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[geekchick]

Today is Boomtime, day 19 in the season of Discord, 3269.

I always thought I'd be more distressed about finding gray hair. Today at work I happened to notice that I've got several now and I had a brief flash of "time to start dying my hair again". Then I noticed that under the light it looked a little bit like I'd woven strands of shiny silver tinsel into my hair. I like it. My hair is almost waist-length again too. I should get it trimmed a bit and see if I can resist the urge to go in and ask for a chin-length bob as I do nearly ever summer. I remember when I still thought that being 32 would be awful, as I'd be so oooooolllld. Now that I'm here, you couldn't pay me enough to go back to 16 or 18 or 22. I sometimes still have an image of myself in my head as being 19, but I have no desire to actually be 19 again. I have to confess that I occasionally give in to contemplating the fact that if I base things solely on my immediate family history, I'm probably more than halfway through my life already...but you know what? I think that's okay. It just makes me appreciate the "now" more than I did when I was a lot younger.


I've been a little scarce online lately. I haven't answered email. I haven't posted much, and when I do it's little short pieces. I haven't been on AIM much at night. I've been trying to get to bed before 1 recently, although what ends up happening is that I crawl into bed and read a book until 2 am anyway. (patgreene and claytonsghost, thank you for recommending "Lamb"; I loved it. For those who haven't read it, picture "Life of Brian" meets "Good Omens".) I've been wildly depressed and just unable to get myself motivated to do much. I'm doubling up on the SAMe and adding some 5-HTP and St. John's Wort. I'm tired of this, and I hate not having the emotional stamina to do anything other than curl up and be a recluse. My goal for the rest of this week is to answer email I have piling up (if I owe you email, ping me and remind me about it please so I don't miss it), and try to get out and go up to Torrid in the Montgomery Mall this weekend.

I've been combatting my mood with a wee bit of retail therapy (see above trip to Torrid ;) ); I've gotten books, books, and more books. I picked up in the last three days:

• "Dare to Repair: A Do-It-Herself Guide to Fixing (Almost) Anything in the Home" (oddly, written by CIA Director George Tenet's wife)
  
• "The Get Fuzzy Experience" (the new collection, with the best cover ever)
  
• "Bloodsucking Fiends", by Christopher Moore
  
• "Home Comforts: The Art & Science of Keeping House", by Cheryl Mendelson
  
• "The Glucose Revolution Life Plan" (still need to find a copy of "The New Glucose Revolution", but the one I got has a bunch of recipes.)
  
• "Teach Yourself XSLT in 21 Days"
  
• "MySQL and Perl for the Web" (the latter two found at the computer show last weekend for 70% off. <Vern>Such a deal!</Vern>)
  
• Laurell Hamilton's new one, "Cerulean Sins", is the next thing on my list after I decide whether I'm going to order from Amazon or buy it locally.
  

There are actually things I'm looking forward to: learning to rollerblade, Jethro Tull at Wolf Trap, rumors of Crosby, Stills & Nash this summer, Neil Young with Lucinda Williams (see a trend here?), hopefully visits with sweeties and a vacation. I think I need to come back out to the SF Bay area when I'm not booked up completely with work.

Time to take my melatonin so I'm not up until 2:30 am again.

Comments

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

*Hugs* I found a -huge- new crop of -white- hairs in my mustache while I was in Detroit over the weekend. I thought about it for a minute, shrugged and said, "Oh well..."

it looked a little bit like I'd woven strands of shiny silver tinsel into my hair

I bet that looks very cool.

I remember when I still thought that being 32 would be awful, as I'd be so oooooolllld. <snip> I sometimes still have an image of myself in my head as being 19, but I have no desire to actually be 19 again.

Seeble!! (Although I've been thinking 16 or 17, myself. :-) )

Laurell Hamilton's new one, "Cerulean Sins", is the next thing on my list after I decide whether I'm going to order from Amazon or buy it locally.

However you get it, get it by 4/10 and you can get it signed if you're interested in that sort of thing. See Laurell's web site - she's going to be in your area (DC 4/10, Baltimore 4/11). semperfiona picked up a copy for me at the signing in St. Louis Tuesday night. I don't know why, but we in Indy don't seem to make many book signing tours...

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Gray hairs are cool, especially when they are silvery white. My reaction - "one less hair I have to bleach to dye it <insert bright color here>". And agreed - being older is far superior to being younger!

Re: getting out more often - G. was hoping you'd come to a sewing circle one of these days - she likes hanging out with you and wishes you'd come. Yes, embroidery DOES count as sewing!

[mouseman.livejournal.com]

My hair is almost waist-length again too.

Ooooh. Can I ... uh ... I mean ... uh ... you're not going to cut it before I get out there, are you? <bats eyes>

hugs

[geekchick]

Seeble!! (Although I've been thinking 16 or 17, myself. :-) )

Oh god, those were miserable years, I try as much as possible to forget them. =)

However you get it, get it by 4/10 and you can get it signed if you're interested in that sort of thing. See Laurell's web site - she's going to be in your area (DC 4/10, Baltimore 4/11).

Hm. Baltimore's right out on a weeknight, that'd be a 2+ hour commute. Bailey's Crossroads could almost happen. Thanks for the notice, I hadn't heard anything about it yet. =)

[geekchick]

One of these weekends I might make it over to sewing circle. There's also someone who runs a NoVA stitch-n-bitch which could be fun too.

[geekchick]

Can I ...

Yeeeeeeees?

I mean ... uh ... you're not going to cut it before I get out there, are you?

Since I don't know when you're going to be out here, I cannot say. ;) It is unlikely that I will do so, however. Especially when you ask so nicely. ;)

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

those were miserable years, I try as much as possible to forget them.

Still on the same page here. :-)

Thanks for the notice, I hadn't heard anything about it yet.

You're most certainly welcome. :-) I am just a veritable wealth of trivia.