I haven’t been posting that much lately, so I don’t want to just post one thing about cat asses and then go on with my day, do do do, and leave you hanging here.
I am twittering more than I used to. At Twitter. You can follow me there if you want, or not, either way. I don’t care, honestly. I could set up my Twitter so that whatever I put up there shows up on Facebook, but I’ve decided to limit my Facebook postings to just one a day or less, because otherwise I think it might overwhelm people. I am not all that entertaining, I know it. But I like posting non sequiturs and Twitter is the place for that. Also, I like following people there. I mostly follow comedians and actors and politicos and that kind of thing. It’s fun in a Hollywood way- lots of people are far more desperate to be relevant than they should be in a normal world, and then others are just refreshingly interesting, and it’s all wrapped up in one place. I like it.
So, it is clearly spring here! Facebook peoples are all status-updating whines about possible snow this weekend, when the overnight low is only maybe supposed to hit 30 degrees. Unlikely snow with a low of 30 degrees overnight, friends! And that is the low!
It is clearly spring. My crocus are in full bloom and I have seen honest-to-god daffodils in near bloom in the yards of people whose houses (and flowerbeds) face south. And, on Sunday, my yard turned green. It wasn’t green when I came home from the gym, but I went down for a nap (shut up, it was the time change and a weekend and I like naps, ok?) and, when I surfaced again, the yard was green. It was pretty cool. My mother reports that she has been tracking it, and they are usually mowing at their house by mid-April. I am not ready for mowing! But I am glad to see spring. I like the spring temperatures when I can wear shoes without socks but with sweaters and cardigans and lightweight jackets. I like it.
It is already the end of March. Well, it’s still the middle of March, but only for another couple of days. Then it will be the end of March. And then April and then May and then June will come! And I am traveling all over in June: the Yellowstone trip, a family reunion in north Missouri, and a trip out east for the annual conference of the American Library Association in DC. I get to go to DC this summer! I am so excited about this! I haven’t been to DC since March 2009, and I don’t remember before that. December 2007, I think? Maybe? Anyway, I am already planning where I want to eat. There is a long list, oh yes. The Yellowstone trip will be pretty bereft of food options for me, and I plan to mostly picnic to save cash. Then I will spend all that saved cash eating at my favorite DC restaurants a couple weeks later. I can hardly wait.
I have had a pretty good March so far. My desk is still mostly clean at work (a few papers have lingered longer than necessary), and my house is generally a giant mess, but I am always amazed at what can be handled in a 15-minute cleanup. My mother was a big proponent of those when I was a kid, and they still work on me today. The idea is that you just clean for 15 minutes, which is such a short little burst of time that it’s hard to say, “No, I don’t have time for that tonight, I’m far too tired!” etc. And, fifteen minutes later, I’m usually looking at a tidier kitchen and living room, a now-running washing machine or dishwasher, and possibly most of the house has been swept or vacuumed. And I’m not usually filthy enough to require much more than that, though the dog slobber on the windows should probably be cleaned more often than it is.
Anyway, this past weekend I had a pretty good time with equal parts fun and productivity and laziness. I’ve been going out to a specific bar to see bands on a pretty regular basis these days (not enough that they know me at the door or anything, but enough), and I ended up running into someone I met at True/False, which was good. We’re both looking for people to go out with, dancing or band-seeing or whatever, so we made a plan for this coming weekend. I am looking forward to that. I also did my taxes. And I took the aforementioned naps, walked the dog (far less than she thought she deserved, however), went to the gym, and went to see Alice in Wonderland (which, though pretty, had a shit script). So that was good. I like weekends like that. A nice mix. Even though on Monday, I still woke up at the office and thought, “Where the hell did my weekend go?”
And, oh yes, I went to this movie trivia night for charity on Friday night and we lost, big-time, even though I spent several months trying to lure some good trivia players to my team. Which I had! I had a solid team, but we just did not get good questions or categories. Some of the questions were frustratingly vague, not just obscure. It was highly disappointing! But I have been playing trivia on Wednesdays for the past few months, so I was able to work out some of my disappointment afterwards. We won second place last night, so yay for that. It’s a salve for my bruised trivia ego.
What is coming up? Hmm. I am dancing this weekend and off to Iowa next weekend, and in between there is more volunteer work at the food bank. I am volunteering at Earth Day as well! And I’m looking for more volunteer opportunities, especially ones that are outdoors, as the spring and summer progress. I spend too much time indoors. Or is that just the early spring talking?
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