our apartment building
view of downtown from our roof
the alley behind usTuesday, July 31, 2007
small victories
farmers market peaches are so much better than store bought ones & yet i don't buy them because they're expensive. so here i sit eating a bland peach wishing it were tasty. maybe i've learned my lesson.
most of the day was pretty frustrating - lack of sleep & failed attempts at scheduling a doctors appointment. honestly, sometimes it seems worth paying extra just to have a real person answer the phone.
dan was nice enough to walk to the rotunda (a shopping center) w/ me to look at some new glasses - even though we just walked there last night to do some grocery shopping. (i've been procrastinating getting new glasses due to our sub par experience with Pearle Vision this winter. i'd rather support a local business than that franchise-owning jerk.) the optician was very friendly & helpful (so much better than Pearle) but unable to get the frames i like.
so we decided to take a leisurely walk home through a nearby wooded park area. an urban adventure - my favorite. i enjoy the pockets of "nature" (minus the trash & polluted water) hidden in and around Baltimore. so we go on our walk down this path & it's kinda nice. it's quiet aside from the creek & some birds... when up ahead i notice SOMETHING on the path. neither of us was sure exactly what we saw. as we approached, things became a little clearer. it was a man hunched down on the path - on his knees, with no shirt on. he looked like he was laying on top of something. as we passed the guy, who didn't seem to notice us, he raised up a bit & we could see the plastic bag w/ something brown in it that he was huffing. hm... & that was our urban nature trek.
shortly after we returned home, dan left for work. i watched a little This American Life on the showtime website. (Our tv recently broke, which i think is a good thing. we don't watch much tv & i'd been wanting to get rid of it. only now that it's broken, i kind of miss it. when i don't feel like DOING something or don't know WHAT to do, i can just turn it on to procrastinate/waste time for a bit. didn't know i'd miss that part of it. thank god for the internet & dsl.) one episode of This American Life was enough procrastinating. i called the doctor one last time & actually got A PERSON!! i feel relieved - even though the doctor's supposed to call me back to set up the appointment.
i went to the garden to do tomorrow's watering (i'm hoping to volunteer at this salvaged construction materials place tomorrow night, my regular watering night) & then to Lens Crafters for glasses. (i know they're not a local business but they have the frames i like & i decided it would be better to accomplish something.) i've decided it was meant to be - they were having a sale & i got my glasses for $125 less than they quoted me last week! so it was a small victory but a victory none the less. i felt good about my purchase, went to the gym, hit a yoga class & that's pretty much it. my day, in a very big nut shell.
so having this blog makes me nervous - because i want to share it with people at some point to accomplish the goals in my previous post. but i'm not a very good writer. i can't seem to get to the point of things very quickly. but really, there is no actual point, other than to share about my day & how i'm feeling & stuff. that's it. i'll have to be ok just doing it for me. i'll stick in some pictures to entertain the family & friends. the text is for me.
i also did a little reading about sleeping pills today. my friend, dawn, who's fighting round #2 of breast cancer, is taking ambien cr to help her sleep. i looked it up on the internet & then looked up some general info about medication for sleeping problems. it said that medication can often exacerbate the insomnia because it treats the symptom not the actual cause. so, there's that along w/ all the other bad stuff like addiction & bad side effects. yum.
most of the day was pretty frustrating - lack of sleep & failed attempts at scheduling a doctors appointment. honestly, sometimes it seems worth paying extra just to have a real person answer the phone.
dan was nice enough to walk to the rotunda (a shopping center) w/ me to look at some new glasses - even though we just walked there last night to do some grocery shopping. (i've been procrastinating getting new glasses due to our sub par experience with Pearle Vision this winter. i'd rather support a local business than that franchise-owning jerk.) the optician was very friendly & helpful (so much better than Pearle) but unable to get the frames i like.
so we decided to take a leisurely walk home through a nearby wooded park area. an urban adventure - my favorite. i enjoy the pockets of "nature" (minus the trash & polluted water) hidden in and around Baltimore. so we go on our walk down this path & it's kinda nice. it's quiet aside from the creek & some birds... when up ahead i notice SOMETHING on the path. neither of us was sure exactly what we saw. as we approached, things became a little clearer. it was a man hunched down on the path - on his knees, with no shirt on. he looked like he was laying on top of something. as we passed the guy, who didn't seem to notice us, he raised up a bit & we could see the plastic bag w/ something brown in it that he was huffing. hm... & that was our urban nature trek.
shortly after we returned home, dan left for work. i watched a little This American Life on the showtime website. (Our tv recently broke, which i think is a good thing. we don't watch much tv & i'd been wanting to get rid of it. only now that it's broken, i kind of miss it. when i don't feel like DOING something or don't know WHAT to do, i can just turn it on to procrastinate/waste time for a bit. didn't know i'd miss that part of it. thank god for the internet & dsl.) one episode of This American Life was enough procrastinating. i called the doctor one last time & actually got A PERSON!! i feel relieved - even though the doctor's supposed to call me back to set up the appointment.
i went to the garden to do tomorrow's watering (i'm hoping to volunteer at this salvaged construction materials place tomorrow night, my regular watering night) & then to Lens Crafters for glasses. (i know they're not a local business but they have the frames i like & i decided it would be better to accomplish something.) i've decided it was meant to be - they were having a sale & i got my glasses for $125 less than they quoted me last week! so it was a small victory but a victory none the less. i felt good about my purchase, went to the gym, hit a yoga class & that's pretty much it. my day, in a very big nut shell.
so having this blog makes me nervous - because i want to share it with people at some point to accomplish the goals in my previous post. but i'm not a very good writer. i can't seem to get to the point of things very quickly. but really, there is no actual point, other than to share about my day & how i'm feeling & stuff. that's it. i'll have to be ok just doing it for me. i'll stick in some pictures to entertain the family & friends. the text is for me.
i also did a little reading about sleeping pills today. my friend, dawn, who's fighting round #2 of breast cancer, is taking ambien cr to help her sleep. i looked it up on the internet & then looked up some general info about medication for sleeping problems. it said that medication can often exacerbate the insomnia because it treats the symptom not the actual cause. so, there's that along w/ all the other bad stuff like addiction & bad side effects. yum.
Monday, July 30, 2007
the point
reasons to start a blog:
- keep in touch w/ family & friends as i seem to really suck at it.
- share a little more of myself with people i love & miss seeing on a regular basis
- give myself another outlet for whatever is fueling the bouts of insomnia
- share tasty new recipes (& tasty old recipes)
- post photos
i may expand on this as things become clearer but the blog seems like the thing to do. journaling hasn't been cutting the mustard lately. i've gotten a bit bored w/ it. hoping changing this up a bit will help. does the speed of typing make it easier to get things out? will i become comfortable sharing about myself & my life? is this just as lame as my journal? at this point, the jury's still out. stay tuned. i do have a bit of a knot in my stomach.
day 1
this is pretty unnerving - knowing other people can read this. does that work for me (even though that was the point of staring a blog)? how to start the day? call the doctor & make an appointment to talk about the insomnia? a 2nd attempt at making a dermatologist appointment? maybe finding a career counselor... think i'll start w/ a shower.
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