I am pretty happy right now. I just ate, the sun is shining, I might have acute bronchitis (which is usually viral (but sometimes bacterial) so usually you have to wait it out (but it would suck if it was bacterial (as I haven't submitted my health insurance forms yet :|))). Liv has a short day and will return soon. My jhbuild of GNOME is finally progressing. I am eating some of the best cherries I've ever tasted. And I have a shopping list to focus my afternoon with. Hand-soap, milk, toilet paper. Eventually, lamp, knife sharpener, tiny vacuum cleaner. In future living arrangements, I hope to be amiable with neighbours, so I can abuse their friendship for such conveniences as a vacuum cleaner.
Even things that are traditionally considered bad are a part of my good day. I cut my hand on my mushroom soup tin. The cut is very small and quaint. I wonder what in life has defined my expectations for happiness, because some of them are weird.
However, I am concerned with my recent interest in conveniences. We purchased a $4 popcorn popper the other day at my insistence. A pan is not good enough? Well, if we had a more suitable pan, perhaps it would be. Or a cover for the pan that barely touches the burner would be ideal. Perhaps it's not conveniences, so much as availability of decent tools. We have a pan that is way too big for many simple uses, one that is warped and hardly touches the burner (which is alright), and neither have lids. Regardless, I also have an urge for a blender to make smoothies from all the fruit we buy. I suppose that isn't unreasonable. At least I don't seem to care about a microwave too much. However, this all goes against the simple that I've been planning to lead. Hmm hmm hmm.
For some reason, my interest in ships and samurai has been increasing this year. Perhaps it is time to revisit Shogun.
Do you ever enjoy being sick? Not just now, but perhaps in the past, really relished the groggyheaded illness, for itself not just the respite from obligations and sympathy from caretakers/friends/parents it might inspire?
ReplyDeleteYou used triple parenthesis there. I am entranced. I foolishly allowed subthoughts of subthoughts to be trained out of my writing. I used to use varying brackets ([{!@#$%^v%$#@!}]) though. It just makes a sense when conveying thoughts to have them structured so. ^_^
We haff a knife sharpener! I'm going to try sharpening some of the others. Blast it, there will be incisions again!
I think we might be able to borrow a vacuum cleaner from upstairs, but I do appreciate the sentiment of sharing in the future. Perhaps at the next place we should actively introduce ourselves (with baked goods), so that when we go begging for appliances, we don't seem so odd?
I don't begrudge conveniences, long as they earn their keep and prove useful. I expect a popcorn popper will, and for $4 a rental doesn't seem that bad. I hope in the future to be better able to afford things that are not so "throw away" and do more with less of them.
I am also wary of subjecting you to the standard of living I'd likely allow my single self to submerge to. It's not as though I don't appreciate the perks, but I can justify them more, and in fact enjoy them more if someone else is sharing in them. Also, smoothies are yummmm.
I don't think I ever really enjoy being sick, but I do enjoy some of the consequences: like being expected to lie in bed, half-awake in the middle of the day. And I mean that independently from my obligations. I just really enjoy that comfort.
ReplyDeleteI do enjoy bracketeering. I frequently wish that some method was commonly deployed in regular conversation to illustrate how parts of speech are part of, outside of linguistic discourse.
I do enjoy the steelish sharpening steel. Just moments ago I attempted to sharpen my with with it. I am not sure if big knife is progressing very much, but I gave it another quick sharpen at lunch. I hope to note notable improvement before long.
Yum, smoothies.