Happy 09/09/09!
Today is a day like any other, but with a cooler date stamp. ^_^
The only things I know that are going on today is a movie release (“9”) and a sale on print photos at Wal-Mart (99 prints for $9.99). I wish I’d been organized enough to take advantage of the photo print deal. I have a bunch of photos I’d like printed out (not anywhere near 99, but I could pool with friends), but I’ve had too much to do lately. Ah well.
Enjoy the day, everyone!
I am currently in the grip of a particularly strong urge to buy a scooter and steampunk it up.
I already wanted a scooter.
I can just picture how awesome it would be to putter around town on something like that. And then pulling into the gas station? Awesome!
Or… electric! More awesome, less cool/authentic sounding.
My bicycle sucks. Maybe I’ll try steampunking that up a bit first, since I already own it. ^_~
I had a really great time at Dragon*Con this year!
Big post later. Now I sleep!
Testing, testing!
This should be an LJ username:
This should be a community:
Did it work?
So my pattern finally arrived last evening around 5:30. UPS can bite me.
I cut out the pattern pieces, then went over to Lindsay’s new apartment with Teri to help her clean it up a bit more before she moved in.
Got home around 9:30.
I serged all the edges of the pieces, and managed to get the whole front half of the dress put together before I went to bed. I may re-do one of the seams, but I’ll see how the back turns out first.
Tonight I have more time, so I should be able to finish the back, install the zipper, put the two sides together and add the insignia and rank braid.
Then I shall do a little happy dance!
If I still have any time after that before sleep, I’ll try to make the antennae and switch the costume from Human to Andorian. At this point, I’m thinking dollar store deely boppers + hot glue + acrylic paint.
Guess who’s going to a U2 concert?
Me!
Well, me an everyone at RIM.
Well, me, everyone at RIM, and like 45,000 other people.
Still pretty sweet, eh?
If the NHL is going to bid against Balsillie for the Phoenix Coyotes, does that mean they’re abandoning their challenge of Balsillie’s right to bid in the first place? Classy guys, real classy, like everything else Bettman has done in this debacle.
I thought the NHL could not own a team, according to their own constitution? (I don’t know if this is trufax, just something I read on teh intardnets!) Oh well, it’s not like ethics are a matter they haven’t shown they are comfortable sidestepping.
Dear North America,
Catch up to Europe in terms of employee vacation time.
plzkthx
Love,
Caitlin
I was talking to a scientific associate of mine in Finland today, and he mentioned he was going to Barcelona for 9 days starting next week. He just got back from a 3-week vacation around other parts of Europe at the beginning of the month.
And no, he hasn’t worked for his company for millions of years and worked his way up the vacation ladder, he’s about my age. Maaaaaybe 2 or 3 years older, max.
I think it would be very nice if our culture embraced the idea that employees can still be productive with more than 2 weeks vacation time. That the economy won’t collapse if we all got to stop and smell the roses a little more often. That work is important, but not more important than actually living life.
Today I was reading through my RSS feeds, checking out the blogs I always read, when I came across this:
The perfect is the enemy of the good. When you spend so much time looking for the “best” choice that you never actually do anything, you are sabotaging yourself.
Open the door, put one foot in front of the other, and go.
–Get Rich Slowly
In another blog:
Sometimes done is better than perfect.
I know I do this. There are lots of times (like yesterday) when I look at the things I need to do and just sigh and think “Why even bother?”.
… it’ll just need to be done again tomorrow
… it’ll never look like a home in a magazine
… it’ll never taste as good as when others make it
… it’ll never make me look as good as that girl I saw yesterday
… it’ll take a long time, and I only have 10 minutes now
Maybe I need to print out a sappy little saying and pin it up on my wall.
This one is particularly bad when I try to declutter things. I look at a room, and see the hours of work needed to make it perfect. I don’t see the work I could do in the 10 minutes I have right now. I don’t see the “little by little” that will chip away at the whole task.
I don’t want to settle for “good enough”, but I also don’t want to always be waiting for the right time to make it “perfect”, as perfect rarely comes. I will learn to settle for my best, and I will learn to understand that my best can depend on the circumstances.
The perfect is the enemy of the good. Sometimes done is better than perfect.
I’m feeling rather low today.
I think it’s partially because I’ve been trying to help other people figure out their lives. While I’m not sure I’ve been actually helping anyone, I’ve certainly been forced to take a closer look at my own.
I’m not entirely sure why. I’ve finally got most of the basics pinned down. I have my Josh, my house, my car that makes me smile every single day, and my job that’s fun yet challenging enough to be interesting. I’m paying down my debt, and learning to save for retirement and for the other things I want.
Lots of my long-term life goals are tied to finances, and I seem to be on track in that regard. I’m not where I wish I was, sure, but I’ve got a plan in motion and for once I’ve been able to stick with it.
With some life goals achieved, and other so far in the future, sometimes it feel like my day-to-day living is going nowhere. Spinning my wheels while I wait for something.
I do know some of the feeling can be contributed to hormones. I ran out of BC last week, but my Dr. was away so I couldn’t get an appointment for a renewal until today, and my body is letting me know, in no uncertain terms, that it doesn’t like my “natural” cycles and wants back on the drugs ASAP.
I’m also worried about my cat. Last week we had a urine sample tested at the vet, to see if she had crystals or a UTI or something, but instead the tests indicated early chronic renal failure. o_0 She’s having some blood taken later this week to do more tests specifically for that, but if she does, since she’s only now starting to show (potential) symptoms, it means she’s already lost 70% of kidney function. I has a sad.