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* Find a rainy day activity with the kid today. Were supposed to go to the beach, but we have a line of nasty-looking red and yellow radar heading our way. It's not going to be pretty.
* Clean. My apartment is a sty and I can't have my petsitter coming over with it like this.
* Try to fit in at least one workout.
* Send a shitload of text messages.
* Sunday: sleep in, then board the plane to Vegas!
* Sunday afternoon: hit the Mandalay Bay and start raking in the dough at the fishiest tables I've found
* Sunday night: meet krix and saf! My first bunnies! Holy crap!
So far I've been to the supermarket, filled up the car with petrol(which cost £40 for my little Ford Escort, which is about $70, so no bitching and moaning from Americans about gas prices, please) and done some laundry. It's a beautiful day in Essex, and there's nothing nicer than the smell of bedsheets that have been dried in the sunshine.
I'm watching Arsenal v Spurs on TV, hoping Spurs win (unlikely) and will then head out for a stroll somewhere in the forest. Then the FA Cup Semi-Final between Chelsea & Liverpool The best result would be for Godzilla to invade the pitch, stamp on both teams as if they were ants and then rip Jose Mourinho's head off. (Again, unlikely)
Maybe an AA meeting tonight. Being on my own too much isn't a great idea.
Tomorrow I've got a shedload of work to finish, and if I don't get it done today, I'll spend the morning on it, go for a drive or a walk somewhere in the afternoon and watch the second FA Cup Semi Final.
Christ, that all sounds so frigging boring doesn't it?
Laundry, grocery shopping, maybe V for Vendetta if I can convince my nose to stop running long enough (maybe in IMAX!), hennaing my hair, editing my bf's sci-fi book, washing my car, posting pictures of my car on Craig's List to sell it, reposting my furniture on CL, getting my health insurance situation hammered down, maybe doing some of my own writing, reading The Chronicles of Narnia, and hopefully a smidge of sleep in there somewhere.
Ah, Jan. I think that's pretty much not happening. Things were a blur that first weekend, then sort of fizzled out. Neither of us has said anything, but we barely talk anymore, so I think that's it. Fun weekend, though!
Relaxing this morning. Maybe get some work done. Lunch with grandmother. Drop her off at hospital to visit grandfather. Come home. More work. More TV/Guitar Hero. Maybe go out with TheBoyOfInterest. Maybe not. Tomorrow: more TV, more work, more grandma.
-this morning we planted sunflowers and put a stupid dorko fence around them and the echinacea to keep idiot neighbor non-neutered terrier from continuing to pee all over them. .V.
-we are getting ready to leave to tour a bunch of local organic farms.
Yeah, yucky weather here as well. Takes all the fun out of 'weekend', doesn't it.
So...this Saturday, I'll be working hard on pulling myself together after a rough week in which I basically dropped everything.
-clean
-vacuum car
-go for a run, commit to getting back on my training plan, which has lapsed this week
-burn CDs
-maybe rent a movie or go see 'thank you for smoking' as well
-tomorrow, I have to go to work, but that might end up OK because I can take time off during the week in return.
Mike, just a thought here about the dating thing. I can't vouch for its accuracy myself, but when I started online dating, I read some article about it that cautioned against spending too much time on the phone before meeting. The argument was that when you have great phone chemistry, you can actually blow through the important early 'discovery/reveal' phase so quickly that after you meet, there's not much mystery left to discover, just the reality of this person you already feel you know well, and interest can fall off quickly.
THe person I had great phone chemistry with worked out somewhat differently, so I can't speak completely from experience, but there might be some general truth to the observation.
Most of these articles and things recommend that you just meet a person casually, as soon as possible after you think there may be a spark, and let all the rest of the conversation unfold in real life when you have a better sense of the person.
Working. Cleaning. Sleeping. And I think I'm supposed to go to some artsy benefit thingy for the local socialist newspaper tonight. I should be gardening both here & at my mom's, but it's raining and supposed to rain all weekend.
And (*must.not.forget*) I have to return my library books before the panzerlibrarians come after me with tanks and guns and dogs and whatever else panzerlibrarians bring with them on raids.
There's a chance I might get a new job, which would cause me to have to relocate to New York almost immediately. So this weekend is dedicated to painting a few rooms (just in case it has to be sold) and trying to get rid of some of the crap we've been accumulating. My goal is to get rid of at least 1/3 of everything I've got - which is actually quite a bit of shit.
I'll know in a few days if I got the job, but if it doesn't happen I'll at least have started some major home improvements that I've put off for years. And it's taken a fear-of-having-to-move-all-of-this-shit to get me off my ass to take care of the insane ammount of clutter that has stacked up everywhere!
Haha. In my hometown library, mgl, there was a hyperefficient and chilly librarian who was just like that. SHe was a terror. Our family called her "Frau Blucher" because she would call us at home the day after the due date and coldly list our infractions. When we paid our (inevitable) fines, she would smirk with an icy, war-movie-villainess smirk while she counted the nickels.
Our family called her "Frau Blucher" because she would call us at home the day after the due date and coldly list our infractions.
Hee. Could you hear the horses spooking in the background?
Today: about to make breakfast, then am going to the post office and the gym. This evening I'm going to my best friend's house, where I will hang out with her super-cool 4-year-old, eat pizza, and watch a couple of episodes of Beatles Anthology (which I got for Xmas but forced myself not to watch all at once in a feverish Beatle-y hysteria).
Tomorrow: dunno; probably some cleaning and reading, then dinner at my fave sushi restaurant.
Next weekend: The Black Rider! (warning: short embedded video) I am double-psyched, because not only have I been dying to see it for years, but also 'cuz I scored $100 orchestra seats for $20 each. Woo!
I just got back from a really fantastic HIV seminar. Plenty of condoms and paper pads and pens given away. Wooo, free!
Now I'm just going to hang out until I get hungry enough to make something. Tonight and tomorrow are plan-free, so that could potentially be exciting, but we're not betting on that. :)
And OH MY GOD, slack-a-gogo...Are you guys excited at the thought of moving to New York?
Scared as hell of the big things like trying to sell a home, find a place to live, and actually transition half way across the country without going broke. But really psyched about possibly living out there. I know everything I'm dreading would be past tense in less than two months and then we could focus on enjoying living in New York, which has been something I've wanted for years. For both finance and job reasons we'd live about an hour+ north of NYC, which is still much closer to NYC than Chicago is. Hopefully by Tuesday I'm talking about this in real terms as opposed to "IF we move..."
Wow. Wow wow wow. It's gotta be overwhelming right now, but I think you're so right that within a few months you'd be smack-dab in the middle of a cool new adventure. (Also: I can only imagine the first time you and jon get together for a NYC meetup and talk about records.) My fingers are crossed that it all works out as you're hoping...looking forward to hearing the update.
Today: 1/2 day at the office then retail therapy (new shoes) and lunch. Tonight: ?
Tomorrow: Sleep in, Band practice later in the day.
Tomorrow Night: MEET MIKE (yay!)
Taking a power supply over to elizard's to try to make her 'puter go. Really really hoping it's the power supply, or else it's the motherboard and I'll have a pouty elizard on my hands (with good reason).
Also - movies, my yummay shepherds pie, a bit of booze, more computer games, remixing some music, and a lot of slack.
Hmmmm... slept in with a vengence (and I really needed it), went to gym for workout, picked up tickets for show I'm attending in May in Blackpool (guess this is really happening, omfg), bought new reading glasses because the old ones broke while checking my morning email, went to the cafe for iced lattes and soup, washed hair, cut bangs, sent offspring to do the grocery shopping (the trade off was that I would pay to rent Howl's Moving Castle), some writing, and now pissing around online; the evening will continue in much the same way. Tomorrow, long walk in the woods with the doggie, and dinner at my mom's.
I wish. Heh. I just pulled them off and the hinge snapped, the way they do.
Uh, I mean, NO! It was the most awesome email anyone has ever recieved, anywhere, anytime! I could forward it to you, but I'd be afraid for your safety.
I had seen them but my wife laughed at me when I thought of buying them. Well she is out of town so I bought some and they were a total bust. . .felt like something one of the characters on Arrested Development would have come up with.
The silver lining is that they broke, first use, so I went and got my money back. . .
Out on the back deck now, drinking some chilled pinot gris, looking at the work I did.
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