Resolutions

All the garden stuff is off the must-do list, YAAAAY! (Well, all but about 4 hour's work.) Have taken clearing the library off the list of things to do because the whole point of the Sunday Seven is to clean/clear out every room. Just because the library's the most cluttered is no reason to single it out.

Arm status: Not as healed as I hoped it would be, but I don't need painkillers and I can knit. These are the most important things. Now I have to figure out *what* to knit, as the yarn that was to be the centerpiece of the next project turns out to be a major bitch to work with. A bear to untangle and often knotted in the skein (one skein had to be cut into 5 smaller bits just to ball properly) and ugly on the needles. There's too much to abandon, and it was too much of a pain in the patoot to consider buying more for the original project. I've got until the weekend to work it out, as that was to be my travelling project for Malice.

As part of trying to eat healthier, I'm trying to shift most of the sweets I eat to arguably healthier ones... fruit, fruit crumbles, honey on multi-grain bread, etc. I realize that this puts peanut butter cups into the "arguably healthy" range (all that protein, don'tchaknow) but surely if I eat more sweet rice it's better for me than noshing nothing but ice cream all summer long.

Still flunking at finding time to exercise.

STUFF I DID
Books:
( Reviewed )

( Audio )

( Bought )

( Read )

Current Handiwork Project:
Learned:
- um
Homekeeping:
- Continued the Sunday 7
- Shifted from bulk buying to weekly provisioning This is having a variable inpact on my budget, but I'm not throwing food out anymore.
Other:
- Cut down bushes out front
- Repotted two roses
- Weeded and cleared garden path
- signed first story contract
- delivered first for-pay fiction
- set up air conditioning contract
- knitted another foot onto Doctor Who scarf

( Stuff I Gotta Do )

( Stuff I Wanna Do )

( Stuff I'm Thinking About Doing )

Request: Vidder Help

I know a couple of vidders have this LJ friended. Can y'all help spiderine get started on a Windows machine?

Not that I'd mind knowing myself...

Weekly review and barbaric yawp of angst

My review for Accidental Florist is up on Reviewing the Evidence, along with an early mention on the front page.

That's the good news.

The bad news is that being a Responsible Adult sucks.

While watching the guy service the air conditioner (remember that drama from last summer?) I discovered two things: first, that the problem might have been fixed with a simple thing that the guy fixed today instead of a $3000 replacement, and second, I was standing in poison ivy.

Have I ever mentioned how sensitive I am to that stuff? I find out tomorrow the fun way if I washed it off fast enough. In the meantime, M, who ought to be beatified, or at least given a medal, went out and ripped it all out after work tonight.

Then the exterminator (remember the mice?) called and said he'd be dropping by tomorrow to check the outside. I told him that I had what I was pretty sure was a winged ant in a jar, but could he please take a look at it? (Said ant has been sitting in a jar in the freezer for the last few days; fortunately the Mighty M was a biology student and mellow about that kind of thing.)

When I went to put it on the stairs to the cave below my room (it's an extension) I noticed water on the stairs. When I went to touch the pipe that was turning green below the bulging insulation, the insulation shifted... and poured several I'm-not-exaggerating gallons of water on me.

AAAAAIIIIIIEEEE!

No wonder the mildew smell hasn't been getting any better in the bathroom. This was right below my shower. The insulation had probably been soaking up moisture since it was put up. If it wasn't for the bug in the bottle, I probably wouldn't have been down there right after a shower and thus put two and two together immediately.

Long story short, it wasn't a leak in the pipes, it was water getting down the outside of the shower pan and into the hole for the radiator pipe. It can be fixed with a new shower curtain, some rags thrown over the area for a while, and a lot of caulk. I can put up new insulation there too, after the area has had a chance to dry out.

Also, the moral of the story is that if you live in the Washington DC metro area, Victor Gasch is a god among plumbers. Call him, he's in the book. Although he probably won't charge you less and come out at 7:30 at night if you don't live just a few blocks away.

This is the sort of day that could only end in chocolate.

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I both think that Heroes is completely brilliant and that I will stop watching if this is an accurate prediction.