QUOTATION:I’m tired of everlastingly being unnatural and never doing anything I want to do. I’m tired of acting like I don’t eat more than a bird, and walking when I want to run and saying I feel faint after a waltz, when I could dance for two days and never get tired. I’m tired of saying, “How wonderful you are!” to fool men who haven’t got one-half the sense I’ve got, and I’m tired of pretending I don’t know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they’re doing it.
ATTRIBUTION:Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949), U.S. novelist. Scarlett O’Hara, in Gone with the Wind, vol. 1, pt. 1, ch. 5 (1936).
after finally getting my laptop back to some semblance of how it used to be i got the tiger os today. one word: cooooool. :)
of course, you can see that i've stayed up late playing. suffice to say that the new mail program included has enticed me away from thunderbird with its smart mail folders. still not sure if i'll be leaving mozilla. i'm rather attached. but i love the new dashboard feature.
but i really must be going to bed so i can get up in the morning...
amusing: people who own convertibles who drive with the top down and windows up. um, what's the point?
admirable: the two guys helping a third push his disabled truck out of the street so that it's not in the way. we need more people like this in the world.
why? college students driving mercedes g500s. um...
sweet: man and woman sitting the car at a stoplight. man actually giving woman his full attention as she talks to him.
one of the things about vacation is that you have to return to real life. work wasn't too bad, but now i'm coming down with a cold. i think i might blame the kid who was coughing in the row in front of us on the plane since i wasn't sleep deprived when i got back. ah well. i stayed home sick from work today so i wouldn't share with everyone else. at least i got a few things done around home.
adventures in decorating
now that i've gotten my living room to my liking, and my dining room at an okay state, i figure it's time to start working on my bedroom. it's probably the only room that i really haven't worked on at all, aside from dumping stuff there when i'm trying to clean out other rooms. i had assumed that i had the furniture in pretty much the only arrangement that it could be in, but i figured out today that wasn't the case. moving the dresser around to the other side of the room opened things up a bit. between my room and my spare room, i really would like to declutter a bit and get a real desk in my spare room. (of course, that would require moving the dressing table that i'm currently using as a desk. not sure if that would make my bedroom too crowded or not. at least i found round disks that make moving furniture a breeze without having to empty it first. i might have to go get a set or two more so i can move a few things at one time and evaluate how they look before i move on to other parts of the room...) anyway, i figure i'll work with what i already have before i think about new furniture pieces. right now, a desk is the only think i'm thinking i'll need. and maybe replace my 2-drawer vertical filing cabinet with a 2-drawer horizonal cabinet. decisions, decisions...
i think i'm just ready for some time away from work. this has been a rather hectic week - and not really for any one reason. just seems like our residents need a little bit of extra care this month for some reason. basically, they've been calling a lot.
enter a trip to san francisco. yay! shopping. nosing around the wine country. sleeping. no deadlines. let's just hope work doesn't blow up with mom, sis and i gone. then again, the owner will be camping out in the conference room while we're gone, i'm sure. he's just that way.
so i sit here and bide my time...waiting for midnight so i can check us in. gotta love online check in with southwest airlines. :)
that's life. hard drive dies...not recoverable. i'm still not sure exactly what all i lost in terms of pictures. i probably won't know until i've gotten everything loaded that i had given my sister. ah well. such is life. ...and i made a backup of everything on to dvd after i finished loading it back on. ayup. going to be more careful about that in the future.
periodically i am reminded about why i enjoy my roll as peacemaker. i like being the neutral party...especially when it comes to office politics. i guess i just try to stay above it all (literally!! my office is upstairs) and not get involved. not sure why we go for so long here at the office before something happens that just kind of polarizes everyone and makes them circle around each other warily. i guess some people just like to have drama in their lives. as if property management isn't melodramatic enough on its own!
anyway, life's moving back to normal now that i'm caught up on sleep and over the migraines i've had. and it's all just in time to pack up and head to san francisco for a long weekend of r&r with mom and sis before the summer rush.
it would be if i had used it. right now, i'm hoping the apple geniuses can resurrect what's left of my data off my hard drive. it appears that my laptop drive died. not entirely sure why...or what happened... all i know is that i can't use it. i spent an hour at the genius bar with a really nice lady who ran all kinds of disk repair programs on it, trying to figure out what was going on.
hopefully i'll have it back by tomorrow. it was a pain last night to have to keep trekking from dining room to office/spare room every time i needed to look something up or print something off. guess i'm just spoiled now. :)
i'm just glad it was all under warranty. i think this is the first time i've had a hard drive fail on me that couldn't just be reformatted and reused.
otherwise, i'm still recovering from sleep deprivation. i think this is the first day all week that i haven't had migraine symptoms. i have a choice of venues tonight. i think i'm going to hit tio leo's 'cause i just don't feel like going to firehouse. plus, i can hang out with gary and danielle and rodrick and all the other cool folks who follow the live-band scene. :)
i'm a little less sleep deprived today. this weekend was the balboa rendezvous and aside from all the workshops and dances, i also hosted 5 people. it was a bit like herding cats at times, but everyone seemed to have a really good time and matt, bless him, helped me get people around everywhere they needed to be. it'll probably take me all week to recover, i think. last night i was in bed by 10 and didn't really wake up until 7:45. another good night of sleep, and i should be set back to rights again. ...well, and after i settle all the furniture and stuff back to normal too. :)