Pick an adjective
Unfortunately not a one of the adjectives I'm considering is of the uplifting mode....
I am discouraged, downhearted, disgusted, depressed....take your pick. I have spent pretty much the whole week ripping this place to shreds, moving furniture (I have many bruises to prove this), cleaning every conceivable nook and cranny and scrubbing the carpets until they .....(shine or glisten doesn't work here, what is it that carpets do??). And it looks no different.
The most disheartening part is, after all my work on the carpets, the cat decided to once again abandon the litter box and use a newly cleaned spot instead. As a matter of fact, he had to walk around the litter box to get to those new spots. (This wasn't just a one-time thing.) I could just weep. He's not sick anymore, the prednesone and new food seem to have cured his problem, so I don't know why he's behaving so badly.
I can't find anything to pull me out of this funk. I've searched for new music, to no avail. Nothing interests me. I don't feel daring enough to spend money on unknown artists that I might hate.
I can't find a book to hold my attention (not that I need to buy any new ones, there are hundreds around here that I've bought but never managed to read...), I think I've started about four different ones at this point.
I can't get inspired to stamp. I need a reason to do something, birthday card or some other kind of card and there's nothing like that coming up in my life. No one to create something for.
Television is the pits. There is truly nothing worth watching. I've seen every craft show this week, and even those don't get me going.
I've watched "You've Got Mail," "Independence Day", "Evita" and "Shakespeare in Love" over and over this week to the point where I have the dialogue memorized and know what the next piece of incidental music will be.
And the worst part is that this place is still not totally put back together and I can hardly face what has to be done. And it has to be done. There is currently no place to sit in the livingroom.
That's my story and my whine.
My big adventure of the day was going to the grocery store and finding a check for six hundred dollars that someone had dropped on the floor. It was even endorsed already.
I gave it to a manager and hoped that they would call the person who had written the check. I can only imagine how the person who dropped it must be feeling. I’d be sick to my stomach and in a panic.
I hope they make some effort to locate the woman.
Even the grocery store failed to entertain me. All I bought was an already cooked chicken, buttermilk (I want to make soda bread) and Pledge.
You’d think that food would at least provide a diversion from my misery.
Not.
I guess I really do have to go back to putting this place back together.
Listening to: Appalachian Spring - Copeland
Reading: The Pilot’s Wife Anita Shreve
Weather: cloudy, 58
Trivia: What causes muscles to cramp?
Almost everyone has experienced a muscle cramp. The muscle becomes contracted and rigid, and is usually quite painful. The contracted muscle gets locked into a self-sustaining knot, which can last for hours or days. Many muscle cramps are associated with exercise. These cramps are often due to a depletion or imbalance of salts in the muscle tissue, especially calcium, sodium, and potassium, which are lost in our sweat. A buildup of lactic acid, one of the byproducts of heavy exercise, also can contribute to the cramping. Drinking "electrolyte" drinks that restore the salt balance can often relieve such cramps. If you get a cramp, it may be helpful to move the muscle into its least extended (shortest) position and massage it very gently. Eat something with sodium and potassium (like a banana) and wait for the cramp to ease.
Cool word:cloying [adj. KLOY-ing]
If something is cloying then it is so sweet, rich, or sentimental that it is disgusting or distasteful. It's too much of a good thing. There is also the verb to cloy, which is to disgust with excess. Example: "Wherever she went, Madame Bouve was accompanied by an overwhelming cloud of cloying, jasmine-scented perfume." While today's sense of cloying involves an excess of something that might be desirable in smaller amounts, its roots reveal a harsher history. To cloy was once to clog, and before that the word referred to the act of accidentally pricking the foot of a horse with a nail during the process of shoeing.
Middle English acloien (to make lame) was the source, from Old French encloer (to drive a nail), ultimately from Medieval Latin inclavare (to nail in). Through the years, this word has evolved from a penetrating spike to a penetrating sweetness.
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You are very much in touch with your finer feelings and hopes, take a note of what it is you are really after. The clearer the picture you form of what you would like for yourself in the future, the more likely it is to happen. Although not all your wishes can or even should work out, those that are really in line with your intended line of development certainly will. Wish well when you make your wish.