what's on my mind?
Oct. 10th, 2005 11:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmd20 things on my mind this morning.
i edited this for typos and totally forgot to put the lj cut tag back, so here it is.
- 1. tea. mmmm. i've just set a pot steeping and i'm looking forward to having three big mugs of upton's irish breakfast tea from it. a major part of my 'hang around the house' weekend morning routine involves waking up before claudia, making a big pot of tea, and puttering around. [update: first mug assembled (with milk and sugar). oh yum.]
- 2. some unidentified object in my house is beeping every 3 minutes or so. no, it's not one of those "annoy people by hiding this sporadically beeping objects near them ha ha ha" frobs. it's not a noise my pager makes -- plus i'm on call at the moment, so my pager is in my pocket. it's not a noise i've heard claudia's pager make yet, but maybe it's an update on the "ogodmybatteryisdying" noise it made earlier in the weekend.
- 3. my gray cat keeps headbutting me then running away. she does this a lot. silly cat.
- 4. web chat board communities. enough of the population of a certain content-restricted mailing list wants things that are out of scope of the list that i'm playing around with a PHBB web chat board and am thinking of setting it up, pointing people to it, and seeing what happens. if it catches on, it'll provide a desitination for the all-purpose mailing-list-content-quash of "take this crap to (destination)." if not, it's still been good for me -- i know a tiny bit of php and a bit more about databases. tentative name if/when i launch it, "suspect wisdom".
- 5. wikis. i installed a mediawiki on my home machine and have been playing with it. i can't tell yet whether it's an invaluable tool or a pet rock.
- 6. my girlfriend. i can hear her breathing and moving around slightly as she sleeps in the other room. i do so love her. i'm a lucky woman.
- 7. productivity/entropy-fighting for the weekend has been not quite as productive as i'd hoped, but i think part of this is that i kept going off-list from my list of crap i wanted to get done and have been doing other entropy-fighting things. but i can see pieces of floor i haven't seen in a while, and gone thru a bunch of those boxes of cruft i sort of accumulate. (usually they happen when i have to clear off the kitchen table (or some other area) quickly and so i put all the crap in a box but then don't go back and organize/put away all the crap in the box.) the eventual ideal solution is to do a better job of keeping too much crap from accumulating on the kitchen table.
- 8. i wish i did a better job of living below my means. i can totally live within my means, and even slightly below, but i feel like i should be saving more money.
- 9. i am far more consumed with and obsessed about food/body issues than is likely apparent. it's almost always there, in the back of my mind, tied up with all kinds of other toxic crap in my head in a gordian knot of incoherent emotion. i'm slowly untangling it and teasing bits apart.
- 10. it seems i've been biting my nails down closer to the quick than usual the past few weeks. i can't tell if this is because of my nail-biting directly or because my fingernails are a bit more brittle due to my meds being adjusted a couple of months ago.
- 11. now the big longhaired cat is squeaking/meowing/complaining. all the cats are overdue for checkups/shots. i should do something about that.
- 12. i have some new pants i need to hem. in true yak-shaving fashion, this first requires reassembling the sewing machine, since i haven't done so since i got it back from its tune-up.
- 13. people who think women can't handle complicated machinery have never seen a sewing machine up close.
- 14. i have a hard time finding button down shirts that fit well. i got measured for a shirt and had one made when i was in india, but my shirt connection was broken before i could get several more shirts made (except with slightly longer sleeves) because my connection to the tailor left the company over there.
- 15. if i have clothing made here, it'll cost a lot more than 20 bucks.
- 16. laundry: so very sisyphean.
- 17. i am now using this list to procrastinate from going off and restacking some of the stuff in my kitchen shelves.
- 18. i want to replace one of those open shelf units with a closed-door narrow-depth freestanding pantry cabinet.
- 19. while i'm not really drinking the "getting things done" kool-ade, i have found that putting more little thoughts down in lists is helpful. (in this case, i just put several more entries in the "household to-do list".)
- 20. maybe i should buy a couple of songs by the band "cake" from itunes music store. because i want a girl with a short skirt and a looooong jacket.
bonus 21 addendum: mmm. more tea.
i don't tag people for memes.
i edited this for typos and totally forgot to put the lj cut tag back, so here it is.
- 1. tea. mmmm. i've just set a pot steeping and i'm looking forward to having three big mugs of upton's irish breakfast tea from it. a major part of my 'hang around the house' weekend morning routine involves waking up before claudia, making a big pot of tea, and puttering around. [update: first mug assembled (with milk and sugar). oh yum.]
- 2. some unidentified object in my house is beeping every 3 minutes or so. no, it's not one of those "annoy people by hiding this sporadically beeping objects near them ha ha ha" frobs. it's not a noise my pager makes -- plus i'm on call at the moment, so my pager is in my pocket. it's not a noise i've heard claudia's pager make yet, but maybe it's an update on the "ogodmybatteryisdying" noise it made earlier in the weekend.
- 3. my gray cat keeps headbutting me then running away. she does this a lot. silly cat.
- 4. web chat board communities. enough of the population of a certain content-restricted mailing list wants things that are out of scope of the list that i'm playing around with a PHBB web chat board and am thinking of setting it up, pointing people to it, and seeing what happens. if it catches on, it'll provide a desitination for the all-purpose mailing-list-content-quash of "take this crap to (destination)." if not, it's still been good for me -- i know a tiny bit of php and a bit more about databases. tentative name if/when i launch it, "suspect wisdom".
- 5. wikis. i installed a mediawiki on my home machine and have been playing with it. i can't tell yet whether it's an invaluable tool or a pet rock.
- 6. my girlfriend. i can hear her breathing and moving around slightly as she sleeps in the other room. i do so love her. i'm a lucky woman.
- 7. productivity/entropy-fighting for the weekend has been not quite as productive as i'd hoped, but i think part of this is that i kept going off-list from my list of crap i wanted to get done and have been doing other entropy-fighting things. but i can see pieces of floor i haven't seen in a while, and gone thru a bunch of those boxes of cruft i sort of accumulate. (usually they happen when i have to clear off the kitchen table (or some other area) quickly and so i put all the crap in a box but then don't go back and organize/put away all the crap in the box.) the eventual ideal solution is to do a better job of keeping too much crap from accumulating on the kitchen table.
- 8. i wish i did a better job of living below my means. i can totally live within my means, and even slightly below, but i feel like i should be saving more money.
- 9. i am far more consumed with and obsessed about food/body issues than is likely apparent. it's almost always there, in the back of my mind, tied up with all kinds of other toxic crap in my head in a gordian knot of incoherent emotion. i'm slowly untangling it and teasing bits apart.
- 10. it seems i've been biting my nails down closer to the quick than usual the past few weeks. i can't tell if this is because of my nail-biting directly or because my fingernails are a bit more brittle due to my meds being adjusted a couple of months ago.
- 11. now the big longhaired cat is squeaking/meowing/complaining. all the cats are overdue for checkups/shots. i should do something about that.
- 12. i have some new pants i need to hem. in true yak-shaving fashion, this first requires reassembling the sewing machine, since i haven't done so since i got it back from its tune-up.
- 13. people who think women can't handle complicated machinery have never seen a sewing machine up close.
- 14. i have a hard time finding button down shirts that fit well. i got measured for a shirt and had one made when i was in india, but my shirt connection was broken before i could get several more shirts made (except with slightly longer sleeves) because my connection to the tailor left the company over there.
- 15. if i have clothing made here, it'll cost a lot more than 20 bucks.
- 16. laundry: so very sisyphean.
- 17. i am now using this list to procrastinate from going off and restacking some of the stuff in my kitchen shelves.
- 18. i want to replace one of those open shelf units with a closed-door narrow-depth freestanding pantry cabinet.
- 19. while i'm not really drinking the "getting things done" kool-ade, i have found that putting more little thoughts down in lists is helpful. (in this case, i just put several more entries in the "household to-do list".)
- 20. maybe i should buy a couple of songs by the band "cake" from itunes music store. because i want a girl with a short skirt and a looooong jacket.
bonus 21 addendum: mmm. more tea.
i don't tag people for memes.
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