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07 November 2009 @ 01:00 am

I am going to make more time and effort to come here. It just makes me too happy not to. I love coming alone and will always treasure the memory of that first independent trip, but having Chris here with me is the best thing of all. I'm too tired and happy to go into specifics. Just walking around, hanging out together, seeing a couple of friends, eating lots of wonderful food (I've developed a taste for waffles on this trip - not American-style hot waffles with syrup but the crunchier Dutch ones you can eat hot or at room temperature, and that come coated in every permutation of chocolate, strawberry, cherry, vanilla, caramel, and nut topping you can imagine) and smoking vast tonnages of across-the-universe-quality weed, hash, and kif. I mean, the stuff that was considered strong nine years ago is on the mild end of the menu now, and the current state-of-the-breeding-art strains are just insanely strong. Too strong, many people claim; it renders them unconscious. Chris has gone semiconscious a couple of times, but in general he has held up admirably. Me, I just suck it up and love it. There is no pain here to speak of. Maybe eventually I'd get used to the massive concentrated doses of THC and the pain would return, but for the past four days it has been only a distant memory. If anyone ever tells you medical marijuana doesn't work, send them here and I will laugh in their face. (And just that should be enough to get them high.)

I was going to post pictures on Flickr, but the iPhone app is way too slow. For now, there are some on Twitter that you needn't be a member to see; just go to twitter.com and search for docbrite or @docbrite.

Tomorrow: Museumnacht!

 
 
31 October 2009 @ 07:03 pm
Not doing much this year because I need to finish cleaning up. Housesitters arrive tomorrow, and we leave on Monday! I have the pumpkins lit, though, and am giving out candy. Frankie helped me greet the last bunch of kids. I picked him up for them to pet, and one of them -- ten years old at least -- said, "I never petted a cat before." This made me sad.



If I'd known the smiley one was going to come out looking so much like Ernie, I'd have gotten a football-shaped pumpkin and made a Bert one too. Or is it just me?
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Title: When Did Everything Change?
Fandom:
Harry Potter
Pairings:
Harry/Pansy
Rating:
PG-13
Warnings/Spoilers:
AU. Mention of Adult Content.
Summary:
They wake up.
Notes:
Written for dyno_drabbles October challenge prompt "It surprised her as much as anyone else, but that didn’t make it any less real." and written for 25moments prompt moment of clarity. Supposed to be this short! This is the first time I've written Parry!
when did everything change?........ )

Title:
Girl Behind the Mask
Fandom:
Harry Potter
Pairings:
Harry/Pansy
Rating:
G
Warnings/Spoilers:
Mentions of past Harry/Cho & Harry/Ginny.
Summary: Last night, Harry fell in love... but he isn't sure with who...
Notes:
Written for dyno_drabbles October challenge prompt "I gotta know the girl behind the mask." and written for 25moments prompt Trust. Supposed to be this short!
girl behind the mask........ )

Title: Shelter Me with Kisses
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairings: Harry/Pansy
Rating: PG
Warnings/Spoilers: AU.
Summary: Telling the school might be easier than she thought.
Notes: Written for dyno_drabbles October challenge prompt "Shelter Me With Kisses" (title must be it as well) and written for 25moments prompt Kiss. Supposed to be this short!
shelter me with kisses........ )
 
 
25 October 2009 @ 01:01 pm

I would like to announce the Cannabis-Oriented Old-Timers' official slogan: "Hey, kid, get off my grass!"

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25 October 2009 @ 01:19 am

I thought of a better name for my upscale-cannabis-tourism advocacy group: Cannabis-Oriented Old-Timers. Far superior acronym.

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24 October 2009 @ 11:23 pm
I'm sitting on the sofa buried in cats, preparing to unearth myself so I can go make a cat chart for our cat/house sitters. Do you see a pattern here?

While exploring this tantalizing site, I learned that the Netherlands' current, conservative government apparently wants to make it illegal for the coffeeshops to sell cannabis to foreigners. There's a stereotype of the typical pot tourist: they're usually young males from the UK or another European country; they come for the weekend, stay in a cheap hostel, get wasted on beer and cannabis, maybe have sex with a prostitute, and go home without having spent significant amounts of money (though it must add up). I wonder. Surely there are others like me and Chris, older travelers who appreciate the wonderful weed but also love other things about the city, who spend money on restaurants, museums, and shopping as well as high-end (pun intended) cannabis, who know how to behave ourselves reasonably well, who don't fall in the canals or get arrested or have to have ambulances called for us because the weed was too strong. If you're such a traveler, this might be a good time to plan a trip to Amsterdam. Maybe we can make a showing. Codgers On Cannabis (COC), dammit!

On a lighter note, I was amused on that same site to see people (at least facetiously) betting on who could smoke the most weed. Uh, that would be me, and if there really is serious betting anywhere, I might have a new career on my hands. I have been occasionally matched but never surpassed.