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Oh Hell, I'll Put Something Down Here..
Feb. 14th, 2012 03:32 amAnytime I think I might want to post something, I get a twinge of fear and go back to my game. I get the overwhelming feeling that anything I say is comletely stupid. So, tonight you get short snippets on various subjects, as they came to mind, and no promises of anything else to come:
*Sleep: Very difficult these days. One of two things will happen.
A) I take an over-the-counter sleep medication, either Tylenol PM, Benedryl, or Nyquil at midnight, go to bed not long after and sleep well and deeply till 3 or 4 the next afternoon.
B) I stay up, wide awake, feeling miserable, stupid and guilty, surfing the interwebz and playing my stupid games till 6am. Go to bed, still wide awake, toss and turn for two more hours, then finally sleep till 3 or 4 in the afternoon.
Option A happens once or twice a week, more than that, and the drugs don't work as well. All-in-all, it kind of sucks.
*Potlatch: Any other Bay area or midwest folks coming? We have dinner plans with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
calimac so far. I posted to Facebook that we weren't coming to the con, but still hoped to see people, and other than DB, I heard only crickets in response.
*Valentines day: Knowing that all restaurants in the city would be crazy busy on Tuesday, we had our nice dinner out on Monday instead. Tonight, I'll make a tasty meal at home. Happy birthdayintelligentrix!!
*Hair: One year and three months after my last haircut, I can safely say it's getting long-ish. A bit past shoulder length, but with a few strange waves to it. Also a bit thinner than it used to be, and falls out much more than the last time I had it long. An age-related thing I suppose? I don't mind if it goes gray, I just want it to look healthy.
*Music: I find I am firmly stuck in the 80's and 90's in what I most like to listen to. I cannot stand the sound of an auto-tuned voice. If you need a robot-computer-thingy in order to sing, then maybe you just.... shouldn't sing.
We almost never listen to music at home. Luke has hearing loss and tinnitus, and listening to music isn't always such a pleasant thing for him anymore. Also, we have neighbors, and we're not the kind of people who would play stuff that others could hear. I do like to listen to music in the car, but it's a 13 year old car with a tape deck, so mostly I play tapes, that I made- wait for it... in the 80's and 90's.
I made lots of mix tapes back in the day, most of which I still listen to. The idea of giving a mix tape that you made to somebody else is a mind-blowing concept to me. I never did it, and I didn't have friends who did it, I only discovered recently that this was something very popular with people my age. I always had odd taste in music, and few people I knew liked the same things I did. I was sometimes embarrassed to admit to what I listened to, so I kept my mix tapes to myself. I can't even concieve of making a tape, giving it to someone who I actually wanted to like me, then having them listen to it without me there to explain why I think that song isn't totally lame, or why I put that string of songs together. It's beyond my comprehension.
I firmly believe that the music that is popular when you are a teenager and young adult is imprinted upon you as the "good" music that nobody these days appreciates anymore. You kids get off my lawn!!!
*Wiscon: We'll be looking for airfares soon. Luke isn't doing the photo booth this year. As far as I know, nobody else is planning to do it. We still want to do the LJ party, so I guess I need to do whatever I usually need to do to sign up for it. Who is doing sixth-floor sleeping rooms this year? I sent a message a couple weeks ago to the rooms.etc e-mail address, and got no response at all. We've been staying on the sixth floor for years, and I want a very specific room. If a new person is only going to be giving them out at random, I will be pretty unhappy.
*Old photos: Went through a box of old discs and other computer stuff, and came across a disc of Luke's photos from my two visits to Seattle in 2005, before I moved here. I'd only seen them once, and they're not in his Flickr or LJ gallery. It made me sad to see these photos again. Besides the fact that I was really, really thin at that time, I was struck by how different my life was back in 2005. I was a working, functioning, capable, strong person back then. I had a goal and a plan and I was doing difficult things every day. I was getting ready to move across the country to start a new life for the THIRD time, and I couldn't wait. I'm not that person anymore. I'm sombody else. I don't like her very much.
And that's all I got.
*Sleep: Very difficult these days. One of two things will happen.
A) I take an over-the-counter sleep medication, either Tylenol PM, Benedryl, or Nyquil at midnight, go to bed not long after and sleep well and deeply till 3 or 4 the next afternoon.
B) I stay up, wide awake, feeling miserable, stupid and guilty, surfing the interwebz and playing my stupid games till 6am. Go to bed, still wide awake, toss and turn for two more hours, then finally sleep till 3 or 4 in the afternoon.
Option A happens once or twice a week, more than that, and the drugs don't work as well. All-in-all, it kind of sucks.
*Potlatch: Any other Bay area or midwest folks coming? We have dinner plans with
calimac so far. I posted to Facebook that we weren't coming to the con, but still hoped to see people, and other than DB, I heard only crickets in response. *Valentines day: Knowing that all restaurants in the city would be crazy busy on Tuesday, we had our nice dinner out on Monday instead. Tonight, I'll make a tasty meal at home. Happy birthday
intelligentrix!! *Hair: One year and three months after my last haircut, I can safely say it's getting long-ish. A bit past shoulder length, but with a few strange waves to it. Also a bit thinner than it used to be, and falls out much more than the last time I had it long. An age-related thing I suppose? I don't mind if it goes gray, I just want it to look healthy.
*Music: I find I am firmly stuck in the 80's and 90's in what I most like to listen to. I cannot stand the sound of an auto-tuned voice. If you need a robot-computer-thingy in order to sing, then maybe you just.... shouldn't sing.
We almost never listen to music at home. Luke has hearing loss and tinnitus, and listening to music isn't always such a pleasant thing for him anymore. Also, we have neighbors, and we're not the kind of people who would play stuff that others could hear. I do like to listen to music in the car, but it's a 13 year old car with a tape deck, so mostly I play tapes, that I made- wait for it... in the 80's and 90's.
I made lots of mix tapes back in the day, most of which I still listen to. The idea of giving a mix tape that you made to somebody else is a mind-blowing concept to me. I never did it, and I didn't have friends who did it, I only discovered recently that this was something very popular with people my age. I always had odd taste in music, and few people I knew liked the same things I did. I was sometimes embarrassed to admit to what I listened to, so I kept my mix tapes to myself. I can't even concieve of making a tape, giving it to someone who I actually wanted to like me, then having them listen to it without me there to explain why I think that song isn't totally lame, or why I put that string of songs together. It's beyond my comprehension.
I firmly believe that the music that is popular when you are a teenager and young adult is imprinted upon you as the "good" music that nobody these days appreciates anymore. You kids get off my lawn!!!
*Wiscon: We'll be looking for airfares soon. Luke isn't doing the photo booth this year. As far as I know, nobody else is planning to do it. We still want to do the LJ party, so I guess I need to do whatever I usually need to do to sign up for it. Who is doing sixth-floor sleeping rooms this year? I sent a message a couple weeks ago to the rooms.etc e-mail address, and got no response at all. We've been staying on the sixth floor for years, and I want a very specific room. If a new person is only going to be giving them out at random, I will be pretty unhappy.
*Old photos: Went through a box of old discs and other computer stuff, and came across a disc of Luke's photos from my two visits to Seattle in 2005, before I moved here. I'd only seen them once, and they're not in his Flickr or LJ gallery. It made me sad to see these photos again. Besides the fact that I was really, really thin at that time, I was struck by how different my life was back in 2005. I was a working, functioning, capable, strong person back then. I had a goal and a plan and I was doing difficult things every day. I was getting ready to move across the country to start a new life for the THIRD time, and I couldn't wait. I'm not that person anymore. I'm sombody else. I don't like her very much.
And that's all I got.
