Done yesterday (20101212 Su)

[mdlbear]

1212 Su
  * up 8:30; W=196; drugs, nose, teeth; coffee
  : YD made pancakes.  Small; GF -- excellent with butter and jam
  @ Meet Val Higgins - Severn Hospice via Dandelyon's Worlds - Farewell, @Valdary 
  : I'm watching the steam come up from my coffee, lit from the side by my
    blue SAD light.  It's beautiful.
  * go to Container Store early to dodge traffic.  YD wants bank.
  * buy: secret santa gift for work.  Container store?  -Tea?-
  @ The Ferrett's Journal - Kind of an Explanation bookstore going
    out of business because it can't compete with Amazon.
  @ Fluorescent Dreams Wax Cylinders - 2010: The Year of the Transexual?
    er... not yet. (NYT article)
  @ Obamas Very Good Week - NYTimes.com via The
    Wordsmith's Forge - Network vs. Cluster in Politics 
  x Colleen wants to go to Ross in the afternoon -> too sore from yesterday
  @ Maybe There is Hope for Silicon Valley (and the World) After All
  @ Indistinguishable from Technology - Life laundry/decluttering compulsive
    hoarding ... 
  * walk:  to (not around) Rose Garden.  
    ! subdued.  When did walking on a cloudy day start to be depressing?
  % "non-observant" doesn't just refer to my religion
  * dinner: chicken paprikash
  * wrap Secret Santa gift.  My back hurts.
  * bottom quilt now in the drier for the third run.
  : YD's bed frame is flimsy.
  * Three loads of laundry.  5 drier runs; quilts take a lot of drying

I spent a few minutes in the morning watching the steam from my coffee curl up, lit from the side by my blue SAD light. Very pretty, and soothing.

I actually got out of the house early, to go to the Container Store at a time when there was still parking. The YD wanted to stop at the bank, so she went along. I like the Container Store -- a little pricey, but they have a great selection of little gadgets & such they sell as "stocking stuffers".

And a walk, in the late afternoon, down to the Rose Garden. I'm sadly out of shape. And when did walking on a cloudy winter day start to be depressing? Decades ago, I guess, but think I remember liking it back in college. Or maybe I was just depressed all the time then, so it didn't matter? Oh, well.

QOTD: "'non-observant' doesn't just refer to my religion." I don't remember just what it was that I wasn't observing at the time.

I made a pretty good chicken paprikash for dinner.

There are links. I wish I'd known Val Higgins -- she sounds from her blog entries like a wonderful and brave person, and now she's gone. Not a bad day, on the whole, but a little melancholy around the edges.

Comments

Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

I've been getting a lot of pingbacks from you. Thanks everso for all the signal boosting!

Re: Thank you!

[mdlbear]

You're most welcome. You link to a lot of good stuff.

LOL

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

I find it funny that you comment that you don't remember what you weren't observing.

Re: LOL

[mdlbear]

*grins*

A self-deprecating sense of humor sort-of works against depression; I'm not sure what it does for low self-esteem.

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

Thank you, again, for the pingback!

[mdlbear]

Most welcome.