I live. I'm...just going through delayed seasonal depression, I think. Getting really sick plus all the cold weather and bad weather and SNOW in Spring has made April a blue month for me. Wahh, poor me, I know. I cry little black tears of woe.
But! Today is supposed to be beautiful, as is tomorrow and Sunday. In fact, all next week our highs are in the 60s every day, and I call that a step in the right direction. I'm going to load my bike onto the rack (which has been mocking me through my rear window for a month now) and drive to the river and ride until I fall over, I think. That probably won't take too long, as I've been inactive for almost a month and I'm weak as a kitten...but who cares? I'm like a West coast house...I'm partially solar-powered and this is the beginning of my favorite season.
Things that cheesed me off this week:
Now! Things I am happy about:
So there! Take that, you crappy-weather blues! Kiss my arse.
But! Today is supposed to be beautiful, as is tomorrow and Sunday. In fact, all next week our highs are in the 60s every day, and I call that a step in the right direction. I'm going to load my bike onto the rack (which has been mocking me through my rear window for a month now) and drive to the river and ride until I fall over, I think. That probably won't take too long, as I've been inactive for almost a month and I'm weak as a kitten...but who cares? I'm like a West coast house...I'm partially solar-powered and this is the beginning of my favorite season.
Things that cheesed me off this week:
1. I had to get my brakes done...including replacing the pads that I just had installed while I was on Long Island. I knew that if the rotors weren't replaced (they couldn't find the part!) that the old rotors would chew up the new pads...Damn, I hate it when I'm right.
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golden_meliades sent me something which still hasn't arrived, and I'm beginning to think it never will. :-( I hate to think of a gift from a friend just languishing lost out there somewhere...or in someone else's hands. *bummed*
3. I have to make things I hate making, because I'm doing an SCA event next weekend and if I want to make any money I'd better bring a load of utilitarian accessory crap like belts and circlets. Oh...but it huuuuurts, Precious. It hurts.
4. Sears has SO royally f***ed up our order that, well, the mind boggles. We were SUCH an easy sale...Greg had researched all their dryers online and we walked in there with a model number and money and everything. We even purchased the extended service warranty! Man, it doesn't GET any better than that for a salesperson. Still, the dizzy twinkie managed to key something wrong and so, on Tuesday, an electric dryer (with a gas hookup kit, no less) was delivered to the door. Are you kidding me? Even the delivery kids, who historically aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer, knew that something was amiss. So now hopefully on Saturday we will get the right model. It only took two days of bitching and moaning and threatening (and they still had the audacity to try to upgrade our order by saying that the only GE Profile gas dryer they offer was a good 100.00 more than we paid...and would we please pay more? Whut?? Greg took care of that right quick...hooray for online catalogs and truth in advertising laws)...so we'll see how that goes.
5. Monday's school shootings. Just sad all around. I know I'm probably in the minority here, but the kid who did it is utterly pathetic to me. He was so obviously messed up and ill (truly dangerous psychotic behavior almost always manifests itself in people in their early twenties...how tragic is that?). I know he caused great pain but I can't help feeling sorry for him. I don't think he actually chose to do this thing (unlike the two boys from Columbine HS who, I'm pretty sure, were acting in anger & revenge)...I think this guy was just...broken. And I'm sick of seeing his crazed "media release" on the news. It's just...pathetic. Like watching someone piss themself. There's nothing to learn from it, except that maybe we need mental health care reform so that authorities can take proactive action to ensure that dangerously messed-up mentally ill people get the out-patient care they need.
You can't expect a mentally ill person to take responsibility for their own medical treatment...it's just not like a broken arm or cancer where the patient's ability to choose treatment isn't impaired. I understand that mental health care lobbyists have campaigned for mental illness to be treated like any other illness (and it does make some sense in many situations...at least now insurance companies are forced to provide coverage for mental health issues, which is something they didn't do in the past), so there is some valid argument for it. But, I think there needs to be a different classification for certain kinds of mental illness, something that requires mandatory treatment. You can't force a person with cancer to get treatment...if they choose not to treat themselves they die & that's sad, but it's a freedom of choice issue. If a psychotic person chooses not to be treated (and I don't think they can choose anything, because I think their illness negates their ability to make reasoned choices), they become a danger to the population at large & that's the difference, there. Dying of your disease, that's your choice. Allowing your untreated disease to compell you to kill, that's a decision you shouldn't be permitted to make.
Anyway...sad. *hopping off soap box*
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3. I have to make things I hate making, because I'm doing an SCA event next weekend and if I want to make any money I'd better bring a load of utilitarian accessory crap like belts and circlets. Oh...but it huuuuurts, Precious. It hurts.
4. Sears has SO royally f***ed up our order that, well, the mind boggles. We were SUCH an easy sale...Greg had researched all their dryers online and we walked in there with a model number and money and everything. We even purchased the extended service warranty! Man, it doesn't GET any better than that for a salesperson. Still, the dizzy twinkie managed to key something wrong and so, on Tuesday, an electric dryer (with a gas hookup kit, no less) was delivered to the door. Are you kidding me? Even the delivery kids, who historically aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer, knew that something was amiss. So now hopefully on Saturday we will get the right model. It only took two days of bitching and moaning and threatening (and they still had the audacity to try to upgrade our order by saying that the only GE Profile gas dryer they offer was a good 100.00 more than we paid...and would we please pay more? Whut?? Greg took care of that right quick...hooray for online catalogs and truth in advertising laws)...so we'll see how that goes.
5. Monday's school shootings. Just sad all around. I know I'm probably in the minority here, but the kid who did it is utterly pathetic to me. He was so obviously messed up and ill (truly dangerous psychotic behavior almost always manifests itself in people in their early twenties...how tragic is that?). I know he caused great pain but I can't help feeling sorry for him. I don't think he actually chose to do this thing (unlike the two boys from Columbine HS who, I'm pretty sure, were acting in anger & revenge)...I think this guy was just...broken. And I'm sick of seeing his crazed "media release" on the news. It's just...pathetic. Like watching someone piss themself. There's nothing to learn from it, except that maybe we need mental health care reform so that authorities can take proactive action to ensure that dangerously messed-up mentally ill people get the out-patient care they need.
You can't expect a mentally ill person to take responsibility for their own medical treatment...it's just not like a broken arm or cancer where the patient's ability to choose treatment isn't impaired. I understand that mental health care lobbyists have campaigned for mental illness to be treated like any other illness (and it does make some sense in many situations...at least now insurance companies are forced to provide coverage for mental health issues, which is something they didn't do in the past), so there is some valid argument for it. But, I think there needs to be a different classification for certain kinds of mental illness, something that requires mandatory treatment. You can't force a person with cancer to get treatment...if they choose not to treat themselves they die & that's sad, but it's a freedom of choice issue. If a psychotic person chooses not to be treated (and I don't think they can choose anything, because I think their illness negates their ability to make reasoned choices), they become a danger to the population at large & that's the difference, there. Dying of your disease, that's your choice. Allowing your untreated disease to compell you to kill, that's a decision you shouldn't be permitted to make.
Anyway...sad. *hopping off soap box*
Now! Things I am happy about:
1. Greg ordered the Wii for us...we're finally getting the Wii! Oh, frabjous day! It's bundled with The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess as well as the sports pack. Can't freaking wait!!
2. Bike ride...today! What could be finer? I think I'll take the route along the Niagara River, on the Canadian side. The trees are still bare but, y'know, river + path + floating ice from the lake + sunshine = pretty. *bouncebounce*
3. Once I finish making all the stupid utilitarian stuff...I still have a whole untouched 7oz hide I can go crazy on. I'm going to make more fun, HUGE experimental masks, I think. Oh! And I'm finally going to do this dragon plaque, which I drew last Fall. It's been knirping for attention. lately, and I think the time has come to just do it, dammit!
4. According to GameInformer magazine, not only will there be a new & awesome Mario title for the Wii this year (Super Mario Galaxy), but there's also talk of a new Katamari Damacy for the Wii coming out sometime this year (Beautiful Katamari). All I need now is for Seeds (Clover, reformed) to build a new Okami sequel and I'll be completely satisfied, game-wise. Yeah I know I'm a geek. What'choo lookin' at??
5. Speaking of Okami...still loving the amazing Okami soundtrack
moonphasedsent me for x-mas. It's shiny and awesome and when I'm in the dumps it pulls me out by my nose hair (I can't resist, in other words). You can see and hear some of the pretty here. I'm especially enthralled with the Japanese flute, lately. It's called shakuhachi, and I think I could listen to it all day.
2. Bike ride...today! What could be finer? I think I'll take the route along the Niagara River, on the Canadian side. The trees are still bare but, y'know, river + path + floating ice from the lake + sunshine = pretty. *bouncebounce*
3. Once I finish making all the stupid utilitarian stuff...I still have a whole untouched 7oz hide I can go crazy on. I'm going to make more fun, HUGE experimental masks, I think. Oh! And I'm finally going to do this dragon plaque, which I drew last Fall. It's been knirping for attention. lately, and I think the time has come to just do it, dammit!
4. According to GameInformer magazine, not only will there be a new & awesome Mario title for the Wii this year (Super Mario Galaxy), but there's also talk of a new Katamari Damacy for the Wii coming out sometime this year (Beautiful Katamari). All I need now is for Seeds (Clover, reformed) to build a new Okami sequel and I'll be completely satisfied, game-wise. Yeah I know I'm a geek. What'choo lookin' at??
5. Speaking of Okami...still loving the amazing Okami soundtrack
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So there! Take that, you crappy-weather blues! Kiss my arse.