These are my daily rants, stories, and what not.
Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don’t care, I’m still free
You can’t take the sky from me
Take me out to the black
Tell them I ain’t comin’ back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can’t take the sky from me
There’s no place I can be
Since I found Serenity
But you can’t take the sky from me…
~Ballad of Serenity
Theme from Firefly,
by Joss Wedon
Best Theme Song I’ve Ever Heard.
I’ve decided to enter a “focus on me” phase.
All things aside here is the plan:
a) up the amount of sleep I’m getting nightly from 5 – 6 hours a night to 7 – 8 hours a night. This might be tough. It means getting into bed before 11 pm. I can’t remember the last time I’ve done that on a regular basis. I’ll probably settle for close to 7 hours a night.
b) Cleaning the apartment. Last November I kept the apartment essentially spotless for about month. The plan is too never leave the house with a dirty dish in the sink, vacuum twice a week or more, do 1 load of laundry a week, and make my bed daily. It’s not impossible, its just a matter of getting it to that level of clean first.
c) Some sort of exercise, physical relaxation, or exertion on a daily (weekday daily) basis. Aiming for 20 minutes or so. Whether its a run (unlikely til my schedule evens out), push ups and sits up nightly, some sort of psx-90 (thank you pat) routine, or just 20 minutes of yoga and stretching and whatever on the wii fit; it’s exercise for relaxing, not for getting in better shape.
That’s the plan. Its not a bad one. And not a hard one. Pre-gaming this week (cleaning and laundry and getting a new sleep schedule), and implementation next week starting Monday.
Taken on my way home. Plan for tonight, uploading daily drawings. Almost recent ones, or at least on the way to recent.
Every morning seems a little darker…
Of course it could just be that time of the year.
Scott Pilgrim vs the World was an amazing movie. I mean unbelieviable and surprisingly amazing. I’d recommend it to anyone.
Look at that poster. Amazing. Epic even. And really, the movie didn’t let me down at all.
But apart from that I recently discovered the soundtrack. Beck, Frank Black, T-Rex, Metric, The Rolling Stones, Broken Social Scene, Blood Red Shoes, Black Lips, Plumtree, Crash and the Boys, and obviously Sex Bomb-omb. Crash and the Boys and Sex Bomb-omb are bands in the movie. But the soundtrack doesn’t let up. Sure its up and down with quick paced songs and slower songs, but it fits.
You can listen to the whole album for free at napster ( I freaking love that about napster). I highly recommend the Plumtree song. The Metric song is pretty good too, and the T-Rex song just makes me laugh. Go ahead. Listen. You won’t be let down.
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World Soundtrack
PS – and yes, the graphic novels were great too.
I’m not one to wear a tie. I just don’t like them. Yesterday I had to wear a tie to work. It felt like it choked me. My other dilemma with wearing a tie is that I don’t have a great eye for pairing up clothing. I just don’t care. So I have one “tie outfit.” I don’t think people at work have caught on yet, there’s been three or four times this year already where I’ve had to “dress nice” and “tie up.” All wearing the same outfit.
My second dilemma for dressing up comes from having lost weight in the last couple years. My two years in Cleveland have been in jobs that were more informal. I have khakis, but they a little big on me. My button down shirts though, they are from two+ years ago when I was 30 pounds heavier (35 now). That’s a decent chunk of weight. I bought two suits three years ago. They really need to be taken in to be hemmed. As far as shirts, I have some that are so big on me they just look ridiculous.
Also the 5 pounds I’ve lost in the last two months has left my belt useless. I’m on the smallest hole. That means I have this giant belt end flapping around just hitting stuff. To this end I spent $80 on clothes yesterday. Two pairs of paints, and two decent button down shirts that look decent on me. However I couldn’t find a belt for someone that didn’t start at 32 for the waist (which is what I am now). I’ll also keep ties at work for when “the big boss” stops by to throw on. I’m sure none of them will match, but at least I’ll have a tie on. That’s all that matters right.
See. I can be respectable a little, when I want, when I care to. Its not often.
