Pandemic. Protests. Election. Fires. More fires. More smoke. Online school. Online work. My computer is off kilter and hardly working. My not so smart phone is also broken and limping along. Then yesterday I fell and smashed my nose, which thankfully isn’t broken, but I feel like I’ve been in a bar fight or maybe hit be a baseball bat.
Other than that things are pretty good.
We just returned from five days in Aptos, California, on the edge of the Pacific Ocean. It was wonderful and cool. While fires burned around us we were safe. Now that we are home the sky is still hazy and it is hot as hell but we’re safe.
I have an ear worm. It is an ear worm with the wrong lyrics but I can never hear it with the correct lyrics.
You play tricks on my mind
Your underwear is so hard to find
That would be “Urgent” … the song by Foreigner. You know it.
My great great great great grandmama Lola is by for a few days. After social distancing with her current younger Vampire lover she decided he was too stupid to keep company with and has stopped by my house for a few days.
At six hundred and seventy six years Lola looks all of twenty six years give or take a few.
“So what happened with Frank?” I asked.
Lola stretched out her long legs and kicked off her sandals. “He is a picky eater. That is horribly unattractive in a warm blooded man, but in a Vampire man, and now during these times, it is downright stupid. You know how I hate stupid men.”
“Picky. Like what?”
She scowled. “He said he would only drink the blood of dark haired women with blue eyes who were virgins. I called him a disgusting sexist homophobe creeper. I should have known he was weird when he kept going out and coming back hungry. I told him that if he starved to death it would be fine with me. When I wouldn’t let him touch me anymore he admitted he would feed from other sources, but by then I was done with him. I should have known, but he was handsome and seemed like a lot of fun at first. The tip off should have been his fondness of some night elf girl on that World of Warcraft game. I thought someone who was two hundred and twelve who’d been a Vampire for the past hundred and ninety years would be a little more mature.”
“Yuck,” I said and sat down on the couch next to her. “Do you want to watch a movie?”
She smiled, then jumped up to find my husband and my brother Val.
We saw First Cow. It was a sweet movie and a quiet movie. You’re wrong if you think Vampires sit around watching horror and slasher movies.
Lola and my brother share a three bedroom cottage out in the country near the river delta, on the property belonging to Eleora and Tellias. Sometimes they stay there, sometimes in Lola’s house in San Francisco, and sometimes in Val’s house in Sacramento. I can’t always keep track. They watch out for each other. That means one less person I have to watch out after… but I still do watch out after them.
So that’s what we’re up to. I have to mention that when we got home our animals (a dog and two cats) went nuts and are still attached to us like leaches. It is good to be loved.
All this and I didn’t even mention politics. Nope. I’m not going there today.
Oh, yes, one more thing. I saw a new mural by my husband’s business. I’ll post photos of the two murals on the side of the building that houses the art gallery next door. I love them.
- Stay safe
- Wear a mask
- Social Distance
- Don’t be a dick about it
- Check in on those who might need extra help or might be lonely
- Talk to your kids
- Kiss a Vampire
- Don’t let the bullshit get to you
- Turn off anything that has to do with politics for the next
~ Juliette aka Vampire Maman
Vampire Maman 
Not much happened here lately and’s been scorching too. We skipped the wildfires though. The only thing entertaining on TV was the DJT comedy hour, erstwhile known as the RNC. 🐘 Stay cool Vampire 💙