Listening to: You’ve Got Mail - Soundtrack
Reading: Ransom Julie Garwood
Weather: 40 and sunny
Trivia: How can divers stay in deep water for many hours?
Normally, when a SCUBA diver swims very deep, he or she can only stay at that depth for a short time before it is necessary to return to the surface. The deeper the dive, the less time is available at the bottom, where the high pressure causes nitrogen gas to dissolve in the diver's blood. On the way back up, the diver must rise slowly to decompress, avoiding the dangerous "bends" that result from bubbles forming in the blood as the nitrogen comes out of solution. But divers who live in an undersea habitat can swim around at depth for many hours without needing a lengthy decompression period before
coming out of the water. Because the habitat's air is at the same pressure as the water at the dive depth, there is no danger of nitrogen bubbling out of their blood when they end the dive.
Cool word: hale [adj. HAYL]
If you are hale, then you are free of illness, strong and healthy. The word usually implies exceptional vigor and robustness, and is often applied to older people. Example: "My dad is hale and hearty, living his seventy-second year to its fullest." This word is from Old English hal (healthy), whose ancient root was prehistoric Germanic khailaz (undamaged). That root split into a family of words, including hale and its close relative, whole, which received its wh- beginning in the 16th century. Other members of the family diverged more in meaning. They include hail, heal, hallow, health, and holy. Also in the same family are German heel (salute), Russian Celia (whole), and Welsh Cole (good omen).
Running Around
Well, having a day off sure didn't hurt much! I actually slept until eight this morning, and seriously considered going back to bed for a while at about eleven, I refrained, however.
I probably couldn’t have slept anyway, as there were these men in a cherry picker pounding on the walls, while others tromped on the roof. Apparently there are new cable options becoming available soon, and they were wiring the place. It was a pain to listen to all morning.
A little odd to have some guy able to look in my window all day too. Especially the window that is not on the balcony.
I'm fighting a cold, which is not surprising considering we have the show this Sunday and I've been burning the candle at both ends for weeks.
It's also not surprising in that it was 70 degrees yesterday and we had snow flurries this morning. It's that wait a minute and it'll change New England weather.
I spent the day running around for the show but I think I got it all taken care of. I got gift certificates for people who have small speaking parts, I delivered a costume to my nephew (who is playing Oliver in one of our intros), and I bought confetti for the tables.
When did confetti get so expensive. These little tiny bags of confetti shapes were over two bucks apiece. That’s fine when you want to glitter only a couple of tables, but I need to glitter 52 tables!
I ended up going to the back room at the party store where they had weird stuff on sale. I got some that was fairly cheap, but we’re going to have to pick alien heads and cowboy boots out of the bags before we glitter the tables.
But it’ll be fine once it’s done.
I think I've overloaded on pumpkin flavor. Today it's a pumpkin bagel and pumpkin coffee. I think I may be looking jaundiced.
It seemed like a fallish kind of thing to do, and I do tend to do things to excess.
I'm still upset with myself over my recent lack of creativity. I've done nothing at all in stamping or paper arts and I have no inspiration. With ten thousand stamps around, you'd think I'd have plenty of inspiration handy. But for some reason I can't get myself to put anything together. This is the first time in years that I've not made a single Halloween or Thanksgiving card.
I thought that I might decide to do something like that today, but it never happened. When I was home the phone kept ringing. It was either show stuff or the family so I didn’t really have time to even consider being creative.
It’s now after 11p.m. and I’ve just ended what I hope is my last phone conversation about the show. Time to go to bed. Back to getting up at 5.30 tomorrow.
Someday I want to have a job where I can sleep till seven!
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