Blossoms and Bother
Apr. 21st, 2013 12:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daidoji_giseiA few weeks ago the landlord trimmed up the apple trees in the yard and left a pile of the branches sitting next to the street for the trashmen to pick up. I gathered up a few of the twigs, took them inside, stuck them in a vase of water, and waited. I now have a vase of blooming apple-blossom twigs in my living room, and yes that is just a delightful-looking as it sounds.
That's pretty much all the good news in my life right now. I'm behind and buried in about every facet of my life (work, housework, writing, gardening, reading, crocheting), and feeling borderline sick from my sinuses, which are being constantly irritated by the rainy weather fronts that keep sweeping through. Naturally this meant that I needed to spend yesterday afternoon sorting though my PBAL perfumes (how did I manage to get so many?) and deciding what I needed to swap away. (Less than an hour after I posted my swaps list I found someone who was willing to trade a bottle of Peacock Queen 2007 for my Pink Snowballs 2011, so I guess you could say some good came from that.) (I was really crestfallen over how unimpressive Pink Snowballs was on me; from its description (pink roses and vanilla) it should have been brilliant. I'm beginning to suspect that whatever accord PBAL uses for 'pink roses' doesn't agree with me, because Two, Five, and Seven didn't work well either.)
It's bright and sunny today, after days upon days of clouds/rain/snow/etc. I've decided to cast aside writing worries for a few hours and do dishes and get some seeds started. I went without garden tomatoes last year, and I really don't want to repeat that. I don't want to buy plants this year either, not with my embarrassingly large collection of vegetable seeds.
I'm trying not to think about the rest of the week. Doing that means taking stock of all I have to do and the time I have to do it in, and that's the path to despair.
That's pretty much all the good news in my life right now. I'm behind and buried in about every facet of my life (work, housework, writing, gardening, reading, crocheting), and feeling borderline sick from my sinuses, which are being constantly irritated by the rainy weather fronts that keep sweeping through. Naturally this meant that I needed to spend yesterday afternoon sorting though my PBAL perfumes (how did I manage to get so many?) and deciding what I needed to swap away. (Less than an hour after I posted my swaps list I found someone who was willing to trade a bottle of Peacock Queen 2007 for my Pink Snowballs 2011, so I guess you could say some good came from that.) (I was really crestfallen over how unimpressive Pink Snowballs was on me; from its description (pink roses and vanilla) it should have been brilliant. I'm beginning to suspect that whatever accord PBAL uses for 'pink roses' doesn't agree with me, because Two, Five, and Seven didn't work well either.)
It's bright and sunny today, after days upon days of clouds/rain/snow/etc. I've decided to cast aside writing worries for a few hours and do dishes and get some seeds started. I went without garden tomatoes last year, and I really don't want to repeat that. I don't want to buy plants this year either, not with my embarrassingly large collection of vegetable seeds.
I'm trying not to think about the rest of the week. Doing that means taking stock of all I have to do and the time I have to do it in, and that's the path to despair.
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Date: 2013-04-21 05:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-21 06:03 pm (UTC)*hugs*