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Jul. 12th, 2020 01:12 amWaaarghble. I've been getting a lot of stuff done, but it's all a bit more haphazard than I like so I end up feeling very waaarghble I got nothing done during the day.
This is not true. Today I got rid of a few pepper plants, made a sign that advertised the pepper plants as bell pepper plants and that they were free to a good home and please take them. I drew a scream emoji. I watered the plants as needed watering, because we got two deluges yesterday instead of just the one, so that was pretty much just the bed plants where there was enough dirt and drainage that they needed more watering. I moved the cucumbers so that they would get more bees. I swapped around a bunch of support structures so that the cucumbers had a support structure once they weren't using the porch rail for a trellis and then put a cage around the tomatoes whose support I stole for the cucumber, I replanted the allspice. Made a few bracelets. Did a bunch of languages. Did something else, I forget what, I think a kitchen tidy. Hems! I did hemming.
Yesterday I did a shitpot of hauling around 40-60lb bags of raised bed soil, getting the soil into the bed (getting the spare bag into the shed for future use somewhere), hauling out the extra bag of perlite I still had and getting THAT into the bed which turned out to be very handy, thank you deluge, and transplanting all the peppers. Then I took a well-earned nap after a bunch of well-earned pizza rolls. Then I did four coding lessons because why the fuck not.
I have been doing things. I just haven't been ... I don't know, have I been as good as I might at logging things? I really don't know. Yes, okay, I did log some things yesterday. See, self. You did things. You can't do all the things you want to get done in one day, that's why you have a sticky note for the individual things like "move plants" and "make bracelets to test the glue." (Which I also did today.)
Anyway. The tomatoes may need to get harvested and then finished indoors, evidently once the outside gets hot enough they stop reddening. Which also explains why Grandma often had a bunch of tomatoes finishing up indoors, DC in the summer and all. But other than that the garden stuff is pretty much back down to maintenance now that I have room to bed all the bed plants, should the tomatillos happen. And then eventually it'll be remembering to put both those beds to bed in the winter so they don't turn into weedscapes again.
And in the meantime it's coding, writing, and remembering to get up every so often to stretch my legs. Which actually isn't hard, it seems like when I'm at home I get up every fifteen minutes to do something around the house until 8 ish? 9 ish? At which point I definitely can just sit somewhere and stare at a movie.
I will say, I've gotten pretty good? In the last week about okay, sit down at the computer from 10 to start dinner about 4-5pm. So there's a sense of working hours even if the various tasks I want to get done aren't always (sometimes aren't many) computer tasks, so I end up roaming around the house. Presumably that'll change when school and hopefully then job, but... hell, I don't even know anymore. Nobody knows.
I want to get a salon visit while I know I'm still disease free but I'm not sure I should spend the money right now. I have the ability to bleach and color my hair at home, and I should use that rather than spend the money, but. Argh. Also ... something. I have feelings about becoming a web developer/software engineer and those feelings are that so far, Code Academy's learning interface and teaching dialogues are a hell of a lot more useful than the actual school's I'm meant to be studying at. Though I did get the lesson after... maybe six tries and half an hour of frustrated glaring and swearing. But the interface is cluttered and clunky and keeps throwing up error messages that have nothing to do with the actual code I'm putting in (well, nothing directly) and it's aggravating. I can only hope the coding environment later in the actual course is better.
This is the state of the me at the moment, though. Fairly content, worried about doing well in the tech school (or, heh, getting into the tech school in the first place, let's not get ahead of ourselves here), studying code and remembering how much I enjoyed it, and doing other fun stuff around the day. There are worse ways to spend a life. If only I was getting paid to live and keep busy. *cough UBI cough*
This is not true. Today I got rid of a few pepper plants, made a sign that advertised the pepper plants as bell pepper plants and that they were free to a good home and please take them. I drew a scream emoji. I watered the plants as needed watering, because we got two deluges yesterday instead of just the one, so that was pretty much just the bed plants where there was enough dirt and drainage that they needed more watering. I moved the cucumbers so that they would get more bees. I swapped around a bunch of support structures so that the cucumbers had a support structure once they weren't using the porch rail for a trellis and then put a cage around the tomatoes whose support I stole for the cucumber, I replanted the allspice. Made a few bracelets. Did a bunch of languages. Did something else, I forget what, I think a kitchen tidy. Hems! I did hemming.
Yesterday I did a shitpot of hauling around 40-60lb bags of raised bed soil, getting the soil into the bed (getting the spare bag into the shed for future use somewhere), hauling out the extra bag of perlite I still had and getting THAT into the bed which turned out to be very handy, thank you deluge, and transplanting all the peppers. Then I took a well-earned nap after a bunch of well-earned pizza rolls. Then I did four coding lessons because why the fuck not.
I have been doing things. I just haven't been ... I don't know, have I been as good as I might at logging things? I really don't know. Yes, okay, I did log some things yesterday. See, self. You did things. You can't do all the things you want to get done in one day, that's why you have a sticky note for the individual things like "move plants" and "make bracelets to test the glue." (Which I also did today.)
Anyway. The tomatoes may need to get harvested and then finished indoors, evidently once the outside gets hot enough they stop reddening. Which also explains why Grandma often had a bunch of tomatoes finishing up indoors, DC in the summer and all. But other than that the garden stuff is pretty much back down to maintenance now that I have room to bed all the bed plants, should the tomatillos happen. And then eventually it'll be remembering to put both those beds to bed in the winter so they don't turn into weedscapes again.
And in the meantime it's coding, writing, and remembering to get up every so often to stretch my legs. Which actually isn't hard, it seems like when I'm at home I get up every fifteen minutes to do something around the house until 8 ish? 9 ish? At which point I definitely can just sit somewhere and stare at a movie.
I will say, I've gotten pretty good? In the last week about okay, sit down at the computer from 10 to start dinner about 4-5pm. So there's a sense of working hours even if the various tasks I want to get done aren't always (sometimes aren't many) computer tasks, so I end up roaming around the house. Presumably that'll change when school and hopefully then job, but... hell, I don't even know anymore. Nobody knows.
I want to get a salon visit while I know I'm still disease free but I'm not sure I should spend the money right now. I have the ability to bleach and color my hair at home, and I should use that rather than spend the money, but. Argh. Also ... something. I have feelings about becoming a web developer/software engineer and those feelings are that so far, Code Academy's learning interface and teaching dialogues are a hell of a lot more useful than the actual school's I'm meant to be studying at. Though I did get the lesson after... maybe six tries and half an hour of frustrated glaring and swearing. But the interface is cluttered and clunky and keeps throwing up error messages that have nothing to do with the actual code I'm putting in (well, nothing directly) and it's aggravating. I can only hope the coding environment later in the actual course is better.
This is the state of the me at the moment, though. Fairly content, worried about doing well in the tech school (or, heh, getting into the tech school in the first place, let's not get ahead of ourselves here), studying code and remembering how much I enjoyed it, and doing other fun stuff around the day. There are worse ways to spend a life. If only I was getting paid to live and keep busy. *cough UBI cough*