9 posts tagged “tuesday”

Goodies:

• Finally remembering it's Tuesday and to do this ON a Tuesday
• Caramel macchiato - like dessert with caffeine, hot or iced, both delicious
• Clients who are nice and don't need incessant hand-holding AND pay bills immediately - sounds like a fantasy doesn't it? but I actually HAVE a client like this!
• Sitting down and figuring out how to code something new and having it work!
• Seeing light at the end of the packing tunnel. (I don't see it yet but I know I'm gonna like it.)
• Finding a new tv show to watch online AND it has three seasons worth of shows to watch (the one I'm watching right now is Arrested Development - very funny, weird, quirky, well-written)
  

Baddies:

• Packing up a whole houseful of stuff and that icky process of sorting and sorting and sorting
• Boxes and boxes of stuff everywhere
• Dust
• Dust bunnies
• ANTS - they just erupted here like a volcano and have swept through my house leaving prickly little ant carcasses and annoyance in their path
• Many things about the medical and healthcare world - today it's the arrogance of some medical people making painful situations even worse. (I admit though for every baddy I've found in the medical world there seem to be at least a couple goodies... the problem is the baddies are so memorable.)
  

Good things:

• sugar-free popsicles
• loved ones recovering from illness and surgeries
• summer weather
• Cracklin' Oat Bran - this is yummier than it looks!
• warm breezes
• Caesar salad with really fresh romaine lettuce
• Skype
• blossoms all over the cherry and apple trees
  

• unnecessary medical tests
• medicine given for conditions that don't exist
• medical entities that don't communicate with each other
• little added wounds that will take months to heal
• mosquitoes!
• really really high gas prices
  

Loves:

• Having multiple medical things all resolve themselves at once
• Time to do a few things around the house, like watch TV or read a book
• Traveling to new places; meeting new people
• The bus to Boston - a movie and a nap instead of driving two hours in traffic - doesn't get much better than that!
• Norway? Perhaps! Time will tell.
  
• Being excited about doing something new
• Emailing with old friends

• Licorice/fennel flavored toothpaste

I've missed a few Tuesdays in a row, but for some reason I'm ready to catch up right now. So, even though it's Friday, here goes..

Loves:

• warm weather
• lots of sunshine
• snow almost melted in most parts of the yard except where it was pushed into an icy pile that's still about 4 feet tall
• piles of clean clothes
• empty recycle bins
• a good long book that still has a couple hundred pages to go
• reading outside in the sunshine in a t-shirt!
• feeling like there are golden opportunities on the horizon
• circuit breakers

• dealing with multiple medical issues in the family all at once for extended periods of time
• family members diagnosed with new conditions
• an itch that just gets itchier when you scratch it
• a spider on the wall right above the head of my bed
• kitchen stove beeping an incessant error message at 3 am

Loves...

• spring thaw
• shea butter!!
• new haircut - yay my head feels 10 pounds lighter
• being in the middle of a good book - in far enough to know you like it, but not so far that you don't have at least a day or two of good reading to go
• when you're teaching something difficult but the students get it anyway
• apple blueberry pie
  

Loathes...

• don't have any today, not in the mood for a gripe session

Love:

• delivery services - I just found out we actually have a pizza place that delivers after living in this small town for 15 years... we is civilized now! My first experience with it didn't go very well (after I placed my order, I realized it was very icy out, spent 15 minutes sanding my walk and drive so the delivery guy would be safe and he managed to get stuck in the driveway anyway, so I spent another 5 minutes shoveling him out - cold pizza by the end of these shenanigans and would definitely have been faster to just go get the pizza myself) but I have high hopes for future deliveries.
• sun blasting in my window in the morning
• more light in the evenings! It stays light till almost 7pm now. Spring and summer are on the way.
• popcorn sprinkled with Bragg's instead of salt
• teaching people who really want to learn
• zippy classical music playing when I mess around in Photoshop

• dry skin
• chapped lips
• still dark out when I get up in the morning

This week I champion:

• lemon almond cake - I wanted some but I never got any and I'm totally fixated on it now - the kind that's all cakey and almondy and then gets soaked in lemon liqueur and becomes all tangy and moist
  
• strolling through the Italian grocery finding fun new things to try, like Kasseri cheese
• Curious George and monkey-related things
• my neighbor who brought his bucket tractor thing over and widened the 5 feet of snow surrounding my driveway so I can turn around in it again
• 53-degree weather - maybe spring is coming!
• my unbelievably well-behaved nephew baby who slept almost the whole time I babysat except for the 15 minutes or so when he took his bottle
• my central vacuum that got fixed last week and is the best sucking vacuum ever!

This week I disdain:

• pretentious snobby people who take pleasure in being overt about their attitudes

Stuff I Didn't Like This Past Week:

• dust and fur all over the house
• ice storms which knock the power out
• little wobble in the car that the mechanic probably won't be able to reproduce
• air so dry you wake up with a nosebleed
• parking lots so full of snow you can drive in but then you have to back out

Good Stuff This Past Week:

• husband home for school vacation week
• new nephew! born on Friday night
• humidifier + space heater = wonderful saunalike office
• Chinese Buffet
• new stuff to do in Sunwell on the WoW public test realm
• my WOOBIE! spiced hotpack shawl that you microwave and it stays warm and smells good for hours 
  Grampa's Garden Heated Shawl
  

For the Things on Tuesday group...

Loathe:

• Unfindable gas tank release lever on borrowed car
• So many snowstorms in one winter that schedule is disrupted for three months
• Yellow snow
• Shoveling yellow snow
• Snow up to the 4-foot fence so dog can walk over the top
  
• Phone calls from the emergency room

• Phone calls that everyone is ok, even in the hospital
• Borrowed car when mine isn't working
• Doggy bed warmer
• Boisterous dog greeter when I come home from work
• Hot cup of tea
• Space heater that makes the little room toasty warm even when it's 10-degrees out