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Aaack, I need to respond to everyone who's commented in my journal! But I need to tell you about yesterday first, and then I'll respond to everyone, I promise...

First we hit the Goodwill as-is in Milwaukie and got another buttload of stuff. Byron has quite a knack for discovering odd pieces of old electronic equipment and games. The hipster contingent was surprisingly low this time out. I got some clothes, a couple books and that's about it.

Then over to La Carreta for lunch. Every time we'd passed it previously we kept saying, "We need to go there someday!" Well yesterday was someday, finally! We were hungry for Mexican anyway. Had a really excellent meal; not swimming in cheese and grease like so many Mexican places. The place itself is very colorfully decorated with paintings on the walls, crepe paper streamers on the ceiling, etc. (must be getting ready for Cino de Mayo). One of the coolest things about Mexican restaurants is always the decor! I would decorate our whole house in a Mexican motif if I could. Such great colors! I love El Dia de los Muertos too. There is the coolest store here in Portland called the Gold Door, that has THE most awesome collection of Dia de los Muertos figurines that you have ever seen in your entire life.

Then we headed over to the da Vinci school and their annual Earth Day celebration. We collected tons of info on Earth-friendly home improvement, walked the labyrinth, ate ice cream, grooved to a very cool salsa band who marched through the grounds with dancers and giant puppets like in Rio, and saw an amazing belly dancer with giant black dreads. It was great to just generally soak up all that good Mother Earth energy. Made me think of Voltaire, Mary Jane, Olivia, and all the other groovy hippie chicks here at SG. I consider myself a hippie chick pretty much, in spirit at least. I don't partake of the Ancient Substance, and my hair is too thin for dreads. I don't quite get the abuse heaped on hippie types by the - well, what label have we slapped on our current crop of young folks? The emo generation? Whatever. If being in favor of peace and love is naive, then call me naive. I'm realistic enough, however, to realize that it's not an easily obtainable goal, human nature being what it is. But it's the journey that's important, the effort made. If enough people keep making the effort, then who knows - it may just be attainable after all... Anyway, we saw my cohort from the library there, so that was pretty cool too.

After that we headed over to Everyday Music for more record sleeves and more bargain-bin rekkids. While there we discovered that the twilight rummage sale was being held right at that very moment!! Arrgghh!!!!! We were just too wiped out to go. Nuts. Next month, definitely...

Anyway, today we're going bowling. Byron is itching to try out his new bowling shoes. Will report later on how badly we sucked.....

Happy Easter/Ostara, everyone!