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Monday, May 26, 2003
tradeoff
whoooooeeeeeeeee! I had a pretty good day today, but have unfortunately discovered yet another pet peeve. So in my attempts to overcome my (spiritually)fatal obsession with t.v. i ventured out into the great outdoors that is my backyard. to ward off radioactive temptation, i had planned to do a run to birchmount and back, hopefully squeezing in 5 or so km in that distance. but just as i was about to leave the house, all dolled up in my grey and yellow gear, i had a change of heart. call it indecision, laziness, WHATEVER. but i knew i just couldn't lounge around, and i couldn't go swimming at night b/c ots needed the car at 8:30. what to do what to do, after a feeble rejection of tennis by hugo, i decided to... weed out mom's garden. now this may seem like a simple and painless task, but unfortunately the garden of mom has been left to weed for the past 3-4 years. all that is left after a battering of elements and doggy digging is a scraggly rose bush, grass and weeds galore. so armed only with a garbage bag, hoe, small diggy thing, and the burning desire to even out my farmer tan, i began.
so what is the new pet peeve? naturally, weeds or other unwanted foliage with horrendously strong/stubborn and long roots that i can't pull out. evil!!!
i took a nap from like... 3-4... or 5... i can't remember... oops.
but i finally finished, without unearthing that gargantuan rose plant, at around 6:30, right before the rain started =)
by the end, i was outfitted in a pair of huge galoshes and my hands mercifully encased in work gloves which allowed me to throw away those wretched rose stems quickly. another positive? i was quite sympathetic and merciful in my handling of the earthworms that squiggled about in the soil. instead of smushing over them with my indestructible hoe, i relocated them by picking them up with the small diggy thing and then threw them to the far right side... well okay not threw, more like dumped. i didn't freak out at all... except for one time when i saw some white thing move... *shudder* however, worms on the sidewalk when raining, still a TOTALLY different story.
AND i sent off an email to the JET group. yay!
there really is nothing good on mondays. poo. =)
whoooooeeeeeeeee! I had a pretty good day today, but have unfortunately discovered yet another pet peeve. So in my attempts to overcome my (spiritually)fatal obsession with t.v. i ventured out into the great outdoors that is my backyard. to ward off radioactive temptation, i had planned to do a run to birchmount and back, hopefully squeezing in 5 or so km in that distance. but just as i was about to leave the house, all dolled up in my grey and yellow gear, i had a change of heart. call it indecision, laziness, WHATEVER. but i knew i just couldn't lounge around, and i couldn't go swimming at night b/c ots needed the car at 8:30. what to do what to do, after a feeble rejection of tennis by hugo, i decided to... weed out mom's garden. now this may seem like a simple and painless task, but unfortunately the garden of mom has been left to weed for the past 3-4 years. all that is left after a battering of elements and doggy digging is a scraggly rose bush, grass and weeds galore. so armed only with a garbage bag, hoe, small diggy thing, and the burning desire to even out my farmer tan, i began.
so what is the new pet peeve? naturally, weeds or other unwanted foliage with horrendously strong/stubborn and long roots that i can't pull out. evil!!!
i took a nap from like... 3-4... or 5... i can't remember... oops.
but i finally finished, without unearthing that gargantuan rose plant, at around 6:30, right before the rain started =)
by the end, i was outfitted in a pair of huge galoshes and my hands mercifully encased in work gloves which allowed me to throw away those wretched rose stems quickly. another positive? i was quite sympathetic and merciful in my handling of the earthworms that squiggled about in the soil. instead of smushing over them with my indestructible hoe, i relocated them by picking them up with the small diggy thing and then threw them to the far right side... well okay not threw, more like dumped. i didn't freak out at all... except for one time when i saw some white thing move... *shudder* however, worms on the sidewalk when raining, still a TOTALLY different story.
AND i sent off an email to the JET group. yay!
there really is nothing good on mondays. poo. =)
// posted by naomi @ 9:57 p.m. 
