Things My Husband Says

Oh hey, it’s Daylight Savings time again! I’ve lived in the PNW for twelve years now, and I still find this whole business confusing. Having come to terms with the way that the lack of winter light affects me, I’m totally in favor of squeezing out whatever tiny drops are to be had, I just can’t ever quite get into a routine with it. I get the whole “spring forward/fall back” part, so my clocks get changed in the right direction, but it’s really a crapshoot whether I’ll guess right about whether we’re on Daylight or Standard time at any given point. Today I know that it’s Daylight, which I guess makes sense, Daylight in the summer. But why are we saving daylight in the summer? Shouldn’t we save it in the winter?

I feel like this is a particularly bad weekend for me to lose an hour of. In just about six hours I need to have Sexy Husband out of the house and on his way to the airport for a very big day tomorrow. I also need to go to the store so I can bring something to potluck brunch. In an hour. And I need to make sure my secret project is as close to ready as I can get it, before the aforementioned SH-on-the-road thing starts. So, naturally, I’m typing this. In my defense, I’m dressed, and drinking my coffee, which is a mandatory part of my morning. I regret nothing!

Also, yes, it’s pouring rain and 48 degrees outside. I know it’s not summer. You know what I mean.

Hey there, blog. Long time no see. It turns out that living with my husband diminishes the need I feel to write a blog whose primary purpose had been communicating with/entertaining him. Sorry.

Aaanyway… I do have some stuff that I think I should start writing about, as part of my general life process. Let’s have a list, shall we?

• Bicycling. Despite the fact that Sexy Husband is the primary driving force behind me getting on a bike and owning down on that shit, I’m starting to feel a little bad for interrupting his video game playing with a thousand constant tiny biking victories. (That may be a little sarcasm.) I am pretty proud of myself, and I think I should share it here, so the real people in my life don’t start getting burnt out on hearing about it.
• Meditation. I’ve been going to a Shambhala meditation approximately weekly, and really enjoying it. I think I need to be more diligent about meditating at home, and expanding the usefulness of that practice in my life. I still feel uncertain about how that should progress, and I think some navel-gazing writing about it may help.
• Making Things. My New Year’s resolution was to make more things. I have had some mixed success with this overall, I think. I don’t want this to become a knitting blog, because I am a super lazy and sporadic knitter these days, but I should be better about telling you (me) about what I’m knitting, and keeping track of the many things I am fermenting and baking.
• Life stuff. This is a broad category. When I sat down today, it was largely due to a couple of interactions we’ve had with friends this week. I wanted to write about the nature of friendship as an adult, and do a little musing on relationships and whatnot. I’m not going to do that right this moment, but I want to do more of that. Life at 30 has a lot more interesting developments in that realm than I would have imagined.
• Taking pictures of things. This is not actually something I should write about, it’s just something I should be doing. We’ll see.

Things I won’t be blogging about here, at least much: Pie. Pie has its own blog now, which I am currently actively procrastinating, in part because I can’t find the card reader thingy, so I can’t move the pictures I did take from the camera to the computer.

It looks like I’m heading into an extraordinarily busy time in my life, but I’m trying to embrace the idea that busy people are more effective at getting stuff done. The reality is that I’m going to have to get a lot better about using my calendar, which is a thing I HATE. Meh. Oh well. Onward, forward soldiers, as we say in this house!

First, some good news: we have cable again. Thank F-ing jeebus. The library was starting to get seriously weird, and I was really not feeling great about social interaction today. Also exciting: our wedding invitations are approved and sent to the printer! They are adorable, and weird, and will actually get to our guests on a time line that will be useful. Yeah!

And bad news: one of my family members has to have surgery, and one of my friends found out she’s diabetic. Somehow, the diagnosis of diabetes seems unremarkable these days, though I realize that for the person receiving it, it’s anything but. Luckily, I guess, she recently lost some weight (a frequent challenge and useful tool for fighting the ‘beetes), and she’s a super food-centric person anyway. While it’s going to be horrible for her to have to reduce her bread consumption, she lives in city where there are lots of options for alternative diets, and is well equipped to adapt her cooking and eating to help manage her health.

Also bad news: I have a horrible, horrible headache, I think my mystery ovarian pain is planning a comeback, and, due to the nature of my sex life with SH, sitting down has been rather uncomfortable all day. What I would really like right now is a bath and a cup of herbal tea, but neither of those are available in this house. Bleh. I know I’ll be able to have them really soon, but it doesn’t feel soon enough.