I have a couple of things to catch you up on, but first, here are some scenes around No. 6:

Romance:
Stevel brought these home last night. I said, “Are those for me?” He replied, “No, they’re for me. But I’ll share them with you.”

Oops:
Turns out there’s a good reason why the instructions on my new foot-spa advise against putting soap in the water.

Mia:
Aka “Boxy Brown,” now lives in this box on Stevel’s desk, which we installed to encourage her (successfully … mostly) NOT to sit on our keyboards and mice WHILE WE ARE USING THEM. She is doing incredibly well, btw, gaining weight and looking better and better in her test results. A really unexpected turn of events to have so much additional, healthy time with her. Although, right now she is digging hats and scarves out of a basket, GET OUT OF THE BASKET!

Game-lap Cat:
Here is what Linus does when Stevel plays with the DS. It’s the absolute cutest.

So, to update you! First, let me say we had a fun get-together Sunday night with pot-luck delicacies, an exchange of journals-with-inspirations/assignments-inside, and many creative activities, although I think only Sarah-Architect and I ended up with semi-permanent finger-paint stains on our hands (Yeah, thanks for your advice, guy at Blick, what are you, a stock-boy? No three-year-old is going to be allowed to finger-paint with this stuff more than once, bro). Anyway, my creative fire is relit, thanks to this Revival, and I’m looking forward to a follow-up event later in the summer, to show off what we have all been doing with our projects.

Second, I had the most relaxing and wonderful weekend in San Francisco last Thurs.-Sun. with Bridget, who was in town for a conference. Her conference ended Friday, and we shopped and walked around the city and toured the Scharffen Berger chocolate factory in Berkely. It was truly the sweetest weekend. I’ve posted some photos here. Enjoy! And eat more GOOD chocolate.