A day off

I don't remember the last time I looked in my datebook and saw a completely unscheduled day.

There is nothing I *have* to do today. And noplace I *have* to be.

I stayed up past 4. And am in bed past noon.

Decadence!

I was tempted to plan a geocaching outing, 'cause one wants long blocks of time for that. Or maybe visit a friend - I never have enough time to see all the folks I want to see.

And if the mood strikes, I'll do one of those spontaneously.

But I kinda like this unstructured concept.

I've got lots of projects that I want to work on, and might do some of them today.

• I want to get a certain bunch of envelopes printed, and their corresponding letters into the mail. That may sound innocuous, but I've been procrastinating on hitting that particular milestone for a very long time. Having it done will feel damn good.
• It would be a good day to cook something involving vegetables. I cook so little lately.
• I might work on balancing my checkbook and figuring out this year's tax damage, though then again I might not. Needs to happen soon, though.
• More appealing - boxing up the larger clothes that now swim on me and putting 'em in the garage. If I don't need 'em in a year, they get donated.
• Getting some other boxes o' stuff into storage as well. It was good that I was mostly unpacked by the time the first gallbladder attack hit in August, a mere 3 weeks after I moved in, because major efforts on my room kinda ceased after that point. But now that I'm well, my room could use more work.
• Look up some info for Darla so that she can put me on the van insurance, and bug her to do the same for my car (consider yourself bugged, dear :-)
• Oh yeah, and I have a bit of beadwork to finish up.

I know, these might not seem like the most extravagantly fun things that one could do with a whole day off. But they're things I've been wanting to get done, and having them done will feel really good and contribute much to inner tranquility. And there's a certain serenity in just being able to pick a project and do it at one's own pace, instead of the rush that comes with deadline-based necessity.

I'm happy.

Sweet 17...

mgcmarco, aka my high school best friend, sweetheart, and prom date, dug out this old picture of me while going through boxes of pictures in his basement:



I'll have to scan in my picture of him, me, and rustmon from that night! I don't think I have any that include maxh42, ratbastrd, robardin, or bear_left, alas!

Random thought #1 - I had *no* *clue* that I was that cute, back then.

Random thought #2 - See the red arms? T-shirt sunburn. I'd been out biking ~25 miles in the hot sun the day before, training for an 800 mile bike trip, and I completely forgot about the effect that this would have with the following day's attire. At least it matched my dress...

Random thought #3 - Hey Marco, now I'm giggling about the time that we went out biking together and I swerved through that one turn under the highway as you shot straight ahead through the traffic light ;-) And then there was that other time when we had to walk across Flushing because one of us popped a bike tire... I forget if that was you or me. But it was fun!

Random thought #4 - Our prom was held at Windows on The World, atop the Twin Towers. Sigh...

Random thought #5 - And then there was the beach trip afterwards, sitting out on the jetties under the moonlight in our finery, and staying up all night and then going back to school the next morning to show all the younger students our attire. It was a good prom!

More prom photos

My housemates let me borrow their scanner, so here are some more flashback photos from Geri's senior prom:



rustmon is on the left with his date, whose name I don't recall. mgcmarco and I are on the right.

( And a couple more... )

A very good day

I only did one, but it was the most important one... 57 letters are now in the mail.

Now I'm enjoying dinner with my housemates - they cooked tempeh, applesauce, mashed potatoes, green beans, and brownies! It isn't often that I'm home early enough to eat dinner with them, so this is a treat.

Ok, I'll post *geeky* quiz results...

Glee, I'm a Chloroplast! You scored 50 Industriousness, 48 Centrality, and 30 Causticity!

I'm a Chloroplast! Most of the Earth's energy comes from the chloroplast's ability to capture the energy of the sun and fix cabon dioxide for conversion to starch. Like the mitochondria, they have their own DNA and live somewhat independantly from the rest of the cell. In terms of real life, you have it all! You're the person everyone wants or wants to be. Just watch out for being overconfident, as you may end up alone.

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 23% on Industriousness You scored higher than 84% on Centrality You scored higher than 69% on Causticity

Link: The Which Cell Organelle are you? Test written by fading_shadows on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test