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It's Monday! A week to go till vacation...and it's Monday again so you can imagine my excitement and metal outtake on things today! If not, I'm sure my meter scale down below will fill the blanks in!!! I plan to take it into work today. Of course, it being Monday we may need some of that stiff stuff to wake us. Enjoy the day dear kids!

You need a day like this.

SCENE THIS WEEKEND...

A nice weekend if not a busy one. All told, a bit of a little of everything this weekend. Friday found me at the Capital Street Duo's for some visiting and cocktails on the lovely balcony which is off my guest quarters when I stay there. It's like a little oasis. They are only about a block from the Capital Building, hence their nickname on this blog, with views of the dome at night. Even their pup Flyer digs the balcony.

Then it was off too early in the AM for clan member Preston's birthday up in NYC. After a nice train ride up, it was off for a birthday cruise and some fun before heading back and getting in late last night.  I got to play New York tourist as we all pitched in and got a cruise for Preton for his birthday and thanks to Captain Todd, he spun us around the harbor and Lady Liberty while we drank and noshed. It's been years since I have been out that way. The weather was overcast but no rain. It was certainly a great time.

Today....nothing.! And it's been nice. 

The morning started out with breakfast out back in the garden and I surmise, the rest of the day, with exception to a rain that rolled in, will be spent outdoors relaxing.

Mind you, I should be making vacation preparations. 

But as Scarlet O'Hara said, "I'll think about that tomorrow. After all... tomorrow is another day."

IT'S THE WEEKEND!

Let the Weekend begin!!!

If you haven't tried this Hendrick incarnation, you don't know what you're missing! You know the Casa du Borghese is endorsed and stocked with gratuitous amounts of Hendricks! Cock-a-tail of the night...

Mistress Gin Spritiz

In a tallish glass with ice.... a Healthy dose of Another Hendricks, 35 ml Apple Juice,35ml Sparkling wine, 50ml of soda, 5ml Cherry Liquor, 3 slices of cucumber, 1 cherry, 1 orange twist. Drink and repeat. Cheers bitches! 

And now for something different and my latest obsession....grab a houseboy and hit play darlings.

EVERY VERSION OF YOURSELF....

From the garden.

 The iconic thing about life I found is in a way, you'll never know yourself, and you certainly can't please everyone all of the time. We are a different person to everyone we meet. To some we are quiet, to others we never shut the hell up. Some remember us for our kindness, some for our humor, others for our insight and advice, for our friendship and others to the time we walked away. You are a villain in some people's story, a hero in another's. And to most you're just a passing thought, a name they once knew, you don't exist as one person., but as countless versions as yourself, shaped by fleeting moments and personal conceptions. And here's what's unsettling. You will never truly know yourself the way other's do. You will never hear your own laughter the way someone else hears it. You will never see the way your absence lingers in a room you used to fill. You will never feel the anticipation someone has waiting for you. To yourself you are just you. But in reality, we are all a thousand different stories none of which we will ever get to read.