E and F are for 'Epic' and 'Fail'

WHOA
The Easter/passover/pagan spring solstice holiday just ransacked my schedule. Coupled with the fact that I had to go to DC for business, had to extend my trip and had NEWS (more later this week on that) happen to me on Thursday - I've completely fallen off the A-Z Challenge wagon.  Je suis desole.

It's been manic to say the least. And this morning at church (whither I go on Sundays to get my spiritual s**t together) I realized I'd promised one of the kindly church ladies I'd knit a shawl for the elderly/infirm/chilly- which I have not done yet. Church ladies are all well and good and make awesome brownies but DO NOT MESS WITH THEIR KNITTING. I escaped out the south door before the last alleluia had been sung.

If your blogging world is a mess, church ladies are chasing you with knitting needles and your mom is getting updates about you from other people's facebook updates - what's a girl to do?

Gigantic slice of easter egg shaped cake and tea.

Then, dive into the fray.

And how was your first week of the A-Z challenge?

E is also for Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros:



F is also for Felt (with Liz Frazer doing backing vocals...)

F Is For Find the Future

And for Felt

It's no secret to those who know me that I have a serious hard on for Patience and Fortitude. I passed these stone lions every day, to and from my work in midtown for nearly ten years. There's something about them, and the library they guard that makes me happy to be alive. I've eaten lunch on the steps to the library, I've wandered around the Rose Reading room, open-mouthed and staring at the glorious ceiling frescos like a tourist. I've itched to get my hands (wrong, so wrong) on their copy of the Guttenberg Bible. The Stephen A Schwarzman Building on 40th and Fifth Avenue is magic, it just is.

Now that I'm far away, hunkered down in my gardening boots, running to Girl Scouts meetings and baking brownies for Japan at the yoga studio, there isn't much about my city life that I miss. Except Patience and Fortitude.

If you live in the City, or near it, enter the library's Find the Future game. If you win, you along with 499 other people get to stay over night in this storied place with Patience and Fortitude watching over you. You'll do a scavenger hunt, you'll write a novel en ensemble. You'll have an unforgettable blast. I hope you do enter. I hope you win. I hope you tell me all about it.