Less Whining

[greenstorm]

So there's this big black piece of tissue paper from gift wrapping in the house, and Moxie (bigger of Vikki's two cats) seems determined to place himself under it and stalk things from underneath the crackling piece of tissue paper. Note he's not pouncing the paper, he's hiding under the noisy thing and creeping around with it on his back.

I've been working a whole lot lately despite the sick. Nine-and-change hours shift today and I was good till the last three hours, so that's not so bad. Angus comes home tomorrow and then I have two days off. I'll spend most of them in bed, one way or the other. :D

Still sticking with the monogamous thing, and still enjoying it. It just feels like the right thing to be doing, which I'm sure will surprise a lot of you (maybe it will surprise you more further into it?).I'm very much cocooning, pulling the curtains around my little private world, though I have been getting out a bit here and there with the boy away this week. It's good. I'm very curious to see how my life evolves when spring comes in February or March. There'll be less hibernating then.

This month is my no-buss-pass month. They hiked transit fares again and the busses are sucking worse than ever, and I'm not getting as much exercise at work as I'd like. Put together, it seems obvious that the solution is to bike places instead of bus. Angus lives a ten-fifteen minute *walk* from my house, which makes it quicker to bike than to wait for a bus. Work is downhill in the morning and I can wear raingear over what I need there if necessary. Of course, these two days I'm bussing anyhow, cause I'm not trusting my lungs to exercise in the cold just yet. Sunday, though... I'm excited. Having time outdoors again will be good for me too.

This is cool.

I should order some seed catalogues, even if I'll just end up buying stuff at Seedy Saturday again like I always do. It's pure dreamland fantasy, looking at those pictures.

Hope the New Year treats y'all well.

Comments

[polypagangirl.livejournal.com]

Hey there! :-) I hope you had a good (and relatively stress-free) holiday season!

I haven't checked out LJ for ages, (just too lazy & forgetful actually) but i just recently discovered rss (bloglines.com ROCKS), and so, it's far easier to watch blogs (at least the public ones) now!

That said, i didn't know you were doing the monogamous thing these days! I think a lot of poly people are doing that actually. I know a few myself, and i have been down that road recently as well.

I think in the ebb & flow of things, it's bound to come up, at least once in a while. Ya gotta do what's right for the moment. It's all you can do. :-)

[greenstorm.livejournal.com]

How was that road for ya?

I was sick all holiday, stressful but easy to decide what to do.

Hope yours went well! Do you ever come into Van? Are you still living out on an island somewhere?

[polypagangirl.livejournal.com]

That road went just fine! I still consider myself poly, but i simply have no desire to go the dating route at this point in my life. So i'm virtually mono. Hehe. It's just too much work. I'd rather put my energy into art. Not that i wouldn’t consider it again if someone landed on my doorstep though. Murray is much more likely to get back into it than i am. That is his goal. My goal is to stay home & paint! :-)

Sorry to hear your holiday was a sick one. I think a lot people were/are sick this year. Easy to decide what to do... as in sleep? ;-)

Mine was very nice & relatively stress-free. And only a slightly sick one - my heavy sick came thankfully, after New Years and continues still. It was nice & quiet, just the way i wanted it.

Yes, i'm still living on my 'rock with a moat'. I very rarely go into town, and when i do, it's such a frenzy of trying to get everything done/bought, that after a couple of hours, i'm beat, and just dying to get back onto the ferry to my sanctuary! It's way too stressful going into town. I am such a recluse! :-P

i has seed catalogues!!!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_greenwitch_/]

I think I'm up to six received now, and several sites online.....just have to decide how much I need/should spend, and how many of my older seed packets deserve a try (read four/five years for some). I know I should do a germination test on some, but like you said - those pics are a real draw :)

I'd still like to do a tour at Salt Spring Seeds, but don't know if timing/camping/Bed and Breakfasting realities will work out. (read, I'm too old to sleep on the ground)

We are still doing the monogamous things now - it's actually been almost three years (!?!). We haven't said it will always be just the two of us, but that's where things have fallen. Who knows how the future will unfold?

Hugs!

Re: i has seed catalogues!!!

[greenstorm.livejournal.com]

Which have you got this year?

Are you doing Seedy Saturday at VanDusen?

You guys are doing well?

We should *talk* sometime! :D

*hugs*

PS I used soem of your housewarming present the other day when I was really sick, dozed in front of the fire happily. Those starters really work! I have paraffin and drier lint, just need egg cartons.