This Heart's On Fire

Listening to: Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary

I have a cold so stayed home from work today. I've been fighting this cold for a week now but my body is loosing. My mind isn't. My throat is sore and I have a low fever but I can't just sit around and be sick. I just washed the bedroom windows, even climbed out on the roof to get the outside. The sun is out and the shingles were hot on my bare feet. Before that, I organized my teas. I haven't even eaten breakfast yet. Last night I made an enormous pot of vegetable barley soup flavored with miso, I dusted and vacuumed my bedroom, changed the sheets, and started the process of cleaning out the closet in D's office. Cleaning his closet is my way of procrastinating cleaning out my office closet.

You could also look at that symbolically.

Though last week I cleaned my bedroom walk-in closet, the linen closet and hall closet... consolidating stuff and making a huge amount of free space. There are mountains of clothing, magazines, and other things in my office, and his, that are to be gotten rid of. I have a couple more stacks of CDs and books to sell. There is so much to get rid of that when I'm done there should be enough room to consolidate D's office and mine, if we want, and have a spare room to rent out. I'm just not sure if I want to do that because I'm extremely picky about living with people. I could use the money, but I've been working enough to not need to depend on it.

I've been enjoying the job I've been doing. Still doing miscellaneous things for the same guy. I've been pushing away other clients. Yesterday I was offered $20 an hour to tutor someone in web-design software I've never used. I'm sure I could figure it out in a half hour or less but I'd hate it. I'm so sick of the web. If it was Photoshop they wanted to learn, I'd do it, though I'd probably charge more.

I've been getting paid to record old vinyl and convert it to MP3. How chill is that.

I haven't been extremely social the past couple weeks. I did go up to Ukiah for a party at the brewery but since then I've just been working and doing stuff around the house, like I fixed the dryer by ordering a part... the door seal was missing and it took me a year to realize it. I tried to fix the stove... two of the burners only work intermittently. I figured out what's wrong (they wiggle too much) but don't know how to fix it

Oh, and of course I've been hanging out with my boys. I'm so impressed by the way they're able to “share” me. Very respectful and sweet. It's not perfect, but my life is so good.

Posted by Ari at 10:40:59