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April 26, 2007
Tiptoe Through The Tulips
Despite the amazingly weedy nature of our flowerbeds, we do have a few stellar blooms to show for our efforts last Fall. We are about to start some work on the front of the house, and I am afraid our flowers will be worse for wear by the end. Enjoy them while they last.
Some Delightful Daffodils
Terrific Pink Tulips
A Little of This and a Little of That!
Quote of the Day:
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
Douglas Adams
April 24, 2007
On Task
I am not a natural multi-tasker.
As I have mentioned in recent posts, I have more balls in play than I am really comfortable with. I am working for May 9th friends. May 9th or bust!
In order to move a few of my personal/home related projects forward, I am taking a personal day tomorrow. I will have a few visitors like the bird-removal man (oh, how those little birdies love to live in our powder room vent!), the carpet cleaning folks and the Contractor. This is contractor #2 for anyone keeping score at home. While these fine professionals work, I will be alternately working on my quilting class homework, & working on my paper. And between visits I will run errands, all the while pining for my Dear Red who leave for Europe tomorrow.
I anticipate ending the day tomorrow with the glow of self-satisfaction that only a very productive day can bring.
Quote of the Day:
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
April 18, 2007
Still Standing
I have been working in my new capacity for a couple of weeks now, and I am proud to say that I have yet to fall on my face. My superior in this department has been doing her job (and doing it well) for such a long time that she appears to have a psychic mind-meld with the professionals we support. While I don't expect to ever develop the same mental link, and I don't feel even remotely comfortable in this position yet, I can see how this role may be a good place to be. Not a ringing endorsment, but I am trying to be realistic. Keep your fingers crossed.
Outside of the office I have thrown a few to many balls in the air for my liking. The fact finding and budgeting for our proposed home renovations are going well. Sociology Class if fine -- though I absolutly MUST start my paper this weekend, even if it kills me. Quilting class is a lot of fun, but I guess I didn't see the quilting homework coming when I signed up. Seriously! I am trying to squeeze in a much time Red before she flees the country (again!). I don't have time to do quilting homework! At least not if I expect to keep up my T.V. watching routine.
What am I, Superwoman?
Quote of the Day:
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
Joe Walsh
April 13, 2007
Community
I've had a lot on my mind lately.
In family news, Mi Mama is all healed up from her surgery and feeling well, Micah has moved from his first bachlor pad into a larger bachlor pad with his two room mates, my delightful sister-in-law is about to close on her first home in Wisconsin (Yay Jords!) and it looks like Flounder and I will have a chance to visit with my Bio-Dad in early May.
In the areas of self improvement, my Sociology class is going well, and despite my rocky resolve and I trying to take better care of myself (ok, that's not really new), and I start a beginners quilting class tomorrow that I am really looking forward to.
At work I have been given the challenge of working with a new practice group, with the possibility of advancement in the horizon. Frankly, I am not really looking for advancement, and I am not sure how this change of events will work out, but I am hopeful and doing me best.
On the home front Flounder continues to be an amazing support to me in all I do. Josie (the greatest cat in the whole wide world) seems to be suffering a bit from seasonal allergies, but is taking the hardship in stride. Excitingly, Flounder and I are currently researching some major kitchen and bathroom remodeling. You know what that means; of course more debt! But it's good debt right? The kind of debt you can free yourself of upon selling your house.
So what else is there? Recently I have been feeling a lack of community. Over the years I have spent less and less time with my friends. I admit that upon meeting Flounder I fell into the "Relationship Vortex". While I haven't always kept up my end with all my friendships, the fact that we have scattered and grown apart a bit hasn't helped. I not only miss the individuals but the community we used to share. I am not really looking to recreate that community -- because I don't think that is really possible. But I am interested in strenghtening those relationships and maybe seeking that community feeling elsewhere.
I have often counted on my work mates to provide a certain level of community as well, but I have found over the years that work environments are too volatile to pin your emotional well being on. I have recently considered trying to get involved with a church close to my home. There is nothing quite like church to give you that "we" feeling (as the sociologists say) -- but I am a little concerned that my not exactly orthodox beliefs won't fit in. But I think I will take the plunge anyway, and drag Flounder along for the ride. As always, at least we will have each other. That's what marriage is all about right?
Quote of the Day:
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."
-A. A. Milne
April 12, 2007
Bummed
I knew it would happen eventually. Even when I first read Cat's Cradle in 9th grade, I knew that he couldn't live forever. I also knew that I would feel a loss when I knew he was gone. Thank you Kurt Vonnegut, for giving my a different way to look at the world.
Quote of the Day:
"And so it goes."
- Kurt Vonnegut
April 5, 2007
"Nobody Bothers Me!"
Do you remember Jhoon Rhee self defense? The two little kids who announce "Nobody bothers me!", "Nobody bothers me either!" accompanied by a wink? Twice in so many days I have been reminded of this amazing local commercial from my childhood. First Ellen Degeneres featured it on her show's web video segment and now the Express has featured the commercial both on it's webpage and in the paper today (page 32)*.
But I bring you the commerical hosted on YouTube. Nobody bothers me! Enjoy my friends!
Quote of the Day:
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks
*Note one of my favorite bloggers El Guapo in DC is also featured on page 32 today.
Posted by La at 8:37 AM | Comments (1)April 2, 2007
Not Dead
Just a quick update to clarify that no, I am not dead. Life has been in a sort of holding pattern lately, primarily because I have been so hormonally out of wack that I don't trust myself to make a rational life decision.
OK that is not completely true. I have made one sound decision. For the last several days I been attempting to restart a South Beach eating plan, but the previously mentioned hormonal irrationality has made consistant food choices an even bigger issue than usual. Oh, and I have a prechant for unecessary works and run on sentences.
So there it is. Not dead, Still eatting to much and emotionally irrational. Yep, that's it.
Quote of the Day:
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
-Francis Bacon
