Vegetating

I hope everyone else is enjoying their weekend... I made the decision to drop any parties, social obligations, or plans to go out, and I'm spending the weekend at home by myself. I don't regret it at all. There was one small thing I was going to go to Friday night, but it got moved to another weekend, so I spent the evening reading (both published fiction and my own work). It says something about my improved state of mind that I have enough brain cycles to get interested in my own stories again, pulling them out and reading them to visit the "friends" that live in my head. I'm not feeling quite up to writing again, but I'm getting there.

Today I have repotted my orchid, gotten my usual set of comic books and groceries, failed to connect with my brewer friend (oh well), worked on the front yard trench, dug out the first tomato bed in the garden, weeded around the fruit trees out front, ordered seeds, fixed my Fastweb profile, and looked through a bunch of scholarship/fellowship offerings. I need to fix my FAFSA for this year, but otherwise I've gotten everything essential out of the way.

( Down in the trenches )

Meanwhile my brain has been working out a way to make a drought-tolerant, wind-resistant, heat-loving front yard for very little money -- I've got 90% of the place solved already for about $100-120 and a few weekends of reasonable work. As if I didn't have enough challenges. I've never claimed to be sane...