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It's Labor Day, and I'm enjoying the day off by sitting at the coffee shop, drinking frozen lemonade, and eating a raspberry cookie. It feels good to be outside. I was driving over to my parents' house earlier and listening to the new Ray LaMontagne CD on the way there. I checked my e-mail from their computer, and I'd received a new e-mail from Grace in which she talked so eloquently and beautifully about the CD and recommended it to me. Life is funny sometimes. The music was still fresh in my brain from five minutes before, and there she was, telling me about it and why I should listen to it. I haven't made it all the way through the album yet. I was glad to hear that "Empty" is on it as that's one of my favorite songs of his, already beloved from my many, many spins of his live from Bonnaroo CD. I'm not sure how I feel about all of these extra instruments accompanying Ray. I like a more stripped-down sound from him. But I'm trying to keep an open mind and open heart because, I mean, it's Ray. These cold and damp white mornings I have grown weary If through my cracked and dusty dimestore lips I spoke these words out loud would no one hear me
Love. It was a nice weekend. We played Scrabble at the coffee shop, ate garlic cheese biscuits at the market Saturday morning, went for shrimp, pineapple, bell pepper, and onion pizza on Saturday night, ate brownies and chocolate hazelnut gelato, made butterscotch brownies, and watched the entire first season of Weeds. When Jeffrey Dean Morgan appeared, I sat up and gasped, "IT'S DENNY!" Denny, man. I tried to explain that I don't have a crush on Denny -- it's not a sexual love. It's just a love for the character. I was never bothered by the Isabel / Denny relationship like I know many others were. I totally bought how they fell for each other. I understand he's an actor who plays other characters, such as the dead dad on Weeds (that's not a spoiler), but he will always be Denny to me. As for Weeds, I've decided that Mary Louise Parker has just about the prettiest smile ever smiled. I was never a huge fan of hers, but she really won me over with that awards show speech right after she'd given birth when she said that Janel Maloney said she'd give her $1,000 if she thanked her newborn son for making her boobs look so great in that dress. I still haven't been able to bring myself to watch the last episode of Deadwood. Other things: Watching my brother play at his gig and being amazed yet again at how relaxed he is about the whole thing, planning to have dinner and be introduced to the wonders of Karaoke Revolution with friends, trying to keep up a regular running schedule, and taking pictures of butterflies in my front yard. 
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