Yet Another A Cleaning Rampage

Whatever induced it the cranky day, it has stretched into three. My legs have finally stopped hurting but other bits of me have taken their place. This is a direct result of my grumpy spell. You see in an attempt to bring peace and order to my mind, I went after things that seemed out of place an cluttery around me. In this case, my victims were the garden room, and the basement. The bed that once resided in the garden room is gone. The mouse that resided under the bed in the garden room is gone. The mouse poops that resided all over the garden room are gone. So are most of the spiders. My bad mood is not gone. 

The garden room is now called a tea room. It's basically a tree house on the ground. It has a small coffee table, a love seat and a rocking chair. My lap top is picking of the wireless signal from the house beautifully. I thought is wouldn't so that is a wonderful surprise. It's quiet out here.  

The second victim of my bad mood, the basement, is not in quite as good of shape as the garden room. It is much bigger and more full of stuffs, but I think it improved. Unfortunately, the mood did not. 

After three days of being around a depressed wife, Andrew is feeling the gloom. He helped me in the basement and the garden room both, but especially in the basement where I wouldn't have been able to get anything done without him. 

In the end, I think that the root cause of a glum mood for either of us is the same. We need jobs. Applying for jobs is about as thankless an occupation as being a telemarketer. It might be worse. After all, telemarketers due generally get paid.

It will happen. Then we will make lots of money and wish that we had more free time. For the moment, I am excited about volunteering with the USGS. Its great experience for me. I wish Andrew could do something like that.  

Cranky Day

Yesterday I ran a mile plus a little. It's not impressive to people who run, but I don't run. Or we might say I am not a runner for clearly I do run sometimes.
Today I am sore, sore, sore. Not unexpected. The soreness adds to the general sense of cranky that has hung over me all day. The root cause of my crankiness is unknown. It might be what the scale said to me a few days ago when I weighed myself. It might be what I have been doing as a result of what the scale said to me a few days ago... eating less. I have been trying to maintain one of the drastic calorie deficits-the kind that makes you lose two pounds a week. So really it's not that drastic. The internet and people that I know tell me that is the maximum healthy rate of weight lose.
I thought, "ah yes. two pounds in a week. That will make me much happier about what that rude scale has to say to me. Then next week I can slow it down until I am in that magical state of fitness that I consider to be balanced." Yes, yes, great plan... I'm hungry.
As far as I know the cranky that is me has not manifested itself direct to the people around me. (I include cats, ferrets and dogs in the definition of "people"). I haven't yelled at anybody... but I am not really enjoying life so much. Also I am not sleeping well.
Ok, the last paragraph has revealed to me what is obvious. I need to chill out and eat more. Life is short. I don't want to waste a week of it being overly zealous with my calorie cutting.

A Summery of December

So didn't write a single entry in this thing for the entire months of December. December, as it happens, was a very happening months. I graduated. Andrew and I decided to move to Portland with my parents for a few months. (We have exciting renovation plans for their house.)
We moved all our stuff into a storage unit. We showed a bunch of people our house in Seattle in a quest to find a person to take over our lease. We sorted through a huge quantity of stuff that resided in my parents upstairs and in their storage room. Andrew finished the yucky storage room turning it into a beautiful closet. Lots of work. There was Christmas and New Years with many jolly times with family. So that's December-short version. We now live in Portland.

The Sunday Paper

Yesterday was one of those exquisite bright sunny winter days that makes you notice that the daffodils are starting to come up and causes you think winter isn't so bad after all. Mom emerged from her bed all squinty-eyed to find the Sunday paper. Her face lit up like a kid on Christmas.
"The Sunday paper," she croaked happily. Like me Mom has had vicious cold for the better part of a week. It's a variety of ailment that plugs the nose and does funny things to your voice in addition to sapping all of ones energy. The Sunday paper is a new addition to my parents like compliments of Auntie. There's a good story that goes with it but I'm not quite sure how it goes.
"Portland homicides are the lowest they're been in four decades," she read.
"hmmm," said Andrew, "must be all those Grimm cops they have."

Compulsive Cleaning

Hey what did you do for your thanksgiving? I mean other than eat.
I cleaned and sorted at my parents house. Certain kinds of clutter and dust bother me and I can't help myself. It's the out of the way corners that are prone to mildew and dust and I have a very hard time that produce in me the nagging desire to excavate and organize. I have a dream of a style of living where everything in storage lives in labeled plastic bins with desiccants, where books live on bookshelves, where if you want a stapler, pliers, a glue stick, you know where to look because it lives in a logical place.

An October Adventure with Rose Part 2

Yep, Rose definitely sees me trying to sneakily take her picture. 

Uh oh, I think she's taking my picture!f

Gull hangin' out

So our adventure took us down to Alki beach and along the water front.

Cormorant

Same Cormorant but he's looking around

He's still looking around. Yeah I like Cormorants.

Cormorant holding up his wings to dry them while is friends preen. 

The color of the water has changed

The fog retreats

Sunlight through the mist

Pretty leaves

Rose looks a lot like her mom in this picture

The mysterious pathway beckons

We are going to have to climb back up the hill to get back to my house. Good thing our road look exciting. But wait!

What is that poking up above the fog?

Downtown Seattle appears as if by magic

Also the Sea Lions- due to the incredible zoom on my camera you can actually see them better in this picture than you could standing on the beach.  

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