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It's Friday already? Where did this week go?
Well, my plans and goals have flown out the window pretty quickly. Haven't been reading, haven't been knitting, haven't gone to a yoga class, haven't played any Guitar Hero. But to be fair, I haven't managed to find myself sleeping all that often this week and that's definitely gonna come first for me over the other things I want to do.
Today should go a bit better than the rest of the week so far. I have no meetings today, until cleaning the yoga studio tonight, so I can sit here and catch up all day. Plus I had an awesome night's sleep. And it was awesome for a very specific reason. It's very cold in our house.
Yesterday afternoon I took a nap so that I would be awake during our Synn meeting. When I woke up and went downstairs to make some dinner it was really cold down there. I didn't think anything of it since I wasn't sure what the temp was outside, plus I'd just gotten out of a warm and cozy bed so I figured my temp was off.
Not long after that Luke came home and mentioned how cold it was. He wondered if our gas had been turned off and I told him that was impossible since it was illegal. Plus we are not really behind. Then he told me that since Nick moved out and his name was on the bills and since the utility people won't change the name unless it's paid to zero the two of them decided to cancel the services and then hook them back up in Luke's name. So Nick called on Tuesday or Wednesday I think to cancel and nobody had called yet to hook it back up. So we have no heat in the house!
It doesn't actually bother me all that much. It's definitely cold, like under 10 degrees, on the main floor, but upstairs is fine. And my sleep was awesome cause it's so cool and I woke up to that chill in the air that just gets me jumping right out of bed.
It's probably about 15 degrees right now upstairs.
This morning we got it all sorted and they are coming today to set it up. Good thing I have no meetings or appointments, I can be available to let them in sometime between 9am and 5pm. They are so convenient!
In other news, Twitter has become quite the ego boost. And I need it cause you all know how incredibly un-confident I am (where is that damn sarcasm font!). But it is kind of nice to see when new people follow and to know that they think I'm pretty interesting or useful to them. Also fun is when I send out a message and I get a bunch of replies from people saying "Oh there you are!" or a variation on it.
In the Twitter Book (at least I think it was in that one) I read about ambient familiarity. It's something I've often said about online status messages and stuff. Posting random things about your day leads to a closeness that wasn't possible with friends before. I believe that being a true friend means sharing the boring and inane parts of your day and not just the big stuff. If you are only calling your friends to let them know about a child, or a divorce, or a death, or a new job it seems to me like more of an obligation and not friendship.
But I certainly understand the people who are guarded and don't want to post, or the people who don't care to read that I'm going to the library. The other beauty of being online is that you can choose how much you want to be part of it. You can choose not to post, or not to follow, or not to read all.
And now, my next status will read, "Union gas is on the way, here in 5 minutes!" and only you guys will understand what it's about ;-)
Well, my plans and goals have flown out the window pretty quickly. Haven't been reading, haven't been knitting, haven't gone to a yoga class, haven't played any Guitar Hero. But to be fair, I haven't managed to find myself sleeping all that often this week and that's definitely gonna come first for me over the other things I want to do.
Today should go a bit better than the rest of the week so far. I have no meetings today, until cleaning the yoga studio tonight, so I can sit here and catch up all day. Plus I had an awesome night's sleep. And it was awesome for a very specific reason. It's very cold in our house.
Yesterday afternoon I took a nap so that I would be awake during our Synn meeting. When I woke up and went downstairs to make some dinner it was really cold down there. I didn't think anything of it since I wasn't sure what the temp was outside, plus I'd just gotten out of a warm and cozy bed so I figured my temp was off.
Not long after that Luke came home and mentioned how cold it was. He wondered if our gas had been turned off and I told him that was impossible since it was illegal. Plus we are not really behind. Then he told me that since Nick moved out and his name was on the bills and since the utility people won't change the name unless it's paid to zero the two of them decided to cancel the services and then hook them back up in Luke's name. So Nick called on Tuesday or Wednesday I think to cancel and nobody had called yet to hook it back up. So we have no heat in the house!
It doesn't actually bother me all that much. It's definitely cold, like under 10 degrees, on the main floor, but upstairs is fine. And my sleep was awesome cause it's so cool and I woke up to that chill in the air that just gets me jumping right out of bed.
It's probably about 15 degrees right now upstairs.
This morning we got it all sorted and they are coming today to set it up. Good thing I have no meetings or appointments, I can be available to let them in sometime between 9am and 5pm. They are so convenient!
In other news, Twitter has become quite the ego boost. And I need it cause you all know how incredibly un-confident I am (where is that damn sarcasm font!). But it is kind of nice to see when new people follow and to know that they think I'm pretty interesting or useful to them. Also fun is when I send out a message and I get a bunch of replies from people saying "Oh there you are!" or a variation on it.
In the Twitter Book (at least I think it was in that one) I read about ambient familiarity. It's something I've often said about online status messages and stuff. Posting random things about your day leads to a closeness that wasn't possible with friends before. I believe that being a true friend means sharing the boring and inane parts of your day and not just the big stuff. If you are only calling your friends to let them know about a child, or a divorce, or a death, or a new job it seems to me like more of an obligation and not friendship.
But I certainly understand the people who are guarded and don't want to post, or the people who don't care to read that I'm going to the library. The other beauty of being online is that you can choose how much you want to be part of it. You can choose not to post, or not to follow, or not to read all.
And now, my next status will read, "Union gas is on the way, here in 5 minutes!" and only you guys will understand what it's about ;-)