Tag: personal silly woes

Well, a cold front came in, so the weather dropped twenty degrees, it’s raining and cold-ish, I’m pretty sure I have a bladder infection, so heating up some tea and going to take antibiotics. Found a slightly darker pink ribbon, so I’m sitting in front of my tv with the box set dvd of Princess Tutu, because it’s been years since I watched that series, and going to sew some doll clothes and hope I feel better soon.

Feet hurt from wandering around the Henry Ford museum. Had a great Norman Rockwell WWII exhibit and a lot on the Industrial Revolution and technology and how that inter-played with the change of people’s loves. All the car and early aviation stuff was less personally interesting. Tonight it’s the masquerade I actually have no interest in; tomorrow fly back to Texas 

Second night of the small art show attending to keep my sister company. Honestly only like a few pieces (but my training means I can do the silent stare and appreciate) zero interest in socializing. One of the few highlights is the Lisa Frank vultures.

I know I’ve not been super active recently, but as a head’s up, I’m driving to College Station tomorrow, then to Austin on Wednesday, flying to Detriot, MI early Thursday, and flying back to Austin, TX on Sunday and driving home on Monday.

Pulled out a third of my closet, have set aside clothes for next week’s trip. My goal was layers but cute and two/three key colors and at least half I haven’t worn yet. Only one thing is ‘daring’ or thematically close to halloween. Also, sister’s old prom dress looks like it’ll fit so I have a back-up for the masquerade. And will likely over-pack but companion under-packs, so we’ll be good.

Only have had two dishes so far- and just the prepackaged crap, not even the good or even decent authentic stuff- and yeah, forget trying to find a version of Indian food I might like. Morrocan is where I need to be looking. Has the elements of Mexican that I do like (my tastes with Tex-Mex and Mexican is …..look you can get good cheeses and a good corn tortilla and cumin is best, but I hate avacodo, jalepenos, hatch chilies, tomatoes, only some of the meat choices work for me…and at college I ate more enchiladas than one person should have too and the dish makes me low key sick nowadays). But I usually detest meat dishes with a ‘sweet’ flavor profile (even if it’s sweet and sour or sweet and spicy – basic orange chicken of Chinese-American is just on the tolerable sweet for me). I have a major sweet tooth, but this aversion is about half of the reason I hate hams (also just hating the taste of ham and bacon in general.) yet this sweet morrocan dish with raisins and beef and then this next one with harrisa? Nice. Now I want to try more/ a resteraunt. Not that there’s any within two hundred miles of where I live. But, hey, goals.

Fuck. It’s just now dawning on me that my goober hound is almost nine years old and harriers don’t live as long as whippets. And begrudgingly though it be most of the time, I love this damn hound and it’s gonna hurt like a MF bitch when i have to let her go

Feet hurt after work, so I thought to myself- maybe it’s time I use some of those Epsom salts and bath fizzies I have but never use (gifts for sisters). I have not taken a bath instead of a shower in…gah, probably twenty years? Like- actually use the bathtub for its intended purpose (aside from watering twelve orchids at once).

That was so uncomfortable. Feeling unbalanced, no soothing cleaning feeling, all the horribleness of floating but never stretch out to feel floating (it’s a small bathtub but I’m a tiny person.) Hello to low-key anxiety, agoraphobia, body repulsion, like fuck no thank you the day I switched over to taking showers instead of baths I know I never looked back and welcome affirmation why.

And maybe my feet hurt less? But that might just be because it’s been a few hours.

But yeah, relaxing bath is a personally oxymoronic phrase.

And watching all these reaction videos and then this great breakdown series of what these songs are doing chord/timing/mixing/etc…, one of the minor mysteries of my teenage years is cleared up. I listened to the alt and heavy metal radio station(s) as a teenager but since I almost never bought any CDs until the last year of high school and was relying on the rare times the radio DJ named the artist and track, I didn’t know the bands. And here, at last, one of the sources of my confusion cleared up.

Maynard was the lead vocalist for both Tool and A Perfect Circle. I think I sort of knew that, but damn if it wasn’t hard trying to keep them all straight. Then there’s Audioslave with the whole Soundgarden plus Rage Against the Machine. Thanks, guys. I love y’all but thanks