This past long weekend has been a much needed
holiday. I did a whole lot of nothing and more of things that I wanted to do to make my life more enjoyable. The most notable to me was moving our stereo out of this low to the ground piece of furniture that couldn't quite hold all of our music. The result of this former placement was that it was difficult to find cds to play and also just hard to interact with the stereo because I had to crouch down. It was preventing me from playing music; like what I'm listening to
right now. I suppose a good way to sum it up is this: Our stereo setup had bad feng shui, and now it doesn't anymore! I think it's pretty likely that I'll be dancing again to my 'oldies' once again. (Oldies to those kids born in the 90's. Do you realize that the first class that was born in the 90's will be entering cal in the fall?)
Another thing I did was cover our couches with this nice material I bought at my absolute favorite
fabric store. This includes the other states I've lived in. That has helped make our living room a great place .. to live.
In other news, our roommate is moving out and we've decided to not replace him (for now). It's a pretty big chunk of money to be losing, but I think I'm ready to just have our own house and not have that third party anymore. He was a good enough roommate, but I didn't really enjoy living with him. I think our astrological charts just didn't match so well. I'm looking forward to and glad to have our house to ourselves. He'll be out by the 1st.
Our garden is going crazy right now. There's tons of flowers and colors. It's pretty nice. I had planned on taking a bunch of pictures and doing a picture blog type of thing, but I never got around to those pictures.
The last thing to mention is that I wrote a journal entry tonight. I used to journal all the time, but haven't really been doing that as much in the past several years. Well, I sat down and did it again. There's something about having to slow down my thoughts enough to write complete sentences and then maintain that thought for more content in the next sentence. It made me realize how rarely I write now. Everything I do is typing, like right now. I do have to say that writing is almost therapeutic.
Good night, Ya'll!
Today we received our wedding present from Punkinpie's Father. It's beautiful and impressive. He made it. I'm so excited to have that hanging in our house. I especially love that the symbols for us are our Chinese signs. Thank you Mark!
I am so glad that they fixed the I-580 ramp in the maze early. It was astounding how much and how far away it affected traffic. Usually I can leave work around 7pm and drive at least 50mph the entire way across the bay bridge and home. Also, I can usually leave home around 9am and drive without too much delay into the city. But since that accident happened, traffic has been all messed up hours later and earlier than normal. Essentially the detour through city streets with lights was backing up that traffic all the way across the bridge. The right 4 lanes would crawl and as a result people would move over into the left lanes and block those too. So that when traffic was finished crossing the bridge, it was this cluster f*&^ to merge back into the detour through Oakland. That was no fun. I guess the good news is that it encouraged me to ride the BART more. And riding BART with it's two significant walks on either end took just about as long as driving, but was much more peaceful. But now, it is again much faster to drive. I didn't even slow down coming home tonight. Party time!
