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04 June 2006
So what are you doing today?→[More:]It's just after 3pm here and I've ...
- mowed the front lawn of my place and the one next door (the lawns are open plan and it's way past my turn to mow it)
- raked and bagged up the lawn clippings
- emptied out the garden shed (eeek, spideylife!)
- swept and vacuumed out all the dust, webs, etc. (don't really want to know what the 'etc.' consists of but it looked like a lot of dead insecty things)
- re-arranged the stuff on the shelves and trashed a load of old junk
- found a strimmer (weed whacker) I never knew I had!
- put all the big stuff back in such a way I can actually reach it all
- drove to a garden centre (that was closed)
- drove to another one and bought some herbs and some Ant Death
- planted up the herbs
- watered them (by hand, we are on a hosepipe ban in Essex)
- put the Ant Death down in the shed
- finished tidying up the garden
- had a shower
- did some laundry
- talked on the phone
- started lunch (lamb with Cyprus potatoes and salad)
Damn, ej. You should probably lie down now. ;-) I was supposed to go with my visiting friend to look at rural property (see BPs Saturday thread, below, heh) but I overslept and now I am seizing the brief moments of time that my son is still asleep and not playing WoW so that I can actually get on the computer & catch up with all of y'all. Later there is more endless gardening to be done and it's so beautiful, I might go for a nice long hike up Mt. Pisgah or somewhere. And, oh joy, I have to go to the grocery store, be still my beating heart.
I'm one of those weirdos who actually enjoys grocery shopping. I invited a friend for dinner tomorrow evening and I'm already anticipating the pleasure I'll have tomorrow morning browsing the aisles and deciding what to make for dinner.
My life right now consists of studying and more studying. I really need to stop reading the threads where you all talk about what you're doing (or not doing), because it makes me unattractively jealous.
I'm invited to a BBQ today to celebrate my friend's engagement, but chances are I'm not going to make it there.
I did make myself a delicious breakfast, though. A sort of modified eggs benedict - hollandaise on scrambled eggs and potato bread toast.
I am currently finishing breakfast, then I will go stop in to feed and play with the cat I'm responsible for this weekend. After cat-fun I'm heading to the lab where I will develop a Southern blot (the DIG way so I have all the washes and antibody fun to do), make LB-kan plates, ligate together a plasmid I've mutilated and transform said plasmid into bacteria and plate them on the plates I will have made. After the lab I will come home and either play StarFox Adventures or knit and watch "Flavour of Love." I haven't fully decided yet. Oh the excitement that is my life.
I've been doing the usual weekend chores, mostly indoors since it's been raining all weekend. I took some more abandoned building photos but the rain kept me from doing much of that. Slept late both days, probably because of the gloom.
I just got up. . .I have a softball game scheduled at 10 pdt but it rained all night and I doubt that it will happen.. .I play on a coed team (The Karmic Colliders) and we have played together long enough that the babies we have had are now young adults and 'carrying' us, softball-wise. . .great fun.
Other than that, grocery shopping, chores, maybe a run later or a hike. . hey, mgl, I hike on a mt pisgah also. . .here.
Gettin' ready for our final Sopranos Sunday dinner. I'm making the not authentic (but tasty) Chicken Francese with lemon sauce, garlic mashed potatoes and roasted asparagus to be accompanied by a spinach salad with strawberries and almonds.
I forgot to soak the chicken in buttermilk overnight, so I gotta get on that NOW.
My "friend" just hung up on me when I called and told her I couldn't make it to her BBQ. Everytime I say I'm going to do anything I get, "Shouldn't you be studying?" Then when I can't go to things because I'm studying, I get the dial tone in my ear. Sorry, having a little pity party for myself. Carry on.
Yeah, amro, I used to get that all the time. Friends just don't understand.
I'll likely do some grocery shopping, some laundry, and some cleaning today. Otherwise, I'll just sit around the house in my birthday suit watching old TV shows.
I have a 2 year old and a month old baby, and a wife, and a dog and the two little ones are not feeling great. If we get to the dogpark today then it'll be a big day.
But I'll probably get a haircut and maybe some chores around the house. I was thinking of taking my older boy on a bike ride with me.
I'm visiting friends who have an eighteen-month-old and a six-day-old. My day will consist of baby wrangling, interspersed with a trip to the grocery store, watering the yard, and cooking. Lots of cooking. Every night I've been cooking a HUGE meal. We eat, then freeze the rest so they'll have something to eat after I leave.
They all go to bed at 7.30, so I stay up, drink beer, watch Pride and Prejudice (last night I saw Colin Firth in a bath and had a small orgasm), and occasionally go outside to smoke a cigarette.
Since I love babies and cooking and sittin' around in the desert heat (I'm in Albequerque), I'm having a great vacation.
I'm just having my first cup of tea, thinking about whether I want to garden more (I really should, it needs to be done NOW), or clean house, or sit around and read. Think I'll make some long, slow dish like spaghetti sauce or chili or beef bourguignon, and get some groceries. Apart from that, sitting and reading and drinking tea sounds pretty damned appealing right now.
we loaded up Pips' iPod Nano, had some coffee, charged the batteries for our new digital camera (pics will be Flickr'd and linked soon), took a shower, shaved, pomaded the lush brown locks, and smoked a buncha smokes. Soon we're gonna go get something to eat at Fatty's, do some laundry and during the dry cycle grab a few beers at the Ol' Remote. Maybe we'll watch a DVD later.
I'm going to a lecture by Will Shortz, editor of the New York Times Crossword puzzle. He's gonna talk about that, as well as his new documentary "Wordplay". I think that'll be fun.
Other than that, nada! Probably gonna try to clean/organize a little. The dog is whining at the front door, too- I think she wants to go outside and frolic.
Gah, essexjan! You made me tired just reading what you've done today!
So far I've showered, had crumpets for breaky, took the puppy out and we're leaving to see X3 in about an hour. After the movie we'll get something to eat and maybe play some EQ (the mister) and WoW (me).
I stayed up too late last night and only just woke up at 1pm. I'm still in my pajamas, which consist of a worn out old blue t-shirt from my alma mater and pink shorts with white polka dots. My hair looks like a bird's nest. It seems late for breakfast, so I think I'll go right to lunch (with some coffee, though).
My roommate has decided she wants to be my best friend (after weeks of pretending I didn't exist). So tonight I'm supposed to meet her and her friends to go to this "party" which I said I would go to but I'm not sure I want to. I like my roommate's friends but they aren't, you know, my friends.
Slept in after my mother's birthday party last night and now making rounds of the web. After this I have to clean up the kitchen; write and send a couple of overdue emails; take the dog for a loooong walk in the rainy woods; figure out how to apply Lacan's definition of the holophrase in a discussion of how the term is used by Jane Harrison, and then relate all of that to the poem I'm writing about; try and find my new black Tshirt, which disappeared somewhere between my bedroom floor and the laundry; work out a reply to an awesomely brilliant post on the music board I admin; think about how to advise my mother on whether or not she should sell her house; kick my brother's ass.
I got up in the mood to garden but surprise rainshowers ended that idea. I have sat on my arse notching canna seeds all morning. Canna seeds have a hard black coating that water can not penetrate, you need to cut through until you reveal part of the soft white inside and then you can drop them in some water and leave them in a sunny window. When some of them start sprouting in the water, you take those and pot them up/put them in the ground, whatever.
I collected a jar full of the things last summer and fall. Who knows, maybe I will get lucky. You never know what is going to come up, you might get utter crap or you might get something totally new and unique. Pain to do though, I spent over two hours doing that and probably did a couple hundred of them total. I need to find an easier way to notch them than holding them in a pair of pliars and then sawing with my swiss army knife until I cut off a chunk of the outer layer.
Now I am eating lunch and getting ready to head to a few places and see if I can find anything else to plant. I'm pretty broke so I'll probably end up picking stuff up and putting it back over and over again and finally buying a bunch of crap off the bargain tables. =P
Amro - gah, that sucks. otoh, stop studying all the time! You need a break, refresh the batteries, let your brain consolidate what you've been reading.
<draws hoodoo symbols with peruvian flake to make lunaticfringe's ligation work>
I otoh, plated my reaction on Friday and am just letting the bacteria grow up over the weekend at room temp. First weekend in a while where I didn't have to go into the lab at least for a few hours.
essexjan - whoo! When was the last time you've snuggled under the covers and read a novel with a <insert your beverage of choice>?
Me, I'm waiting for a couple of friends to decide what they want to lunch.
I am just about to go for my first run in a long time. . . I have been biking but am giving it a break to run/walk.
Strapping in my heart monitor, to stay in my zone, and taking the dog. . .
It's stopped raining and I planted 12 basil starts out in the garden and picked up some dog poop from the back lawn.
Wife is out buy new underwear. . .if I get done running and hop in the shower, maybe a quick pounce when she gets back, since daughter is gone all day out in the country.
Groceries done, spaghetti sauce it is. Rain has stopped, so planting squashes and cantaloupes and sunflowers. Also going to visit a friend in hospital who just found out that he can never drink alcohol or eat rich food again. Ever. Or he'll die. He's kind of out of it on morphine, so I'm not sure what to bring him. Maybe a graphic novel or something. Suggestions welcome.
Read some more of Mussolini's first autobiography (My Rise, guess what the follow-up written after WWII was called), took a nap with the boy cat (who looks a bit like Ceiling Cat), went grocery shopping. Th' wife and I will be making black bean chili a bit later.
Prior to today, I haven't gotten high for several months. Watching Red Sonja now. Huh, there's amother Red Sonja coming out in 2008. Yes, I've had a productive weekend.
Well, as I work in a grocery store, that part's all done. I think I shall paint my toenails today a pale pink, fill my bird feeders, and continue reading a trashy novel whilst surveying my garden. If the weather cooperates, of course.
Slept in after my mother's birthday party last night and now making rounds of the web. After this I have to clean up the kitchen; write and send a couple of overdue emails; take the dog for a loooong walk in the rainy woods; figure out how to apply Lacan's definition of the holophrase in a discussion of how the term is used by Jane Harrison, and then relate all of that to the poem I'm writing about; try and find my new black Tshirt, which disappeared somewhere between my bedroom floor and the laundry; work out a reply to an awesomely brilliant post on the music board I admin; think about how to advise my mother on whether or not she should sell her house; kick my brother's ass.
Excellent. I rule. If I could only find my new black shirt, which has perversely disappeared, I could sleep easily tonight.
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