Personal Life ramblings
Sep. 23rd, 2009 01:10 pm![[personal profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mwbworld(It’s been a heck of a long time since I posted – but it’s been a rough month or so for me. So there’s a lot of catching up to do – I’ll think I’ll break this up into a couple of posts by topic.)
The past month or so at work has been horrendously busy so much so that the days just blurred into a big annoying mess, but now, while still busy, it has calmed to a manageable busyness.
One of the downside of most of my friends being work related is that everyone else is busy too – so there’s been no getting together for lunch, dinner, etc. with folks - this means no real social outlook for me the past month, so my sole source of unwinding has been reading and watching videos. I really need to start cultivating some non-work friends who live locally, which smacks of lots of effort.
Fall allergies hit me really hard this year and the allergy meds are finally kicking in enough so I’m no longer coughing, sniffling and sneezing myself into sleeplessness, but the down side is they make me feel chronically tired. At least, my body is adjusting enough that I can start to do things again. And the odds are I can get off them again in a couple of weeks, which should help make my life a bit more normal.
My exercise and meditation just completely fell apart during all this and now I need to get started again. Partly the allergy bit and partly a serious of annoyances like how iTunes 9 decided it just crashes when trying to play the iTunes yoga shows I bought from the apple store! Still haven’t solved that problem. I’ve acquired some DVDs instead and once I familiarize myself with some of the routines I’ll start up again.
Sadly, I continue to lose the never-ending battle against my stuff. I’ve now had to abandon key principles of my piling of books and magazines where I have to double stack shelves representing different categories. Now the collection of 1970s science fiction and fantasy magazines I’ve been building (I now have 67% of them all!) is piled on shelves formally devoted to just manga – manga in the back and the magazines in the front. It was one thing to pile manga in front of manga, but now genre lines are being crossed and unholy mixing of media/entertainment/genre categories has begun.
I may see if I can carve space for another small bookcase on my sun seat and move the manga that is still being released there and just leave the completed series behind the sf&f magazine.
I'm also amused that I've got a couple of big DVD box sets on pre-order (Complete Farscape and complete It's Garry Shandling's Show) that I technically don't have shelf space for yet - but I'm sure I'll find a solution by then.
You know that bed takes up way too much room that could be devoted to more bookcases. I could just learn to sleep in a hammock strung between bookcases....
The past month or so at work has been horrendously busy so much so that the days just blurred into a big annoying mess, but now, while still busy, it has calmed to a manageable busyness.
One of the downside of most of my friends being work related is that everyone else is busy too – so there’s been no getting together for lunch, dinner, etc. with folks - this means no real social outlook for me the past month, so my sole source of unwinding has been reading and watching videos. I really need to start cultivating some non-work friends who live locally, which smacks of lots of effort.
Fall allergies hit me really hard this year and the allergy meds are finally kicking in enough so I’m no longer coughing, sniffling and sneezing myself into sleeplessness, but the down side is they make me feel chronically tired. At least, my body is adjusting enough that I can start to do things again. And the odds are I can get off them again in a couple of weeks, which should help make my life a bit more normal.
My exercise and meditation just completely fell apart during all this and now I need to get started again. Partly the allergy bit and partly a serious of annoyances like how iTunes 9 decided it just crashes when trying to play the iTunes yoga shows I bought from the apple store! Still haven’t solved that problem. I’ve acquired some DVDs instead and once I familiarize myself with some of the routines I’ll start up again.
Sadly, I continue to lose the never-ending battle against my stuff. I’ve now had to abandon key principles of my piling of books and magazines where I have to double stack shelves representing different categories. Now the collection of 1970s science fiction and fantasy magazines I’ve been building (I now have 67% of them all!) is piled on shelves formally devoted to just manga – manga in the back and the magazines in the front. It was one thing to pile manga in front of manga, but now genre lines are being crossed and unholy mixing of media/entertainment/genre categories has begun.
I may see if I can carve space for another small bookcase on my sun seat and move the manga that is still being released there and just leave the completed series behind the sf&f magazine.
I'm also amused that I've got a couple of big DVD box sets on pre-order (Complete Farscape and complete It's Garry Shandling's Show) that I technically don't have shelf space for yet - but I'm sure I'll find a solution by then.
You know that bed takes up way too much room that could be devoted to more bookcases. I could just learn to sleep in a hammock strung between bookcases....
Was it wrong that I laughed at this?
Sadly, I continue to lose the never-ending battle against my stuff.
I finally started pulling ahead but it's been 3 weeks and now I think I'm losing again. This is especially sad when one considers I wasn't even HOME for one of those weeks.
but now genre lines are being crossed and unholy mixing of media/entertainment/genre categories has begun
Truly, the end is near.
I could just learn to sleep in a hammock strung between bookcases....
This idea is BRILLIANT. Why have we not thought of it before?