Queen Elizabeth II
!!!THE HOUSE HAS BEEN SOLD!!!
Well, it's not exactly a done deal, JUST yet, but the people who wanted the house, wrote a contract, and it's an FHA loan, so the house has to be FHA inspected, and it probably requires him to pay it. Here's the email from my baby, and his new consulting business.
from:Richard 04/05/01 10:19AM
"Spirituality has become hip. Spiritual thought surrounds us in our everyday lives. The Oprah show is the church of choice for many and popular radio is the church of choice for many more so if you aren't listening to popular radio for powerful and compatible music for your spiritual community, you're missing out."
So anyway, we are trying to make plans for our anniversary, to go to San Francisco, and then to Portland, for Allison Garley's wedding. I have a possible itinerary that Jeff Prell gave me but I don't think that is going to be possible (even though he gave us a bunch of discounts) because we just can't pay it for a long time, and you can't hold stuff like that for a long time. The rates change.
So I just talked with Richard and he is going to wire the money to Charlie so I expect that shouldn't be a problem at all. Charlie was saying that we should have thought about this process before, wiring the money from Western Union but ah well. I am so glad that I am out of that situation. I was talking with Richard the other night, because I couldn't sleep, and I was saying how irritated I was about that whole tax situation with the Charlie-money thing. Oh well, I'll just have to file an extension and figure out how I am going to pay the \\$500 that I owe the State of Illinois, or the federal taxes as well. Pisses me off. Oh well. I just can't let things like that get in my way. There was a whole lesson at church about how people don't live 'in the flow' and how people get in the way of themselves, and that's why I said I can't let things like that get in my way, because as someone I know said that we "Block the Blessings". Another fabulous thing about my conversation with Richard a couple of minutes ago, was that I found out that the people accepted the counter-offer, so we officially have six weeks to vacate 317 Jackson. DEAR GOD. Well what I was saying before, and what I was talking with Richard about last night, when we were talking about the whole move, and how he often says that "I may not know where I'm going, but I know where I'm not going" and I think that this whole thing with the move has been an excellent example of what happens when you move out of the way, and you let yourself live in the flow, and I said last night that I thought that this whole moving thing was a lesson in intuition, because he knew that he had to move, but he doesn't know where we are going to move, but that sort of didn't matter. It just mattered that he felt that he should move, and look at what happened; the house sold in less than a month, and now we have just OVER a month to move into a place, or start renting something until we find something else. It sort of is an uneasy feeling knowing that we have to get out of the house, and not knowing where we're going to go, but that's okay, I have faith that something good will happen, and that if we just let the process happen, then it will turn out well. It always does
.
On a completely unrelated note, I got an UPS package from Dayvid and it was a tape along with some pictures and a "what I'm listening too now" and likes and dislikes of Rufus Wainwright. He likes Beefeater gin and tonics, so Dave was saying that for the concert in Chicago, that we should bring him a bottle of Beefeater and bring him a carton of Marlboro Red cigarettes. I thought that was a brilliant idea, just give him gifts that he loves, so maybe we can get a little bit closer and perhaps have a drink with him on the tour bus. I am just going to stop there, because I know that Richard reads my journals!HAHAHA!!!. Needless to say that this album is fabulous, and I can't wait to see him in concert, it's all about the FULL ACCESS TO THE POSES! If I start talking about that, I'll never stop, so I'll just cut myself off.
I went to the doctor, at the Free Clinic last night, and the woman ( I forget her name) was telling me that she could tell I was sick, because I looked really bad, and she wanted to do some blood work, and she wanted to give me a mono test, and a diabetes test, and all these different types of tests, because this has been going on for about a month now, and it sort of freaks me out because like I've said before, I never get sick, and I've been sick for a month now. So they also wanted to take blood for a HIV test, which I thought was a good idea, because I haven't had one of those in a while. I really don't foresee any problem with that, I just have to go back to the clinic in a week, next Wednesday and go for the results. Even though I know that I've been really good with Richard, and that there has been nobody else but him, I still get an uneasy feeling about that whole thing. It's not like I'm worried about getting HIV, it's just the whole uncertainty of it all. I know that I've been monogamous, and I know all these things are good signs, but just the whole subject is not one I like to discuss. The whole waiting thing is sort of nerve-wracking too, but I shouldn't worry about it, because there is not going to be any problem whatsoever. I should get in the flow dammit! So anyway, when I went to the clinic last night, the woman was so nice, and like I said, she could tell that I wasn't doing so well, and then when the whole blood testing thing came up, she went out of the room, and then came in and then asked me if it was okay for Doug to do the counseling for the HIV test. The reason why she asked me was because she knew that I knew Doug, because he is with Larry Barker, who is a member of the chorus, and I met Larry in San Jose, he was roommates with Richard. So having said that, I told her that it was no problem for him to do the counseling. So we had the little talk about partners, and activity, and just overall really personal questions about really personal things, which I really was okay discussing with Doug, because he is such a kind guy, he's just so sweet and I trusted him. So anyway, we got through with that, and then they had to take the blood, so we walked into the little lab room, and we were just sort of talking about blood types, because I just gave blood last week at the Shook, Hardy & Bacon blood drive, and I got a card in the mail that said that my blood type was O-. So I asked him what that blood type meant, and he said that it was 'universal donor' so I could give blood to anyone, but O-'s can't receive blood from just any type. So I sort of liked that, because it was an universal donor, but we're picky about who we receive blood from :-) So anyway, to make a long story even longer, he said that he had a hard time finding my veins, and I told him that I went to give blood at the blood drive, and they took it from my right arm, and it wasn't a problem at all. He didn't want to take it from that arm though, because he said there was some bruising on that arm, so he tried it with the left arm, and of course, he missed the damm vein. He poked it in, and then I could just see on his face, and what he was saying that he didn't get the vein. So he took it out, and was apologizing for not getting it, and I was sort of playing with him, because I was saying that I was going to hold a grudge against him for doing that to me, but I was totally joking with him. So anyway, he tried the right arm, and it was fine, he got the vein, and it was fine. So they took a bunch of blood, and she was going to call me if anything turned up on the blood tests. That is nerve wracking also, because I hate waiting for anything. On the other hand, she said that she was only going to call if there was something wrong with the tests, so I should expect her not to call. I really don't mind giving blood, it's just when complications come up like that, it's sort of irritating, but I don't blame them at all, not at all. Apparently I don't have big ol veins. Who knows. Enough about that.
So after I drove home from the clinic I went in the house, and Richard was talking with Elsa, and they were going over the contract for the house, so I decided to let them be by themselves, so I went upstairs to check my email. I was up there for about twenty minutes when Richard walks up the stairs and says "Bill, there's someone here to see you" and I said "what" and he said, "there's a woman here to see you." and I just looked at him, because I was so baffled by that, because I don't know anyone here, and I thought that it was really odd for anyone to be looking for me, as I know no one here. So it was Melissafrom work, and she was hysterical, she was having a crisis with her boyfriend, so I tried to calm her down as best as I could, and I tried to give her advice. I tried to tell her that for her whole life she has been in relationships, and she has never spent any time alone, and I tried to encourage her to take some time alone for herself, and that she needed to start figuring out things by herself, and not always depending on the men in her life to figure out these things. I don't know if it helped at all, but I tried to listen, and to be there for her as much as I possibly could. Then Charlie called, and was asking about the money, if we wired it to him yet, and I said no, because we had been on such a crazy schedule lately, but we would do it today. He was talking and talking and talking, and I was trying to tell him that I had sort of a crisis here that a friend was here, that I couldn't really talk, but I could hardly get a word in edgewise, so we talked for a while. So then I sat in Ahab's room with Melissa for a while, and was talking with her when the doorbell rang, and it was the UPS guy, and he delivered the tape that Dave sent. So by that time, it was after 8pm, and I wanted to go watch West Wing so I asked Melissa if she wanted to go watch it with me upstairs, so she did, and we talked up there, and THEN LEILA called, and you know how Leila talks, I actually fended her off, and told her that I would call her later, because I was watching the West Wing, and it was such a rivoting episode. The President admitted to Toby that he had a degenerative form of Multiple Sclerosis, and that only 16 people knew about it. I didn't really get the whole thing with the Vice President, I thought that the Vice President was making a move to run for the Presidency, because he was making a speech in New Hampshire. So it's up in the air now, if Bartlett will run again, or if he'll have to resign because he hid the medical condition from the public. It was REALLY good, I loved that episode. So anyway, after West Wing, Melissa took off, I think she was feeling much better, and she said today at work that she felt so much better after she left, she said that she had the sunroof on her car open, and she was putting her hands out. So I felt good about helping her. So I was walking Melissa out, and then after she left, then Elsa left because they finished with the contract, and then Richard and I went out to Wendy's and I had to eat, because I was so famished, I don't know if it was from giving blood, or if it was because I hadn't eaten since like noon, but I was ravenously hungry. So we took my car to Wendy's and then on the way home, right as we were pulling into the driveway, I was talking about how I wanted to name my car, and I was saying that I wanted it to be a name from the eighties. So I was saying that the car just guzzles the gas, and then Richard was saying "oh, she has a little bit of a drinking problem huh?" and I said yea "I should just call her Sue Ellen" and that was it. So my car now is officially Sue Ellen. Because she's from the eighties, and she has a drinking problem. How funny. So then I just went to bed because I was so tired. Dear god, I just got an email from Dayvid about Rufus.
Rufus Wainwright has tapped fellow Canadian folk-rock duo Tegan and Sara for a round of tour dates beginning May 2 in Vancouver.
From there, the tour hits the major players around North America through a May 23 date in Washington, D.C. Wainwright will be performing tunes from his upcoming sophomore DreamWorks effort, Poses (due June 5), while Tegan and Sara will continue to support their U.S. debut, This Business of Art (Vapor Records). Rufus Wainwright/Tegan and Sara tour dates:
May 2, Vancouver, Richards on the Eve
May 3, Seattle, Crocodile Café
May 4, Portland, Ore., Roseland Grill
May 6, San Francisco, Great American Music Hall
May 7, Los Angeles, Roxy
May 10, Denver, Soiled Dove
May 12, Minneapolis, 400 Bar
May 13, Chicago, Martyr's
May 14, Detroit, Magic Bag
May 16, Toronto, Guvernment
May 17, Montreal, Club Soda
May 18, Boston, Paradise Rock Club
May 20, Philadelphia, Theater of the Living Arts
May 22, New York, Bowery Ballroom
May 23, Washington, D.C., 9:30 Club
I keep on getting these great emails today, this one is from Richard
Well, you have a little letter here. It's marked "Royal Mail" from Windsor Castle!
Eek! I love you!
I have another letter from the QUEEN
Oh dear god I'm going to cry. Once I get it, it will be promptly scanned so I can post it on here. Or, I'll post the text of the letter as soon as I get it, I'm going to cry when I get it, I can feel it, I'll post the text of the letter, and then I'll try and scan it as soon as I can, I'm not sure where I'll get it scanned in, maybe I'll ask the guy next to me to do it. That's it for now. Just wait; there'll be more I can assure you. Later.
Well, it's not exactly a done deal, JUST yet, but the people who wanted the house, wrote a contract, and it's an FHA loan, so the house has to be FHA inspected, and it probably requires him to pay it. Here's the email from my baby, and his new consulting business.
from:Richard 04/05/01 10:19AM
"Spirituality has become hip. Spiritual thought surrounds us in our everyday lives. The Oprah show is the church of choice for many and popular radio is the church of choice for many more so if you aren't listening to popular radio for powerful and compatible music for your spiritual community, you're missing out."
So anyway, we are trying to make plans for our anniversary, to go to San Francisco, and then to Portland, for Allison Garley's wedding. I have a possible itinerary that Jeff Prell gave me but I don't think that is going to be possible (even though he gave us a bunch of discounts) because we just can't pay it for a long time, and you can't hold stuff like that for a long time. The rates change.
So I just talked with Richard and he is going to wire the money to Charlie so I expect that shouldn't be a problem at all. Charlie was saying that we should have thought about this process before, wiring the money from Western Union but ah well. I am so glad that I am out of that situation. I was talking with Richard the other night, because I couldn't sleep, and I was saying how irritated I was about that whole tax situation with the Charlie-money thing. Oh well, I'll just have to file an extension and figure out how I am going to pay the \\$500 that I owe the State of Illinois, or the federal taxes as well. Pisses me off. Oh well. I just can't let things like that get in my way. There was a whole lesson at church about how people don't live 'in the flow' and how people get in the way of themselves, and that's why I said I can't let things like that get in my way, because as someone I know said that we "Block the Blessings". Another fabulous thing about my conversation with Richard a couple of minutes ago, was that I found out that the people accepted the counter-offer, so we officially have six weeks to vacate 317 Jackson. DEAR GOD. Well what I was saying before, and what I was talking with Richard about last night, when we were talking about the whole move, and how he often says that "I may not know where I'm going, but I know where I'm not going" and I think that this whole thing with the move has been an excellent example of what happens when you move out of the way, and you let yourself live in the flow, and I said last night that I thought that this whole moving thing was a lesson in intuition, because he knew that he had to move, but he doesn't know where we are going to move, but that sort of didn't matter. It just mattered that he felt that he should move, and look at what happened; the house sold in less than a month, and now we have just OVER a month to move into a place, or start renting something until we find something else. It sort of is an uneasy feeling knowing that we have to get out of the house, and not knowing where we're going to go, but that's okay, I have faith that something good will happen, and that if we just let the process happen, then it will turn out well. It always does
.
On a completely unrelated note, I got an UPS package from Dayvid and it was a tape along with some pictures and a "what I'm listening too now" and likes and dislikes of Rufus Wainwright. He likes Beefeater gin and tonics, so Dave was saying that for the concert in Chicago, that we should bring him a bottle of Beefeater and bring him a carton of Marlboro Red cigarettes. I thought that was a brilliant idea, just give him gifts that he loves, so maybe we can get a little bit closer and perhaps have a drink with him on the tour bus. I am just going to stop there, because I know that Richard reads my journals!HAHAHA!!!. Needless to say that this album is fabulous, and I can't wait to see him in concert, it's all about the FULL ACCESS TO THE POSES! If I start talking about that, I'll never stop, so I'll just cut myself off.
I went to the doctor, at the Free Clinic last night, and the woman ( I forget her name) was telling me that she could tell I was sick, because I looked really bad, and she wanted to do some blood work, and she wanted to give me a mono test, and a diabetes test, and all these different types of tests, because this has been going on for about a month now, and it sort of freaks me out because like I've said before, I never get sick, and I've been sick for a month now. So they also wanted to take blood for a HIV test, which I thought was a good idea, because I haven't had one of those in a while. I really don't foresee any problem with that, I just have to go back to the clinic in a week, next Wednesday and go for the results. Even though I know that I've been really good with Richard, and that there has been nobody else but him, I still get an uneasy feeling about that whole thing. It's not like I'm worried about getting HIV, it's just the whole uncertainty of it all. I know that I've been monogamous, and I know all these things are good signs, but just the whole subject is not one I like to discuss. The whole waiting thing is sort of nerve-wracking too, but I shouldn't worry about it, because there is not going to be any problem whatsoever. I should get in the flow dammit! So anyway, when I went to the clinic last night, the woman was so nice, and like I said, she could tell that I wasn't doing so well, and then when the whole blood testing thing came up, she went out of the room, and then came in and then asked me if it was okay for Doug to do the counseling for the HIV test. The reason why she asked me was because she knew that I knew Doug, because he is with Larry Barker, who is a member of the chorus, and I met Larry in San Jose, he was roommates with Richard. So having said that, I told her that it was no problem for him to do the counseling. So we had the little talk about partners, and activity, and just overall really personal questions about really personal things, which I really was okay discussing with Doug, because he is such a kind guy, he's just so sweet and I trusted him. So anyway, we got through with that, and then they had to take the blood, so we walked into the little lab room, and we were just sort of talking about blood types, because I just gave blood last week at the Shook, Hardy & Bacon blood drive, and I got a card in the mail that said that my blood type was O-. So I asked him what that blood type meant, and he said that it was 'universal donor' so I could give blood to anyone, but O-'s can't receive blood from just any type. So I sort of liked that, because it was an universal donor, but we're picky about who we receive blood from :-) So anyway, to make a long story even longer, he said that he had a hard time finding my veins, and I told him that I went to give blood at the blood drive, and they took it from my right arm, and it wasn't a problem at all. He didn't want to take it from that arm though, because he said there was some bruising on that arm, so he tried it with the left arm, and of course, he missed the damm vein. He poked it in, and then I could just see on his face, and what he was saying that he didn't get the vein. So he took it out, and was apologizing for not getting it, and I was sort of playing with him, because I was saying that I was going to hold a grudge against him for doing that to me, but I was totally joking with him. So anyway, he tried the right arm, and it was fine, he got the vein, and it was fine. So they took a bunch of blood, and she was going to call me if anything turned up on the blood tests. That is nerve wracking also, because I hate waiting for anything. On the other hand, she said that she was only going to call if there was something wrong with the tests, so I should expect her not to call. I really don't mind giving blood, it's just when complications come up like that, it's sort of irritating, but I don't blame them at all, not at all. Apparently I don't have big ol veins. Who knows. Enough about that.
So after I drove home from the clinic I went in the house, and Richard was talking with Elsa, and they were going over the contract for the house, so I decided to let them be by themselves, so I went upstairs to check my email. I was up there for about twenty minutes when Richard walks up the stairs and says "Bill, there's someone here to see you" and I said "what" and he said, "there's a woman here to see you." and I just looked at him, because I was so baffled by that, because I don't know anyone here, and I thought that it was really odd for anyone to be looking for me, as I know no one here. So it was Melissafrom work, and she was hysterical, she was having a crisis with her boyfriend, so I tried to calm her down as best as I could, and I tried to give her advice. I tried to tell her that for her whole life she has been in relationships, and she has never spent any time alone, and I tried to encourage her to take some time alone for herself, and that she needed to start figuring out things by herself, and not always depending on the men in her life to figure out these things. I don't know if it helped at all, but I tried to listen, and to be there for her as much as I possibly could. Then Charlie called, and was asking about the money, if we wired it to him yet, and I said no, because we had been on such a crazy schedule lately, but we would do it today. He was talking and talking and talking, and I was trying to tell him that I had sort of a crisis here that a friend was here, that I couldn't really talk, but I could hardly get a word in edgewise, so we talked for a while. So then I sat in Ahab's room with Melissa for a while, and was talking with her when the doorbell rang, and it was the UPS guy, and he delivered the tape that Dave sent. So by that time, it was after 8pm, and I wanted to go watch West Wing so I asked Melissa if she wanted to go watch it with me upstairs, so she did, and we talked up there, and THEN LEILA called, and you know how Leila talks, I actually fended her off, and told her that I would call her later, because I was watching the West Wing, and it was such a rivoting episode. The President admitted to Toby that he had a degenerative form of Multiple Sclerosis, and that only 16 people knew about it. I didn't really get the whole thing with the Vice President, I thought that the Vice President was making a move to run for the Presidency, because he was making a speech in New Hampshire. So it's up in the air now, if Bartlett will run again, or if he'll have to resign because he hid the medical condition from the public. It was REALLY good, I loved that episode. So anyway, after West Wing, Melissa took off, I think she was feeling much better, and she said today at work that she felt so much better after she left, she said that she had the sunroof on her car open, and she was putting her hands out. So I felt good about helping her. So I was walking Melissa out, and then after she left, then Elsa left because they finished with the contract, and then Richard and I went out to Wendy's and I had to eat, because I was so famished, I don't know if it was from giving blood, or if it was because I hadn't eaten since like noon, but I was ravenously hungry. So we took my car to Wendy's and then on the way home, right as we were pulling into the driveway, I was talking about how I wanted to name my car, and I was saying that I wanted it to be a name from the eighties. So I was saying that the car just guzzles the gas, and then Richard was saying "oh, she has a little bit of a drinking problem huh?" and I said yea "I should just call her Sue Ellen" and that was it. So my car now is officially Sue Ellen. Because she's from the eighties, and she has a drinking problem. How funny. So then I just went to bed because I was so tired. Dear god, I just got an email from Dayvid about Rufus.
Rufus Wainwright has tapped fellow Canadian folk-rock duo Tegan and Sara for a round of tour dates beginning May 2 in Vancouver.
From there, the tour hits the major players around North America through a May 23 date in Washington, D.C. Wainwright will be performing tunes from his upcoming sophomore DreamWorks effort, Poses (due June 5), while Tegan and Sara will continue to support their U.S. debut, This Business of Art (Vapor Records). Rufus Wainwright/Tegan and Sara tour dates:
May 2, Vancouver, Richards on the Eve
May 3, Seattle, Crocodile Café
May 4, Portland, Ore., Roseland Grill
May 6, San Francisco, Great American Music Hall
May 7, Los Angeles, Roxy
May 10, Denver, Soiled Dove
May 12, Minneapolis, 400 Bar
May 13, Chicago, Martyr's
May 14, Detroit, Magic Bag
May 16, Toronto, Guvernment
May 17, Montreal, Club Soda
May 18, Boston, Paradise Rock Club
May 20, Philadelphia, Theater of the Living Arts
May 22, New York, Bowery Ballroom
May 23, Washington, D.C., 9:30 Club
I keep on getting these great emails today, this one is from Richard
Well, you have a little letter here. It's marked "Royal Mail" from Windsor Castle!
Eek! I love you!
I have another letter from the QUEEN
Oh dear god I'm going to cry. Once I get it, it will be promptly scanned so I can post it on here. Or, I'll post the text of the letter as soon as I get it, I'm going to cry when I get it, I can feel it, I'll post the text of the letter, and then I'll try and scan it as soon as I can, I'm not sure where I'll get it scanned in, maybe I'll ask the guy next to me to do it. That's it for now. Just wait; there'll be more I can assure you. Later.
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