Averygoodun's Personal File

Ooooops. Today was supposed to be a mandatory church day (since I signed up for it to be). But I'm sitting at home because I have a paper to start, and a very, very busy week coming up, including tomorrow being a school holiday but not a Geoff!Work holiday (meaning I have Page the whole day long).

I think I really didn't want to go to that workshop...

I wouldn't feel bad at all except for the fact that it's catered, and I'd signed us up with our food restrictions. D'oh!

Ah well.

ION, I just distracted myself from writing this via fb, so I think I should go. Get the morning fun out of the way so as to start the research and writing with a clear conscience.

Erm...

You know what I mean. Maybe. If you do, let me know, K? I obviously will need the distraction. ;-)

Over the last few days I have:

( I'm seemingly better now. )

I'm tired. ;-)

Geoff is leaving for Brazil tomorrow afternoon, so that's unpleasant, but Page and I will deal. (And hey, it means that much less cooking will need to be done! That's a definite plus!)

I just hope I'll be able to use the beautiful, wonderful, early-Fall weather to finish my back garden, including transplanting all my plants into their spots. Without injuring myself again. After school, it's my highest priority. After all, Fall is here, which means winter is just around the corner.

Anyway, that's the state of me right now. I'd better serve up dinner now, though.

Page has the day off school because of Veteran's day. Hopefully "Swiss Family Robinson" will keep him entertained throughout the day...

I didn't get any homework done yesterday. My brain didn't ever turn on. I was lucky to think of a topic for covenant group to discuss (and I have to thank "Once Upon a Time" for that; the topic I finally came up with was "What causes people to refuse needed help? Fear? Self-loathing? And is there a way to help others overcome self-loathing from the outside without pushing them further away?").

I took two benadryl and aleve last night, and I feel somewhat better this morning, though perhaps more gross.

Dreams were about finding a home to visualize my future self in. Small subplot was following Bill Maher around small towns in Canada as he managed to insult everyone equally, no matter their political affiliations, and not realize how insulting he was being. At least his rudeness was uniting everyone rather than polarizing them...

And that's about that. Gotta get to work. Goal is to finish the rough draft of the term paper today. There's lots of other homework I need to do as well, but, well, hopefully my brain will be able to cope with a long day.

http://www.opost.com/bfiles/uu-19jun12/uu1902-chariots.mp3

I was not able to get to any of the rehearsals, which meant I wasn't up there singing with them, but that's okay; it was a joy to listen to the mixed choirs today (our UU choir and members of one of the Baptist choirs in town).

The other songs they performed are here: http://www.opost.com/bfiles/uu-19jun12/

Or baking some much needed muffins, or doing some much needed laundry, but instead I'm here, hugging my computer.

That was a long 48 hours. And I am so thankful that it was only 48 hours. Many of my friends are still without power, and probably will be until Friday.

It looks like a twister hit here in town. Well, except for the limited building damage. But it was uncomfortably reminiscent of driving through Indy just after the tornado swept through town. And I haven't dared to go down the really badly damaged parts of town.

The schools were closed both yesterday and today, and the superintendent called a little while ago to say that school will be canceled again tomorrow because there are still about 190 power lines down in town, and it's just too dangerous for the kids that are walking to school. I agree for once.

Halloween was also canceled. Postponed, really, as trick-or-treating will happen on Sunday. Page's birthday.

And, amongst all this chaos, there has been levity. For me, anyway. Driving to school on Monday (my school wasn't canceled - it had power! And since it had heat, I was definitely going!), I observed the incredibly long lines at the gas stations that had power, as everyone and their uncle needed gas for their generators. That wasn't amusing. What was amusing is that the lines were just as long at every Dunkin' Donuts. The addicts.

That said, I was being taunted by a magnet on my fridge yesterday. It says, "While there is tea, there is hope." Well, having an electric range, there was no tea for me. It made me very sad, indeed.

And now I just want the snow to go away. It is WAY too early to start winter. I would much rather have the gray blahs than snow banks for the next couple of months.

But I should go. The working oven calls. As does the (mouldering?) laundry. On the plus side, at some point soon, we'll be able to watch the rest of Star Trek 3 (Search for Spock) that was stopped rather abruptly on Sunday afternoon. :-)

But, before I do, I want to list a couple of positive bullet points of the experience:
- Church (which had power throughout) set up a hot meal for members last night and tonight
- Along with the hot meal, last night's activities had a Halloween party for the kids.
- Page was complimented (to me) on being such an honest, trustworthy boy. He refused candy(!!!)
- I had the rather brillian (if I do say so myself) idea of taking some of the snow outside and sticking it in the fridge and freezer (in bags) to keep the contents cool. Freezer stuff stayed frozen! Booyah!.
- Geoff and I slept for 10 hours last night. Meant I was late for class today (first time), but boy was that nice!
- candlelight is pretty, isn't it?

I've been a very whiny girl, so I'd best try to balance the scales a bit.

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My to do list for this weekend is being revised on a daily basis after I overdid the garden-venting thing yesterday. My back and bum are not happy with me, again. However, that just means I get to watch more movies (or The Two Towers) in the cool basement, so that's not too bad. ;-)

And I think it is time for me to do just that. I will catch up with ya'll soon, I promise, though I have been reading, if not commenting.

I had two epiphanies yesterday. Kind of along the "well duh" range of epiphanies, but I thought I'd share anyway.

( Spiritual blather )


( To dos and stuff )

So, it turns out that the voting for that girl goes on till the 25th. We (the FB supporter crowd, who are mostly all fellow church members) have figured out that we can each vote up to four times a day, though it might be more often depending on whether we can vote once per link posted...

So, I'm taking this opportunity to a) post elsewhere so that she gets more points that way, and b) ask that you please consider taking a few seconds to vote for her. No registration, just pressing a little button.

We've already moved her up to the #4 spot (from #21 when I first got news of it), but she has less than half the #1 spot's points.

And I understand this is mostly an experiment on Brickfish's part to see where to advertise, but I don't care about that so much. What I care about is seeing the glow of happiness in Andrea when she realizes that people care so much about her that they're willing to shout out from the internet rooftops for her support.

( The photo and link )

First, thank you for all your hugs. I appreciate them, and they did help. ( Read more... ) Thank you for your patience with me. I know it wears thin at times, and I completely understand. My patience is running rather thin with me as well. ;-)

*hugs back*

The first hot, sticky spell of summer has struck. It was 90 yesterday with thunderstorms forecast, and was still 79 degrees when we went to bed, with no rain yet having fallen. At midnight. Not fun, especially because the air-conditioners have not been installed.

However, I was so shattered, energy-wise, yesterday that I managed to sleep pretty well. Despite my four hour nap in the middle of the day and the heat and humidity and thoughts.

I think I'm going to have to be more careful about covering up in the sunshine if a day out (in long sleeves, long pants but no hat) wipes me out so thoroughly. This is without getting burned.
Maybe I should invest in or make a nice parasol. (Maybe I'll save my sheckles and get one in Victoria's Chinatown?)

( Run-down of weekend, i.e. tl:dr )


There've been lots of things on my mind lately, but I think I'll save them for another, probably locked, post. But one thing that came up this weekend is the news that Geoff's dad's cancer has been rated as more aggressive than previously thought, and he'll be starting radiation therapy soon. I hope the oncologist is right in that the side effects will be mild and bearable and that this course of treatment is all it'll take. It's still scary and horrible, though.