nonsense; twaddle.

hey! look at me! twice in one week! you are the luckiest person in the world to be reading this drivel. speaking of "drivel," i wasn't sure if i spelled that correctly so i checking teh internets and this is what i got:

driv·el /ˈdrɪvəl/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[driv-uhl] -eled, -el·ing or (especially British) -elled, -el·ling.
–noun

1.	saliva flowing from the mouth, or mucus from the nose; slaver.

2.	childish, silly, or meaningless talk or thinking; nonsense; twaddle.

–verb (used without object)

3.	to let saliva flow from the mouth or mucus from the nose; slaver.

4.	to talk childishly or idiotically.

5.	Archaic. to issue like spittle.

–verb (used with object)

6.	to utter childishly or idiotically.

7.	to waste foolishly.

so maybe i should change the name of this blog to something more drivel-y. because, honestly, i don't like talking about "issues" and current events. i listen to NPR every morning and every afternoon. i read US weekly at the grocery, and i read the funnies on sunday. that's about all the news i like to hear. i used to be more embarrassed about that, especially living in washington. but now... nyah, i don't care so much. people can suck my toe. i like to gossip about celebrities sometimes, and i will step up my news coverage during times of elections and big ticket items. but i can only stand discussing my views on partial-birth abortions for so long before i just want to give up.

so don't read on, thinking you will be expanding your world view. you'll be sorely disappointed if you do. instead, i prefer to pretend that no one is reading this (since, probably, no one is...) and that i am talking to myself! how pleasant. on the plus side, if i keep posting more regularly... think of how nice it will be, about ten years from now, for me to have a record of the minutiae of my days. my memory being what it is, i will have likely forgotten most of the details.

mi·nu·ti·a /mɪˈnuʃiə, -ʃə, -ˈnyu-/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[mi-noo-shee-uh, -shuh, -nyoo-] plural -ti·ae /-ʃiˌi/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[-shee-ee
–noun

1.	precise details; small or trifling matters: the minutiae of his craft.

so! that said, on to the drivel!

i am FINALLY moving my indoor wundergarten to the great outdoors, where it belongs. this creepy awful cold miserable weather is finally over, so it's safe for my little plantlings to go outside and stop dirtying up my house. my peas and lettuce are still doing fine outside, but soon (read: tonight and sunday) they will be joined by poppies, bells of scotland, hollyhocks, marigolds, cosmos, parsley, dill, basil, chives, spring onion! probably more, but i can't remember... i am pretty excited about it all. i also want to go pick out our hedge plants sometime soon.

the sugar-caffeine diet continues: i cheated twice - scott brought home cadbury creme eggs and i ate two. i am trying to not eat refined flour, but i haven't been good about advanced planning for that. today, for instance, i ate soup that contained noodles. it's only been 4 days, so i am going to wait a week or two before judging any results.

i am attempting to kill the last 40 minutes before i can safely leave. *technically* i shouldn't leave until 4:30... but my boss is gone for the afternoon... and it's friday, dammit. i am leaving at 4:00, and no one can stop me.

yesterday, two of my co-workers were leaving a little early to go to a wine-tasting festival thingie downtown. i was working on the reference desk, and julie was stopping by to talk before she left. we chatted for a bit, then she said quite loudly "well, i'm off to go drink some wine!", then stomped into her office - just as our boss walked by with a puzzled look on his face. the thought-bubble over his head said "julie? wine? in your office?" i am still laughing on the inside about that one.

well, i've managed to whittle my time down to a half hour. one last time-draining thought to share: play this game. it's so peaceful and addictive.

Friday the 13th?

So the weather has really let me down this spring. I got excited, early, and bought a shit load of seeds and greenhousey trays... and I planted and I tended and I watered and I loved. And I almost moved the seedlings outside. Thanks be to Johhny Appleseed, or who(m?)ever was guiding my hand... because at the last minute I changed my mind and kept the baby plantlings inside the house. Then the bottom dropped out of the thermometer over the next day or so, and they all would have surely perished. And boy, would I have been p-i-s-s-e-d. So now i am stuck with a miniature greenhouse in our sun room. I just checked the weather, and it looks like it'll get warm enough by the middle of next week. NEXT WEEK. arg. I think it's warm enough for shrubbery, though, and i have this really scraggly hibiscus bush in my office... i think i'll throw caution to the blustery April wind, and stick in the ground this weekend. I am tired of seeing it's tired old leaves and pot-bound roots in my office.

on an unrelated note, some fool hit my car last night! i walked over to my car this morning, started to unlock the driver's door... then I noticed that my side-mirror was dangling by its gruesome stalk of an electrical cord. just slumped there, limply, on the side of my car. THEN i noticed the long grey stripe of either: a) schmutz from the culprit's own side mirror, as it scraped down the length of my car, or 2) the color of the body of my car shining through a hideous scratch running the length of my car. either way, it's unattractive. Scott brought up a good point, that maybe my insurance would cover it, but then I remembered that when I changed agents last spring I never had him take pictures of my car. I was scheduled to take the car over there for pictures... then I got that awful stomach virus and was too weak to get out of bed. then i forgot. i guess i will think about it later. it could be worse - the side of my car could've gotten all smashed up. i suppose i should be thankful for that.

speaking things avoided, then forgotten - it's my last chance to do my taxes! I told my co-worker this morning "yeah, i think i will do them tonight while scott is at a movie"... but i knew in my heart that was a huge lie. but even just now, as I typed the words "that was a huge lie" I thought, "no, really! I will! I swear!" but i probably won't. sigh.

mostly because it is sunny right now, and the workday is nearly over (well, okay, 2:00 is not that nearly over...) and i can't wait to go home for the day.

i need to recharge the digital camera and add some pictures.