Mid(dleofthe)night Musings

I wonder why it is that, even if you've been tired, and possibly sick, pretty much all week, to the point that you take 2 nights off in a 7-day period, and still don't feel quite yourself, that on whatever the subjective "Friday" is, you get a burst of energy, or at least insomnia? I'm talking about myself, of course, especially in the specifics, but the Friday phenomenon seems to be a common one.

As I left David's house tonight, I was greeted by a swirling mist as the garage door went up. I walked into what looked like fog on the air, appeared at rain on the ground, and felt like snow on my face. (My intellectual mind, looking back, I suppose it felt a bit more like sleet, but in that moment, there was a magic, and all I could feel was snow.) There was something about the misty snow that blanketed the very air. There were no cars, and tonight, it felt like I was alone in the world, experiencing that wonder. The air was crisp, and fresh, and smelled of Beginning, of Renewal. I walked down the driveway slowly, breathing deep, and immersing myself in it, barely believing that there was no ice under my feet. For a while, even the drive was surreal. Of course, Atlanta made herself known again, and it became just another night of passing cars, slowing down for stoplights, and dodging the construction on Piedmont. There was mist at my apartment, but it wasn't the same at all. Those moments were a gift, though, and no matter how many others may have shared that timespace with me, I still feel like I was the only one.

Mmmmm...

Just enjoying my day today. Just got out of the shower... those kind that are long, luxourious, and almost too hot for comfort, so that when you finally open the bathroom door and the cooler air of the rest of the house hits your skin, it's oh-so-wonderfully-refreshing. One of my favorite simple pleasures.

Some things I'm NOT doing today:

I'm not forcing myself to catch up on reading LJ entries (way behind) before making this post, or any other. Almost always, when I do so, I no longer have the time/inclination to post by the time I'm done.

I'm not forcing myself to do anything about the house. It's messy, moreso than usual, because something happened in the beginning of the week where (apparently) there was some screw-up, with the sprinkler system (?). At any rate, it left our apartment flooded. Luckily, BlckwngdOrcl caught it early, so the damage was minimized, but it still meant moving two rooms of furniture into the nebulous "elsewhere" of the apartment for a few days while those bigass fans blared and the apartment smelled HORRIBLE. As of yesterday, the carpets are fixed, and the smell has magically gone away, but only a little bit of the furniture has been moved back. Ironically, this all happened the day after I finally finished doing all the little things that needed done to make those sections of the house look *just right*, like actually organizing the CDs and the tools, etc..

Things I AM doing today:

Going to the bank, and going to pay some bills.

Going to the grocery store, assuming BlckwngdOrcl and I feel like it. We could go another day, really. It's on the agenda, though.

Making dinner. 'Cause I can.

Petting my kittens, and loving on them. *glances at the cat currently draped across my arms as I type this*

And that's really about it for my agenda. Tomorrow I have a photo shoot with a local artist, whose website, assuming he has one, I'm too lazy to look up to link to. It's a photo shoot that's a prelude to a painting, and I'm really looking forward to that. Also curious as to how other people do this sort of thing, since I've only experienced it with WalkingBear before. The day after that, I have a date with WalkingBear and Strega42. So, my weekend's kinda busy. Next Sunday I have a dinner date with Dai_Syn, as we've somehow developed a "traditional" around-Valentine's-Day dinner, quite by chance. I'm going to be careful to keep my other days free, though, 'cause I really do want to spend time working on the house and getting it perfect again. Thanks to the combined efforts of my mother and David's wife, I am now the proud owner of an Oreck vacuum, with which I am well-pleased. I even use it sometimes! :) Anyway, the house needs very little work to put it together. Then I think I'm going to get all my stuff out of the storage bin and save $50/month. That will help our finances, and I like having all my stuff close at hand, anyway.

So, that being said, I'm off.