Discouraged/Taking a break
I have worked so hard cleaning this place, I’m no where near done, and I’m exhausted and discouraged.
The cat decided to not use the box again. He chose several different spots of the newly cleaned carpet. So I have to go over it all again.
I could just cry.
This has not been a good idea. I don’t think I realized exactly how much time and energy this was going to take out of me when I first started this project and now it’s getting to me.
Dee called me after her doctor’s appointment and we decided to go shopping. Wal-Mart and the Christmas Tree Shop. We hadn’t been to either one of them in ages.
As usual I spent too much at Wal-Mart, although I have to return an outfit that I bought. It looked great on the rack. It looks awful on me. It was one of those "weekend casual knit" type of skirt and top combos, but it just didn’t work when I got it home.
I’m not sure exactly what it is that I did spend money on. I think it was mostly cleaning stuff or household stuff - like cushions for the computer chair (which is very uncomfortable) and underbed storage boxes.
I did get one fun toy. It’s a Tweety Bird fortuneteller. Sort of like a magic eight ball, but you push on a "crystal ball" that Sylvester’s head is inside and it gives answers.
Now why did I get this? We have our chorus retreat in a couple of weeks, and the theme is ‘birds". So I think I’m going to set up a little advice booth where Tweety speaks. Retreat (also called "camp") is a full weekend of rehearsal. We stay at a hotel and set up our risers in a function room, bring in a coach (I hate the one who is coming in this year) and we REHEARSE.
We start Friday night and rehearse from 7:30 to 10ish, then start again Saturday morning and work from about 9 to 5 (breaking for lunch), and again in the evening for a bit. Then we do funny skits and other goofy stuff. We get up again on Sunday morning and work from about 9 to 12.
Sound like fun?
Ha.
I should mention that we only work on two songs during all this. We will only sing our competition package. Two songs. Over and over.
By the end of the weekend, we’re dead.
Then we get to keep practicing those songs every week until we compete. May 13.
And I PAY to do this!!
Listening to: You’ve Got Mail
Reading: Call It Destiny Jayne Ann Krentz
Weather: cloudy, 55
Trivia:Who invented the printing press?
Johann Gensfleisch Zur Laden Zum Gutenberg, the son of a Mainz patrician, is the German craftsman and inventor who originated a method of printing from movable type that was used without significant changes until very recently. The unique elements of Gutenberg's press consisted of a mold, with punch-stamped matrices (metal prisms used to mold the face of the type) with which type could be cast precisely and in large quantities; a type-metal alloy; a new press, derived from those used in wine making, papermaking, and bookbinding; and an oil-based printing ink. Unfortunately, the tale of Gutenberg's press is one laden with disappointment and betrayal. Talk of the invention of the press caused quite a stir in the mid fifteenth century, with men he had been more or less forced into partnership with (due to financial considerations) attempting to determine what exactly he was working on, and cutting themselves in for a piece of it. By 1450 Gutenberg's printing experiments had come along quite far, and he persuaded wealthy financier Johann Fust to lend him 800 guilders (a very substantial capital investment) towards its completion. Two years later Fust made an additional investment of 800 guilders for a full partnership. But Fust and Gutenberg quickly became estranged, as Fust wanted a safe, quick return while Gutenberg aimed at, and eventually achieved, perfection. In the interim, however, Fust brought suit against Gutenberg in the courts of the day and won, gaining control of the type for Gutenberg's first masterpiece, the Forty-two-Line Bible, and for Gutenberg's second masterpiece, a Psalter, and at least some of Gutenberg's other printing equipment. He continued to print, using Gutenberg's materials, with the assistance of his son-in-law Peter Sch=F6ffer, who had been Gutenberg's most skilled employee and a witness against him in the 1455 trial. Gutenberg didn't go entirely unrewarded for his achievements in history. In January 1465 the archbishop of Mainz pensioned Gutenberg, giving him an annual measure of grain, wine, and clothing and exempting him from certain taxes. His financial status in his last years has been debated but was probably not destitute. Still, a rather ignoble ending to the tale of what is, arguably, one of the most important inventions of the last millennium.
Cool word:bush [n. BUSH]
A bush is a small shrub that has many branches, or it can be a thicket. Collectively, the bush is the wildest backwoods, land that is far from human settlement. A person can also have a bush of hair, which is a wild, unruly shag. This word came from the ancient Germanic root busk by three separate paths that became re-united in English. Old English busc (bush) combined with Old French bois (wood) and a Scandinavian root that led to Danish busk (bush), giving our modern word. Also from the same root is bouquet, from Old French bosquet (thicket), the diminutive of bosc (forest). The latter also led to English bosky (wooded), while Old French embuschier gave English ambush (to attack by surprise from cover).
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It is fine to listen to your intuition and to back hunches about how you should proceed in realizing your hopes and wishes but try to be realistic about how much you can achieve with what you do. It is better to make some small steps in the right direction than large ones in the wrong one. Although you may think you are on the brink of a big pay off, do not count your proverbial chickens just yet.