June 26, 2007 - Tuesday
Current mood: optimistic
I start my new job this coming week (I think. I find out for sure tomorrow.) and I will have to be on the bus by 7:23. This means getting up a little earlier than I have been used to for several years. I used to do it back in the day, so I know I can. I just need a refresher course. Here is my plan:
Go to bed earlier (Duh)
No caffiene after 5ish
Exercise earlier in the day
Set two alarms
Read or something else very chill to unwind before bed
Any advice on this subject would be welcome. I am a little nervous. Eeek!
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Monday, June 25, 2007
The thrifty side of life
June 25, 2007 - Monday
Current mood: Motivated
Things to do that cost little or no money:
Go to Ikea with your mom--resist temptation
Go on a walk
Go on a bike ride
Go to the library
Read the book you got from the library
Blog
Pick strawberries with your friend and her mom
Go to garage sales
Play the piano
Go to the park and swing (for awhile until you get sick)
Others?
Current mood: Motivated
Things to do that cost little or no money:
Go to Ikea with your mom--resist temptation
Go on a walk
Go on a bike ride
Go to the library
Read the book you got from the library
Blog
Pick strawberries with your friend and her mom
Go to garage sales
Play the piano
Go to the park and swing (for awhile until you get sick)
Others?
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Can a single sentence change your perspective?
June 23, 2007 - Saturday
After thinking and drinking with my friends, it has come down to this: Life is sacred and beautiful. Life is amazing and fun. Don't take anything for granted.
The cab driver who drove me home last week has family in the Ukraine--he plans to go see them sometime this fall. The man who fixed my air conditioner this week sat with Dave and I while we ate breakfast and chatted--he can't stand York air conditioners; they are built with little thought to maintainence.
Claude, my fat cat, lives for the afternoons when he can go outside and eat grass. Gordon, my silly kitten, chases laser pens and is afraid of my electric stud finder. I met my friend's two tortoises this weekend -- their house is a hollowed out bookshelf turned on its side.
I parked at a meter two weeks ago with 20 minutes left on it -- 20 minutes before the meter maids quit for the day. I answered a phone call from a number I didn't recognize right before I had to work -- it was my sister calling from Italy.
Celebrate it! What little something with a big story has happened on your watch?
After thinking and drinking with my friends, it has come down to this: Life is sacred and beautiful. Life is amazing and fun. Don't take anything for granted.
The cab driver who drove me home last week has family in the Ukraine--he plans to go see them sometime this fall. The man who fixed my air conditioner this week sat with Dave and I while we ate breakfast and chatted--he can't stand York air conditioners; they are built with little thought to maintainence.
Claude, my fat cat, lives for the afternoons when he can go outside and eat grass. Gordon, my silly kitten, chases laser pens and is afraid of my electric stud finder. I met my friend's two tortoises this weekend -- their house is a hollowed out bookshelf turned on its side.
I parked at a meter two weeks ago with 20 minutes left on it -- 20 minutes before the meter maids quit for the day. I answered a phone call from a number I didn't recognize right before I had to work -- it was my sister calling from Italy.
Celebrate it! What little something with a big story has happened on your watch?
Friday, June 22, 2007
Wait wait! Don't tell me!
June 22, 2007 - Friday
Current mood: crazy
I am going through serious podcast withdrawl as my computer is in the shop getting fixed. I don't want to subscribe with my other computer because I only listen to it on my iPod and I don't have the patience to figure out how to add a podcast to my ipod without erasing everything else on it if I synch it to another library. Grrr. Too annoying.
There are certainly a lot more things to be annoyed at now that technology is everywhere. Is there ever a time of day where you aren't being touched by it? I think the only time for me is when I am outside reading a book or visiting with friends. But we got together by talking over the phone or with email...does that count? I guess I really can't complain. For all the ills of technology, it sure makes life a lot easier and me a lot lazier!
Current mood: crazy
I am going through serious podcast withdrawl as my computer is in the shop getting fixed. I don't want to subscribe with my other computer because I only listen to it on my iPod and I don't have the patience to figure out how to add a podcast to my ipod without erasing everything else on it if I synch it to another library. Grrr. Too annoying.
There are certainly a lot more things to be annoyed at now that technology is everywhere. Is there ever a time of day where you aren't being touched by it? I think the only time for me is when I am outside reading a book or visiting with friends. But we got together by talking over the phone or with email...does that count? I guess I really can't complain. For all the ills of technology, it sure makes life a lot easier and me a lot lazier!
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Bread and circuses
June 27, 2007 - Wednesday
Current mood: irritated
I'm taking a break today from my normally mild-mannered blog to bring you a rant--because you can never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
Today I am greeted with some information about Paris Hilton's "post-prison look." I got the first glimpse. What I saw was frightening, and I'm not just talking about Paris Hilton.
Is there some reason that we need Paris Hilton to be in our news? The people pages, tabloids? Sure. And I'm not saying everyone doesn't deserve a guilty pleasure. (full disclosure: Best Week Ever on VH1 is mine.)
But do I really need to find out that Paris Hilton took off from jail while I was watching Sports Center in Vegas?!? No, I do not. I need to know whether the Twins are winning and what the latest K.G. trade rumors are. Do I need to read about it again when I come home from vacation--on the front page of the Star Tribune? This prompted my first-ever letter to the editor of my beloved paper. Isn't there something going on that better belongs on the front page? I could think of a few things.
Why is there such a stir about this? And more importantly, what does this say about the priorities of many people in this country and in the news media? (The old art/life imitation conundrum.)
(And for all you A.P. style crazies out there: Isn't it annoying how they used prison in the incorrect way just for some lame alliteration?)
Current mood: irritated
I'm taking a break today from my normally mild-mannered blog to bring you a rant--because you can never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
Today I am greeted with some information about Paris Hilton's "post-prison look." I got the first glimpse. What I saw was frightening, and I'm not just talking about Paris Hilton.
Is there some reason that we need Paris Hilton to be in our news? The people pages, tabloids? Sure. And I'm not saying everyone doesn't deserve a guilty pleasure. (full disclosure: Best Week Ever on VH1 is mine.)
But do I really need to find out that Paris Hilton took off from jail while I was watching Sports Center in Vegas?!? No, I do not. I need to know whether the Twins are winning and what the latest K.G. trade rumors are. Do I need to read about it again when I come home from vacation--on the front page of the Star Tribune? This prompted my first-ever letter to the editor of my beloved paper. Isn't there something going on that better belongs on the front page? I could think of a few things.
Why is there such a stir about this? And more importantly, what does this say about the priorities of many people in this country and in the news media? (The old art/life imitation conundrum.)
(And for all you A.P. style crazies out there: Isn't it annoying how they used prison in the incorrect way just for some lame alliteration?)
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