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i just spent the last two hours playing in the garden. i moved some tomato plants around (on the advice of a veteran tomato-grower), hopefully they won't be too upset about being uprooted. i grounded some gifted echinacea, and put up a cucumber trellis. i'm not sure how to get them to want to climb, but we'll see.
i wonder if i'll be able to keep up once the fruit start coming!
so, i get 29mpg on average and i drive 27.5 miles round trip to work. lunch is $5.50, if i get the special, $10 if we go out. that means i'm spending $10-14 per day to get to work and eat lunch. that's $220-$308 per month. that's a lot of money that i'm not saving.
that makes me feel foolish.
i'm glad i didn't bother watering the garden this am. we're gunna get hit in about 20 minutes.
also, most of my poppies are up... but they're being drowned out by a whole bunch of thistle... i should have dug it up when they were of a manageable size. it might be fun to take a scythe to it.
i can hardly read my screen sitting on the back porch it's too sunny and my house is too bright.
i'm not really complaining.
my plants have seemingly doubled in size after last night's rain. the rain barrel got thwarted by the amount and the tube couldn't keep up with the amount of water wanting to get in. we really need to install our second one, but we can't figure out where to put it. i don't really want to kill the peonies that are on the other side of the downspout, but we might have to.
the first poppy opened up:
and fruits from my friends:
(from l to r) shasta daisy, sedum, spiderwort, and columbine
i can't remember what these two pretty ones are, but they're pretty.
and nora, posing for the shot:
we're all very tired today. i was up from 9a to 1:30a yesterday and only slept til 6. i took a nap after breakfast, but it's hard to sleep the day away when it's nice out. so, i planted the gifts, watered the garden, and cleaned the back yard.
the party last night was a huge success. the barrel is empty and is waiting to be returned, most of the food was eaten (especially the rice krispies!), one load of the dishwasher is done but not put away yet. luckily, the only room that is not in pre-party condition is the kitchen.
now we just get to wait for the probable thunderstorm.
i love having the day off tomorrow. it makes me able to stay awake so much better.
i also love having awesome neighbors. they offered their chairs from the front porch and their fridge from the garage. nice.
we have most of the spindles up on the deck, but have a hell of a lot to accomplish tomorrow. we'll see how long i last before i crash.
this whole week has had me really unmotivated.
this am, when i walked out the door, i said to kurt, "when are you going to win the lottery?"
we have to crawl under the deck to put eight more joists in.
we also had to pre-drill two holes in each of 100 balusters in order to prevent them from splitting upon installation.
yesterday was the final day for direct deposit, according to the irs website. we still haven't received ours. i filled out the form for figuring how much we're getting and it says the full $1200 is coming to us. according to their payment schedule (and the fact that it comes to the first ssn on our return) we should have received it may 9. when i use the "where is it?" form, it says they don't have info pertaining to our check. :/
the house account is quickly being emptied and we'd like to replenish soon.
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tomorrow will be spent putting up the railing and finishing stuff up.
oh! oh! the radishes are already shoosting out of the soil. and the deck is coming along nicely. Kurt's really been working hard this week. we're having a deck-party on saturday to get all the boards nailed in. this activity supersedes my cousin's wedding and reception, which apparently has caused sore feelings among relatives. i guess i can understand, but i can't really do anything about the fact that there is one weekend between today and our party.
it occurred to me on the drive in to work, that humans aren't humbled often enough to keep from feeling entitled. or maybe that's just americans.
whenever i wake up perpendicular to my bed, i wish i had the ability to watch how i got that way.
but i don't really cart my laptop around very often...
i'm staying home today. i woke up at 5:30, left a voicemail for my boss, checked my meeting schedule, and cancelled a meeting i had. all from my bed with the awesomest phone ever.
woke up nauseous and dizzy with a headache at 9. the dogs weren't going to let me sleep any later. kurt made me drink alka-seltzer (yuck!) and now i'm feeling slightly better. but not better enough to go in to work.
i do have some ia to work on this afternoon, though. let's see if the brain is working well enough.
whew. i mowed the lawn, and then Irma's. and then unloaded a pile of wood for Joe. and then planted my garden, repotted two plants. and just got done installing the scalewatcher. i'm tired.
i need to mow the lawn. and plant my garden. and trim the bush between our driveway and Irma's house so she doesn't go spraying round-up all over it. which has been suggested twice now. i think she hates that bush.
i'm running out of clothes. things are wearing out in places, holes are appearing. i had to wear a skirt yesterday because i no longer have suitable pants to get me through one week of work! so, this weekend, kurt and i are going to kohl's. hopefully they have reasonable styles.
someone i know died from an o.d. last night. this marks the second person with whom i've had casual acquaintance who o.d.'d. the weird part is how it shouldn't even be possible for anyone to have had that experience. but i guess the circle of friends i once had are susceptible to the lifestyle that makes it possible.
anyway, a handful of friends are reasonably distraught by this today.
there's a strange feeling that happens when you hear about someone you know, who is mere days older than you, is no longer walking the earth. it has a sort of empty feeling to it. it's much different than when it's a great aunt or a soldier in this shitty war. it's too close.
so, here's some exciting news...
and i handed out invites to our party last night to the neighbors. Irma had me come in to have a sit-down chat and i didn't want to disappoint, so i came home to a burnt pizza.
stuff i'm making for our housewarming party:
cold stuff:
vegan noodle salad
vegan pumpkin cheesecake
taco dip
hummus?
gazpacho?
hot stuff:
grilled, marinated portobella mushrooms
grilled eggplant
veggie-ka-bobs
that's what i refer to my chiropractor as. i'm down to once-a-week visits (i was 3-times in feb, and then 2-times until this week), i was gunna break up with him yesterday, but my re-exam went so well that he said i didn't need therapy (the little zappy things and the traction machine), just adjustments... so my appointments just went from an almost unbearable 45 minutes to about 7.
now i just have to wait for the insurance agent to call to tell me i shouldn't have needed treatment for this long. which would be incorrect.
our house is not big by any means. in fact, it's pretty tiny. i rather like it that way. but it results in the need to purge sometimes... and the first to go is the rocking chair.
edit: not 12 hours later, my third successful craigslist exchange is almost completed. the chair will be picked up tomorrow evening.