Dear God! When, oh when will I ever learn not to drink acidic beverages right after I’ve brushed my teeth? Ugh. I will say, though, that Santa Cruz organic, not-from-concentrate lemon juice is to die for. When not chasing toothpaste, it has a wonderful burst of flavor that is nothing like the single-note sourness of RealLemon and its kin. It tastes a bit like a mixture of lime and orange. I don’t normally splurge on the good stuff, but it was on sale at the co-op this month, so I bought some.
Okaythen.
I never did accomplish much yesterday. I think I’m still in the two-day weekend mentality of having to be productive the whole time. The whole point of having a three-day weekend, and of working my behindermost off doing four long days to enable such, is that I then get to have an ass-sitting day.
I did get a couple of things done, which will make it easier to get to work today. I went through my hard drive and made a play list of random, inspirational music. It’s an odd, eclectic mix, with about 500 songs in all, so it should be awhile before I get tired of it.
I also did some cleaning, so I don’t have to mess with that today. I have a really hard time working on other things when the house isn’t clean. Since I hate to clean, that might explain why I often have a hard time getting anything done. I also blame some of it on the weather and the time of year. Mid-winter is difficult for me. I like the cold, but the lack of light–made worse by the endless Indiana clouds–is depressing. The days are getting noticeably longer, though, so there will soon be an end to that particular excuse.
And, look, the sun’s come out to play, so I can stop thinking about making paper boats.
Here’s a tip!
If you ever have to use adhesive velcro strips or dots, you know it can be difficult to get everything lined up properly. What I do is peel-n-stick one piece of the velcro to one of the objects, then peel-n-stick the opposite piece of velcro onto the first piece, velcro-y sides together. The glue-y side of the second piece(s) of velcro will be facing out. You can then press the object to the surface you want to stick it to, and all the velcro strips/dots will be perfectly aligned.
I only mention it because I just got done velcroing my computer speakers to the top of my monitor. Pandora likes to nap up there, and I’m sick and tired of her knocking the speakers off. One of these days she’s bound to break one of them, and since I splurged on nice speakers, I’d rather avoid that if I can. And, whaddya know, I only just finished and Pandora is already back on top of the monitor. I guess I should be appreciative that she waited until I was done? Cats are some sort of pain in the ass, I’m tellin’ ya. But she’s 17 and I think that’s permission enough to do pretty much whatever she pleases–including sleeping on my monitor and walking across my printer and turning it on and off–so I’ll do what I can to accommodate her.
red paper boat 