I am having that kind of week

[autographedcat]

Today I am tired and grouchy and this entire week has been stressy.

So.....tell me something good in *your* life. It’ll cheer me up. Please?

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[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Fresh, sweet cherries. I bought 5lbs of them at Costco and brought a good pint or so into work with me today.

Yum! Cherries!

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, fresh fruit is always a goodness.

[singlemaltsilk.livejournal.com]

After nearly 20 years, I can once again play an actual, entire song on my guitar :)

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[aiela.livejournal.com]

I had a fabulous weekend last weekend. I have a date with my other sweetie tonight. My daughter is coming home Friday. I am, once again, not pregnant. I could go on. :P

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Yay for all of those. Especially the first one. (And, by extension, the last one *grin*). Love you miss you!

Pablo Neruda's poetry always makes me feel good and the "Sexy Back" video makes me slightly horny. .

[newblksusan.livejournal.com]

And if that's really a picture of YOU in the icon space, well, I think you're awfully handsome. Was happy to see a black man's face on Tygerr's friends' page of all places . . .

So between Pablo Neruda poetry and the latest Justin Timberlake video, I hope you find something that makes you feel better. . .

Yes: SEXY IS BACK (thank you, Justin Timberlake!!!!)

http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/

http://9.yahoo.com/

(and yes: thoughts of sex always or usually tend to put a smile on my face. So long as it's good sex, mind you. . .)

Hope you have a much better day and week!

Oh: the following chant also helps me in ways that I can't understand (courtesy of once having studied Buddhism)

"My mind is calm and peaceful now. . .my mind is calm and peaceful now. . ."

I always say that, repeatedly, for about 5-10 minutes when I'm highly stressed. It works for me. Don't know why. Try it. It might help you, too. . .

Re: Pablo Neruda's poetry always makes me feel good and the "Sexy Back" video makes me slightly horn

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Afraid not. The post icon is British actor Shaun Parkes. Check out "Casanova" if you get a chance, he's wonderfully sardonic in that.

This icon is an actual picture of me.

I'll check out the links when I get home. Thanks!

[madfilkentist]

Just before reading this, I got an email saying that the software release I've been working on has officially happened.

But that picture really isn't a very good likeness of you. :)

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

No, it really isn't.

Congrats on the release!

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

I've an excellent boss who's teaching me the finer points of office politics and working on helping me continue to kick much keister.

It was 71F at 6:30 this morning. *Inside.* I was almost cold. 'twas a welcome relief from it being 80+ inside and hovering about the century mark outside.

And I'm going to get to see mdlbear on Friday! W00t!

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

I have two fans at my desk -- one on the floor underneath, and one on the corner, for those days that the A/C isn't quite set cool enough for my tastes.

Excellent bosses are a goodness beyond measure.

Please give my regards to mdlbear and his family.

[rdmaughan.livejournal.com]

I passed my second cisco exan this morning, only another four to go.

Of course the best thing in my life remains Grey_lady.

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Go you!

And yes, I can certainly see where she would be. :)

[almeda.livejournal.com]

I have two beagles! And they're self-chasing, meaning I don't have to run up and down the house to remove the ya-yas from the pre-existing beagle!

Also, they are Teh Kyoot together. Especially when they're disagreeing.

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

So are they managing to co-exist yet, or are they only allowed together under supervision?

[stevieannie.livejournal.com]

I go on holiday for a whole week with Teddy and Tom starting on Friday. We get to play in castles, discuss naughty things and freak out mundanes. And hopefully the weather will be co-operative, too.

Can't wait!

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Ooooooh, that sounds lovely! I wish I could come with!

[niquildrvr.livejournal.com]

One afternoon Steve went out to get some things at the store. He was gone an awfully long time. Eventually, I heard some rustling outside, so I opened the door to find him planting lovely pretties in the flower pots outside my door. The very cheery marigolds always make me smile.

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's so sweet! Yay for pretty things!

[wheezinggirl.livejournal.com]

I snuggled with my kitty all morning before my alarm went off. It was nice.

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Oh, lucky cat! ;)

[xap]

my unexpectedly-soon phone screen went horribly.....i babbled like a complete and total freak - moronish stuff.

Have been called in for a real interview tomorrow afternoon. He's already making comments on the second interview, then remembers to go back and say "i mean, if things go well, then we'll...." :)

Snuggling with my kids tonight, visiting family over the weekend - especially my grandpa! :) Good stuff

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Yay for family. And good luck on the real interview!!

[vila-resthal.livejournal.com]

I have many friends that I trust and love. (Of which you and your wife are two of the closest.)

I am sooooo totally in love with my wife. We have so much in common, yet still find that we can converse about the things that we don't have in common.

My entire family loves my new wife unreservedly.

My wife nags me to write stories and also to buy new guitar strings and start playing again.

I have 4 nights left of work before I start a 2 week vacation.

It's only 10 days to ApheliCon 2!

Lyn's oldest daughter is coming out from New Mexico to visit in time for Aphelicon -- *And* she wants me to write the sheet music for "Redshift Sue" so that she can learn to sing it for future gigs.

Two of Lyn & my foster daughters have already visited in the last 6 months and might visit again for Aphelicon.

Last night Kate e-mailed an offer to "accidentally" launch a tatical nuke at the person who hacked our Lettercol last night.

These are (only a) few of my favorite things! Good things can and do happen to good people.

Dan

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

That's a lot of wonderful!

THe lettercol thing is actually one of the things I'm stressed over. And work is being stress enough I've not ben able to work on it yet. :/

But still, yay! And Aphelicon soon!

[jenx.livejournal.com]

With daily yoga stretches, I'm getting closer to being able to do the splits again, and my balance is improving dramatically!

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Go you!

I've watched quadrivium do yoga before, and it's quite impressive.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

This morning I felt like having a tasty beverage. Like, I had a really strong urge for one. okoshun was starting later than usual and I was hopping a ride in, so we went through the drive-through at Second Cup and I got a Green Tea Passionfruit Chiller. It was really good! Mmm.

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Oh, that does sound yummy!

[magid.livejournal.com]

Steamed fish in black bean sauce.

Tandem recumbent trike ride tomorrow.

Time with an almost-five-year-old this past weekend.

Rereading a book that has quickly become a favorite (Sunshine). (Food and vampires :-)

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Tandem recumbent trike ride tomorrow.

Oh, that sounds like fun!

Time with an almost-five-year-old this past weekend.

That's such a great age! Pretty much from there up until they become surly teenagers. :)

Rereading a book that has quickly become a favorite (Sunshine). (Food and vampires :-)

I haven't read it. I'll have to look for a copy. (Hrm, is that the McKinley books? Becuase if it is, we own a copy!)

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you are having a stressy time.

I don't have a lot to offer right now - but the spiral rib socks that I decided to wing it with are turning out pretty good so far.

I hope things get better.

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Rockin' sockin'! Go you!

They will. They're not so bad, I'm just taking shameless advantage of my friends list to cheer myself. :)

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

My disaster of an apartment now has a half-clean kitchen and, by the time I'm done today, we'll strike "half-".

And, taken from the comments to a post by filkertom, today I saw the music video for "Hope Eyrie" (and have it saved, via KeepVid.

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

I'd seen that video before, and it is *quite* well done! Glad to see it up where it can get better distribution.

[metalsaurus.livejournal.com]

C's thesis and defense preparations are going really well, I'm getting actual work done on my own dissertation, and did I mention we escape L.A. in 10 days? ;)

(And I've never heard the song you're listening to, but I would loved to have had a copy of it when I lived with the psycho ;)

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Esacape!!! Fly away! (After all, we have plans for you once you get settled in *grin*)

I can send you an mp3 if you like. Ookla rocks! :)

[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

We have finally gotten our phone and internet connection back, after several days without it.

Also, JJ has learned how to roll over from back to front, and now spends most of his conscious time flipping back and forth enthusiastically. It's adorable. When he isn't doing that, he's eating his own toes, which is also adorable.

[(Anonymous)]

Yummy summer squash with home made pesto sauce... floor space in my bedroom... looking forward to camping in W.Va with David and Casey... :-)

[msminlr.livejournal.com]

Sharon now has THREE jobs up there in Valparaiso: one full-time and two part-time. She's going to be One Busy Girl until the middle of August and the one at the University ends when the summer terms finish.

The other part-tiem job is actually in her degree area: TV & video production.

Classic case of a Day Job (at a music store) supporting her while she builds hours in Her Field working random projects.

[folkmew.livejournal.com]

I am almost done with this frigging paper-o-doom.
That means I will have more time for online chatting! Yay!
:-) Well.... a little BIT more time at least. ;-)

Hugs!

A funny thing happened on the way to the weekend...

[annonynous.livejournal.com]

Sparked by newblksusan's chant, Hysterium's own version -
o/~
I am calm.
I am calm.
I am utterly calm.
I am totally under control.
~\o

You have oodles of friends, and I'm thankful I'm one of them.

Ann O.

[lysana.livejournal.com]

I have my car back.