Pleasures and pains

Pleasures of the day:
- A very light snow, just enough for viewing.  It all melted in a few hours.
- Took a pain pill.
- Read for one hour
- Went back to bed
- Got on to the computer with my new library card
- Watching immense pine tree and my favorite overgrown bush out the window with snow on them

Pains of the day:
- Only two phone calls...one to remind me to pick up pills at Walgreens and one from the NRDC wanting me to donate $25 a month
-  No time for exercise what with all of my lazing around
- I just tried to add an article about lists but I don't know where it went
- Someone wants me to save the newspaper for her.  But I like to CUT THINGS OUT.  I am not going to stop doing that just for her.  I will just try to cut more carefully.

Just finished a short and delightful book.....The art of procrastination : a guide to effective dawdling, lollygagging and postponing ( or, getting things done by putting them off) , by John Perry.

I liked the book because he provides a justification for procrastination.  This was refreshing, because everybody else just tells you how to change yourself and become a non-procrastinator.  My favorite chapter is called, A plea for the horizontally organized.  His idea is to get a VERY LARGE lazy susan for all of the piles (say, 15 feet in diameter).  I know I have been instructed to get everything verticle, but like the author of this book, I don't think I could cope with having all of my projects in file folders.  Afriend loaned me this book because she thought I would enjoy it and I did.

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Black people have more fun

Just finished a fun romp of an audiobook...Baggage claim, by David E. Talbert (never heard of him).  Performed by Kim Fields.  "She's got thirty days and thirty-thousand miles to find a husband".  Book was quite silly in spots and I am not really into chasing men in order to marry them, but I learned a lot of black lore and the book was laugh out loud funny at times.   Montana Moore is a flight attendant with best friends at work, a black woman and a gay man.  Due to family pressures she finally caves to the idea of getting a husband and travels the country to "try out" five former beaus, who couldn't be more different.  They all have their stumbling blocks and the book keeps you glued to your seat waiting to see WHO she will end up with.

I am a creature of habit.  Thinking about the fact that I live in the same house where I came as an infant.  Of course, I haven't lived there the whole time, but I am back there.  Saw an old friend today in an art gallery.  Remembering back decades ago when we got friendly at the art opening for a show in which we were both participants at this very same gallery.

Started another audiobook which won't be as good, but the previous one ended up on Christmas eve in Baltimore and this one starts on Christmas eve in Malibu.  They both involve airplanes.  Life is full of coincidences.  Using the computer at the Bridgeton Public Library.  Going to look for an audiobook of Paula Poundstone's book.  Still laughing about HER performance the other night.  This is my SECOND library of the day.  Spent 15 minutes at the Vineland Public Library in between errands today.

Got this nail polish today from my favorite nail person.  Road house blues by O.P.I.

Unwelcome mail

Sometimes the mail is just FULL of bad news:
- Got a certified letter notice from the City of Bridgeton.  Now I have a whole day to ponder what form of bad news this will be.
- Note from the post person that perhaps I should change ALL of my addresses to say that I live on the second floor now that someone has moved into the first floor.  Does she realize how many people send me mail??
- Notice from Comcast that I am receiving some stations to which I am not entitled (why can't they tell me WHICH?) and saying that they will be taking them away on April 3rd.  Grrrr... And I think the bill went UP last month.  Now paying $73 each month and I don't even watch TV!
- Notice from my drug plan that they are not going to cover/provide my Clarinex any more

Logged into Playlist.com.  Something started playing.  I think I had better just listen to whatever it is.  When I try to search, add, or other stuff, I get all messed up.  Had to get out the headphones because I can't stand the sound of the rain.  Also shut the window blinds so I don't have to LOOK at the horrible weather outside.  Rain and wind on the way to snow?

I have a terrible feeling that my laptop is not charging.

My home away from home

It used to be my CAR but now it is the Fitness Connection in Vineland, New Jersey.  It was hard getting through the workout today.  Now I am on to the FUN part of the day, computer time at the Millville Public Library.  Unfortunately, Playlist.com is acting up again, thus impacting my happiness.  Listened to some snippets from the movie Silver linings playbook and realized that the song I liked is called Unsquare dance, by Dave Brubeck.

Each day I look at NEXT BLOG on Google for a couple of blogs.  Seem to be a lot of religious people blogging and a lot of families.  I don't know what I am, but not those.  I also have blogs under my favorites on my computer and some on my blog reader on Google.  I try to delete ones that are not up to date, no matter how intresting they are.  A lot of abandoned blogs, too.

Happy National foreign language week (March 4-10) and National nutrition month...two of my interests.  Speaking of nutrition, made a vow to start eating more (some) vegetables.  They just happened to have a display on this topic at the health club so I picked up some handouts.  Feeling somewhat proud of myself for my lunch - grapefruit and avocado and pecans and salad dressing.  Trying mightily to not eat the OTHER cookie in the bag I cracked open.  ONE of them is 100 calories and that is my self-imposed limit for snacks.
Why do they put TWO of them in the packet?  Temptation.....

Water bottle envy

Everyone has these NEW kind of water bottles, large, see through, with all kinds of fancy drinking arrangements.  Me, I still have a collection of the plastic ones made before they discovered the bad stuff in them.  But, it is part of my heritage that I can't get rid of something that still works. Me and my father before me, we use an appliance until the very last feature breaks.  My sister did give me a NEWER type, very nice, but I seem to have misplaced it.

Why don't my socks match?  For all practical purposes, they did when I put them on this morning.  But, in the midst of yoga, I saw a yellow part on the toe of one and a slightly different cable stitch.  Now I see why my brother-in-law asked for a BUNCH of socks all the same for Christmas.  Reminds me of the old Jules Feiffer cartoon where one day, in the clothes dryer, Bernard finds a note that says, "Bring the machine more socks!"

Starting to weigh myself every morning.  The goal is to be DOWN or stay the same.  It is very slow.  I am trying to exercise every day, but some of my exercise is not that strenuous and the eating is really hard to manage.  I am feeling slightly better, but many things still bother me....tiredness, balance poses in yoga. (Boy, I sure use the word BUT a lot!)

Not totally prepared

Just driving by....stopped into my brother-in-law's new shop to use the wireless.  Some of my supplies were in the car but not all.  Looking forward to a day of NO PLANS.  OK, computer and exercise and going out to breakfast, but, other than that no plans.  Tired of being out late the last two nights.  I feel a nice listening to Prairie Home Companion night coming on.  That is my favorite Saturday night activity 6 - 8 PM.  What will I do if Garrison Keillor ever retires?!?!?  And he is of the age (around my age I do believe).

Bingo, is it worth it?  Did my yearly bingo last night.  6 hours, $50 and NO prizes.  Felt like such a loser by the end.  Most of my friends had won something.  Not that I need any more CRAP to find a place for.  But 6 hours is much longer than my attention span.  In fact, one game is longer than my attention span, especially the one where you have to completely fill in the sheet.

Attended a Sweet honey in the rock concert Thursday night in Philadelphia,  I have heard them once  (or twice).  My friend got in a funk cause they were sort of different.  Two new members, instruments in the background (they are known as an acapella group) and they sang songs from the "canon" of Odetta, Nina Simone, Miriam Makeba and Abbey Lincoln.  They did a lot of individual performing rather than all together.  One of them sang Another man done gone while playing the violin.  Other instruments were involved and a tape of thunder and lightning.  I wish I could find a video to post for you.  Forgot to mention the really nice part of the evening when my friend cooked dinner for us all before the concert.  African peanut stew (vegetarian version) was yummy.  We all brought something.
So we drove to Philly in one person's car.  Came back and got in yet another person's car to drive to MY car.  Miles to go before I sleep.