Miscellany of a Cheshire Cat

Happy Friday! I’ve had a crazy week. Luckily it gets to end with a calm Friday! Work has been busy, culminating in a big meeting and presentation yesterday. I didn’t have to give the presentations but I did prep them so I have to say the meeting was dull. I was saved when the meeting ended an hour early. That rocked. I also appear to have a stable assignment through August or so. It’s nice to know that I’m still useful to my boss too. I’m still having fun and feeling productive, always a feature.

I started collecting silly World of Warcraft videos on their own page. I’m still trying to find a couple that I really liked but haven’t seen in a while. Feel free to toddle over there and make suggestions. Some of them are particularly WoW-geeky others will amuse anyone. Yes, I am that flavor of geek. But some of these are really great!

Last weekend’s to-do list went well enough. Home Depot run, indoor gardening, grocery shopping, some office cleaning and some correspondence happened. I tried to mail my novel outline to my other computer but failed… so I kind of touched it! As an added bonus, I got through a ton of laundry. Outdoor gardening has to happen this weekend though. I need to prune some shrubbery before it’s too late. So this weekend the same list applies and we’ll see if I can finish it off. I really want to make space for the scanner so I can order it and start playing! (And get the box of prints and slides off the futon couch in my office!) And maybe I’ll even tweak things so I can post photos without having to align them all to the left.

Walking is still proving to be very good for me. I will in fact continue doing it. Of course, I keep seeing the Little White Dog Mafia when I go out. I think they’re stalking me! I have a little first generation iPod shuffle I take walking with me. Intellectually, I know that the songs are played in a relatively random order, but in my heart I think my iPod is trying to please me. Songs like “One Night in Bangkok” and “Rock me, Amadeus” come up a lot in the shuffle. Really fun walking songs! What I find particularly good about walking is that I don’t obsess over work while I’m doing it. I’m more often looking for nifty things to photograph (like the flowers I’m posting today) or just letting my mind wander. It’s really quite meditative. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all those good things people say about exercise and walking are true.

The weather is still kind of crazy but pleasant. I admit that after one stupidly warm day I changed my gym membership from cancelled to frozen. If I don’t successfully shift my schedule to walk in the cooler parts of the day, I may reactivate it. I may eventually feel the need to go back to the gym and do actual training. We’ll see. I’m not counting my chickens or anything, just not cancelling the lease on the hen house. I hate the heat. A lot.

I hope this Friday Flower Fabulousness has entertained you! There’s a lot of yellow out there now. The magnolia trees are starting to bloom. The tulips should come along in another week. The cherry trees are starting to look like they’re contemplating spring while the dogwoods are preparing a little more seriously. There will be lots more flower pictures coming soon!

tags: croci, crocuses, daffodils, exercise, flowers, irises, spring, weather, weekend, world of warcraft