MayabirdPecking at the keyboardRegistered Userregular
A picture of what's happening in my front yard:
I planted a bunch of crocuses. They're blooming now. They're the only thing I've seen blooming so far around here aside from some snowdrops, and let's be blunt: after seeing lots of snow, and finally getting done with it, why do you want white flowers? A mass of gold (and/or purple, but the purple ones are taking their time) is preferable first thing in spring.
Crocuses are nice to put in lawns because they grow and bloom before the grass grows, first thing when you need brightness and color and die back by mid-May, giving you an excuse not to mow until then. They are pretty colors that can be shared with everyone, and they can be bought in bulk by the hundreds or thousands if you like. They can bloom in snow; see that little patch? That's the last of what remains of seven inches of wet, heavy snow that had fallen a few days before. Many of the crocuses were already blooming, then got snowed on, then were buried for two-three days, and they're fine.
Also, and this may just be an Iowa thing, but apparently the entire concept of "pretty flowers in the lawn" absolutely blows the minds of old ladies and makes them have old lady brain conniptions or something, and making this happen seems like a good idea to me.
I spent the day ripping the fascia off my dad's roof, then laid on a couch for three hours watching basketball and eating chili.
Altogether a pretty nice and productive Saturday.
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Goose!That's me, honeyShow me the way home, honeyRegistered Userregular
I put a bunch of games (around 12) I barely played, some still unopened, up on ebay, and if the recommended buy it nows get met, even after they take their cut, I should make like $300.
Also, if it all sells in the week, I am probably going to try and do that to more of my things. It'd be nice to slowly clean out my room of stuff I don't need
It's been raining here for what feels like weeks. I'm contemplating building an ark and loading up everyone at the homeless shelters around me so we can ride this storm out together and build a better world on top of the ruins of this old shitty one.
Either that or I'm going to take a dump and hit the hay.
Yesterday I had an event in the early afternoon where I got to drink some rum, then I watched some basketball, and then I finally saw Blank Panther at the local Alamo Drafthouse. Afterward my usual bartenders were there and I had a drink on the house. A good Saturday.
Whenever I see this word (I don't even know what they look like irl!) I think of this collection of Sappho fragments
I loved you, Atthis, years ago,
when my youth was still all flowers
and sighs, and you -- you seemed to me
such a small ungainly girl.
Can you forget what happened before?
If so, then I'll remind you how, while lying
beside me, you wove a garland of crocuses
which I then braided into strands of your hair.
And once, when you'd plaited a double necklace
from a hundred blooms, I tied it around
the swanning, sun-licked ring of your neck.
And on more than one occasion (there were two
of them, to be exact), while I looked on, too
silent with adoration to say your name,
you glazed your breasts and arms with oil.
No holy place existed without us then,
no woodland, no dance, no sound.
Beyond all hope, I prayed those timeless
days we spent might be made twice as long.
I prayed one word: I want. [θέλω]
Someone will remember us
I say
even in another time.
If I think about this poem for even like a second I start ugly sobbing and then get hungry for donuts
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
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PaperLuigi44My amazement is at maximum capacity.Registered Userregular
I just got through a stressful week of work where a whole bunch of people were on leave during a real busy period. Still managed to crush it.
I just saw two bunnies in my backyard on this cloudy Easter morning. Maybe Eastra will bring the rain to give my restaurant a slow Easter brunch since the forecast is thunderstorms by 10 am.
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UnbrokenEvaHIGH ON THE WIREBUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered Userregular
One of my best friends brought his 5-year-old over for a visit to see my dogs prior to us and another friend hanging out in the evening, and his daughter and I made a pizza together so she could bring it back to share with her mom. I felt like a pretty cool honorary uncle, I have to say.
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UnbrokenEvaHIGH ON THE WIREBUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered Userregular
Also, the Toronto Maple Leafs have clinched a playoff spot for the second year in a row. The last time they did that, the father of one of their current players was on the team that eliminated them.
Whenever I see this word (I don't even know what they look like irl!) I think of this collection of Sappho fragments
Better closeups from a garden company
They're pretty little flowers, very brightly colored and blooming before daffodils, and they're perennial bulbs. I don't know why more people don't plant them in the US.
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MalReynoldsThe Hunter S Thompson of incredibly mild medicinesRegistered Userregular
119 days sober.
Also, I got to see my roommate today which was nice. They're in a new relationship and don't spend a lot of time around the apartment anymore and our work schedules are already bonkers outside of that, so it was pretty excellent to see them even if it was just for a few minutes.
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"Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!
WACriminalDying Is Easy, Young ManLiving Is HarderRegistered Userregular
1) My boss told me that I am almost certainly getting a promotion within the next month or so that will raise my pay a minimum of $1.50 an hour, with $2 being a very real possibility after I haggled with him a little about why $2 made more sense.
2) My partner and I put down a deposit for a hedgehog adoption. Expecting to pick up the little hedge baby late this month. Naming it obviously has to wait until we meet and get a sense for its personality, but the current frontrunner is Hedgules Mulligan (s/he needs no introduction).
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
May and June are usually insane months, when works sends me all over the country and days are long and shitty. This year, because I've apparently prayed to the right gods, and sacrificed well, my work load is about 10 days across the period, and they're all fairly easy.
I'm constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop, but for now - fuck yeah, full salary, no work and much drinking.
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"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Yeah, you want to use a sifter if you want to find gold.
I planted a bunch of crocuses. They're blooming now. They're the only thing I've seen blooming so far around here aside from some snowdrops, and let's be blunt: after seeing lots of snow, and finally getting done with it, why do you want white flowers? A mass of gold (and/or purple, but the purple ones are taking their time) is preferable first thing in spring.
Crocuses are nice to put in lawns because they grow and bloom before the grass grows, first thing when you need brightness and color and die back by mid-May, giving you an excuse not to mow until then. They are pretty colors that can be shared with everyone, and they can be bought in bulk by the hundreds or thousands if you like. They can bloom in snow; see that little patch? That's the last of what remains of seven inches of wet, heavy snow that had fallen a few days before. Many of the crocuses were already blooming, then got snowed on, then were buried for two-three days, and they're fine.
Also, and this may just be an Iowa thing, but apparently the entire concept of "pretty flowers in the lawn" absolutely blows the minds of old ladies and makes them have old lady brain conniptions or something, and making this happen seems like a good idea to me.
https://youtu.be/56u6g0POvo0
I mean not really, just moving is exhausting and I feel like we still have so much more to do.
Altogether a pretty nice and productive Saturday.
Also, if it all sells in the week, I am probably going to try and do that to more of my things. It'd be nice to slowly clean out my room of stuff I don't need
Either that or I'm going to take a dump and hit the hay.
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This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
Whenever I see this word (I don't even know what they look like irl!) I think of this collection of Sappho fragments
If I think about this poem for even like a second I start ugly sobbing and then get hungry for donuts
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Also I've got some vacation time coming up and I am unreasonably stoked for it since it will give me time to do shit outside.
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Better closeups from a garden company
They're pretty little flowers, very brightly colored and blooming before daffodils, and they're perennial bulbs. I don't know why more people don't plant them in the US.
Also, I got to see my roommate today which was nice. They're in a new relationship and don't spend a lot of time around the apartment anymore and our work schedules are already bonkers outside of that, so it was pretty excellent to see them even if it was just for a few minutes.
"Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor
My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!
David Mitchell's autobiography is also a good read.
2) My partner and I put down a deposit for a hedgehog adoption. Expecting to pick up the little hedge baby late this month. Naming it obviously has to wait until we meet and get a sense for its personality, but the current frontrunner is Hedgules Mulligan (s/he needs no introduction).
That's a cake.
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Eastern towhee
Baltimore oriole
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I'm constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop, but for now - fuck yeah, full salary, no work and much drinking.