...or at least, it's acting more that way.
Apr 05, 2009
Today was absolutely lovely. The temperature broke 60 degrees Farenheit. It was sunny all day, a breeze but not a stiff or cold breeze…just a nice summer breeze, sufficient to cool me off as I walked 50 blocks to my post office and then back again.
It’s been a long, cold, icy winter. It even snowed last week, for pity’s sake…but this weekend, the cherry blossoms were in full display. Birds were about. My neighbors, who had been preparing their soil for the last two weeks waiting for Planting Season, put out their new perennials (to replace the ones that had utterly frozen this past winter.) The dog next door, who often stands in its backyard beneath my office window trying to figure how to get my cats to play with it, whined but did not bark while my cat Fog, who usually rubs against the closed window *teasing* the poor dog below, sat quietly in the sunlight and the open window…but did not tease the dog. (Well…not overly much. Fog is a cat, and as such, some level of smugness is embedded in her DNA.)
I thought about what I need to get done on the house. It needs to be leveled and shored up, because the previous owners just let it slowly slide down the hill (and the board hereabouts is as effective as a Really Ineffective Thing.) I want to see if it’s possible to plant a cherry tree in the backyard, which I get to landscape as I choose (as long as I don’t plant anything that’s going to rip into the drainage system.) And I think that I want to build a partial deck out behind the second story. I’ll have to have it substantially shored up, to hold the weight of a human being or four; and I don’t want it the entire length of the house. But it would be nice to have a sunporch…and I’m not just confined to only having a deck on the ground. Heck, it’s my house, if I want to go to the expense of putting in a koi pond I can do it.
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and Aromaleigh delivers
Mar 31, 2009
Aromaleigh is having a contest to win their full-size Spring Solstice collection!! (Yes, yes…there’s no solstice in spring. Shut up already and look at the pretty colors.) I’d placed a smallish order which included Zinnia and Alyssum; but it would be so cool to win the entire collection. There are a few other colors I like the looks of, but couldn’t afford:
Forget-me-not - gorgeous deep blue
Lupine - soft lavender
Candutuft - a dusty rose shimer
Nasturtium - a rich-looking garnet sparkle
Trillium - bright green!!!
Maylily - softer, pale creamy green
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They're never here long enough.
Mar 30, 2009
My parents had to put down their cat of 17 years about two weeks ago.
My friend’s cat, who was about 17 or 18 or thereabouts and whose health had been declining markedly since this winter, just died.
Another blogger who I read frequently just lost their cat of 19 years old.
My eldest cat is only 13 and is feeling fine…but I’m still a bit spooked.
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I am not getting ill, I am not getting ill, I am not getting ill
Mar 23, 2009
I can chant it all I want, but I’m thinking about trying to become ill. My head hurts, I’m chilly, my bones and muscles feel a bit stretched, and I have a temperature (a negative one…but 96.7 is not good for the human body, especially when I normally run about 97.8 to 98.7.) I couldn’t sleep last night. I did have a productive day today…but ugh, I just want to curl up and sleep for the next two days. And I can’t.
Damn you, weakened immune system! Damn you!!! (Now I know why I suddenly felt a wave of tired over at Monkeybard’s parents’ place the other evening. It wasn’t just me reaching the end of my day, it was my body slowly preparing to go into shutdown mode.)
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The Extistential Household Appliances edition
Mar 22, 2009
It’s officially spring, so I’ve changed the stylesheet. (Maybe next year I’ll have come up with some different stylesheets, other than my spring-summer-fall-winter cycle. But for now, this works just fine.) Of course, for the first day of Spring in the lovely ever-green Pacific northwest…it’s overcast and drizzly. Thankfully, though, it’s in the high 40s / low 50s. So - hey, it’s warming up!!
I’ve succumbed and joined Twitter, and I suspect that I’ll be updating that a bit more frequently. (How sad is that?!??) Feel free to follow my updates - or even just go bookmark the page, if you’d rather not join Twitter yourself.
My Braun coffee grinder died about two weeks ago. It was nearly 20 years old, so it had a decent life. I got a new one - larger capacity, all shiny-stainless-steel. I paid a little more than I wanted, but the others that were available (at Le Target, at Fred Meyer) were either ittybittytiny, or almost completely comprised of plastic. I do not want to pay $20 for something that’s mostly plastic! So, thanks to Macy’s one-day sale (which ran for two days - I guess they were actually having a “very-large-value-of-one day sale”) I got a $45 coffee grinder for $32. Not too shabby.
Oh - and Battlestar Galactica? Excellent finale. Ended things properly, didn’t halt everything, didn’t answer every specific question, provided just enough information for people to draw the conclusion that would make the most sense to them (not the one that they were necessarily most comfortable with, but the one that would make the most sense with their worldview), nicely closed that particular book. What I’d like to know: there’s a theory that there are only really twelve story / mythology themes, which run through all human stories (in different variations, according to time/culture/audience/et cetera.) Did that theory have anything to do with how many Cylon “skinjob” models were seen in the series? Or am I reading too much into this?
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But it was just the tiniest splurge!
Mar 10, 2009
Just got back from shopping. Two pairs of pants, two oxford shirts, one pair of nonskid shoes, one belt…all for my event staffing job. Sure, everything was on sale, and sure, I’ll be able to write this off on my taxes next year; but it was still kinda depressing to spend close to $100 and none of it’s “fun stuff” or stuff that I’ll really wear anywhere else.
So I bought myself two lipsticks from the MAC Hello Kitty collection. (At least it wasn’t more mineral makeup. I’ve already got so much of that, I can actually catalogue it.)
Hey, we’re likely to be in this recession for the next several years. I’m dang well going to look good. And my spending was not only largely work-related and thus a tax writeoff, it’s stimulating the economy. (But wow…what a ghost town the mall was!! Kind of spooky.)
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