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10 July 2009

This is a stream-of-consciousness thread. What's going through your mind?→[More:]Went on a 45-minute walk at lunchtime, a great time to let the thoughts flow.

"What a beautiful day, finally, after so much rain. It was freezing last night, doesn't feel like July at all. Last year an ice cream truck was next to the building, I wonder if he'll come again this year.

[Evil ice cream truck music stuck in head] Aagh, that needs to go away. I should think of other music. I STILL can't decide whether to join the string group, my C-clef reading still sucks. And it costs money. I want to save money to buy my own viola.

I need more money. I think that [person who gives freelance work] is on vacation, she's usually good about giving me work, hopefully she'll come through on Monday. If I had money, I could help my mom with stuff. She's going to be dead in 30 years, aagh! I don't want everyone to die. Go away, ice cream truck music.

I envy my friend who doesn't have to work because her husband makes tons of money. But unlike some people I know, I can't see marrying for money or for the children or any other reason other than love. Someone I know only got married because she 'accidentally' got pregnant. I so couldn't do that to either the kid or the father. The guy who flirted with me at work is a jerk. [Big trucks are driving past] I love Ice Road Truckers, can't wait for the new one on Sunday. It would be so cool to be a truck driver, driving all over the country, living in those cozy sleeper cabs, except that I'm not mechanically inclined and can't even parallel park. Minor details!!! Looking forward to Chinese food tonight. I have GOT to get rid of this ice cream truck music."

post by: Melismata at: 12:42 | 32 comments

I'm so fucking tired. And bored. Bad combo. Must stay awake. But why? ZZZZZZZZZZZ

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 10 July | 12:51

I wonder if Smart Water has the same amount of electrolytes as Gatorade, I'll have to check... I need something that is low-calorie and has electrolytes...I wonder if they sell Emergen-C at Publix...What am I going to make for dinner tonight?...Why is the Wii controller cover torn?...I am so lazy, I really need to get up and take a shower and go to the store...I think I'll make something really delicious for dinner, something new...I hope I do okay at yoga tonight...I need to do more cardio...Where is my book, I can't find it...

posted by LoriFLA 10 July | 12:55

Crushed peanuts...I should have tracked down that book to send to my mom's bf's son but maybe on second thought it's better that I didn't...Paperwork...Should I get things done quickly and leave or surf the net a little first as a break?
When am I going to the gym... Should I sign up for the cooking class on Sunday or go to brunch with a friend?

posted by rmless2 10 July | 12:57

Back spasms. Is it my spleen swollen? Well, it goes away when I lie down, or even refrain from movement at all, so it's gotta be muscular. Unless it's my liver hardening into a scarred rock. . .no, it's really just muscles. Need to do more ab work. Maybe a massage. I sucked at volleyball this morning. Why is it that some mornings I can pass anything and others I can't even keep it within the court? My new phone is "out for delivery" so it'll be here today. .yipee!!! Have to train wife on my old phone, since she hates the used one I got her. I hope that she decides to go to NIA this afternoon then I can work out also then we can go out to a cheap dinner before the Bach Fest concert. I hope my back spasms are gone before then so I don't have to sit through it with my back in a big knot.

posted by danf 10 July | 13:07

Mmmm hungry. Getting good work done.... time to take a smoke break... lemme check mefi... ahh theres a meta thread ... hah... heh heh... oh hey i should check out mecha... i better cut this shit out before i get sucked in. Smoke break then back to work! Oh man am i hungry. What's that in the wastebasket? ....

posted by not_on_display 10 July | 13:12

I gotta get to the museum then home deport I've got whitefly on the fucking mint gants fuck I need a spray I hope tomorrow goes well my are my feet cold I'd better burn this cd before no after I've got time huh.

posted by The Whelk 10 July | 13:13

I hate money. I wonder why the mail hasn't come yet. What am I going to make for dinner? Maybe I should take a nap. Or maybe I should put the new knobs on everything. I really need to pay off my credit card. It's quite warm in here. Probably due to the computer. I wonder who has left their car running outside. My hands smell weird. I wonder if it's because of that pumpkin soap I used. I hope next week is better. I wonder if pops is coming over today. How early is too early to start drinking? I should really clean up my recipe book. Maybe I should make fake Cinnabons? No, that's a bad idea since I still have that Funfetti cake that I made last night. I really shouldn't piss away all this money on baking things. I guess I should take a nap since there's nothing else to do. Or knit.

posted by sperose 10 July | 13:15

should I go into work today? Nah. I just finished a major project and so I can call this a three day weekend. maybe i'll make a bloody mary. ooh. or a beer! there's that nice cold sapporo in the fridge. fuck, my laptop is broken but oddly still works. maybe i'll get one a similar one on ebay and swap my hd, ram and battery into it. I want a mac. a powerbook. i really dont like beer in the morning. maybe i should shave my goatie. maybe now. why did netflix send me all of lost season 4? the show sucks. maybe i should reorganize the queue. what am i doing this weekend? fishing with phil. nah. my tomatoes are not ready yet.should i drink tonight? maybe. but i really dont want to drive over the hill. i wonder if the library will have my books before i leave for wy on wednesday. i need a new tent. and a hat. maybe i will get a new stetson. coffee. i should make another pot. why dont i have whiskey in the house. i should shower. why do i feel so uneasy. maybe i should travel. but where? twitter.

posted by special-k 10 July | 13:21

... fluffy black dogs ... fluffy black dogs ... fluffy black dogs ...

posted by Wolfdog 10 July | 13:25

Oh hell yeah, one of my best friends just had a daughter! I haven't been this happy since my mom died; now my headache doesn't matter. Except I'm still hungry, but will they have gross tomatoes again at the diner? Because I really want a steak to go with my smile! I'm gonna eat lunch in honor of a sweet little eight-pound baby girl, yeah! What could be better?

posted by Hugh Janus 10 July | 13:25

hands come forth arise smoking blurry eyes what is the first thing what is now am I shaking or ok this whole thing Blanket? Let it go. Automate. Automat. Yeah, machines, no hello how are you although the summer job kid checking out this morning at the grocery was so serious and precious and awesome and have a good day you too I said. Cupcake. Don't edit. Tippy type so much love and longing all over me. Stop. Don't let that last one make you cry keep going. dual monitors. san francisco 49- ers Brett Farve I am older than you by a few months and I love you somehow there is love again this is making me sad great post.

posted by rainbaby 10 July | 13:32

The Metafilter/chatfilter/Metachat thing doesn't seem very hard to understand.

Wait, I don't think I'm doing it right.

posted by box 10 July | 13:33

okay okay okay. have to get the signs printed for the Farm Picnic and tell Jenny where to pick up all the paper goods and stuff so she can bring them out on Saturday. Also gotta hit the store for the sunscreen, bugspray, and 100 paper bowls. And print out some sea chantey lyrics to study. Might try to get the last of the snow peas and some raspberries out of my garden to bring down, if I have time. Then head home and pack my stuff, gas up the car, and go down to CT to work on Saturday. Don't really know the new schedule for the chanteyman, but it'll work out. Might try to see my friend Rich but really don't have much time as I need to be back Saturday evening to do last minute stuff for Sunday's picnic, then get good sleep, wake up early and go help set up athe farm, then come home, shower, turn around, and head out to the wedding [!!!!!] [not mine]. Hope LT is making progress getting ready. Breathe! You're doing that shallow breathing thing again! Okay, let's see, Pie Contest, Kids' Activities, Beekeeping, which one am I missing? Maybe I'll email Jenny and tell her where the boxes are that she needs. I'm sleepy. And I haven't been drinking enough water today.

posted by Miko 10 July | 13:48

Smurfberry Crunch is fun to eat...a Smurfy fruity breakfast treat...made by Smurfs so happily...they taste like crunchy Smurfberries...they're berry-shaped and crispy too...in berry red and Smurfy blue...doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo...

posted by Atom Eyes 10 July | 13:53

Stronger than Reason. Stronger than lies. The only truth . . . people don't fucking care about making connections there. they just want an audience. nothing finer in this world than being awakened at dawn by bellowing proles with lung island accents, let me tell you. losing my home. losing my home. losing the home i have lived in for all of my adult life. losing friends i made after years of intense loneliness. the half-life of the failed man. deshonorado. "mommy, he's cute. i think you should go out with him." leftover lentils. they'll go well with the salmon i'm making for lunch. why am i still here. i call it toughness. maybe it's just masochism or lack of sense. cutting my face. and walking on splinters. thank you. thank you. thank you. i am a little compulsive in my gratitude. i think that puts people off sometimes. and again thank you. kindness, not niceness. everyone thinks i'm a perfect gentleman. if only they knew the real me.

STIGMATA! STIGMAAAAATAAAAAAAA!

posted by jason's_planet 10 July | 14:28

I'm hot, the baby's bottle should be warm by now, a crawling child is 100 times more exhausting, all the people who say now that I will be working from home I don't need to put the kid into daycare have obviously never had children, thank god i went and got coffee, I almost feel human, how the hell am I going to lose 25lb and get back to pre-baby weight? At least can I lose like, 8lb before I go to New Zealand? Yay, New Zealand in a few weeks, oh god I am so not looking forward to the flight. I can't wait to see my youngest cousin, although she likes to post skanky pics of herself on facebook, still if I had looked like that when I was 16 I probably would have done the same, holy crap, I was having sex when I was 16 and she is just a child. it would be so much easier to lose weight if my husband didn't insist on having cookies in the house, i have no willpower, better get the bottle and organize dinner for the kid, I can't wait to start work again it's much easier than full-time baby care. I don't know how stay at home moms do it without losing their minds.

yes, I mainly think about my child.

posted by gaspode 10 July | 14:50

... ♫ fluffy black dogs ♫ ...

posted by Wolfdog 10 July | 14:57

I really would like an iced tea but I'm not sure I want to make the 5-minute walk to get it and I'd have to do it in the next half hour but do I want it badly enough to get up? i'm not so sure but i need to go to the ATM over there anyway and if I went there it would save me from having to drive across town to the other ATM later today so if I went to get an iced tea it would kill two birds with one stone, oh and the furlough package they announced today isn't as bad as it could have been, it'll amount to a 4% pay cut instead of the 8% they were talking about earlier so that's good but the threat of layoffs still looms and I have no seniority so I'd likely be one of the first to go man am I thirsty I think maybe I'll go get that iced tea but I'm not sure I want to make the 5-minute walk to get it....

posted by mudpuppie 10 July | 15:56

Um, I just got a sweet tea from the corner store and even though it's an Arizona and it only cost one dollar and I was able to bypass the line to slap down a buck because it's my hood and damn right I know the proprietor, he and I go way back, so the folks in line for lottery can suck my ass, I was just getting a sweet tea, stand in line to pay your poor tax as you will, I'm going out into the sunshine to drink the sweet cool refreshing infusion that came in a brown bottle with a white wrapper, red top, so thirst quenching, so delicious, and I think, mudpuppie, you should take that walk and get that iced tea, damn the five minutes and the ATM and all those percentages, and quench your thirst, woman!

posted by Hugh Janus 10 July | 16:11

ah that was a good nap hungry now what to eat wonder what the mister is doing so guilty about bailing on Kamloops but i'm really really not up for that i know they already think i'm flaky shit i need food what to eat it's warm again hm something cool gotta get a drink of something cold i should turn the a/c on don't wanna get overheated and the poor rats last time i should put some ice cubes in their cage they'll like that gah he's been gone four hours and i miss him so

posted by deborah 10 July | 16:11

my belly hangs my breasts hang I really need a shower smell of dried blood god I have ugly toes eight weeks I still have eight weeks keep waking up at four in the morning to argue with voices the closet is dark and clothes brush like ghosts carwash no brakes a baby floating in the pool why is she wet water in my ears lungs my teeth crunch you don't know me at all I smell I want to sit on the porch and watch the neighbor's bras I could've kissed that girl if I wanted to too young my mother would've looked good in a blue wig and bustierre is that how you spell bustierre I figured "bust" busted handcuffs hymen

posted by Pips 10 July | 16:12

I took my tea walk and hit the ATM and my bank's ATM couldn't read my card (it HAS been through the washing machine a few too many times) so I had to use the Bank of Evil's and pay the $2 surcharge and then I went inside to get my cold cold iced tea and found that the coffee place closes at 2 on Fridays, not 3, and so there was no iced tea for me and I need to call the bank to get a new ATM card.

So so thirsty.

posted by mudpuppie 10 July | 16:18

That itches. We still have wine left but I feel bloaty and tired. TheDonF has fallen asleep on the couch again, doesn't he look cute with that rhinestone barrette I sneaked in his hair? GOD that is the worst stand-up comic I've ever seen too bad there's nothing good on the BBC maybe I'll just put on an episode of Peep Show to keep me company while I finish this glass. Fucking taxes. Why is there so much paperwork? God I hope that woman's son is okay, she was so worried about him she made me cry. Man, I canNOT believe anyone would eat that! I have to wee. I hope those pom pom poppies don't bloom before next Saturday.

posted by Specklet 10 July | 16:34

Afroblanco just said that this isn't the site for him, over on MeFi.

posted by everichon 10 July | 16:38

well, let's all beat him up then ; )

posted by Pips 10 July | 16:49

When should I change my billing address with the bank - before I go up north or after? And how, given that I never know if there's going to be an English speaker there? I hope K is there - he's gorgeous and half the time he's explaining some arcane official banking thing I've already mentally removed the two of us to a tropical cabana. And maybe they can get me a new bank card, too, since the numbers have literally worn off this one. Why can't these bank card be ROBUST and INDENTED more like the ones we have in AMERICA? And when is my mom booking her flight? God, I hope the Ryanair people don't give her a hassle.

There is no iced tea in Poland.

posted by mdonley 10 July | 16:52

I'm glad that D's hair dye turned out well, but I wish I could be dying my hair purple. Stupid day job. I guess I could just show up with purple hair, they pretty much can't fire me and it's not like I'm on the fast-track or anything. But somehow I feel like I'd be disappointing my boss. Someday I will stop re-living my adolescence, right? Also, I'm hungry. Wish we could go out for Ethiopian tonight.

posted by JoanArkham 10 July | 17:21

a week off...a fucking week off...I don't have to work for a week...

posted by octothorpe 10 July | 17:25

nearly done time to lie down. those bouquets look pretty good for an amateur, good job, me! I hope they last til Sunday. shut up shut up shut up maybe if you didn't yell at the kids all the time, the kids wouldn't yell all the time themselves. eyes are sticky must stop crying. oooooo food, thank you, sweet monkey, I am the luckiest girl and I'm so grateful. ow ow ow coffeetable ow! that's gonna leave a mark, that's gonna leave a big dark mark, that's gonna show under my wedding dress hem, whatever, that can be my something blue.

posted by Elsa 10 July | 18:00

...Oh wow, I fell asleep on the couch...how long was I out?...this laptop is really freaking hot...and heavy...I need to be working on this month's gazette so that I can get it printed in the morning but I'm wiped...zzzz....

posted by octothorpe 10 July | 18:43

I feel like a peeping tom reading the comments in this post. There's a dolphin outside. Today the garden grew. Must be the whole day of sun we've finally had. Isn't there something I should be doing?

posted by MonkeyButter 10 July | 19:06

really tired all these boxes but i'm in the new house lawn needs mowing neighbors are anal and will be mad at me why should i care but they're my new neighbors are they going to hate me and my lackadaisical lawn care ways but everyone's really old and so they'll die soon, right? slept too long and have to go back to the old house to clean today and my will i miss bubba why is the house so hot i need to get ceiling fans installed i can't believe i don't own a couch but at least the internet is finally working did i make a mistake slept too much lonely

posted by Stewriffic 11 July | 09:03

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