entering my prime

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as of tomorrow (or a couple of hours) i will be in my prime (number, that is). i'll let all y'all speculate as to which prime number it is. but prime it is.

tomorrow... good lord, in typical marya fashion i am leaving everything last minute and open ended. there might be a hike up bishops. there might be breakfast at linnaea's. or maybe i'll mosey into baywood to have little bayside treat at the very cool coffee shop. either way i'm spending most of the day with my mom. probably meandering up to big sur. nepenthe. henry miller library. et cetera.

next day it is jump in the car and drive to oc to see dad, janet, my fabulous southwestern tortilla making grandma and equally fabulous southwestern art making aunt estella.

the girls took me to lunch today for pre-prime-number festivities at novo. the coolest presents. special earrings and the four colorful glasses i innocently (i swear i swear) showed to kristin earlier in the week. very thoughtful.

i have this hat. i wear it a lot. kinda skull cap and it used to have a hideous nike swoosh right across the front. so i wore it in the back. one year for halloween i sewed a red felt heart over the swoosh. funny what a little red felt will do. people comment on it constantly. "oh the girl with the heart hat." or today, the guy who rushed out of the restaurant where he was working to say,

"I have to tell you i love your hat."

After thanking the very nice restaurant man with excellent taste I said back to the girls, as we continued down the sidewalk, "I have to wear this hat more often."

"He said he loved your hat, not you in the hat!" said Robin.

"I think he just said I love you," I grinned.

I'm wearing this hat all weekend.