If you're sleeping are you dreaming...If you're dreaming, are you dreaming of me?

Picture my car. Teeny, tiny Toyota Tercel. Now picture an 8 foot Douglas fir tree on the roof. This was the scene as I cruised down the Interstate yesterday.

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas at my house! There are stockings hung from the mantle with care. Nutcrackers. A wreath. Two amaryllis in pots (after two weeks of waiting for bulb #1 to sprout, Sarah bought me bulb #2). And the piece de resistance: my tree! Tonight, it gets decorated!

As for the rest of the weekend, it was a laugh a minute (except for the 5 hours I spent here in the office doing homework and working on dive maps off of Key Largo -don't ask- for work).

David convinced me that there must be more to see and do in Houston than I let on, so on Friday night we entered the "city". This started at the Hobbit Hole cafe. Which wasn't actually much of a hole, since its hard to find hills in Houston in which to put holes. But it had the greatest sandwiches and blueberry tea! I had the "Gandalf". Mostly because I wanted to say that I ate Gandalf for dinner, but also because it an entire avacado in it! Yummy! Afterwards, we went to the Mucky Duck, a live music venue (less than a half a block from Hobbit Hole) and saw a random band that was pretty amusing. And it was a total Irish pub. Very homey. I could definitely go back. Aftewards, we went to this artsy theatre and saw a midnight show of War Games (yes, I know, RETRO!). All and all, I felt like a great big dork most of the night, but it was fun and it definitely lead me to question my conclusion that Houston was a boring city. I really loved being in a small venue listening to live music. I don't do that enough.

On that subject, David has raved about this Austin band Blue October and he downloaded a few songs from them that I have to admit I enjoyed. I think I will probably buy the CD. Anyway, in the span of the last 48 hours, I've now heard them on the radio at least a half a dozen times (now, mind you, this was the 2 a.m. show and the Sunday a.m. show, not yet ready for prime time listeners I guess). But I'm getting fairly addicted. So that't my music recommendation for today.