Words of the Day: long time missing
After making several quiet promises to myself, and several more vocal ones to the computer, I've been sadly neglectful of the needs of the blog. It's lifeblood, it's source, it's river has dried in the last month and a half, unfed as it has been by my lazy, lazy fingers.
Lots of little things have caught my attention today. Like the fact that there's a lot of grime in the back of my watch, which really is disgusting since it must be composed almost entirely of sweat and skin flakes. Can you say "mmm, delicious"?
The park is a wonderful thing at the moment. I have a habit of wandering through in the morning and forgetting about everything else. If only I'd realised this affinity at an earlier age I would have shown no aptitude at school so I could have worked in a national park or something without feeling guilty about not being in science or technology. The longer I stay here, the more trapped I become by science. I hate the thought I might end up like some of the people here. Really, it's a seriously unpleasant thought.
Had a surprisingly nice weekend, mostly because I thought it might end up a bit weird, but was in fact remarkably pleasant. My girlfriend's nephew was with us for Saturday night, which is an educational experience. But what is undeniable is quite how cute the kid is. And heavy. Wasn't expecting an eight month old baby to be that heavy, though I shouldn't be surprised that my perceptions of such things are slightly skewed, since I'm not by nature a small-person person, if you see what I mean. Anyway, apart from a painfully embarassing salad dressing incident (my bad...) the whole experience went off quite well.
I'd love to tell you that the weather is a pleasant 18 degrees outside (Celsius! I know this is England, but it's not that cold), and sunny, and there's hardly a cloud in the sky, but I can't. Mainly because it's actually about 22, and verrrrry sunny. Ha! I love the sun. How have I survived in this country for so long with such a love of the sun?
I've been gardening lately, too. There's a whole new lawn in the back garden, which is nice. Still needs to do a lot more growing before it's useful, but that shouldn't be too long now considering the way it's shot up the past few days. I do need to remember to water it, though, because I have a feeling the ground is very very dry out there.
Other than all that stuff, not a lot's hapening. The tattoo place I was going to go to shut down, so no chance there. I have the basis of a really cool design in my head, bit it'll need a little more thinking about, and a lot more approval from jen. I don't think she was highly impressed by the idea, which is a bad sign. I keep telling myself she'll come round to the idea, but that may be a little too much to ask. Good thing I value her opinion and willingly subject my ideas to scrutiny, or I might think this was an entirely unfair situation... :)