green?

why is the fountain at Love Park green? it's been green all week, and i have no idea why. they sometimes dye the fountain different colors- all of them crazy bright- for different occasions. pink for Breast Cancer Awareness month. team colors if one of the sports teams is in the playoffs or something. but green is the Eagles, and they're not playing now. when i walked by this morning, tables were set up, and there were people scurrying around, but i didn't see any signs that would explain why the fountain is green, and these are things i need to know.

this would be a more interesting post if i had a digital camera, and therefore a picture of the bright green fountain. i need to invest in one of those. i do so often see things walking too and from work that need to be immortalized. or at least blogged about.

speaking of green, it's finally freaking spring here, and i know that is true because the fruit trucks are back. woo hoo! smoothies! there are a few fruit trucks in philly that are out year round, but most of them are seasonal, just popping up when fruit is in season and cheap. the trials of living in the northeast.

and, as usual, another terribly exciting post from me. i think i felt the need to say something because sheri is on a work trip, and i've been living alone for the last couple of days. which is fine, and i enjoy having the house to myself, but i become pretty solitary when she's not around. i don't have any close friends at work, and i don't generally see my friends much during the week, since none of them are in philly, and we're all busy with stuff. so i'm speaking into the void a bit, to see if i can hear my voice.

of course, i didn't go on the trip with sheri, which was to miami, because i should have just been starting my busiest time of year at work. note i said *should*. because i haven't recieved a single budget, and by now i should have at least half. we'll still meet the deadline of getting the last budget into our office by next week, but we'll also be getting the first budget then, too. of course, if i had gone to miami, all the budgets would have been in my office by now, and i would have been hated by my co-workers.

cuteness

i have been completely unable to walk into work lately. i oversleep, or its too damn cold (yes, in April- i am really ready for spring to come and to stay- today is reasonable, but it's supposed to be cold again by the weekend) or i'm just too damn lazy.

but, today, as i was walking to the subway, i passed the house on the end of the block that has the three adorable children. i know the kids enough to say 'hi' in the morning, and i've had chats with the parents. i noticed as i was walking up that all of the doors to their van were open, and i figured they were just getting the kids into it for school.

the younger boy (i think he's 5 or 6) came out of the house and looked up at me and said 'we're packing to go to new york!'

'you are?' i said.

'we're going to new york and we're going to see the statue of liberty!' he proclaimed, so excited he was nearly vibrating. i feel for his parents on the drive.

'that's so nice,' i said. 'have a great time!'

'thanks,' he replied, going back into the house.

not only are these kids adorable, they're polite. and they get excited about things like the statue of liberty.

i feel for the parents because this weekend we went to nyc with my four-year-old niece to see 'the little mermaid'. the entire drive, and then lunch, was puncuated with 'it is time for ariel yet?' which was pretty cute.

and, yes, she had a great time, altho she did tell us that she did not like the part where ariel lost her tail. because ariel should have her tail all the time. i would like to perhaps turn that into a feminist lesson that ariel should not have given up her voice to get the guy, but... i doubt the niece cares about that. she just thought it was cool that ariel had a tail. and roller skates. that's how they do the underwater stuff on stage- everyone was in skates. sounds a little dorky, but it worked.

one more cuteness thing- or pretty, i guess. when i take the subway, i walk down a block that is houses on one side and a parking garage on the other. but one of the people on the block, i hear, has taken over the strip of ground behind the parking garage and planted the most amazing garden. i don't get to pass that block if i walk all the way to work- well, i guess i could, but it would require some rerouting. anyhow, even tho it has been a stupidly cold spring so far, every day, something else is blooming in that garden. today it was yellow tulips. dozens of them. it was very pretty.