Reality is the new fiction, they say
The lack of up regular updates is the biggest problem with also having a blog; you tend to update in one more than the other and one almost always gets neglected. I heart the blog but I heart LJ too so I am trying to be a good LJer and read all of the posts on my friends list and regularly comment. It's all about finding a happy medium.
An odd thing I've noticed is that it seems like some of my friends' posts seem to magically disappear and I don't see them unless I go to directly to someone's LJ. I've felt like a big ole jerk when I've missed something major on someone's LJ. So, if I have seemingly "ignored" yours, feel free to give me the scoop; it's not because I haven't wanted to comment but because I may not have seen it.
This isn't an excuse. I'm just sayin'.
I've made a minor friends list cut of people that never/very rarely update and/or don't comment. It's nothing personal but they've either seemed like they've moved on from LJ or they just aren't interested in mine. No big whoop. If you are one of the few that I cut and want to stay on because you read it, feel free to drop me a line and give me a head's up.
/diplomacy
I was supposed to work today but I had to reschedule for tomorrow because I have to go to a wake. Don't worry, it was no one I was close with but it's for Jack's aunt. I mean, I knew her but you know what I'm trying to say. Anyway, it's kind of crazy what happened.
A couple of weeks ago, she was having chest pains so she went to the ER and it turned out that she had three or four heart attacks and didn't realize it. She must have chalked it up to agita or something.
At any rate, they performed emergency heart surgery and she left the hospital about a week or so later. Friday evening, a few days after coming home, she passed away. She was in her late 50s. Crazy, huh? It's really a sad situation. She was always so nice and friendly whenever I've seen her and I can tell she was truly loved by all those in her life. She was a teacher so, naturally, there are many people who have been affected by her passing.
On to more upbeat news, eh?
Hey jaded_snow, I have Angry Kim as my cell phone wallpaper and didn't realize it was the same picture as one of your icons until after 10 minutes of playing the "Where have I seen this before?" game.
I have been teaching myself Tori Amos's Winter on piano with her orignal score (not some watered-down, simplified rendition) and, surprisingly, it's quite a challenge; if you're familiar with the song, I've almost mastered the intro thru the first chorus but get stuck at the part where she sings, "'Cause things are gonna change so fast/ all the white horses are still bed/ I tell you that I'll always want you near/ You say that things change, my dear." I practiced for about 2 hours straight the other day and had to stop only because my fingers hurt. I'm glad I've gotten back into it, though. I think I'm gonna practice a bit more this afternoon.
And I'm still determined to nail Bach's Invetnion no. 8. I've been working on that godblessed piece, on and off, for several years now. Part of the problem is that I'll work a while on it, get frustrated, and put it on the backburner. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that that's detrimental to mastering it.
Sidenote: if you play the link to the invention, it plays the entire 1st part of the invention within 52 seconds. 52 SECONDS! I think Back was snorting massive amounts of meth when writing this piece.
Uhm, what else, what else, what else.
Still going to DC in September and I'm still excited about it. Jack and I are still doing really well. My cats are still absolutely insane and are still sweet, little, furry butterballs. I still have all of my appendages. I guess things are pretty well.
An odd thing I've noticed is that it seems like some of my friends' posts seem to magically disappear and I don't see them unless I go to directly to someone's LJ. I've felt like a big ole jerk when I've missed something major on someone's LJ. So, if I have seemingly "ignored" yours, feel free to give me the scoop; it's not because I haven't wanted to comment but because I may not have seen it.
This isn't an excuse. I'm just sayin'.
I've made a minor friends list cut of people that never/very rarely update and/or don't comment. It's nothing personal but they've either seemed like they've moved on from LJ or they just aren't interested in mine. No big whoop. If you are one of the few that I cut and want to stay on because you read it, feel free to drop me a line and give me a head's up.
/diplomacy
I was supposed to work today but I had to reschedule for tomorrow because I have to go to a wake. Don't worry, it was no one I was close with but it's for Jack's aunt. I mean, I knew her but you know what I'm trying to say. Anyway, it's kind of crazy what happened.
A couple of weeks ago, she was having chest pains so she went to the ER and it turned out that she had three or four heart attacks and didn't realize it. She must have chalked it up to agita or something.
At any rate, they performed emergency heart surgery and she left the hospital about a week or so later. Friday evening, a few days after coming home, she passed away. She was in her late 50s. Crazy, huh? It's really a sad situation. She was always so nice and friendly whenever I've seen her and I can tell she was truly loved by all those in her life. She was a teacher so, naturally, there are many people who have been affected by her passing.
On to more upbeat news, eh?
Hey jaded_snow, I have Angry Kim as my cell phone wallpaper and didn't realize it was the same picture as one of your icons until after 10 minutes of playing the "Where have I seen this before?" game.
I have been teaching myself Tori Amos's Winter on piano with her orignal score (not some watered-down, simplified rendition) and, surprisingly, it's quite a challenge; if you're familiar with the song, I've almost mastered the intro thru the first chorus but get stuck at the part where she sings, "'Cause things are gonna change so fast/ all the white horses are still bed/ I tell you that I'll always want you near/ You say that things change, my dear." I practiced for about 2 hours straight the other day and had to stop only because my fingers hurt. I'm glad I've gotten back into it, though. I think I'm gonna practice a bit more this afternoon.
And I'm still determined to nail Bach's Invetnion no. 8. I've been working on that godblessed piece, on and off, for several years now. Part of the problem is that I'll work a while on it, get frustrated, and put it on the backburner. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that that's detrimental to mastering it.
Sidenote: if you play the link to the invention, it plays the entire 1st part of the invention within 52 seconds. 52 SECONDS! I think Back was snorting massive amounts of meth when writing this piece.
Uhm, what else, what else, what else.
Still going to DC in September and I'm still excited about it. Jack and I are still doing really well. My cats are still absolutely insane and are still sweet, little, furry butterballs. I still have all of my appendages. I guess things are pretty well.