Instead of castigating myself (a particular skill of mine; I'll never lack for a top, will I?) because I have accomplished exactly NOTHING today, I have decided that I am going to pat myself on the back for NOT DOING ANYTHING really, really well.
(Affirmation: the practice of lying to oneself repeatedly in the often vain hope of making the ( Read more... )

Bad or good thing, depends on how you look at it:  getting up at 10:30, finding out the reason my wrist hurts is that I've been pulling staples.

Good things: Got some sleep, 3 loads of laundry done, cat litter cleaned, trash out, talking to my buddy Michael, coffee, Challah from Lucy's Bakery.  (The nice Hungarian lady who barely speaks English ( Read more... )

I was happily thinking the other day that I had been reasonably productive, not wildly happy but not suffering from the waves of ennui and depression that tend to roll through on a regular basis.   Especially that I had apparently dodged the emotional tsunamis which every once in a while smack me back a couple of miles and demolish all my happy ( Read more... )

Heh-heh.  I bought myself an mp3 version of Harry Nilsson's "The Point", http://www.amazon.com/The-Point/dp/B00136NSRW/ref=sr_f3_2?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1233679702&sr=103-2 to which I am now listening.  Just because Mercury's FINALLY out of retrograde.  Or some other stupid reason, like I needed it.   (Feeling pointless, anyone?)   Nothing like ( Read more... )

. . . Which didn't look all that different from 2008 this morning.  TIL and TILG set off fireworks in the backyard until 1 in the morning (which had the predictable effect on their three dogs), then did calisthenics up and down the back stairs [next to my bedroom] at 2:30 and 4:30 a.m., then started laundry and set loose the dogs before 9:00.
Y'know ( Read more... )

I’m doing this post in Word, because at least then I’ll have a copy if when lj scrags it.

I’ve had almost, almost enough coffee to be coherent. This was my morning to sleep in. TIL had other ideas - they started laundry (they wash and dry CONSTANTLY, in the converted porch next to my bedroom) at 8 this am, and by 8:45 the dryer buzzer was going off ( Read more... )

Oi.   I'm back.  Sorta.  I have no internet access at the apartment (despite paying for it) due to the Totally Inept Landlord ("TIL").  TIL's a nice guy.  Really means well.  In fact, I'm only paying half of what I would pay for the (non-working) internet otherwise, b/c he's kindly hooked up the entire house to our cable co. as if it were one unit ( Read more... )