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Apr. 16th, 2011 09:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serynWhole Foods is supposedly teaming with Goodwill to take donations, but just this weekend, and no one fucking knows which WFs are doing it. My experience of loading up the car with things that we have suddenly decided we do not have room for, driving to the store, and discovering that they have no idea what I'm talking about... extremely negative. It's almost as annoying as actually going to the Goodwill dropoff center--- which is in the worst part of town (and around here that means they don't bother putting murders from there on the news because it's too common to mention) off the beaten path in a parking lot that's shared with undocumented workers. It's completely unsafe to go there alone or at night. The idea that Whole Foods was going to circumvent that frought-with-peril experience was awesome. I'm totally disappointed.
Simon thinks Katy Perry has a great vocal instrument and likes the bouncy dance rhythms of her songs. I didn't argue too long with him about it, because we're so far apart in opinions that we can't even argue. I hate the bouncy dance rhythms and I think anyone who needs AutoTune to keep the pitch on their own singing is not a talented singer. I'm really disappointed in Simon's taste because he cannot detect her lack of singing skill. I have no problem with him not liking the one song because, well, I don't like it as it's performed. It's too hard to get past the crappy singing and the hideous bouncy rhythms in order to hear the actual song lyrics.
I did make it to the gym. I've pretty much settled on a cardio workout, I go 6 miles. But I'm tired of the cardio. I'd rather go 3 miles and spend time doing something else, but I wanted to get home before dark (the moon is full tonight, that's a bad combination even in a world without werewolves) so I was in a hurry.
Yesterday I made strawberry jam from fresh strawberries. Today I used some of that with lemons I bought at the farmers market to make strawberry lemonade. What makes me happiest about that is the contrast to how I felt yesterday when one of my friends said something true but which hurt my feelings--- I wouldn't have time for the things I did this week if I had a job or lived up to my adult responsibilities. It was phrased nicer than that and only applicable to a tiny fraction of a conversation, but I still took that and ran with it all the way into the endzone of "Other people think I'm useless." So it helps that I did something immediately demonstrably useful.
Simon thinks Katy Perry has a great vocal instrument and likes the bouncy dance rhythms of her songs. I didn't argue too long with him about it, because we're so far apart in opinions that we can't even argue. I hate the bouncy dance rhythms and I think anyone who needs AutoTune to keep the pitch on their own singing is not a talented singer. I'm really disappointed in Simon's taste because he cannot detect her lack of singing skill. I have no problem with him not liking the one song because, well, I don't like it as it's performed. It's too hard to get past the crappy singing and the hideous bouncy rhythms in order to hear the actual song lyrics.
I did make it to the gym. I've pretty much settled on a cardio workout, I go 6 miles. But I'm tired of the cardio. I'd rather go 3 miles and spend time doing something else, but I wanted to get home before dark (the moon is full tonight, that's a bad combination even in a world without werewolves) so I was in a hurry.
Yesterday I made strawberry jam from fresh strawberries. Today I used some of that with lemons I bought at the farmers market to make strawberry lemonade. What makes me happiest about that is the contrast to how I felt yesterday when one of my friends said something true but which hurt my feelings--- I wouldn't have time for the things I did this week if I had a job or lived up to my adult responsibilities. It was phrased nicer than that and only applicable to a tiny fraction of a conversation, but I still took that and ran with it all the way into the endzone of "Other people think I'm useless." So it helps that I did something immediately demonstrably useful.
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Date: 2011-04-17 12:18 pm (UTC)Did they actually say, "lived up to your adult responsibilities" or did you extrapolate that part yourself?
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Date: 2011-04-17 05:17 pm (UTC)But it was also true. If I had a job (and the attendant time sucks that go with that like commuting and ironing and decompressing) I would not have been able to call those people on Friday for Simon.
The phrasing was equivalent to "If he didn't have someone in his life whose only job is to watch the grass grow, then this wouldn't have been done because you wouldn't have had time." All parts of that are true, not just the part about me not having a job.
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Date: 2011-04-17 05:52 pm (UTC)Thank Gods for your job. Simon is a lucky guy.
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Date: 2011-04-17 01:57 pm (UTC)Don't make me whip out the modified LOLcat Maslow's Hierarchy on you. (It has two levels-- NOMS at the bottom and LOLS at the top.)
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Date: 2011-04-17 05:19 pm (UTC)