Podworld News

Well, I'm back. I was in Chicago... I meant to post about that beforehand, but things kept getting in the way. Work, mainly. I had a hard time coming back for various reasons (mainly work-related). Likewise, I should really be sleeping now, in order to prepare for work tomorrow.

There are lots of things I'd like to post about. Not all exactly deep thoughts, but still. Lots of goings on, and stuff. Maybe I'll get around to that soon. I might make a phone post sometime soon too. Possibly.

( Things I'm thinking about at this moment, random order )

So. The tomato plants are getting biggish (unlike the soybeans, which are dead dead dead from rain issues). Big enough that they need to move into adult pots. But, even having given more than half of them away, I still have too many. So anyone in the area (and by area, I mean an hour and a half drive, not the weird NJ thing of "it might take me more than 15 minutes to get there, thus out of my area"), if you want one, let me know, and I'll probably bring it to where you are. You will need to put it either into a bigger pot or into the ground. Please!!! They need homes, people!!! Adopt!!!

The afternoons tend to be hectic, annoying, and jaw clenching. But the mornings... ah, the mornings! They're not so bad. So anyway, finally!!! Pics from a set that I promised to show people months ago (yes, cissa and teapot_farm, that means you!)... http://home.earthlink.net/~podperson/

Oh, and tanaise, there's something there that only you'll appreciate.

I was actually going to post something about the weekend and all, but that'll have to wait until later. First, I'd like to whine and ask that someone (maybe darkmattr?) fixes this issue for me, because I know he has the mad skilz that are required. Why is there no full soundtrack for Empire Records available??? All I want is all the songs from it collected into one place. Including the version of 'sugarhigh' with renee "i want to sing in a band" zellweger singing. Someone please help me!!!

So I don't have cancer. I know, this doesn't come as a surprise to most people, but I'm pretty happy about it. I was mildly worried. Not very, but still. Yay! to no cancer. And hopefully that'll be the end the doctor's appointments for a while.

In other news, I very soon will be a part-time Home Depot employee. Though I question the wisdom of voluntarily agreeing to actually work 7 days per week, I figure I'll do it as long as I can. They gave me a choice of departments, I went with paint over gardening. I mean, I really don't have a romaniticized notion of what working outside in the summer in NJ is like. I've done it before and it's freaking hot.

This job will make things difficult though. I need to tell them when I have my trip to Chicago scheduled too, I better remember that. But otherwise... I mean, travel will be nigh impossible (though obviously, I can still go to Philly and stuff, don't worry crowyhead!!!) and I guess I'll have to do scenic painting either on weeknights or before/after shift on weekends. Thrilling. But I mean, really, you do what you have to do... and right now, and possibly for a while yet, this is what I need to do. I refuse to ask for more money from my family. I mean, I own these debts, the majority still being student loans, and I refuse to give up. Doing something about it. Kicking ass, taking names, that sort of thing.

And in other job-related news... tomorrow is the day in which I find out what's happening to my real job. Fun fun...

Another week has begun, and I am still employed. Yay!!!

Service engine light came on again. I'm trying to ignore it, except to note that it annoys me. It's kind of like when I was little and my brother would try to bug me and my mom would say, "Just ignore him!!!" and I'd be like, "But I can't!!!"

I rearranged my living room over the weekend. I like it much better, I think. It's weird, I mean, I didn't totally *dislike* it the other way, but still. I feel happier with it like this. And now I can see the trees outside when I'm sitting on the couch, which is nice. I kind of scratched the floor whilst furniture was being moved, which sucks, but what can you do? There are now random things that still need to be dealt with, and mirror man is lying on a counter, but all things will be done in time. I figured out how to spray paint all the metal doors, but I'm going to have to have a full day to do it in, so here's hoping next weekend is clear, bright, and windless!

I applied for a part-time job at several home improvement warehouses. I need the cash, and the time may as well be spent somewhere that I like hanging out in (though that will undoubtedly change, heh). Who knows if they'll even get back to me, but I did try.

I got to hang out with lots of people this weekend, which was pretty exciting. Though one of the people I hung out with left mouth and nose prints on the windows of my car. Bastard! I guess it was only fair payback though.

Didn't make it to Paddlesport, but I don't think it was much of a loss. I would've probably just stared at the Subarus for a good long time in envy. Then moved onto cool gear, doing the same thing, then moved onto looking at cool trips that I also can't have. I still plan to join a club or two, but I'll have to actually make more of an effort.

Way back when I moved, a couple sent me a home depot giftcard because they love me and are exceptionally cool people. I realized the other day that I hadn't used it, so yesterday I went and bought spring gardening stuff. And then I planted seeds. I realized it'd been years since I planted anything, so this is kind of cool. I plan to use my deck to full effect, and have sown grape tomatoes, green soybeans, rosemary, and pomegranate seeds. The pomegranate ones might be odd, for some weird reason I decided to plant all the seeds, even though the tray wasn't big enough, so each plug has several seeds. Given that I'm not entirely sure they'll germinate, I guess this is okay, and it's not like I know what to do with 20, never mind the hundred I could've had. I'm not sure conditions are perfect for them, but I've done the best I could. Eventually I'll probably be asking everyone I know if they want any of these plants. I do kind of overdo it with the baby plants on occasion. Oh, and the coffee trees are getting bigger, though there are still no signs whatsoever that they may grow beans. I'm holding off on putting them outside still. I'm waiting till it's hot.

Yesterday, on the commute home (wherein I missed the train and had to wait 20 minutes for the next one) I had time to think. And what I thought about was this... in a given year, I spend the the equivalent of appromimately 42 days just in time spent commuting.

I am confused by the fact that 3 out of 4 people in my office speak Italian and yet 2 of them still mispronounce Italian names.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!!!

It's Monday and I'm tired. However, all is not bleak... I did make the train this morning (by mere seconds) and I am still employed. Every week that starts or ends like that is a decent one. Life is good. I would rather be asleep now though.

The show I was crewing for is over, so I'm free until the next time I'm roped in. Luckily, I only work on maybe one out of every three shows at that theatre. Even with having spent the majority of the weekend there, I still managed to play DDR for around 3 hours. Oh, and I cleaned my stove. So I was productive. Except I kind of took some of the paint off the stove, my bad.

I found a decent Italian restaurant near my house. It surprised me. I am most impressed. Perhaps it will become my local.

I have random health issues lately. I'm not going to go into it, but it's all more or less annoying. Somewhat worrisome to me. Oh, and my arm hurts where I got a tetanus shot the other day. And I'm sleep deprived in part because I had a doctors appointment ridiculously early in the morning on Saturday.

Last week I saw a penny lying on the ground. I'd already had a spot of luck that day, so I left it there for someone else to find. I wonder who found it. I wonder if it was lucky for them. My day quickly went bad after that, I don't think a penny could've helped anything though.

I don't really understand ambition. I'd like to have ambition, but I don't. I suppose that could be my ambition, but it's a pretty boring one. I just have no desire to achieve anything really. Except maybe to have a cool house, but that's not really ambitious either. It's more a pipe dream. As is traveling. I wish I had money, so that I could go travelling somewhere. But in 3 weeks, I'll be visiting my parents house. I haven't been there since christmastime. I miss my dog. And my family too, I suppose.

The thing that I think I really like about working on stuff at the theatre (beyond the joy of creation and working towards something, obviously) is that I can forget for a time that I'm more or less broke. I don't have as much time to play with, so the inability to afford travel doesn't bother me as much.

Soon it'll be warm enough for me to take my kayak out. I can't wait! This year I want to actually get out on the water, and given that I don't have to remodel a condo, I think I possibly can. With the wetsuit, I'm hoping to get out maybe in April. Paddlesport is this weekend, I may go just so that I can join some clubs.

Yesterday, someone asked me if I wanted to be on a Monster House crew with them. Of course I said yes. I mean, how could I not?

I've just been informed by the LJ gods that my paid account is going to expire in 10 days. So I'm going to try to have a poll every day until it's over.

The first will be an easy one...

[Poll #264909]

Oh, and if you choose other, let me know what it is in comments. Thanks!