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jon_chaisson) wrote2026-02-01 05:16 pm
jon_chaisson) wrote2026-02-01 05:16 pm
Clean start...again
The last couple of days at the Day Job were rather hectic and frustrating, given that it felt like I was doing at least four peoples' jobs on top of mine, so today we ended up sleeping in a lot later than expected. That kind of put the kibosh on our initial plans of taking the bus down to the Mission to do some yarn shopping, so instead we did a run to Safeway, a walk down to Geary for lunch, then some house errands.
One such errand has been cleaning up those small garden plots in front of our house. Both of them have had small trees planted there (though one is pretty much dead and needs to go) but were overgrown with weeds and trash, so we cleaned them up and planted a few small plants, and today we laid down some small pebbles make it look nicer and keep it all from washing away. It's kind of inspired by the same plots that were in front of our old place. We're thinking eventually we'll pull that one dead tree and put some kind of bushy plant there in its place. It looks nice so far!
Also done today: terrifying the cats by doing some desperately needed vacuuming. Sorry kitties!
Meanwhile, it's the start of a new month which means yet another fresh start! I've actually been doing pretty good regarding the writing lately (with room for improvement, of course) but due to Day Job stuff and vacation laziness, I've fallen behind on a few other things. I've also been bad and having "cheat days" on the 750Words site (long story short, I post a blog entry from some years ago and add some current comment to it) instead of actually doing NEW words, so that needs to change. I also haven't been giving myself enough time for the art and music either, so I need to fix that.
So yeah, all told 2026 is doing just fine but I can be better than this. Heh.
One such errand has been cleaning up those small garden plots in front of our house. Both of them have had small trees planted there (though one is pretty much dead and needs to go) but were overgrown with weeds and trash, so we cleaned them up and planted a few small plants, and today we laid down some small pebbles make it look nicer and keep it all from washing away. It's kind of inspired by the same plots that were in front of our old place. We're thinking eventually we'll pull that one dead tree and put some kind of bushy plant there in its place. It looks nice so far!
Also done today: terrifying the cats by doing some desperately needed vacuuming. Sorry kitties!
Meanwhile, it's the start of a new month which means yet another fresh start! I've actually been doing pretty good regarding the writing lately (with room for improvement, of course) but due to Day Job stuff and vacation laziness, I've fallen behind on a few other things. I've also been bad and having "cheat days" on the 750Words site (long story short, I post a blog entry from some years ago and add some current comment to it) instead of actually doing NEW words, so that needs to change. I also haven't been giving myself enough time for the art and music either, so I need to fix that.
So yeah, all told 2026 is doing just fine but I can be better than this. Heh.