Happy evening...

I've got it! I've got it! I have my beautiful new computer and it's wonderful in every way.

I am so happy.

Ambitions...

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.