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Thursday, Mar. 24, 2005 - 10:08 a.m.
finally!!
Shock of shocks! I actually got into Diaryland to post an entry!
Yeah, I know, if I forked over the $2.50 a month or whatever for a Gold membership than I wouldn’t have had the downtime hardly at all. I’m still considering a move to Typepad, though, even though Balynar forbids it!!!!
Didja miss me? ;)
I had a couple of entries all written in a Word document to post into the diary, but since I haven’t been able to get in lately, the entries don’t seem as newsworthy as they were when I wrote them. Not that stuff I write is really newsworthy, per se.
I had a long diatribe about Terry Schiavo, but really, I’m sick of hearing about it, I’m sick of getting angry about it, I’m tired of disagreeing with my husband about it, and I’m tired of the political and religious wrangling that threatens my potential to make my own healthcare decisions later on in life. Yuck. I hope for peace for her, and for her family. It’s Easter,maybe peace is forthcoming.
I had a huge entry written about my crisis-filled Tuesday that encompassed me being both department director AND network engineer, but really, all the frustration is gone and I re-read the entry….it’s not as funny as it was then.
The Easter season is upon us, and for some reason, I keep forgetting.
It’s probably because Easter, to me, is an April holiday, a sunshine and almost-warm breeze kind of thing where wearing your Easter dress doesn’t mean linen and a parka. I seem to have lost the spirituality of the season, too. I am out of touch spiritually right now, and I haven’t found a way to connect back to it. I need to spend some time outdoors in the sun, meditating and basking, and I need to spend some time quieting my mind.
(Right now, one of my staff members, who is a total loudmouth smart-ass, is singing BADLY to the radio, mocking the songs, and I really just want to tell him to shove a sock in it!)
I NEED SOME SUN!!!!!!
For once, though, I don’t feel like my life is out of control busy. I have a lot on the plate, as usual, but it seems manageable. I’m already making plans for my non-Pennsic summer. I wish I had a vacation coming up soon, though. I would like to go back to the mountains and go canoeing and camp like we did two years ago. It was gorgeous. I’d also like to go hike Crabtree Falls, now that Travis has got his knee fixed.
If the weather is at all decent this Saturday, I am riding out to Pocahontas State Park to check out the possibilities for camping and hiking with Brownies. Travis already has plans for a day of hanging out with the boys.
Oh, yeah, and there is also the trip to Ellwood-Thompson’s and the Yarn Lounge in Carytown. Maybe I will also run by the bead shop.
Why is it that when I plan to do nothing, I can’t stop myself from doing all the fun things I don’t have time for otherwise? I just remembered that I need to go to the glass shop, too, so I can make the surrounding panel for the Virgin and Child window and hang the thing.
Obtaining yarn for my new summer poncho is on the shopping list. I want the Rowan Summer Tweed, but I can’t find a good price on it as yet. Although the prices I have seen haven’t been that bad, I really love to bargain-shop, especially for high-end materials for my various hobbies.
A kiln…..sigh…..I can’t stop thinking about one of those….don’t know how I’d afford it, nor where I would put it, but I keep thinking about all the really cool projects I would do with it. My great-aunt Rita used to slice wine bottles and beer bottles into rings, and then slump them in her kiln, string them up with heavy fishing line, and make wind chimes. I really want to do that.
But for now, I really need to get back to work…..
