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[dragonlady7]

(ETA: Am editing to update to-do list with what I managed to accomplish this morning.)
Today:
1) one last load of laundry It's in the washer.
2) return bottles & cans, go grocery shopping Forgot to hand in beverage slips. Pain in ass. Managed to spend $90 at grocery store, much of it on beauty and feminine hygeine products that I can't ask Dave to buy when he goes shopping. Guess I am using that expanded credit limit after all.
3) lay already-cut sod in front yard What was I thinking? That the day is 80 hours long? That Dave would make lunch? Sheesh.
4) maybe go spend afternoon in Rochester with Dave? (Call Darius and ask if he wants Tahou's!) Darius is in.
5) sort out PayPal from Q&I people
6) give token offering to student loans people They mailed me a forbearance form to fill out. Under "reason" I wrote "Am working as waitress. Obviously bachelor's degree was fabulous investment."
7) mail paycheck Well, it's in the mail slot with a stamp on it...
8) pay what bills can be paid without undermining necessary car payment I contented myself with paying the ones that said "final disconnection notice" on them.
9) write letter to Katy I'll do that one in the car.

This week, since all shifts are afternoon:
1) clean kitchen (tell Dave will clean ENTIRE REST OF HOUSE if he just finishes dishes? Am getting painful eczema between fingers from laundry alone, cannot cope with dishes as well)
2) scrub bathtub, toilet, sink
3) cut sod, turn over dirt, put down topsoil
4) plant peas?
5) tidy room, put away winter clothes-- hell, put summer clothes INTO DRESSER instead of on floor
6) on bus, work on G&E, BarbariansNovel
7) write more letters, since bought all these stamps and post office is considering raising rates: who can I write to?


Mmm. I still have a headache. Bah. I had one last night and took a headache pill and that didn't work... I did sleep ok, in Dave's bed not-quite-being-snuggled but at least I was warm. For some reason I couldn't get warm yesterday, not even in a tank top in the sun doing physical labor. I didn't get sunburnt either, though, so that's good. I need a hat, some sort of hat with a brim, and I don't know where to find one. I don't care if I look like a fool: it's for gardening. I need my scalp protected (I get burnt where my hair parts), my ears, my neck, and my face. Trust me: you don't want me to 'get some color' because it's just not pretty. It's freckles, though not the charming kind, and the burn peels and it's just gross.

So this is the last day of my three-day vacation. It's been lovely weather, I couldn't ask for better. This house is lovely when considered as a whole with the yard; when you can't go outside or into the upper floor because it's cold and nasty out, it's much less fun. I hope this summer I have time to wire the attic and at least rudimentarily insulate it. It should be a usable space. (I actually think it would make a good sitting room, rather than a bedroom, but what do I know? Would it be totally weird to have a sitting room on the second storey? I'm not ambitious enough to put in skylights, which it badly needs.) I also want to re-set the stepping stones by the north garden, and possibly get more, to make the yard navigable even if it's a bit wet-- at the moment the whole thing's churned into mud, and I hope the grass recovers. It's quite ugly. (But I don't know a thing about setting stepping stones...)

But I didn't really get any writing done, which is too bad. I've only made the smallest bit of progress on writing rough narratives (I don't really do outlines) of G & E's backstories. So far I've discovered that Glorfindel is a yoga master and Ecthelion was a wild child.

Mmf, I also have sore muscles in my butt, probably from gardening.

Am editing to add this on here, since I've been pondering it inwardly the last few times I saw it, but it certainly doesn't rate its own entry.

01. Total volume of music files on my computer?

I assume this is meant to be in gigabytes. In that case, 28.29 gigabytes. 7,356 songs, and as iTunes sees it, 20 days if played consecutively.

02. The last CD I bought was:

Luther Wright and the Wrongs: Rebuild the Wall (It's a bluegrass remake of Pink Floyd's entire concept album The Wall, and it's very faithful except they removed a lot of the fascist stuff so as not to confuse their probably-different audience. [also the lyrics are changed in other places for humorous effect: "the obligatory Hendrix perm" "there's a raccoon! who let all this wildlife into the room?"])

3. The last song I listened to before writing this was:

My iTunes is paused in the midst of L7's "She Has Eyes" from their album Hungry For Stink, so I think that was the last thing I listened to last night.

04. Song playing right now:

I have a Magnetic Fields song stuck in my head. It's alternating between "Luckiest Guy On The Lower East Side" and "Long-Forgotten Fairytale", with snippets of "My Sentimental Melody" thrown in. Feh, none of them are my favorite MF song.


05. Ten songs I listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me:

I'm cheating and simply copying down the top 10 in my iTunes playcount stats. it's probably reasonable.

1. Take Me With You -- Morphine -- The Night
2. Mekong (Live) -- The Refreshments -- Live
3. Accidentally Like A Martyr -- Warren Zevon -- A Quality Life
4. What You Do To Me -- Indigenous -- Indigenous
5. Green & Dumb -- Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers -- Honky Tonk Union
6. Angel From Montgomery -- Susan Tedeschi -- Just Won't Burn
7. School Night -- Ani Difranco -- Revelling|Reckoning
8. El Cable -- Esquivel! -- Cabaret Manana
9. Pancho & Lefty -- Townes Van Zandt
10. It's Only Money, Tyrone -- Marah -- Kids in Philly


06. Ten albums I listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me:

These are the albums I listen to most often just as an album, rather than by individual tracks. A lot of their tracks are in my top-listened songs, but usually that's because I was listening to the whole album for atmosphere.

1. Mark Knopfler, Sailing to Philadelphia
2. Morphine, Cure for Pain
3. Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers, !Americano!
4. Sequentia, Symphoniae: Selected Works of Hildegard von Bingen
5. Trav'ling Home, by the Boston Camerata: American Spirituals 1770 - 1870
6. The Chieftains, Buonaparte's Retreat
7. Norwegian Folk Songs & Peasant Dances: Selected works of Edward Grieg and the folk songs that inspired them, performed by Reidun Horvei, Knut Hamre, and Gier Botnen
8. Dolores Keane, There Was A Maid
9. Ani Difranco, Living In Clip
10. Barenaked Ladies, Rock Spectacle


07. Which 5 people are you passing this baton to, and why?

I haven't seen this part of the meme actually work, so I'm not going to embarrass myself by assuming that the relevant people are going to read this far.
I also haven't seen anyone do this meme because they were directed to, so there you have it: not answering this question.

I will direct anyone who's intrigued to my music page: http://www.bridget.kelly.name/music . Most of the songs I mentioned are up there for download. And others that didn't make the list.

Now, I'm off to be productive. I hope. I dreamed that Dave was going to make breakfast: a strange thing to dream.

Comments

stepping stones

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

I don't know how to do them either, but my advice is to research it first. At college I watched with great amusement as they tried to build a brick sidewalk in an area that got very wet every spring. I called it the deconstructing reconstructing sidewalk because it would sink within a day or two every time they built it. They tried everything, even cement, and eventualy managed to build some sort of base that held, but I don't know how they did it.