Mary's LJ

Indonesia was just lovely, but it's great to be back home again! Great diving, great boat, great friends, but I'm worn out! Two and a half weeks is a long time to be away from home. My cats are only now beginning to forgive me. The other price I'm paying is that I'm working just about every night for the next 2 weeks, including tonight, so this is a quicky post. BLARGH.

My camera died right before the trip, but I borrowed the Dive Master's for a couple dives, so I'll post a few pics after I upload them, but here, have one:



Yes, I found Nemo.

In a bizarre fandom coincidence, on my way to Indo, I arrived at the Singapore airport at the EXACT SAME TIME as Adam Lambert...I from Tokyo, he from Australia. But did I see him? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

In other fandom news, both my loves are touring the US this summer: Green Day announced a tour this summer while I was gone, and Adam confirmed he'll be doing a headliner tour in the US this summer as well *prays to the gods he does a San Francisco date* C'mon Adam, we have lots of pretty gay boys here! *also prays that Green Day adds a Bay Area date, because I don't want to go to LA*



*prays to the Lotto gods that I win a million dollars to support my habit*

Missed you guys!


ETA: In even more fandom news, this is the 35th anniversary of the first concert I ever attended, my first and dearest fandom before I ever knew the word, the incomparable Led Zeppelin, at the Inglewood Forum, (Los Angeles) California.

¡He vuelto! Fue un viaje muy fantástico y los buceos fueron extraordinarios. Pero, los extraño mucho, y estoy muy feliz estar en mi hogar.

(I'm back! It was a fantastic trip and the dives were amazing. But I missed you all a lot and I'm happy to be home.) I'll have a couple pics up in a few days. I'd forgotten how beautiful Cozumel is underwater.

I'll try to catch up with everyone's LJs, but if you think I missed something good, point me in the right direction.

A very happy belated birthday to indie_wonka and itsonlymec. Hope you both had great days.

So what's up with me, you might ask?

Or maybe not. But hey, feel free to skip.

I went up to San Francisco last weekend to look at homes. It was a pretty fruitful experience actually. I saw one or two homes that I could picture making offers on even. I feel comfortable with the agent I'm working with, which helps. (It was also nice to see Kat for about 30 seconds! ;-) )

Of course, buying a house in SF is wholly predicated on selling my current home. And it looks like it will be going up on the market this weekend. Which now has the crap scared out of me, to be frank. Some of it is related to time constraints, and some of it is related to the OMGWhatamIdoing seller's remorse type feelings. But really, I've been thinking about this for almost a year now, and none of the reasons that I want to move have changed. I love this house, but I need a change bad, and I just don't see it happening if I stay here. Some of the trepidation is also related to the general angst/trauma that's involved in moving, too. Moving sucks, folks. I am sooooo not looking forward to it.

The pleasant news (and the reason for my reference to time constraints) is that I'm leaving on Saturday for a week of scubadiving in Cozumel, Mexico. I'm going with a group of eight, one of whom has been to Coz something like 30+ times, so we'll be hitting all the good diving and eating spots, I'm sure. My RE agent thinks it's a great idea to have the home available over the holiday week for viewing to vacationers looking for a second home by the beach, so I have to get it ready to go before I leave! ARGH. So down comes the Green Day shrine on the fridge.

Speaking of Green Day....THERE'S NEWS! REAL, HONEST TO GOODNESS GREEN DAY NEWS! My God, what will we do? As I'm sure most of you have heard, The 9 December issue of AP will have an interview with GD where (theoretically) they will be talking about the new album due next year. Good God guys, four and a half years! Good thing you didn't rush into anything! But I promise, make it good and I will forgive you, OK? I've missed you.

The last thing that's been on my mind is not quite as good news. It appears that Gale Harold is being written out of Desperate Housewives due to the injuries he received in his motorcycle accident over a month ago. Last night's episode was his last, and of course, he was absolutely gorgeous and adorable. But they had to use a double for one scene (with his face conveniently not shown), which fooled exactly no one. I suppose it's theoretically possible that they could write him back in next season -- given Susan's unstable love life, it's not completely out of character -- but that may be wishful thinking. As I've opined here before, the real question is whether Gale's head injury is so serious that he'll be able to resume acting at all. The one positive piece of information that we received is that he was able to be discharged to home, rather than a TBI (traumatic brain injury) rehab center. However, I believe this will probably be the last thing we hear for a very long time. As dedicated as his fans are, Gale is hardly an A-lister, so no one else really cares, and Gale has never ever been terribly interested in publicity. Sigh.

Hope everyone is having a good week. Time for me to get back to getting the house in shape!