Ambitions...

[fajrdrako]

I'm torn between going again to see "Pirates of the Caribbean" in a theatre or going home to play with my lovely new computer that is a work of art and technology combined. Once again I am enthusiastic over the results of dealing with the guys at "GamePower" on Bank Street - that's a rec from a satisfied customer, folks!

Did Qigong this morning, and weights at the fitness club at lunchtime. It felt good. I'm back on my diet - for a good long time, folks, since I want to be slim (well, slimmer than I am now) to wear the shieldmaiden gown I'm planning to make in time for the Gathering of the Fellowship in Toronto in December. Think I'll have time to make a Gondorian banner, too? Maybe one with a white tree on it?

Did you ever get those days where you have plans that excite you but you don't know if you'll have the energy/incentive to follow through? Having resisted all blandishments and temptations to go to TorCon (the world Science Fiction Convention in Toronto this weekend, where a large number of my friends will be) I have big plans here at home: I want to do a massive clean-up and rearrangement of my apartment.

My housekeeping skills are.... well, I'd call them rusty, but that implies they once existed. But I'm up for it. Seeing my computer desk all cleared off gave me wild and reckless ideas about making the place look the way I want it to look, all feng-shui'd and minimalized and made neat, everything in its place and all that. This might last only ten minutes, but think what a glorious ten minutes that would be?

Listen, I'm doing this self-improvement stuff with my body - doesn't it stand to reason I could do it with my living quarters, too?

I always think this reflects my astrological background: I'm Libra: I really, deeply, desperately want my surroundings to be beautiful, but I don't always have the initiative to make them so.

And you know how things sometimes just come together? Like, I did one contract job last year that earned me exactly the amount of money I needed to buy my new computer, with $2 and change left over. And I've been worrying for the past couple of weeks where I'll put a friend of mine who is coming to stay for the weekend next week - okay, I'll let her have my bed and I can sleep on the sofa, but that sofa isn't as comfortable as it used to be: I love it passionately, but it really needs to be replaced. It has seen better days.

I was still pondering the problem when a friend phoned me this morning, saying she was getting rid of her sofa bed, did I want it?

I was incredulous. Is she psychic? (I don't think I'd mentioned my sofa problem to her.) What luck. What timing. What joy.

Comments

[littledrop.livejournal.com]

Please go and see Pirates again! I've only seen it once and I am in love and desperately sad because I may not have the opportunity to see it again until it's released on DVD. You owe it to deprived Pirates fans everywhere!

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Gad, the cleaning-up bug has passed from me to you. Run with it! If I weren't working Saturday and Sunday both, I'd probably be making more such plans myself. As it is, I'll be at it before work on Friday, and all day Monday. Back porch will be swept off, cleared, and scrubbed before we know it.

The new little budgie needs to be named Captain Jack Sparrow, I'm sure you are already aware....

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Since you asked so nicely - yes, I will! I didn't have the energy last night, but I know at least one accessible theatre where it will be playing this weekend.

Besides which... I am still madly in love with that movie. With Jack Sparrow. Still smiling to think of him.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

My goodness, this clean-up bug is more contagious than a compuer virus! Yesterday I asked maboroshimaki what she was doing over the weekend. "Rearranging my apartment," she said. "It's time for a seasonal change." I told Marcelle what we were doing: "Me too," she said. It's kind of scary.

I would name the new little guy Sparrow, but since he's maboroshimaki's bird, not mine, naming privileges are hers. Meanwhile we are calling it the Baby.

Its chirps were the first thing I heard this morning.