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Day 7 of The Great Writing Experiment
Location: My desk at home. Time: 9:30 a.m. Note: I think I've learned all I need to with this exercise. I just don't have the bandwidth to write every day, and as a wise person wrote to me, writing just can't be forced or else the quality suffers.
Momentary Thought
I've given up on Aimster. Taking a friend's advice, I have switched over to Morpheus. Couple this much better program with the download speeds that our cable connection now gives us... well, let's just say I'm a downloading fiend.
High/Low
High: Anna is pregnant!!!
Low: My thoughts and a virtual hug go to Jayne, who has suffered a recent loss.
Current Obsession
Finding Pavoratti's version of "O Holy Night" on Morpheus.
Grin Source
Watching the dogs play with a new tennis ball I got them. Gadget barely has his mouth wrapped around it, and Kye tried to grab the ball out of his mouth and ended up lifting him right off the ground.
Singing
Who can say where the road goes,
Where the day flows?
Only time...
Enya - "Only Time"
A Year Ago
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I do battle with the Evil Dust Bunnies.
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Sunday has come 'round again. A procession of weekends are slipping by like beads on a string, and the cooler weather is bringing feelings of the holidays. Anxious ones, actually - for some reason the thought of the impending holidays are making me nervous. Perhaps it's the residual from last year - the entertaining we did then was rather daunting. We're not doing that again this year - just having a quiet holiday at home, and will do the round of visiting which necessitates that other people cook. Maybe I should keep reminding myself of this, and turn this anxiety into anticipation.
We've had to put off picking up the truck until tomorrow - we're waiting on a check to arrive Fed Ex for our down payment, and though it arrived at the station on Saturday (gotta love web tracking), it won't be distributed until Monday. Patience. It's not one of my stronger virtues. It's nowhere *near* one of Calvin's. We've been entertaining ourselves by looking through truck magazines and picking out which accessories we'd like to put on the truck. We're purchasing this one, instead of leasing (we'd done that for the past two vehicles), so we can do whatever we want to it. I'm finding that to be a novel, and expensive, idea.
As I said in my sidebar, we've received the cable connection in our bedroom, and I spent much of yesterday adding to my song collection. I used to get a maximum download speed of ~15k/second with my DSL connection. Yesterday I clocked in at 63k/second with the cable connection. Heaven. That's where I'm at. This file sharing business makes for excellent mix CD's. I've turned my whole hard drive into one. Well, not my *whole* hard drive. Not yet, anyway.
I've completely fallen in love with Charlotte Church. I downloaded several of her songs, including her version of "O Holy Night", which is absolutely hands down my favorite carol. She's got an amazing voice, especially considering her age. I'm not at all embarrassed to admit that I teared up while listening to it yesterday morning. I also downloaded the song that Jessamyn had posted on her website - Ben Folds' "The Luckiest". When Calvin and I get married, that is definitely one of the songs we're dancing to. It's beautiful, and moving, and just sums everything up. More eye-welling going on with that one, too.
Oh man, is this coffee good.
Which reminds me. Yesterday when I got up I had a craving for an egg and cheese sandwich. I asked Calvin if he wanted one and he grimaced - I guess the thought of eggs before even having the first cup of coffee was off-putting to him. So I cooked one up for myself. I managed to mangle the egg (I just can't seem to do fried eggs, for some reason) but put together an adequate sandwich with toast, cheese, fried ham, butter and worcestershire. Calvin emerged from the bedroom, saw me eating the sandwich, and decided he wanted one after all. This is, of course, where he completely exceeds me in even such a simple thing as an egg sandwich. He made a perfectly turned egg, mixed up a sauce to spread on a roll (no toast for him!), poured some salsa for dipping, and had himself a gourmet breakfast. Yes, I'm aware it was just an egg and cheese sandwich, but he can turn even that into gourmet cooking. He just has this way of spicing things and mingling different flavors that leaves me in complete awe (and envy) of his cooking abilities. We are fed well in this house.
I received the next Anita Blake book by Laurell K. Hamilton from Amazon on Friday - "Narcissus in Chains". Monique, you're going to love it. I can hardly put it down. Much to the eye-rolling of Calvin. "Books are stupid".
These are the kinds of weekends I love, where nothing of huge consequence happens, and yet there's a general feeling of happiness. Yesterday morning Calvin and I spent a good hour soaking in a bubble bath together (after our egg sandwiches). I futzed around on the computer or read my book while Calvin watched various sporting events, then took a nap. Last night Calvin and I hung out and shot pool, and he played DJ. Then he went to pick Marie up from the movies, while I walked Kye and then played with the dogs in the backyard. I even taught Kye a new trick that involves her leaping up into the air and catching a tennis ball, and then returning it to my feet (she's a great "fetch" dog). We went out for a short (fast!) ride on the motorcycle, and then Calvin and Marie went to the video store while I watched Saturday Night Live (which I really could have missed without much detriment to my well being). They came back with "Along Came A Spider" (quite good) and another movie I can't think of (we haven't watched it yet), plus a huge store of junk food from the grocery store (I really need to go along with them from now on to keep them under control). We watched the movie and stayed up until 2:00 in the morning, just hanging out together.
Today should involve more outdoors-type things, and laundry. I'm going to try to avoid other cleaning activities if I can help it. There's a recipe for a dessert made with apple pie filling and german chocolate cake that I've been wanting to try out. Calvin's up now, with the paper, and I'm going to go join him. There are coupons to be clipped, and ads to be gawked over, and another day to enjoy of this weekend.
Happy Sunday!