"...and he sings along with the radio with a bullet in his chest."
The past couple of weeks have been such a steady, yet unexpected mix of ups and downs that I'm exhausted an almost too head spun to think, let alone write. Good things happen, but then not so good things happen, which are, as you may imagine, more of a whammy than I'd like. It strikes me as wise to list both sides to keep things in perspective.
Good: My hair looks fantastic and I know how to make it look wonderful in a variety of ways.
Bad: The new-found pep in my step seems to have encouraged the wrong menfolk and since I make it a point never to crush self esteem except as a last resort.
Good: My friend Dave and his friend Ty are moving in as subleasers this summer, since Bailey wanted to move back home and Kim said she could go any time.
Bad: Kim just told me (like, an hour ago) that she is changing her move date from May 1st to June 1st, which means either the guys won't move in (at worst) or they'll be inconvenienced and possibly uncomfortable for a month (at nearly best).
Good: I finally have an employee parking pass, which will also let me park at the lot nearest WIDR.
Bad: It only happened after I was ticketed and towed at work because I was in the spot I've parked in for eight years, but parking services says isn't an official space, in spite of maintenance vans parking there on an almost daily basis for far longer than required for unloading anything, which they rarely do anyway.
Good: Fred came on The Saturday Morning Cartoon Show for his Adpot-A-DJ thing and it rocked so hard we even got calls from kids, which is a big deal, because they rarely call unless they're really comfortable with us on the air.
Bad: He's going through more stuff and after the show we ended up talking in the production studio until it was time to leave for lunch with Jason and his parents, which was good for him, but brought up a lot of things I was frustrated with not having anyone to talk to about.
Good: Adeline and Gabriel got to hang out with me together and they got along even better than I'd hoped.
Bad: There is none. We all played together, Gabriel is getting used to interesting with a bigger person who isn't a grown up, Adeline is learning more patience and dealing with younger kids, and I get to spend time with my two favorite bunnies.
Related Good: Today Adeline and I broke her very first video game together. Not all smashy-smashy mind you, I had just shared with her the way 'rule' work in video games and how you can sometimes find weaknesses or flaws in coding to exploit to make game play better or just funnier. She liked the idea of being able to push the program beyond what it could handle, thus breaking it, so we went to PBS Kids and managed to break a game involving Curious George and a pogo stick. We laughed like insane people and were rather proud of ourselves.
Good: I have two bikes and plenty of things close by to ride to at least once a day, including three farmers markets.
Bad: My bike cools are MIA and I no longer now how to tune up a bike, which wouldn't be a problem, since Matt said he'd reteach me, but since he's wicked busy and we might exchange texts every couple of weeks, I'm not counting on that happening any time soon, resulting in both bikes being pretty much unrideable (is that how it'd be spelled?) due to disuse.
Good: I picked up a good deal more one-shot babysitting dates this month and more than originally planned at work, both of which are huge because I'm doing something requiring a good deal of belt tightening so I can go back for grad school.
Bad: The extra money I've made so far this month, thereby putting me comfortably ahead of the game, got wiped out when I paid the towing and ticket fees.
Random good things include Dan calling to check up on me yesterday to make sure the car stuff got taken care of, lots of good, insane, and random text conversations with Sam throughout the day, and a batch of superlative raspberry preserves. The new-to-me computer is still blowing me away with how awesome it is as well. I have "Viva Variety" again!
I honestly can't tell whether or not things in general are a wash or not. I've hung out with folks a good deal more lately and had more fun doing stuff outside my normal library/radio/museum routines, so that's definitely a positive, but I'm still a little pooped from dealing with everything by myself. Aside from the stressy things, I am happy and spring is here, so time spent sunning myself in assorted locales is quite therapeutic. I just really want to go for bike rides.
Good: My hair looks fantastic and I know how to make it look wonderful in a variety of ways.
Bad: The new-found pep in my step seems to have encouraged the wrong menfolk and since I make it a point never to crush self esteem except as a last resort.
Good: My friend Dave and his friend Ty are moving in as subleasers this summer, since Bailey wanted to move back home and Kim said she could go any time.
Bad: Kim just told me (like, an hour ago) that she is changing her move date from May 1st to June 1st, which means either the guys won't move in (at worst) or they'll be inconvenienced and possibly uncomfortable for a month (at nearly best).
Good: I finally have an employee parking pass, which will also let me park at the lot nearest WIDR.
Bad: It only happened after I was ticketed and towed at work because I was in the spot I've parked in for eight years, but parking services says isn't an official space, in spite of maintenance vans parking there on an almost daily basis for far longer than required for unloading anything, which they rarely do anyway.
Good: Fred came on The Saturday Morning Cartoon Show for his Adpot-A-DJ thing and it rocked so hard we even got calls from kids, which is a big deal, because they rarely call unless they're really comfortable with us on the air.
Bad: He's going through more stuff and after the show we ended up talking in the production studio until it was time to leave for lunch with Jason and his parents, which was good for him, but brought up a lot of things I was frustrated with not having anyone to talk to about.
Good: Adeline and Gabriel got to hang out with me together and they got along even better than I'd hoped.
Bad: There is none. We all played together, Gabriel is getting used to interesting with a bigger person who isn't a grown up, Adeline is learning more patience and dealing with younger kids, and I get to spend time with my two favorite bunnies.
Related Good: Today Adeline and I broke her very first video game together. Not all smashy-smashy mind you, I had just shared with her the way 'rule' work in video games and how you can sometimes find weaknesses or flaws in coding to exploit to make game play better or just funnier. She liked the idea of being able to push the program beyond what it could handle, thus breaking it, so we went to PBS Kids and managed to break a game involving Curious George and a pogo stick. We laughed like insane people and were rather proud of ourselves.
Good: I have two bikes and plenty of things close by to ride to at least once a day, including three farmers markets.
Bad: My bike cools are MIA and I no longer now how to tune up a bike, which wouldn't be a problem, since Matt said he'd reteach me, but since he's wicked busy and we might exchange texts every couple of weeks, I'm not counting on that happening any time soon, resulting in both bikes being pretty much unrideable (is that how it'd be spelled?) due to disuse.
Good: I picked up a good deal more one-shot babysitting dates this month and more than originally planned at work, both of which are huge because I'm doing something requiring a good deal of belt tightening so I can go back for grad school.
Bad: The extra money I've made so far this month, thereby putting me comfortably ahead of the game, got wiped out when I paid the towing and ticket fees.
Random good things include Dan calling to check up on me yesterday to make sure the car stuff got taken care of, lots of good, insane, and random text conversations with Sam throughout the day, and a batch of superlative raspberry preserves. The new-to-me computer is still blowing me away with how awesome it is as well. I have "Viva Variety" again!
I honestly can't tell whether or not things in general are a wash or not. I've hung out with folks a good deal more lately and had more fun doing stuff outside my normal library/radio/museum routines, so that's definitely a positive, but I'm still a little pooped from dealing with everything by myself. Aside from the stressy things, I am happy and spring is here, so time spent sunning myself in assorted locales is quite therapeutic. I just really want to go for bike rides.