Random Stuff

[bertine]

1. I wouldn't miss Saturday delivery of mail. However, I would miss it if the post office wasn't open on Saturdays because that is when I mail stuff.

2. I stayed up too late last night watching ID4.

3. My car battery is dead and I have to remember to get a jump tonight so I can get home. Then I need to replace my battery and then go out to a movie with my friends.

4. gwangi wrote a good post about one of the places we visited on our trip, the Heart Mountain Relocation Center.

5. I still don't like coffee.

6. My bathroom is making very slow progress. When did I get so busy? My hope is to get another wall patched and the tile cleaned tomorrow night, which will just leave me the ceiling and the shower area. Then I would have the woodwork to strip on the window, a few tiles to replace, the tile grout to patch up (where needed) and then priming and painting the walls. The last thing is doing something with my vanity.

7. I have been procrastinating on this one task at work. I have gotten a lot done but I need to do this one.

8. Why do I keep farming on facebook? It is such a time suck but now I want all the ribbons.

9. I need to order my new vacuum. I am so excited about this.

10. I am trying to decide if I am going to go to parties (a family thing and then a birthday party) on Saturday or if I am going to work on my bathroom. Sometimes I think I am lame, sometimes I just don't want to be around that many people.

Comments

[melissa-maples.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I think I am lame, sometimes I just don't want to be around that many people.

I don't think that's lame at all, but then again I don't like being around anyone. I just don't see how people would choose mindless mingling and chit-chat (blah blah blah for hours and hours) over having a kickass bathroom that you will get to look at everyday! That just doesn't even seem to be a contest, to me. I'd choose the bathroom every time.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

We'll see how I feel on Saturday but you do have a good point. I tried being more social over the last year and it did make me some good friends and got me to meet my boyfriend but I think my socialness is winding down again. I miss being able to putter around my house and make things nice. I miss watching movies and doing cross stitch. I want to try and take up quilting. It just seems to me that going out is time you could be using for these other things.

[melissa-maples.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly. It sounds morbid, but a lot of times when I think about how I want to spend my time, I imagine myself on my deathbed and what I would be saying to myself. I can't imagine looking back on my life going, "wow, I'm sure glad I spent so much time hanging out with all those strangers and acquaintances and talking about nothing!", but I can certainly imagine looking back and being glad that I spent my time learning new things, improving my lifestyle and surroundings, or working on projects (writing, music) where I might leave something behind for future generations to know who I was. I know that some people find all that kind of fulfillment from socialising, but I'm most certainly not one of them.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

I totally get what you are saying. I like my friends and I like hanging out with them at times but most of the time when I weigh it against doing something "productive" I have a hard time being interested in it. Also, hanging out at night watching Law & Order with Zach seems to be fulfilling my socialization needs so it is hard to want to go out.