joe’s. I was unstoppable. I would have bought a dresser if it had fit in our car and I intend to buy some book shelves before the week is through. I got a great 50s or 60s blue-green formica dining room table. It’s only 24″ x 30″ but has two leafs that extend to a decent sized table. We have a very tiny kitchen so this is a fantastic adition to our house. We had fajitas for dinner and extended one of the leafs. We can now have both dinner plates and say, a owl of bread on the table at the same time. Or say, dinner plates and a salad bowl. No more waiting til the end of the first course to have salad. I can have salad any time I want.

I have this terrible habit of getting up from the dinner table every 5 seconds to get something. Maybe I won’t have to now. And then after we are done eating and can lower the extra leaf, viola! A small, compact table reappears. Now we can have dinner guests over without doing weird plate juggling and balancing. We are living large now.

I should say that getting rid of our old, round wooden table is very sad. It’s a beautiful table and I will miss it. But now I have expandable leafs! and funky

I grew up with Johnny Carson. I was born in 1970 and as a child, I’d sneak into the living room to watch Johnny. I had to talk my parents into letting me stay up late. I personally connected to Johnny because he was very shy. He had to face overwhelming stage fright every night before he went on the air. It really helped me. I was so shy as a kid and knowing that this talk show host, a man who had dedicated his career to talking in public, was also shy. It made my own shyness not soo daunting. Thank you Johnny. We will miss you.

A nice salon article about Johnny.

Here is the news article that came out this morning

I had so many weird dreams last night. One after the other. In the last one, I was reading my weblog in the future. I was a successful software developer. I seemed happy and seemed to have lots of friends but there didn’t appear to be any art in my life. I was reading about my life in 2008.

Another crazy dream I had was about the bass player from Nada Surf. I was not returning his affections and he started to hunt me down to kill me. I think manyeb I was in the band because I knew the other members intimately. He started executing people n front of me. Close friends and their children. A man in a big bird costume rescued me twice during hot pursuits. I told him he should think about taking his costume off once he dropped me off so that he wouldn’t be recognized. I joked saying “That is your costume, right?” Except for big bird, it was a very gorey and horrifying dream.

Another dream involved Paul Liszewski and a lot fo my friends from Apple. It was a ust a weird social dream. Carolyn Hastings was there too,

The first of the dreams I was on a large ship, some sort of clipper ship or saling ship. I was going to be in charge of the ship for a few hours and had gone to shore one last time to get some Starbucks because I was tired from lack of sleep. Weird!