I’ve been enjoying picking up acorns while I’m walking lately. I bring them back to our house and the squirrels grab them almost instantaneously.
What I’ve really enjoyed is that every once in a while I pick up a deadly acorn. It has a tip on it that’s so sharp it feels like it could cut my fingers.
Kind of enjoy the monotony of pressing my thumb up against the point over and over again.
I wonder if this is why all those squirrels are seen dead on the side of the road…. Deadly acorn to the head straight from the trees above.
Earlier in the week I was watching The Penguin on Max… The episode ended with a song by the Cure.
Now the Cure has long been one of my favorite bands. I’ve seen them a few times in concert, and used to collect all their albums, back when that was a thing.
When the song started playing it was only a few cords before I knew the song and it made me smile. Been listening to them on and off for a few days.
I haven’t slept well this week. Which is kicking me a few places. I haven’t ran in a week now which hampers my goal of trying to hit 1,000 miles this year. It’s not out of reach, but is getting there.
And I haven’t been productive in my actual free time (not actually free time… Sitting at the Nature Center while Edith is at preschool – it’s a whole thing but safe to say I have 3 hours where I am on call and can’t leave the area).
I had used the time a week ago to research some things for the Board of Directors I’m on, to read and in general try to plan out the next year or two of my life so I’m ready when Edith goes to kindergarten to re-enter the workforce.
But this week I’ve been zombie-ish, tired and zoning. So I’ve been listening to music and drawing some. Which I haven’t drawn in a while so that feels nice, and I generally listen to a lot of podcasts and classical, instead of ‘music music’s which what inspired me to doodle/draw.
Anyways.
Today I’ve been listening to the Ass Ponies. Clearly I’m a fan of Chuck Cleaver (and Wussy). Specifically I’m listening to Mr.Superlove on repeat. Not the cheeriest of songs but man do I like it.
Wussy has been slowly releasing songs ahead of the release of their first new album in 6 years.
Sure as the Sun has caught my ear. I’ve listened to it more than a few times since discovering it yesterday.
On my downtime today…. I drew a few sketches for it. Nothing big or time consuming, I’m just tired and lack energy for much else so a few sketches eat up the time.
