Just to Mix it Up

I've been encountering several opinionated-run blogs over the Internet, and it's put a slightly off taste in my mouth. I'm an opinionated person, and sometimes I need to tell myself to shut up and get lost, but I've never overstepped my bounds, and I've learnt that, for me, opinions sound better with a couple of facts behind the main frame, if not to cover my ass, to at least make myself look better. When you complain all the time about something you don't like, but do nothing to change it, it just gets…old, and wither-y and fragile (stopping now).

So, in a bid to be a bit different, I decided to compile a list of what's been going on with me as of late1.

  1. For the past two weeks, I've been working furiously on Listing Admin », so much so that I cleaned the entire house (and I have a nice sized house) all in under two hours when I got frantic, and I now have a dime-sized callous on my right wrist. I feel lost, now that the main update is over, so much so I find myself daydreaming about coding + web development twice as much as I did before…I even sent myself to sleep last night with all of my dribble!
  2. In a bid to be more active in a community other than web development, I started teaching myself Piano, which is pissing me off, because I can't control it with a mouse! Despite this, I've managed to learn all the keys (CDE, FGAB), learn half the notes (I only have one note down), one simple song and three Kate Nash songs. Yay?
  3. Raine » (yes, you are featured twice in a blog post…amazing) posted a very spot-on post about weight loss » and how we actually don't really do it properly, and I ran into that little issue here lately; I thought I was losing a bit of weight, despite me not exercising for quite some time. I take medication for a disorder, and it's causing me to not hold any type of food down, which I found out was the cause of my weight loss. Of course, the thing to do would be to, oh, stop taking the medication, except I'm stubborn and a little bit of a cheap-o; I'm stubborn in the sense that I refuse to back down from the challenge and a cheap-o, because I hate switching medications, and despite me not being able to eat (most of the time, not all), the medication is working great for me. Doctor's appointment in October will address this, I hope.
  4. I've been enjoying the Fall TV line-up (…somewhat, but that's another post down the road), and also Fall itself! We are in the middle of our first cold front, and it's so nice not to have to run the air conditioner on high, and to walk outside feeling comfortable. Florida does not always equal the most fabulous of weather, and I'm truly hoping this'll bring a good Winter.

There's a few other bits and odds, but they're a bit private, so I'll leave it on that lovely note, yeah?

  1. I almost went with Raine's idea (er, meme?) of listing bad habits, but I'm a bit robotic and unreal, and I just refuse to open myself up to the that.

Posted: September 29, 2009
Listed Under: Coding, General, Music, Real Life
Tags: listing admin, music, piano, real life

Comments

  1. Raine »
    October 25, 2009 · Permalink
    I am SUPER late, but - YAY! I got mentioned twice - that is pretty amazing! :D

    So you're learning piano online, using the computer keyboard? That's interesting, I never knew one could do that (I don't know how else to phrase that comment without sounding like a 17th Century snob). Are you continuing with it?

    I loooove Autumn, or as the Americans say it, Fall. :) The colours, the music, the moods, the smells, the sounds - everything crunchy and blowing with the wind at amazing speeds. Love it all. And aha! I know where every state in the U.S. is now - thanks to sporcle.com. I know where Florida is - southeast, just below Georgia! SCORE! :D

    I hope the weight issues, etc, are going well. I'm planning to actually have a more active lifestyle rather than always dreaming about it, because I find that even when I'm happy with my body, doing exercise always makes me feel more alive. Humans were never made to stay still - movement is one of the aspects of all living things! :D

    *squiddle*

  2. Krissy »
    November 25, 2009 · Permalink
    It seems that my feed reader wasn't picking up your blog until today! Not cool at all. Bad internet, bad! So I'm a bit late, I suppose.

    But anyway. You're learning piano! That's so awesome. :D How's it going? I don't really know how helpful it would be, but if you ever have questions or need help with anything, let me know. :D And I expect progress reports, pronto. :P (I kid. But I'd love to hear about it. *is a huge nerd like that*)

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