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| Posted at 04:20 AM on May 31, 2008 |
Exhausted.
I like being exhausted. Only once or twice a year do I get tired enough to feel like, if I relaxed completely, I would turn into a happy, warm, fuzzy little puddle.
Don't get me wrong -- I'm pretty much always sleepy, groggy, or tired to a certain degree, but not the kind where it feels good. I think if I went to bed, I'd be out in seconds. But then I'd be awake at 4 in the morning. And while that's common for me, it's always near the end of my day and not at the very beginning. Awakening to the pitch black would be very discouraging.
So what got me so wonderfully and completely pooped? Today, I planted about 40 plants in the garden. Tomorrow, I'm going to plant about 20 more plus sew several rows of seeds all before the projected afternoon rainstorm. I have about 20 tomato plants of about 10 different varieties, 2 different pumpkins -- one baking and one carving, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, several different kinds of peppers/chilies, cucumbers, 2 varieties of carrots, potatoes, okra, kohlrabi, cabbage, several different lettuces, rocket/arugula, two different beans, two different peas, a large variety of herbs, 3 different squashes, gourds, green onions, white onions, and probably a few other things I've forgotten.
Inside, I've started some luffa 'sponges', microgreens, and cantaloupe. Once they germinate, the luffas and cantaloupe will be moved outside.
This shit better grow.
I'm supposed to visit my friend, Kristi, in the hospital tonight, but I'm too tired to move, much less drive. She had surgery to remove a baseball-sized tumor from her kidney about a month ago, and while they were doing a scan, they discovered that she has lung cancer. She's never smoked. They removed a 9cm by 6 cm wedge of lung with the cancer and did tests that concluded that's not the primary source of the cancer. Neither was the tumor on her kidney. It's pretty scary.
In other news, I have some special (yes, that kind of special) handpainted unicorns that will be starring in a video I'm making. It's very exciting. But only sort of.
Other than that, I've been making a bunch of stuff but not listing it. I have an extreme aversion to taking product photos right now. This is only magnified by my lack of a photo box. I have all the materials with which to make one, but if I make it, then my one (lame) excuse to not take any product photos will be gone. Here are a couple things:
sock whale
socktopus
But I probably won't be selling either of those two.
Speaking of photos, if you ordered a print to help pay for Kristin's Leukemia fund, I have your prints here and am working out a way to ship them. I ordered a size larger than I normally do -- 11x14 instead of 8x12 -- and they don't fit in my envelopes. No suggestions, please. I'm on it. Please be patient.
I sent the check, which came to $115, to her along with some stuff some of my friends on Etsy and I made her. I hope it gets there soon. Thanks to everyone who contributed!
On that note, if you pray, please pray for my friends, Kristin and Kristi. If you don't, please send them good thoughts. Things are pretty scary for both of them right now, and they could use a little nudge to the universe to give them a break.
Ew. I just accidentally microwaved my lettuce.
I like being exhausted. Only once or twice a year do I get tired enough to feel like, if I relaxed completely, I would turn into a happy, warm, fuzzy little puddle.
Don't get me wrong -- I'm pretty much always sleepy, groggy, or tired to a certain degree, but not the kind where it feels good. I think if I went to bed, I'd be out in seconds. But then I'd be awake at 4 in the morning. And while that's common for me, it's always near the end of my day and not at the very beginning. Awakening to the pitch black would be very discouraging.
So what got me so wonderfully and completely pooped? Today, I planted about 40 plants in the garden. Tomorrow, I'm going to plant about 20 more plus sew several rows of seeds all before the projected afternoon rainstorm. I have about 20 tomato plants of about 10 different varieties, 2 different pumpkins -- one baking and one carving, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, several different kinds of peppers/chilies, cucumbers, 2 varieties of carrots, potatoes, okra, kohlrabi, cabbage, several different lettuces, rocket/arugula, two different beans, two different peas, a large variety of herbs, 3 different squashes, gourds, green onions, white onions, and probably a few other things I've forgotten.
Inside, I've started some luffa 'sponges', microgreens, and cantaloupe. Once they germinate, the luffas and cantaloupe will be moved outside.
This shit better grow.
I'm supposed to visit my friend, Kristi, in the hospital tonight, but I'm too tired to move, much less drive. She had surgery to remove a baseball-sized tumor from her kidney about a month ago, and while they were doing a scan, they discovered that she has lung cancer. She's never smoked. They removed a 9cm by 6 cm wedge of lung with the cancer and did tests that concluded that's not the primary source of the cancer. Neither was the tumor on her kidney. It's pretty scary.
In other news, I have some special (yes, that kind of special) handpainted unicorns that will be starring in a video I'm making. It's very exciting. But only sort of.
Other than that, I've been making a bunch of stuff but not listing it. I have an extreme aversion to taking product photos right now. This is only magnified by my lack of a photo box. I have all the materials with which to make one, but if I make it, then my one (lame) excuse to not take any product photos will be gone. Here are a couple things:
sock whale
socktopus
But I probably won't be selling either of those two.
Speaking of photos, if you ordered a print to help pay for Kristin's Leukemia fund, I have your prints here and am working out a way to ship them. I ordered a size larger than I normally do -- 11x14 instead of 8x12 -- and they don't fit in my envelopes. No suggestions, please. I'm on it. Please be patient.
I sent the check, which came to $115, to her along with some stuff some of my friends on Etsy and I made her. I hope it gets there soon. Thanks to everyone who contributed!
On that note, if you pray, please pray for my friends, Kristin and Kristi. If you don't, please send them good thoughts. Things are pretty scary for both of them right now, and they could use a little nudge to the universe to give them a break.
Ew. I just accidentally microwaved my lettuce.
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