Anyone who knows me will tell you that I am not a morning person. As much as I enjoy going out to the parks and botanical gardens this time of year and marveling at the trees and flowers and the way the sun pokes through all the leaves creating wonderful kaleidoscopes of light, there is only so much sun I can take. Back before I went back to college, it seemed as if I could only work on my creative pursuits in the darkest part…
Just wanted to drop a quick note here to say that I am still here. A combination of a busier-than-usual schedule (even by post-Dad’s death standards) and depression has left me not only with no time to blog, but barely any time to sleep, either. I’ve been operating under a serious sleep deficit for four straight days now, and I still have a lot of work to do here at the house tonight and tomorrow before I can finally get some rest. Normal blogging activities…
… or, as it’s known around here, my sister’s birthday. No Friday Five this week because it’s about dreams and I don’t remember too many of mine. (The ones I do remember are mostly unfit for public consumption, anyway.)
This past weekend I picked up a CD/DVD rack from Best Buy. Mind you, I haven’t exactly been buying that many CDs or DVDs (or even video games) lately, but I have bought so many books that I needed to repurpose one of my DVD towers for books. I put the storage rack together over the weekend, and it was a huge hassle because the directions weren’t all that clear; I had to put several of the supports on three different times before I got…
Two of Dad’s loves were architecture and cars. One of the ways he put himself through college was to buy old cars that were being sold for a pittance, then fix them up and sell them for a big profit. You don’t want to know how many times I had to hear his speech about how the car companies are evil for making their cars impossible to fix on your own. (It’s not that I don’t agree with him, but after hearing the same speech…