Sleepy

I got off work a little early this afternoon, and Ron had the day off, so we spent a couple of hours on Route 66, adding another 30 images to my one-shot-per-mile project, which is part of my 101 Things list. If you haven’t yet, scoot over to Springbreak66.com and take a peek at the project. My most recent post was mile 5, but you can scroll down to see the first four images, or just click below:

Mile 1
Mile 2
Mile 3
Mile 4
Mile 5

I’m posting one image per day on Springbreak66.com. I got a couple of really nice shots this evening before it got too dark to work. We got as far as Chelsea before we ran out of daylight and headed back to Claremore for barbecue at Cotton-Eyed Joe’s.

I seem to be terribly tired this evening — not tired like I’ve been working too hard, but tired like I just want to curl up and go to sleep for about a week. I seem to be in some kind of one day up, two days down cycle: One night, I come home from work and go hell-for-leather all evening, getting projects done right and left and staying up until 3 a.m. (or later), and the next two nights, I come home from work, get one or two little things done, and then crash before midnight. Maybe one of these days I’ll get the hang of doing an appropriate amount of work and getting an appropriate amount of sleep every day like a normal person….

Emily

Folk Thursday: Lyle Lovett

This isn’t my favorite song off this album, but I couldn’t find my favorites on YouTube.  This one is still pretty good, I think.

Emily

Getting ‘er done

“We are all capable of more than we do.”
— Mary Baker Eddy

OK … as promised, here’s an update on my evening’s accomplishments:

1. Installed my new coatrack and got the coats off the back of Ron’s chair as part of my effort to make the living room more presentable. Here’s the coatrack … mounted a little low because I didn’t notice how low the hooks hang, but it still gets the job done:

2. Made a little bud vase for my car. (That’s No. 11 on my 101 Things list.) I didn’t have a flower to put in it just yet, but you get the idea:

3. Transplanted a bunch of babies from my spider plant. (That’s No. 69 on my 101 Things list.) I gave one of the plants to my friend Beverly tonight at church. I’m taking the other five to work tomorrow. I think they look cute:

4. Ordered my custom license plate frame. It has bees on it and says “God save the Queen.” That’s No. 89 on the list.

5. Sorted all my bookmarks and deleted the dead links and the ones I don’t need any more. That’s No. 93.

6. Painted my new house number. (That’s No. 96 on the list.) I used the same style as I’d used on my crazy chair. I should have sanded the letters before I started, because they’re terribly ragged, but I didn’t think of it until I was half-finished with the project. I’ll trim off some of the worst rough spots tomorrow, after the paint dries, and then I can hit the numbers with a shot of lacquer to protect them from the elements before I hang them up. Even with the rough edges, I think they turned out pretty cute:

I also finished reading a Journal and listened to three Spirituality.com Podcasts. Now I just need to find a good YouTube for Folk Thursday, and then I’ll head to bed….

Emily

Getting busy

So. I seemed to slip into a bit of a funk after I got offline last night, and all my good intentions dissolved after I parked myself on the couch with a magazine and fell asleep three-fourths of the way through it.

I made it up to myself tonight by taking “before” pictures of the living room and kitchen, making myself a pan of pasta with butter and mizithra cheese for dinner, installing my new coatrack, transplanting six baby spider plants into terra cotta pots, hanging up the coats that were cluttering up the back of Ron’s easy chair in the living room, filing my ragged thumbnail, spending a few minutes trying to regain my hula-hooping skills (ooooo, my poor out-of-shape abs!) and changing into jeans and a baja because I was cold.

I’d do more, except I’ve got to be at church in 15 minutes. Stay tuned for an update later tonight….

Emily

Photography project

So. I started working on one of my 101 Things photo projects yesterday. You can check it out here if you want.

I bought wooden house numbers and a plastic vase and some little terra cotta pots and a wall-mounted coatrack tonight at Hobby Lobby. Maybe I can knock four or five more things off that list tonight. I’ll post photos of whatever I get done.

Emily

10 on Tuesday: Movies

This week’s 10 on Tuesday topic is 10 Movies That You’ve Intended to Watch, But Haven’t.

I’m cheating a little bit and including the ones mentioned in “Science Fiction Double Feature” that I haven’t seen yet.

1. Toy Story 2
2. The Invisible Man
3. King Kong
4. It Came from Outer Space
5. Forbidden Planet
6. Tarantula
7. Day of the Triffids
8. When Worlds Collide
9. Dr. Strangelove
10. The Big Lebowski

What are yours?

Emily

Things update

I crossed a few items off my 101 Things list today:

9. Finish Jamie’s audiobooks.
31. Set up a better daily routine to be more productive at work.
55. Memorize Samuel L. Jackson’s “Ezekiel 25:17″ riff from Pulp Fiction.
91. Check out all the links on Ron’s blog.
94. Sort all the messages in my “receipts” folder and delete the outdated ones.

That first one took most of the evening after I got home … sound editing isn’t difficult, but it is s-l-o-o-o-o-o-w … but I did spend an hour and a half working on the Route 66 photography project. I got 20 shots between Red Fork and Catoosa before it got too dark to work.

I also nuked a pot pie for dinner, spent some time with Jason, wrapped the baby gifts we’re going to give my copy editor and his wife tomorrow at the shower we’re throwing for them at the office, and now I am getting ready to sit down and read a Journal before I go to bed.

Hope your evening was productive.

Emily

101 Things

I ran across the 101 Things meme online. The idea is to make a list of 101 things that you mean to accomplish in the next 1001 days.

I posted the list as a page; click here to see it. I’ll try to update it as I complete the various items on it.

Emily

Folk Friday: Bob and Willie

This week has been nuts, and I managed to let Thursday get away from me without posting a Folk Thursday entry. Kate has roundly chastised me for this omission.

I trust that this two-legends-for-the-price-of-one deal will be considered sufficient compensation for the delay….

Emily

Wi-fi hotspots

Someone made a comment a couple of months ago about how there aren’t very many wi-fi hotspots on Route 66. Evidently this person wasn’t looking very hard for a connection, as we took the iPod out tonight and got online in 25 different spots between Catoosa and Sapulpa:

Reasor’s parking lot in Catoosa
East end of Catoosa on Pine Street
Catoosa McDonald’s parking lot (pay connection)
Cherokee Casino parking lot
Mazzio’s parking lot in Catoosa
Tiner’s Tractors parking lot in Catoosa
Car Craft 66 parking lot in east Tulsa
Parking lot of an east Tulsa strip mall at 123rd East Avenue and 11th Street
Parking lot near the Executive Inn in east Tulsa
Brookshire Motel parking lot
Oasis Motel parking lot
Doctors Family Clinic parking lot (8523 E. 11th)
Dealer Funding Inc. parking lot (6733 E. 11th)
Western Inn parking lot
Desert Hills Motel parking lot
Best Choice Motors parking lot (wi-fi connection was called “Common Grounds”)
Taco Bell parking lot
Mazzio’s parking lot on 11th Street
McDonald’s parking lot at 11th and 23rd (pay connection)
Western Capri Motel parking lot
Interstate Inn parking lot
Gateway Motor Hotel parking lot
Random spot in a rural area between Oakhurst and Bowden
Sapulpa Library

Downtown Sapulpa is supposed to be a hotspot, but we couldn’t actually get online tonight. It was one of several places where we got a strong signal, but no data was coming through. Not sure what that was about, but there were probably 50 spots like that along the way. Still, 25 spots in that short distance should be plenty sufficient to keep even a hard-core Internet junkie happy.

On a completely unrelated note, most of my tomato seedlings are up. Hooray!

Emily