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Yesterday was my brother's birthday. My baby bruder turned 58. I'm here to tell you that this aging thing sneaks up on you. I don't usually feel old. I feel sick, but that's different. My brother was laughing that now when he and his friends get together in Manhattan, they have to take a nap before they go out for the night. Heh. Yeah, stamina ain't what it used to be. My theory is that we are each allowed so much energy over the course of our lives, and I used up all of mine during my 20s. I probably used some of yours, too. I apologize. But damn, I had a good time :)
Speaking of a lack of stamina, I've been sleeping on and off all day. Every joint in my body was hurting last night so I took an oxycondin before bed. It turned out actually to be 40mg of percocet. Body meet bed. Body and bed never separate for hours and hours and hours and hours . . . I figure it'll work out of my system by tomorrow. Interesting dreams, though. I dreamed that my right arm and then my right leg started to levitate. It felt very real, and I'm not entirely convinced that I was truly dreaming. It felt so cool that I started cheering myself on to levitate completely and then I woke up. Ha!
A question for y'all. My LJ is up for renewal, but I'm not sure I'm going to go for a paid account again. Does anyone here have a free (basic?) account, and if so, what are the drawbacks. I keep hearing about advertising. As long as it's on the borders I don't think I'd mind, but if it's that flashing nonsense that's always in your face, well that's another story entirely. So give me your input, please.
Last week Dar and I dove head first into the day-long Mad Men marathon on AMC. The Canadian broadcast channels are showing the first season, but they're only on episode four, whereas the new seasons starts on AMC this Sunday. Before I realized that there was a marathon, I was really torn about whether to continue watching it on Canadian TV and be at least a half season behind, or just jump into the new season without really knowing what happened (and try to catch up by watching S1 every week on the CTV channels.) Tah-dah - problem solved. Although Dar had it right when she said she ended the marathon feeling like she had smoker's cough and a hangover. Hee! As someone who actually lived through that time period, I can tell you that they have it down perfectly. People smoked everywhere. Only church was out of bounds. I can remember going to see To Kill a Mockingbird at Radio City Music Hall in NY, and trying to peer through the haze of smoke to see the screen. All the seats had ashtrays in the arms, for FSM's sake! It was really nuts.
I was shocked by last night's SYTYCD. Shocked! ( Read more... )
Speaking of a lack of stamina, I've been sleeping on and off all day. Every joint in my body was hurting last night so I took an oxycondin before bed. It turned out actually to be 40mg of percocet. Body meet bed. Body and bed never separate for hours and hours and hours and hours . . . I figure it'll work out of my system by tomorrow. Interesting dreams, though. I dreamed that my right arm and then my right leg started to levitate. It felt very real, and I'm not entirely convinced that I was truly dreaming. It felt so cool that I started cheering myself on to levitate completely and then I woke up. Ha!
A question for y'all. My LJ is up for renewal, but I'm not sure I'm going to go for a paid account again. Does anyone here have a free (basic?) account, and if so, what are the drawbacks. I keep hearing about advertising. As long as it's on the borders I don't think I'd mind, but if it's that flashing nonsense that's always in your face, well that's another story entirely. So give me your input, please.
Last week Dar and I dove head first into the day-long Mad Men marathon on AMC. The Canadian broadcast channels are showing the first season, but they're only on episode four, whereas the new seasons starts on AMC this Sunday. Before I realized that there was a marathon, I was really torn about whether to continue watching it on Canadian TV and be at least a half season behind, or just jump into the new season without really knowing what happened (and try to catch up by watching S1 every week on the CTV channels.) Tah-dah - problem solved. Although Dar had it right when she said she ended the marathon feeling like she had smoker's cough and a hangover. Hee! As someone who actually lived through that time period, I can tell you that they have it down perfectly. People smoked everywhere. Only church was out of bounds. I can remember going to see To Kill a Mockingbird at Radio City Music Hall in NY, and trying to peer through the haze of smoke to see the screen. All the seats had ashtrays in the arms, for FSM's sake! It was really nuts.
I was shocked by last night's SYTYCD. Shocked! ( Read more... )
